Executive Moves

Jennifer Chronis has been appointed as head of Verizon's federal business, succeeding Michael Maiorana, the company announced Tuesday. Chronis will begin her new role early next month.

Rudy Martinez, a former lead associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined DRT Strategies as a director responsible for exploring potential business opportunities with the Department of Veterans Affairs, FedHealthIT reported Monday.

Parsons CEO and Chairman Chuck Harrington has been appointed to the board of directors at Quality of Life Plus, a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the lives of wounded military veterans through innovation.

Jeff Harman, most recently chief operating officer at Oceus Networks, has been promoted to president at the Reston, Va.-based broadband communications company. His appointment is part of leadership changes at Oceus following the company's acquisition by Battle Investment Group.

Darin Stolte, former vice president of service delivery at Knight Point Systems, has been named chief operating officer of Gaithersburg, Md.-based government services provider DecisionPoint | Cortek. He brings nearly three decades of GovCon industry experience to his new position, DecisionPoint | Cortek said Thursday.

Dave Turner, president and CEO of Hitachi Vantara Federal, has been appointed to the board of directors at the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the company announced Thursday. “I look forward to connecting with and learning from individuals across the different areas of technology,“ said Turner.

IntelliDyne has appointed Harry Bartel as chief operating officer, succeeding Ed Abner, who is due to retire from the Falls Church, Va.-based government information technology contractor this fall, the company said Thursday. 

John Zangardi, president of data science company Redhorse and former chief information officer at the Department of Homeland Security, has joined the technical and strategic advisory board of Portland-based access management technology maker Acceptto.

Jacobs has promoted Ken Gilmartin and Patrick Hill as executive vice presidents within its people and places solutions (P&PS) line of business, effective Aug. 1, the company announced Wednesday.

Chuck Hicks, chief financial officer and acting chief operating officer of NCI Information Systems, has been promoted to the COO position on a full-time basis, the company announced Monday.

Jeffery Cherry, founder, CEO and managing partner of The Porter Group, has joined the board of directors at McKean Defense Group. Cherry brings more than 34 years of experience in the federal market and at startup and mid-size companies to the McKean board, the company said Monday.

Tim Pleus, former senior vice president OBXTek, has taken on a new role at the McLean, Va.-based information technology and professional services company as its first chief growth officer.

Alan Crouch, former federal account manager at software engineering company Coveros, has been appointed to lead Steampunk's DevSecOps practice. He brings technical experience in areas such as Agile engineering, cybersecurity, continuous integration, cloud adoption and test automation, Steampunk said Wednesday.

Dewberry has appointed Robert Victor an operating unit manager to lead the company's mid-Atlantic engineering operations, The company said Wednesday Victor brings more than two decades of experience to his new position and will supervise more than 350 employees across divisions that offer engineering, geospatial, survey and mapping, environmental and construction services.

Martin Rieger, a federal cloud computing market veteran, has joined security automation company stackArmor as chief solutions officer. He brings to stackArmor his decades of advisory experience related to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and Federal Information Security Management Act, the company said Tuesday.