Lieutenant Colonel Gaylan “Dre” Gray Joins Sparksoft as Capture Manager for DoD

July 14, 2022 – Sparksoft Corporation is pleased to announce our new Capture Manager, Lieutenant Colonel Gaylan “Dre” Gray. Colonel Gray will be responsible for business development and proposal capture and management for our Department of Defense division. Colonel Gray is joining Sparksoft after completing the SkillBridge Program which is an initiative that helps military personnel transition into the civilian work culture by giving them the opportunity to intern at companies that align with their skills towards the end of their service.

After serving 24 years in the United States Air Force, Colonel Gray will retire from active-duty on November 1st. During his first 10 years in the US Air Force, Colonel Gray served as a Surgical Technician before commissioning as an officer and accepting positions including Chief Information Officer at Yokota Air Base Japan and Director of Operations, Medical Logistics and TRICARE Operations & Patient Administration in San Antonio Texas. Colonel Gray has also completed two tours in Iraq and deployments in Kuwait and Kosovo as a critical asset to the United States mission.

"Sparksoft is proud to have a decorated officer such as Dre be part of the Sparksoft Family. He served the country that we love so much with integrity and pride and will continue to serve this country through the Sparksoft mission. Lieutenant Colonel Gray’s 24-year pursuit within the Armed Forces has provided him with the experience and knowledge which will aid Sparksoft’s quest to ignite innovation for the Department of Defense"- CEO, Mike Finkel

About Sparksoft Corporation

Sparksoft is a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Services and Development Maturity Level 3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 20000-1:2018, ISO 27001:2018, and ISO 18295-1:2017 certified consulting organization with a proven record of successfully delivering modern digital health solutions for more than a dozen Federal, State, and Commercial customers. As evidenced by our 20+ prime contracts and subcontracts, and further supported by our excellent Contractor Performance Assessment Reports (CPARs), Sparksoft is a highly mature and capable partner trusted by the government and industry. We bring to bear the essential institutional knowledge, contract vehicles, certifications, experienced personnel, and process maturity to deliver the requirements in compliance with Federal regulations, industry best practices, and agency governance needs.

Through our focused mission “to ignite innovation, inspire transformation, and implement digital solutions for a healthier nation” we specialize in DevSecOps Delivery, Data Science, Contact Center Operations, and Intelligent Automation. Since 2004, our exceptionally skilled people, proven leadership, and optimized processes all work together to relentlessly push for more efficient solutions for our HHS, Military Health, and Life Sciences clients. We have developed a support structure of Innovation Centers designed to collect our enterprise-wide lessons learned and identify project-specific opportunities for improvement. SparkLabs, where our Research & Development engineers explore ideas and turn them into real-world solutions is an important impetus in our drive for innovation. We continually pull from our experience and combine this with forward-thinking technology from our certified partners like Red Hat, Microsoft, AWS, Google, Databricks, ServiceNow, Pega, and Salesforce to conceptualize novel and effective solutions such as our SparkLoader® RPA data pipeline, SparkGrid® Snowflake GUI, MockSpider® virtual sandbox, ScriptHive® for TDD/BDD automation, SparkMarker® website acceptance testing, and 508bee® for accessibility validation.

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