Category: Staff

Robert Tyson is a business leader and innovator whose professional evolution from a background in in the U.S. Army Special Forces, has fully developed with his arrival to WhirlWind Technologies. Through academic curiosity, a thirst for knowledge, and diversity of experience, Rob has replaced tactical military objectives with the pursuit of business growth, through corporate objectives. Rob has a keen sense for identifying opportunity as it relates to risk, requirements, people, integration, and validation. His background has taught him to build capabilities in others while his education has empowered him to optimize and focus on the task at hand. 

 Here at WhirlWind, Rob concentrates on relationship management and business growth within the firm’s largest account – the U.S. Census Bureau.  He seeks to share innovative ways to solve complex problems by collaborating with the Client Delivery and Marketing teams. 

Rob received his undergraduate education from Excelsior University, holds a master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from North Carolina State University and is in pursuit of a Juris Doctorate at the University of Dayton School of Law.  Rob also holds a PMP certificate and numerous other professional certifications contributing to his ability to support technology and innovation. 

Sean Trice will assume the role of Acting President of WhirlWind. He will lead all corporate strategy, operations, and management, in support of our domestic and international growth. All members of the executive leadership team will report directly to Sean. Sean has been serving as our outside corporate council and is a seasoned business leader, with more than 25 years of leadership experience. Prior to Sean’s legal career, he played a critical role in major initiatives at Booz Allen, managing a staff, in excess of 150, and programs and task orders that support the defense and intelligence community. Sean also has expertise in business strategy, technology and operations and will play pivotal part in our strategic transformation. We welcome Sean as a member of our team.

Annette Hagood is the director of Business Growth and Marketing and leads the business development and account efforts for frontier accounts. She is also responsible for the internal and external communications and branding efforts at WhirlWind. 

Prior to joining WhirlWind in 2021, Ms. Hagood was head of federal services strategy and business development at Ricoh where she was responsible for the go-to-market strategy and IT services growth. She has also held similar roles at Xerox/Conduent Services, Deloitte, AT&T Government Solutions, and IBM where she consistently made the 100% Club. 

Ms. Hagood holds a BSc double major in Chemistry and Zoology from the University of the West Indies and a MSc in Computer Science from Howard University. She has also completed certifications at the MIT Sloane school of management in business strategy for 21st century organizations. She has also competed training in Solution Selling, Challenger Sales and Marketing, Public Relations, Business Process Reengineering, and the Shipley Proposal Process. 

Ms. Hagood is also certified in Product Marketing and Product Management and is a published author of technology topics that include database, network, storage infrastructure and application development paradigms; management topics include treatises on establishing strategic alliances and launching products and Services. She created the “New Offer Enablement Framework” to accelerate the deliberation of bringing products and services to market. 

To give back to her community, Annette focuses on encouraging STEM education by volunteering with the Girls in Technology organization, The Taproot Foundation, and as an Adjunct Professor at the UMUC. 

Lacretia Pickett is director of finance and contracts at WhirlWind Technologies and a seasoned leader with over a decade of financial experience in the government consulting industry. In her role, Ms. Pickett oversees and manages the Finance and Contracts department, which includes planning, developing and implementing policies, procedures and objectives of the contracts administration and finance functions.

Before joining WhirlWind in 2016, Ms. Pickett held various finance and contracting roles. Most  recently, she served as the finance manager at Spartan Business & Technology, where she was responsible for managing the P&L. Ms. Pickett brings deep experience in driving transformational change in a rapidly growing organization.

Ms. Pickett holds a Master of Arts in procurement and acquisitions management from Webster University and a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Auburn University at Montgomery. She is certified in government contracting.

As Vice President of Operations, Carol Washington drives WhirlWind’s daily business operations to meet objectives for growth, profitability and sustainability.

Before joining WhirlWind Technologies in 2020, Ms. Washington held positions leading large multidisciplinary solution teams through transformation initiatives and was also responsible for developing and leading a large government Enterprise Program Management Office supporting 22 contracts and 200 projects.

Ms. Washington holds a Master of Science in administrative sciences, management information systems from the George Washington University. Additionally, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in business, computer information systems from Notre Dame of Maryland University. Ms. Washington is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), ITIL v3, ISO 9001:2015 Internal Auditor, CMMI Professional, and CMMI v2.0 Associate.

Mark Fields is an Information Technology (IT) leader with over 25 years of professional experience. He is a change agent who designs and implements IT Enterprise Infrastructure, cyber security, and cloud system architecture. 

Mark leads the Client Delivery organization and maintains the corporate technology infrastructure. He also ensures that client deliverables create the highest NPS score for WhirlWind.

Prior to joining WhirlWind in 2016, Mr. Fields held several leadership roles delivering offerings that modernized and enabled government agency operations at the Department of Energy and the TSA. He was also instrumental in driving company growth at UUNET/MCI. 

Mr. Fields holds a BSc in Computer Information Technology, and a MSc in Information Systems Technology from the George Washington University. He maintains the following professional certifications – PMP, and CISSP. Mr. Fields also proudly served in the U.S. Air Force for 4 years as an avionics navigation systems technician. 

Rhonda Dobbins is executive vice president at WhirlWind Technologies. She leads financial operations and business development in support of the CEO’s vision of domestic and international growth. She is also responsible for all aspects of corporate social responsibility and other ESG initiatives.

Before joining WhirlWind in 2016, Ms. Dobbins held senior management positions at PWC, IBM and Booz Allen Hamilton, where she provided support for large federal agencies. Ms. Dobbins has also owned and operated a management consulting and professional services firm, RDG Business Consulting Group.

Ms. Dobbins holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Morgan State University. She is PMP certified and a LeanSixSigma Black Belt.

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