Pearson Government Solutions

Allen Shay is a Senior Vice President with Pearson Government Solutions and is President and CEO of Pearson Analytic Solutions (PAS). PAS, based in Arlington, Virginia, is a nationally recognized Government focused knowledge management and education and training company. Allen joined Pearson Analytic Solutions as President and CEO in 2005. Previously, he was President and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Text Solutions, Inc., a company delivering text analytic solutions to defense and intelligence markets. Allen also served as President and CEO of NCR Government Systems LLC, a $100 million subsidiary of NCR Teradata that was responsible for Federal, state, and local government markets. In total, Allen has over 30 years of experience in the government sales arena. During the course of his management career, he has held numerous leadership positions in business development, sales, and marketing, including the HRB Division of Raytheon Company (formerly E-Systems), the Federal division of Sprint Corp., Digital Equipment Corp., and Monroe Systems. In his role as Vice President of the intelligence community business unit for Digital Equipment Corp., Allen oversaw the global business unit through critical expansion. After Compaq Computer Corp. acquired Digital, Allen led the establishment of a new government subsidiary, Compaq Federal LLC. Allen is a 1976 graduate of Davidson College, with an exchange in 1995 at Oxford University. He resides in Baltimore, Maryland.

Lamont Silves, appointed senior vice president, business development, Vangent Inc., Arlington. Silves was previously senior vice president of strategic development at CACI International Inc. (PRNewswire)

Eileen Cassidy Rivera is a dynamic, experienced and progressive leader, whose career has focused on public service, information technology and international affairs. A product of public school education, Eileen was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in Rochester, New York where she pursued her interest in foreign languages. Her desire to study and learn more about international affairs led her to Washington, D.C. where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from The American University. During her junior year, she studied in Mexico City at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (National Autonomous University of Mexico). She lived with a Mexican family and tutored English to young Mexican children. She also thoroughly enjoyed playing on an all-girl football team, helping her team win the championship that year. Upon graduation, Eileen worked in the international division of the National Bank of Washington while pursuing her Master of Business Administration degree at night. During her last year of business school at the American University, she joined the Washington, D.C. office of Hill & Knowlton, a worldwide public relations firm where she provided public and government affairs counsel to a range of domestic and international clients. In 1993, Eileen was appointed by President William Jefferson Clinton to serve in his administration. Her first role was Special Assistant at the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration where she led a number of initiatives to promote U.S. exports and assist U.S. companies expand market share and compete for contracts around the world. These experiences led her to an even more challenging assignment as Assistant Administrator and Director of International Trade at the U.S. Small Business Administration where she championed for small businesses in reaching export markets through financing, counseling, partnerships and legal assistance. During her SBA tenure, Eileen received awards for her leadership and innovative approaches to building strategic alliances with trade associations and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad. After the birth of her son, Kyle, Eileen left the Clinton Administration in 1999 to apply her energies and passion for children at the International Youth Foundation, an organization dedicated to the positive development of children and youth throughout the world. In her capacity as Director of Corporate Relations, she led the Foundation's outreach to over 25 international corporations and national youth organizations in 50 countries. In the last year of the Clinton Administration, Eileen was asked by the Director of the Peace Corps to serve as his Director of Press and Public Affairs where she developed and implemented communications strategies to promote the Peace Corps' policies and recruitment priorities. During this time she was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Following the Clinton Administration, Eileen joined Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a Fortune 100 company. While at EDS, Eileen was appointed by Governor Mark Warner to serve on the Virginia Business Education Partnership, an advisory board which promoted partnerships between schools, parents and businesses to increase student learning and academic achievement. Currently, Eileen is Vice President of Communications at Pearson Government Solutions, a premiere provider of customized information technology and management solutions for the U.S. federal government, international governments, higher education and commercial entities. Eileen has lived in Del Ray Alexandria since 1996. Active in her community, she served as President of the Herbert Street Homeowners Association. She is a member of the Lyles Crouch PTA, the Del Ray Citizens Association and the Alexandria Democratic Committee. Eileen is married to Andrew A. Rivera, a voting rights attorney with the Advancement Project, a social justice and public policy action organization. She is a proud mother of her son,...

In 1997, Ms. O'Kelley co-founded Blueprint Technologies, a software engineering company based in Vienna, Virginia, when she saw an opportunity to help businesses increase their competitive advantage by offering reusable software. As President and CEO, Ms. O'Kelley drove the strategic direction and overall vision of Blueprint Technologies, working closely with the Board of Directors and the executive management team. In 2006, her success as a woman-owned, small business enabled Blueprint Technologies to grow strategically and aggressively through its acquisition with Pearson Government Solutions. As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Pearson Blueprint Technologies, Ms. O'Kelley and her team of best-in-class software and enterprise architects strengthens Pearson's information technology design capabilities and improves its government and commercial clients' enterprise performance through cutting edge technology. Ms. O'Kelley has been at the forefront of software engineering solutions for more than 25 years. As an early advocate of reuse, Ms. O'Kelley spent the foundation of her career supporting the Department of Defense's early reuse initiatives including the creation of the Ada language, the Air Force's worldwide Software Reuse Repositories, and the creation of the Air Force's Integrated Computer Aided Software Environment. Prior to Blueprint Technologies, she joined Rational Software, an e-development company, where she led a field operation that pioneered the transition from the company's defense hardware and compiler solutions to the commercial growth market of object-oriented design and programming techniques. While at Rational Software, she collaborated with thought leaders, Ivar Jacobson and Jon Hopkins. Ivar Jacobson's software development process based on business requirements captured in easy to understand Use Cases coupled with Jon Hopkins' facilitation of the UML specification producing implementations captured in visual modeling, provided Ms. O'Kelley with a vision to build a company that provided robust and proven system design through reusable process, architectures and components. Ms. O'Kelley serves as an advisor and mentor to several small businesses in addition to participating as a member of the leadership team for the Industry Advisory Council (IAC) Enterprise Architecture Shared Interest Group (SIG), working with other industry leaders to provide feedback to the Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office (FEA-PMO) and the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee (AIC) of the CIO Council. She also continues to participate with industry groups such as The Object Management Group (OMG), sponsoring the Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) with thought leaders IBM and Microsoft, while embracing other evolving paradigms such as Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Ms. O'Kelley holds a BS in Business Administration from Towson State University.

Sherry Piemontesi has worked in the Government Contracting industry for over 20 years. She brings a vast array of knowledge to CorpComm after previously working as a Project Control Analyst, Acquisitions Management at SAIC and as a Business Operations Controller at both Pearson Government Solutions and Paradigm Solutions Corp. Sherry started her career with C-Cubed Corp in Alexandria, Va. as a Business Analyst. C-Cubed Corp was a Navy contractor developing, designing and implementing ship alteration plans for overhauls on several different classes of surface ships. She has been involved in a variety of aspects in the field, ranging from project controls, government acquisitions and purchasing to contract administration, finance and business operations management. Adding to her repertoire, Sherry furthers her knowledge of expertise in the field of government contracting by belonging to several professional organizations, including the Project Management Institute, the National Contracts Management Association and the National Defense Industry Association. As the Director of Finance and Administration, she manages finance, contracts and Human Resources. Sherry is also responsible for keeping contracting actions up to date, doing pricing on new tasks as well as proposals, and ensuring that CorpComm is contractually accountable. Her team handles payroll, invoicing, accounts receivables and payables and all other financial actions and reporting. Sherry has a certificate in Government Acquisitions and Contracts Management from the University of Virginia.

Dan Pilone is a software architect for Vangent, Inc., and has led teams for the Naval Research Laboratory and NASA, building enterprise software. He's taught graduate and undergraduate Software Engineering at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Some of his classes were interesting. Dan started writing for O'Reilly by submitting a proposal for this book a little over 5 years ago. Three UML books, some quality time in Boulder, Colorado with the O'Reilly Head First team, and a coauthor later, he finally got a chance to put Head First Software Development together. While leading a team of software developers can be challenging, Dan is waiting patiently for someone to write Head First Parenting to help sort out seriously complex management problems.

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Mr. Musallam is a Partner at Veritas Capital. Prior to joining Veritas in 1997, Mr. Musallam worked at Pritzker & Pritzker, the private equity group then led by investor Jay Pritzker. In that capacity, Mr. Musallam was responsible for identifying and executing acquisitions of both domestic and international corporations as well as investments in early stage technology companies. Prior to Pritzker & Pritzker, Mr. Musallam worked at Berkshire Partners, a private equity investment firm in Boston, for over two years. Mr. Musallam contributed directly to the development, evaluation, execution, and management of leveraged buyouts for the firm. He was also responsible for monitoring and aiding in the performance and growth of selected portfolio companies. Mr. Musallam began his professional career at Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan), working in the Structured Finance Division of the organization. Mr. Musallam currently serves as a director of DynCorp International, Inc., Vangent, Athena Innovative Solutions, Inc., McNeil Technologies, Inc., The Wornick Company, Trawick & Associates, Continental Electronics, Inc. and Entrerprise Electronics, Inc. Mr. Musallam holds a B.A., cum laude, from Colgate University with a double major in Economics and Mathematics and an M.B.A. with High Honors from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.