Meet Booz Allen's BEYA Modern-Day Technology Leaders

2023 BEYA Recipients all together

Outstanding Technical Contribution in Industry Award

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Siraaj Hasan

Principal

As Booz Allen’s market lead and a senior cyber expert for the Department of Defense, Siraaj manages more than 200 cyber professionals nationwide and nearly $300 million in mission-critical programs across the Joint Military Combatant Commands, national security interagencies, and for our commercial and international community clients. As a senior cyber technology leader, he drives cyber business development and leads a team of cybersecurity experts, network engineers, systems engineers, modeling & simulation subject matter experts, cyber operators, and capability and cyber tool developers.

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Science Spectrum Trailblazer Award

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Ricky Reid

Vice President

Ricky works with global defense and corporate development executives to drive Booz Allen’s corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) strategy. Specializing in post-merger integration, Ricky utilizes his 20 years of program management experience to ensure seamless transitions and deliver incomparable client value.

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Howard Foard

Principal

Howard is the director of Booz Allen’s global wargame and exercise commercial practice. He specializes in stress-testing top Fortune 300/Global 100 companies’ crisis management and cyber incident response capabilities across all industry sectors. In an earlier role at the firm, Howard served as a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives expert in support of the nation’s homeland and national security agencies. Howard has more than 20 years of military, government, and commercial experience.

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Ebony Thomas

Senior Associate

Ebony has served as a thought leader in the development of business solutions for an array of clients across the Department of Defense and Civil markets, including the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness, the Air Force Surgeon General, the Director of the Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. She also previously led the change management practice for the rollout of the military’s new electronic healthcare record system impacting over 50 military hospitals, 300 clinics, and 9.5 million beneficiaries globally.

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Modern-Day Technology Leader Award

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Anthony "AJ" Lambert, Jr.

Associate

AJ is a lead automation engineer in the Enterprise Cybersecurity Operations Infrastructure team. He collaborates closely with Booz Allen’s cyber defenders to enhance their playbooks and enrich investigations, resulting in faster analysis to account for the scale of the firm's cyber mission.

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Christina Leggett, Ph.D.

Associate

Christina works passionately to improve the world in one of the most critically needed areas: energy. She is the lead engineer for the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) on nuclear fission and fusion energy solutions. She helps develop and execute new high-risk, high-reward nuclear R&D programs for ARPA-E program directors and provides technical oversight of projects funded under these programs. She also fervently advocates for the industry as the increasing need for energy solutions grows.

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Jacklyn Ebiasah

Associate

Jacklyn is an orchestration lead for one of Booz Allen’s largest commercial clients, where she bridges her engineering expertise with an uncanny ability to bring structure to complex problems. Jacklyn and her Cyber Hardening Program team are responsible for overseeing technical workstream initiatives—providing project management support, as well as organizational transformation, change management, and cyber strategy implementation. With her deep mission knowledge and engaging personality, Jacklyn has created lasting client relationships that ensure the client has faith in the team’s work.

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James Hampton

Lead Associate

James is a senior leader providing cutting-edge technology support to an award-winning and highly impactful organization within the intelligence community. He uses his skillset to develop new tools and tradecraft to greatly enhance our analysts' and operators' capabilities.

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Justine Baker

Lead Associate

Justine is a technical thought leader with specialized cyber and analytics expertise. As a cyber operations lead, Justine has overseen the design, architecture, and implementation of multiple complex cybersecurity systems to proactively prevent and detect anomalies in various security enclaves for the Defense Threat Reduction Agencies. This work supports the critical mission of countering weapons of mass destruction and emerging threats to U.S. forces globally.

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Leslie Stevens-Johnson

Senior Associate

Leslie leads our Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) Task Order. It is the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) current electronic health record supporting more than 9 million veterans. Since 2018, Leslie has led the CPRS development team through numerous complex software releases to 171 VA Medical Centers.

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Paul Robinson

Senior Associate

Paul is a chief engineer and deputy program manager for a $300-million program developing innovative geospatial intelligence solutions through path-breaking scientific research and development. Paul has also led operations and management, engineering, and planning of an extensive, distributed infrastructure at secure facilities nationwide. This includes hands-on experience with cloud engineering, DevSecOps, and high-performance compute, which is an emerging growth market that enables artificial intelligence/machine learning and big data solutions.

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Samira Willis

Lead Associate

Samira has supported the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) leadership. She led a technical and business management team of 15 people to ensure the smooth execution of MTO research programs. This work included leading the preparation for major public events, including the 2015 MTO Symposium, as well as team collaboration events with DARPA program managers.

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Tanya Zanders

Associate

Tanya has led data-sharing efforts for external partner processes on her team. As the lead system engineer on the project, she has created various process diagrams, swim lane diagrams, and circle diagrams to depict and improve the supporting Department of Defense agency and external partners' processes for sharing data.

Celebrating a Legacy of Excellence

Since 2005, BEYA has recognized over 100 Booz Allen employees for their excellence in the fields of engineering, science, and technology. See more Booz Allen leaders recognized by BEYA in the last 4 years:

2022 BEYA Winners
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Bahirah Adewunmi, Associate
Karolyn Babalola, Ph.D., Lead Associate
Michelle Carrington, Lead Associate
Stephanie Jenkins, Senior Associate
Germaine Johnson, Lead Associate
Christa Jordan, Lead Associate
Nicholas Lee, Ph.D., Associate
LaToya Robinsonn, Lead Associate

Ashleigh Smith, Associate

2021 BEYA Winners
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Erica Banks, Principal
Andrea Blackwell, Lead Engineer
Malena Clark, Senior Lead Engineer
Gaitan Eylia, Senior Lead Technologist
Sian Lewis, Lead Scientist
Miesha Lites, Senior Lead Technologist
Dameon Ming, Senior Lead Technologist
Jennifer Mosquera, Lead Technologist
Sade Ruffin, Lead Engineer

2020 BEYA Winners
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Leslie Allen, Senior Associate
Andreen Anglin, Associate
Patrice Clark, Principal
Valerie Conley, Principal
Robert Crawford, Senior Associate
Sean Spence, Associate
Jason Vann, Senior Lead Technologist

2019 BEYA Winners
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Walter Hackett, Associate
Stephanie Moore, Lead Associate
Al Salaam Taalib, Lead Associate
Troy Wallace, Lead Associate
Brandon Whittington, Associate

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