Creative Solutions for a Complex World

Director Of Human Resources

Dee Annechino

Director Of Marketing

Sarah George-Moniz, APR

Chief Medical Officer (CMO)/Chief Informatics Officer (CIO)

Dr. Viet Nguyen

Dr. Viet Nguyen is an internist, pediatrician, clinical informaticist and consultant to government and commercial organizations in developing interoperable workflows and technologies. He has over 15 years of experience in Health IT focused on interoperability standards and product development. Formerly the CMIO for Systems Made Simple, Lockheed-Martin and Leidos Corporation, Dr. Nguyen is a nationally recognized FHIR educator, an HL7 Board Member, a FHIR Foundation Board Member, CMO for Logica, and Technical Director for the HL7 Da Vinci Project.

Chief Technology Officer

MATT JENKS

Matt Jenks is the Chief Technology Officer at GigaTECH, Inc. As CTO, Matt is responsible for advising on and implementing technology across the company for delivering services and products to our clients in a cost-effective manner.

Matt started his professional career engaged with the US Navy’s software development of weapons stowage & handling and ship-navigation control systems, focusing on GPS navigation over electronic charts. He pivoted to focusing on rapid product development and automated software test and delivery (early CI/CD) for the US Army’s data mining and exploitation tool, Pathfinder. Matt continued to advise the US Army on software build and delivery, services-based architectures and software operations monitoring. Noticing a trend in the Army of process over product, Matt pivoted once more to become a site lead for the Army’s premier Counter IED exploitation system, CIDNE, focusing on product delivery of new features within a worldwide architecture. He moved into a chief architect role, this time, for a government services company, concentrating on the Dept Of Veteran’s Affairs and Healthcare IT. Here he worked to promote and use the developing FHIR standard as well as expand the company’s product delivery capabilities spearheading many continuous delivery activities.

More recently, Matt, served as CTO for a commercial startup. In his role, he was the chief architect of a microservice based cloud platform employing advanced continuous delivery techniques.

Matt is a hands-on CTO who believes in leading the way for his engineering teams while actively engaging them for feedback. He openly welcomes all ideas that lead to more robust architectures and faster product delivery. He fosters a highly communicative working environment with open knowledge sharing to produce excellent products in short time frames.

Vice President: Sales & Marketing

SCOTT BRADSHAW

Scott Bradshaw is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at GigaTECH, Inc, a company specializing in healthcare IT, software development and program management.  Scott is a motivated Business Development/Sales/Operations professional with over 35 years of experience in the Federal Government.

Through direct interaction with both government customer and industry stakeholders, Mr. Bradshaw has been responsible for developing new business and expanding existing customer opportunities.  Mr. Bradshaw is successful in securing prime contracts with defense and civilian federal government agencies as well as building an extensive partnering relationship with other federal government contractors.  Mr. Bradshaw’s extensive experience includes business development, program and project management, managing information technology, software development and managing intelligence service contracts.

Mr. Bradshaw started his career in the United States Army and as a Station Technical Controller with an emphasis on installation and maintenance of communication systems.  During his time in the Army, he worked programs with an emphasis on data management systems.  Upon leaving the military, Mr. Bradshaw transitioned as a government contractor building big data analytical systems for the U.S. Army.  This program grew to be the prominent tool used for data mining by all branches of the military as well as other federal agencies.  This tool was used in performing analytical services required in mission support, technology transfer, and identifying problem areas around the world.  Mr. Bradshaw has experience as Director of Operations for a commercial company responsible for managing the daily operations of system development and installations for a mass notification and emergency call system that was designed and built in house.

Mr. Bradshaw continued his career back in the federal government space as a Director of Business Development and VP of Operations with a small federal government contractor.  His emphasis was on developing new business, maintaining existing customer relationships and assisting with the full lifecycle of proposal Development.

Scott Bradshaw has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Averett University and enjoys playing his bass guitar, staying in shape with CrossFit, and participating in Triathlons.  Scott currently resides in Bridgewater, Virginia with his wife, Kerri.

Vice President: Systems & Software Engineering

BILL HEAPES

Bill Heapes is the Vice President of Systems and Software Engineering at GigaTECH, Inc, an emerging company with legacy roots in Healthcare IT serving the Veterans Affairs, Military Health, and Technology Advancements for the greater DoD and commercial industries. As VP, Bill provides daily operational support across several corporate functional areas; supporting Systems & Software Engineering, Bill authored and controls the company wide process and programs for Lean/Agile software development and deployment lifecycle.

Bill started his professional career engaged with the US Navy’s software development of anti-submarine warfare fire-control and ship-navigation control systems; then shifted focus to leading the software development effort for the US Army’s premiere data mining and exploitation tool; after assuming executive management responsibilities, Bill has lead software development contracts assisting the US Army, Veterans Affairs, and Military Healthcare IT. Just prior to moving to GigaTECH who supports these same Healthcare and IT portfolios, Bill was the Chief Operating Officer with a start-up in the commercial sector advancing automated business process management, cyber security, and intelligent applications development. Receiving PMP, COR, ITIL and other recognized certifications Bill has also been recognized as a leader in the industry receiving Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence Best Practice Award, cover story for Jane’s International Defense Review, Washington’s Editor’s Choice Award, being one of 19 top management performers of over 1,200 selected for the PMP Fast-Track Pilot Program, and repeatably increasing corporate productivity while decreasing operational costs as portfolios expand and grow.

Bill Heapes believes in honest and transparent communication, providing an exciting and rewarding work environment, delivering quality products and services, supporting our Veterans and Servicemen/women, as well as kicking-back with family and friends.

GigaTECH is a growing company. We support the ideals and passions of good stewardship toward our clients and our nation’s heroes. If you’re looking for a great place to work, a great company to provide value, or a Harley ride in the mountains of Central Virginia – you’ve come to the right place!

Vice President: Infrastructure & Cyber Security

JASON LANDRUM

Jason Landrum is a Texas-born entrepreneur who has spent twenty of his twenty-six-year career as an IT professional in the Network Engineering and Collaboration Engineering spaces. Mr. Landrum has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration as well as a Master of Business Administration from Colorado Technical University.

Mr. Landrum’s early career was spent implementing small LAN/WAN environments as a contractor, this included desktop and server support as well as the router switch infrastructure and connectivity. With this foundation Mr. Landrum was able to grow his technical expertise in the financial space engineering complex redundant environments at Nations Bank (now Bank of America) and Fidelity Investments. Mr. Landrum’s network background evolved as audio/video applications were quickly moving to the IP infrastructure. Real time protocols in the early 2000’s was a new very high demanding application that required LAN/WAN environments to evolve to support. Mr. Landrum’s experience migrating these cutting-edge technologies led him to become the lead Video over IP engineer at the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) where he designed and implemented the video over IP infrastructure that allowed MDA to fundamentally evolve their global collaboration strategy.

Mr. Landrum’s extensive technical background, and exposure to very successful technology companies, inspired him to become a founding member Marland Technologies, now DBA Gigatech, Inc. in 2012. As a founding member Mr. Landrum has had the responsibility of all positions in the executive suite, while also guiding his employees with his technical background. Mr. Landrum’s unique background as a technologist, and entrepreneur has positioned him and his organization to deliver ever evolving IT solutions.

Vice President: Business Development

CORY LANDRUM

Cory Landrum started his career in the Banking and Finance industry over 20 years ago. Starting off in a not-for-profit industry after college to build affordable housing in East Texas, Cory learned the ropes of mortgage banking and finance sectors. His team worked with the Federal Home Loan Banks of Dallas and Chicago to build neighborhoods, apartment complexes, and single-family homes for low-moderate income families.

Afterwards, he left to continue his career in banking and finance in Dallas, TX until 2007. Throughout his time in banking and finance, Mr. Landrum became involved in a commercial construction company finance team with projects at Universities around the State of Texas. Finding an opportunity to write proposals, Cory worked to help win some of the largest contracts in the company. In these times Cory honed his grant writing, proposal writing, and proposal pricing skills.

Cory moved to Washington D.C. in 2010 to run pricing department for Systems Made Simple. Throughout his tenure at Systems Made Simple, Cory led a pricing team on over $1.7 Billion in Task Orders on the T4 Contract vehicle from 2011-2016. Outside of the VA’s T4 environment, the Systems Made Simple team won other contracts exceeding $700 Million. The success of the Systems Made Simple team eventually led to it’s purchase by Lockheed Martin.

During his time at Systems Made Simple, Cory and his partners founded MarLand Technologies in 2012 (now known as GigaTECH) as a startup. As a founding partner, Cory was directly involved in all aspects of the company while focusing on pricing, finance, human resources, and operations. Cory has helped build GigaTECH into a team-oriented workplace that fosters employee growth and rewards individual contributions.

Cory has a Bachelors and Masters of Public Administration from Stephen F. Austin State University. Cory lives with his wife, Roya, in the DC Metro area.

CEO & Chairman

AL NARDSLICO

Al Nardslico is an upstate New York-born Computer Engineer and businessman who truly enjoys the challenge of business. After completing service with the US Navy in 1986, Mr. Nardslico worked as an engineering consultant at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory in the Advanced Systems Design Group. Mr. Nardslico received his degree in Computer Science and Information Systems from the State University of New York (ESC) and after some brief independent consulting “gigs”, co-founded Systems Made Simple (SMS) in 1991. Mr. Nardslico managed daily operations and P&L responsibilities within SMS for 20 years as Chairman of the Board, President and principal founder. During his tenure SMS evolved from a ‘garage startup’ to an industry-leading Federal Health IT Company with hundreds of employees nationwide and over 350 million in sales. SMS achieved INC 5000 honors six years running with INC 500 honors in two of those years until its “entrepreneurial American Dream” sale to Lockheed Martin in the Fall of 2014.

Mr. Nardslico’s career experience has given him a unique and broad understanding of all aspects related to organically growing a startup company into an industry-leading powerhouse. Mr. Nardslico is a process guru who has worked architecting and implementing business processes focused on maturing businesses ranging from startups to multi-billion dollar enterprises. He has lead teams of executives in both Fortune 500 companies (Eastman Kodak, Carrier Corp., IBM) and major federal agencies (Dept. of Veterans Affairs, HHS, SSA) to define, refine and institute complex and unique business processes. Applying these skills to SMS he was able to grow SMS from obscurity to one of the largest and most respected Federal Health IT providers in the industry.

Armed with a “roll up your sleeves” approach, Al is a strategic thinker who has mentored a number of successful executives throughout the years. He supports a portfolio of small entrepreneur businesses as a Board of Director, member and executive management consultant. He has a knack for building and maintaining high-performance management teams which are at the heart of every successful business. His role as the primary shareholder and as the Shareholder Representative in the sale of SMS to Lockheed Martin gave him firsthand experience with negotiating large-scale M&A transactions. At the time of its sale to Lockheed Martin, SMS had zero debt and over one billion dollars in booked business. Mr. Nardslico is focused on leveraging his experiences and practical knowledge to work with other entrepreneurs. Mr. Nardslico’s highly respected career as a leader, innovator and visionary along with his rare ability to motivate and inspire uniquely qualifies him as a valued team member among those few entrepreneurial companies destined to deliver the next generation of successful industry and technology solutions.