HighlightCast

On today's episode of HighlightCast, we have two special guests: Ashley Nichols, Highlight's VP of Corporate Strategy and Development, and James Eselgroth, Director of Technology and Innovation. James will be sharing his insights on the ever-evolving landscape of technology, which continues to transform the capabilities of the federal sector.   As the federal sector is going through a digital transformation, there is a lot of discussion about how to leverage technology to expand its capabilities. In this episode, we will be exploring the ways in which organizations and individuals can use technology to boost their performance and discussing whether there is a better definition for digital transformation.

Today, we are led by CEO Aarish Gokaldas and VP of Corporate Strategy and Growth Ashley Nichols on a journey of retrospection for 2023 and a look into the future and hopes for 2024 at Highlight.

Our VP, Ashley Nichols, sits down with VP, Kevin Long to discuss Rise8's Prodacity, all things development and procurement, and how to push the envelope in development, software factories, and innovation in the federal sector.

Highlight CEO Aarish Gokaldas takes the reigns of the HighlightCast today, joined by Senior Vice President of Venn Strategies Matt Pearce to discuss the fantastic work being done in Congress to advocate for employee-owned companies and broaden the horizons of ESOPs in the Government space.

Today, we are joined by Highlight's Director of People and Culture, Fiona Sityar, and Recruiting Manager Matt Dotson to discuss all things recruiting. From breaking into the Government Contracting Industry, outlining the preferred qualifications, certifications, and classes of Government Clearances to how to engage with Highlight and what makes Highlight unique.

In this episode of the Highlightcast, VP Ashley Nichols sits down for an in-depth interview with our new Highlight CEO Aarish Gokaldas. They discuss his background, trends within GovCon, and advice for career development. We invite you to tag along and get to know him!

We welcome Ashley Nichols, VP for Corporate Strategy & Development, for her first time hosting today's episode of the HighlightCast discussing Software Asset Management in the federal sector. Today, Ashley is joined by Procurement Manager - Sarah Dryer, Program Manager & Cybersecurity Engineer - Kevin Milner, and Emilie Scantlebury - Director of Corporate Portfolio Development.  In this episode, we take an in-depth look at the current state of Software Asset Management, the biggest challenges, solutions, security impacts and implications, and the best practices in managing and optimizing the purchase, deployment, maintenance, utilization, and disposal of software applications within the Federal sector.

Listen to Highlight's Director of Corporate Portfolio Development Emilie Scantlebury discuss the best practices of Federal Communication, joined by Communications Program Manager Barry Lawrence, and our Mission Solutions BD Portfolio Director, Tom Perkins. In this episode, we discuss the core differences between Federal and Commercial Communications, Managing & Targeting a wide demographic across locations, cultures, and generations. And we were able to dive into accessibility and how comms have been affected by the pandemic.

Join us for the 3rd and final installment of our 3 Part Development Series. Discussing the last stage of the Federal Development Process Post-Development and Maintenence. Our host, Roman Zhelenko, digs into what Maintenance looks like, the best approach with the customer, shifting resources, workforce transition, and change management. Joining Roman once again, we have Special Guests Program Manager - Kevin Milner & Series Developer III Diljeet Singh.

The Development Series continues! Join us for part 2 of our 3 Part Series, taking a deep dive into the Federal Software and Application Development process, discussing in three stages of Pre-Production, Development, and Post-Development. Our host, Roman Zhelenko, picks up where we left off last week with our Development and Production episode, where we discuss and outline the best practices for development, how to learn in a new environment, how to improve the workflow, the challenges faced and how to overcome them, all within the Federal Sector. Special guests for episode 2 are full stack developer Thomas Burford and Series Developer III Diljeet Singh. Tune in!

Join us for our deep dive into the Federal Software and Application Development process, discussing the 3 stages of Pre-Production, Development, and Post-Development. In Episode One, we start with Pre-Production, what happens post-award of a contract, and laying the foundation for successful delivery.     Hosted by Roman Zhelenko, Highlight Director for Digital Government. Featuring special guests Kevin Long, Highlight VP of Digital Government and Kevin Milner, Program Manager. 

Listen to Highlight Marketing Manager Victoria Kruemmer and Director of Corporate Portfolio Development Emilie Scantlebury sit down to discuss Scorecard Bids with Joe Salgado from Red Team Consulting. With a variety of scorecard style procurements out now, and upcoming, Joe Salgado and Emilie Scantlebury give their tips, tricks & insights into how to tackle these opportunities. 

Our hosts sit down with Kevin Milner and Sarah Dryer to discuss ServiceNow - its dynamic use cases, trends, and capabilities within the Federal Sector. 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long sit down with Emilie Scantlebury and Eddie Fann to chat about Drupal. Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework that can be tailored and customized to simple websites or complex web applications. The team sat down to chat about use cases, trends, and more! 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long sit down with Emilie Scantlebury to discuss our partnership with UiPath to support delivering RPA and automation services to our Federal customers! 

Highlight is a proud member of the AWS Partner Network. Adam McNair and Kevin Long sat down with Roman Zhelenko to discuss AWS, the use cases, the future of cloud services within the Federal sector. 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long sit down with CEO of Hypori, Jared Shepard. Hypori is enabling secure BYOD within the Federal Sector. Hypori delivers remote access to cloud-powered enterprise apps by adding a separate, secure, 100% private, virtual workspace to any endpoint device. 

Listen in to hear from Rise8 CEO, speak with our Highlight team about CATO, risk management, and trends across the federal sector. 

On this episode, Adam, Kevin, and Tamar Mintz sit down with CEO Rish Patel from RP Professional Services and CEO Jatinder Sehmi from Audley Consulting Group, to discuss small business partnerships and collaboration. 

Adam McNair, Kevin Long, and Emilie Scantlebury sit down with Rise8, COO Matt Nelson and WeWork, Federal Sales Account Director Jay Sampson to discuss ToolChain as a Service and Software Factories within the Government Sector. 

Our Hosts Adam McNair and Kevin Long sit down again with Kevin Milner to continue our conversation from episode 17 about DevSecOps. We dive into building your DevSecOps toolkit, trends within government contracting, and more! 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long sit down with Ashley Nichols and Emilie Scantlebury to discuss HIMSS 2021, emerging trends within the Health IT Federal sector, and meeting a robot!  

Adam McNair and Kevin Long sit down with Kevin Milner to discuss what DevSecOps is, the real benefits, and how to make sure you have a high Bus Metric. Find out more in this month's episode! 

Roman Zhelenko joins Adam McNair, Kevin Long, and Victoria Robinson to discuss code challenges best practices, strategies, and lessons learned. 

On today's episode, Adam and Kevin sit down with Victoria to talk about a year of working during the pandemic. The group discusses their first impressions of Covid-19, work from home setups, new tools we have discovered, and the accomplishments over the past year. 

Fiona Sityar, Highlight Human Resource Manager, joins us to discuss the development, importance, and more about Highlight's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program. 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long sit down with Norma Watenpaugh of Phoenix Consulting Group to discuss her involvement with the development of the ISO 44001 standard, the impact on businesses, and collaboration best practices in business regardless of industry. 

Adam and Kevin sit down with Emilie Scantlebury and Victoria Robinson to discuss leadership transition, change management, and the impact on procurement.

This Month, Adam McNair and Kevin Long sit down with members of our business development, marketing, and operations team to discuss 2020 accomplishments, challenges, and goals for the upcoming year. 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long sit down with Highlight Technologies Internal Ops Manager, Mary Padberg, to discuss the DoD's new CMMC cybersecurity certification. From Highlights self assessment, to the audit process to the effect on the government contracting landscape. 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of Teleworking. They talk on adapting to new work from home set ups, collaborative software, work styles and more!

Adam McNair and Kevin Long are joined by Highlight's Manager of Operational Excellece, Devon Du Fur, to discuss ISO, CMMI, and process improvement. 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long discuss the recent rebranding of Highlight Technologies. 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long address the government shutdown, and different ways to handle things. They talk how companies are affected at an executive level, employee retention, and essential vs nonessential personnel on different projects. Plus, a strategy on how to aid current furloughed employees.

This episode of The HighlightCast brings another interesting perspective related to the business world. Anyone who has expertise in business growth knows the importance of location. A business’ location, from where they offer their main services or products, is way more than just identity. You will be surprised how much a location can impact the daily happenings of any business.

On the 3rd episode of the HighlightCast, Adam and Kevin talk about the end of the fiscal year and how things are, for the government and contractors, at this point. Afterwards, they delve into a short series of topics, touching the cord of confrontations inside the industry in it's growth stage.

On the second episode of the HighlightCast, hosts Adam McNair and Kevin Long, open up by discussing the purpose of the podcast; having another avenue to communicate with their employees, sharing insights on the latest news in the industry and some of the challenges faced by small businesses in the industry as well as innovative ways to overcome those challenges. The first topic discussed is multiple award contracts and government wide contracts which have been done for a very long time. They mention Alliant 2, the former of which came out 5 or 6 years ago, and the GSA STARS programs. Adam discusses how there are three major vehicles that represent billions of dollars in federal contracts that are being adjudicated right now. They discuss the protests surrounding these contracts and how too many bidders make the whole process complicated.

On the very first episode of the HighlightCast, hosts Adam McNair and Kevin Long explain the structure of the podcast. Adam McNair is the Chief Operating Officer and Kevin Long is the Vice President for delivery at Highlight Technologies in Fairfax Virginia. They both discuss how they are a part of the small business community supporting the federal government and will be talking about things that concern small businesses. They will be sharing insights and opinions on the show, talk about the challenges they face and strategies to overcome them, best practices in the business and share experiences that others can learn from. The first topic they discuss is the Vanguard procurements that were supposed to come out 5-6 years ago. They discuss the CIO, John Striffer’s, conference held to discuss unifying central technology requirements. Adam recalls what happens when the procurements are actually executed and Kevin explains management challenges in terms of their execution. They conclude the first episode discussing resumes, finding talent in the business and how important referral systems are in looking for the right individuals to work with.