Management

Management

Joe Ordia
Chief Executive Officer & President
Joe E. Ordia is President and Chief Executive Officer of Ordia Solutions , a company he co-founded in 2005 for the singular purpose of equipping public safety agencies and their front line personnel with next generation interoperable technologies to effectively communicate, collaborate, coordinate, command and control (5Cs of Interoperability) during critical incident and disaster response, major event security, multi-jurisdictional/multidisciplinary exercises, for infrastructure and border protection, as well as routine law enforcement and rescue operations.  After witnessing the operational benefits that collaborative command & control technology brought warfighters and their commanders in Iraq, and seeing the difficult public agency responses to the Asian Tsunami, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and London bombing, Mr. Ordia co-founded Ordia Solutions in 2005 to develop similar robust capabilities for public safety and homeland security.

Prior to founding Ordia Solutions, Mr. Ordia served as Chief Engineer at General Dynamics Viz for the US Army's Command Post of the Future (CPOF) program from 2001-2003.  He later served as project manager for the DARPA CPOF Pattern Discovery program where he led a team of machine learning experts in developing solutions to automate the flow of information between operators in the Army’s CPOF environment.  Mr Ordia was dispatched to Iraq for most of 2004 to execute the successful deployment of CPOF with the US Army's 1st Cavalry Division, 3rd Infantry Division, and 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, providing tactical system support during the first fielding of CPOF to operational units.  This mission-critical, real-world experience gave Mr. Ordia a high degree of practical understanding of tactical operations that enables him to guide technology development efforts in such a way as to focus on capabilities that are most valuable to the operators at the edge (common operating picture that is dynamic, real-time enhanced situational awareness), yet technically feasible.

While in college, Mr Ordia's passion for designing intelligent user-interfaces and complex collaborative software led him to found Ordia Corp, a developer of real-time enterprise collaboration software for instant messaging, document collaboration, group conferencing, online presentations, brainstorming, and more.  Mr Ordia did his undergraduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional.  He is active in professional and philanthropic circles, a member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and TIE-DC, he recently accepted an appointment as a Citizen member of the Wireless Broadband Advisory Council of the Virginia General Assembly's Joint Commission on Technology and Science in Richmond.  An avid golfer and runner, Mr Ordia is training for the 2007 Chicago Marathon where he hopes to raise sizable funding for the St Jude's Children Research Hospital in Memphis.  He resides in Northern Virginia.

Alfred Toussaint
Senior Vice-President, Sales & Marketing
Alfred P Toussaint Jr. is Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing of Ordia Solutions, the leading provider of interoperable, collaborative, and mobile command and control solutions for public safety.  He is also President and CEO of Nova Technology Partners Inc , a Northern Virginia-based marketing, public relations, and business development consultancy he founded in 2006 that specializes in accelerating awareness and profitable market share expansion of emerging technology companies targeting the public sector information technology market.
 
Prior to Nova and Ordia, Mr. Toussaint spent over twenty years in increasingly senior technical and marketing positions in the high-technology industry, working with both corporate and public sector customers.  His most recent corporate assignment brought him to the Washington DC area where he relocated in late 2003 to lead Intel Corporation's federal marketing operations.  As Chief Marketing Strategist, Mr. Toussaint directed Intel’s efforts in expanding its brand, boosting its profile as a technology thought leader, and creating preference for solutions based on its architecture among federal agencies, the federal system integrator community, the solution VAR channel, and hardware vendors.  Prior to the Washington DC assignment, Mr. Toussaint led Intel's High Performance Computing Program Office for the Americas, based in Portland OR, where he coordinated technical and marketing activities between Intel and HPC vendors, corporate, academic, and government end-users across North and South America.  During his tenure as HPCPO lead, the number of Intel-based HPC systems that ascended to the Top500 most powerful computer list went from 3 to 189 in the November 2003 rankings. 
 
At Dell, Mr. Toussaint was a founding member of the Workstation Products Group in Round Rock TX where as marketing alliance lead, he devised win-win marketing and sales programs with workstation software vendors worldwide.  Dell catapulted to Intel/Windows workstation market share leadership within two years of launch.  At Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Toussaint led the global effort, based in Boston MA, to successfully port the leading manufacturing applications Computervision/CADDS5 and Dassault Systèmes/CATIA to HP’s UNIX workstation and server platforms, giving HP an entry in the lucrative automotive and aerospace design and analysis manufacturing sectors.
 
Mr. Toussaint studied Computer Science and Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He is an active member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, TIE-DC, AeA T4G, and Coalition for Government Procurement.   He volunteers as an Internet instructor at the Dulles South Senior Center and sits on its Advisory Board.  Mr Toussaint is an avid scuba diver, is married to the former Danielle Michelle Winston, and they reside in Northern Virginia.

Pedro Martinez
Senior Vice-President, Chief Technology Officer
Pedro Martinez is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ordia Solutions, the leading provider of interoperable, collaborative, and mobile command and control solutions for public safety.  He shared Joe Ordia's vision of multiple solutions that would enable public safety agencies and law enforcement field personnel to successfully and effectively communicate, collaborate, coordinate, command and control (5Cs of Interoperability) during critical incident and disaster response, major event security, multi-jurisdictional/multidisciplinary exercises, for infrastructure and border protection, as well as routine law enforcement and rescue operations.

Mr. Martinez is an experienced leader of Information Technology with 13 years of overall professional experience and over 8 years of progressive, responsible Project Management, Telecommunications and Information Technology experience.  He is also a veteran of the United States Army, where he began his technical and leadership development, and discovered then, his passion for pushing the limits of computers in creative ways.

Mr. Martinez honed his technical and leadership background in the Fort Bragg's distinct airborne elite divisions.  His extensive background in using innovative technology resulted in the successful deployments of clustered data storage, enterprise network management, 3D mapping and image rendering tools, computer lab design across local and federal government, legal, telecom and architectural service agencies and other private organizations.

He supported multiple government programs including Sandias' Lab fiber optic network, National Disaster Relief (NDR), DARPA’s Command Post of the Future (CPOF), COORDINATORS, and other classified programs.  He is also an active member of the Board of Advisors of ECPI Technical College in Richmond, VA.


Board of Directors

Thomas C. Frazier
Chief Executive Officer
Frazier Group, LLC
Thomas C. Frazier is CEO of Frazier Group, LLC , a private consulting firm specializing in organizational assessment, best practices, and civil rights compliance. He currently serves on the Independent Monitor Team overseeing the Department of Justice Los Angeles and Detroit Consent Decrees. He is Executive Director of the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association, a national professional association representing the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States and Canada.

Prior to establishing Frazier Group, Tom served as Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) of the Department of Justice, having been appointed by the President of the United States. In this capacity, he directed programs including the funding and hiring of 100,000 police officers, an $8.8 billion program, and the establishment of a national network of regional community policing institutes.

Before his appointment to the COPS office, Tom served as Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department, an agency of over 4,000 employees. Baltimore is one of the 20 largest police departments in the nation. He restructured the BPD, focusing on strengthening the future of the City of Baltimore. As part of this effort, he established the second largest Police Athletic League in the nation, involving more then 10,000 young people.

Prior to his appointment as Commissioner in Baltimore, Tom retired as Deputy Chief of Police of the San Jose Police Department in California. He served the San Jose PD for 27 years. He served as commander in each of the agency's bureaus and led the agency's transition to community oriented policing.

Tom served as President of the Board of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). He is currently a member of Homeland Security Task Force, Intelligence and Local Law Enforcement Committee, The Heritage Foundation. He is a Senior Fellow, Police Assessment Resource Center, Vera Institute of Justice. Tom holds a Master of Science degree from San Jose State University and is a graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute.

Steven I. Cooper
Founding Partner
Strativest
Steve Cooper most recently served as a Senior Vice President and the CIO of Information Technology at the American Red Cross. Prior to joining the Red Cross Mr. Cooper was appointed by President Bush (Feb. 2003) to become the First CIO of the Department of Homeland Security. At DHS Steve and his team had responsibility for the information technology assets supporting 190,000 federal employees of the 22 agencies now comprising the new department. Their efforts focused on integrating new and existing sources of essential homeland security information via proven and emerging technologies and in full compliance with broader values of privacy, civil liberties and openness.

Prior to DHS Mr. Cooper was appointed by President Bush (March 2002) as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and served as Senior Director for Information Integration in the White House Office of Homeland Security. In this role, Cooper launched the development of the National Enterprise Architecture for Homeland Security to address information integration within the federal government and the sharing of homeland security information with local, state and relevant private sector entities. He fostered partnerships with local and state government and the private sector to assist local, state and federal initiatives focused on the sharing of law enforcement, public health and emergency services information. With James Flyzik, Senior Advisor to the Homeland Security Director and former CIO of the Treasury Department, he provided the input for Information Sharing and Systems to the National Strategy for Homeland Security.

Prior to federal government service, Cooper spent more than 20 years in the private sector as an Information Technology professional, most recently as CIO, Corporate Staffs, and Executive Director, Strategic Information Delivery, for Corning, Inc. in Corning, NY. Previously, he served as Director, Information Technology for Eli Lilly & Company in Indianapolis, Ind. Cooper held several senior level technical and management positions with CSC, MAXIMA and CACI prior to forming his own consulting organization, Strategic Information Concepts.


Board of Advisors

Dendy Young
Chief Executive Officer
McLean Capital, LLC
Dendy Young is the CEO of McLean Capital, LLC, a private equity firm based in McLean, VA. From January 1996 to February 2006, Mr. Young was Chief Executive Officer of GTSI Corp. and performed as Chairman of the Board from 1998 until May 2007. GTSI Corp. is a publicly traded (NASDAQ) systems integrator that provides complex computer solutions to government.

An award-winning executive with more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry, Mr. Young serves on the Executive Committee of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, as Chairman of the TechPAC, and on the Board of Directors of AFCEA, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. He serves on the Board of the National Capital Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Active in community affairs, Mr. Young serves on the Board of Trustees of the Landon School, a private boys school in Maryland.

In recognition of his leadership and contributions, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from VARBusiness magazine at the 2003 VAR500 awards ceremony. He also received the Federal CIO Council's Azimuth award for 2000 which is bestowed upon one industry leader each year. He was named three times to the "Fed 100," a prestigious group nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to government and industry and won the coveted FOSE Industry Award. He received the Federation of Government Information Processing Council (FGIPC) President's Award for his efforts in widening communications between government and industry.

Prior to GTSI, Mr. Young served as Chief Executive Officer of Falcon Microsystems, Inc., the second of two companies he founded and sold between 1981 and 1994. In less than 10 years, Falcon Microsystems grew to be a nationally recognized, multi-platform federal reseller and integrator before being sold to GTSI in August 1994.

Mr. Young holds a S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Col. W. Gerald Massengill (Retired)
Former State Police Superintendent
Virginia State Police
Col. Gerald Massengill was appointed Chairman of the panel that investigates the shooting incident at Virginia Tech.  He served with Virginia State Police for 35 years, including a role as Superintendent. During his tenure, his primary interest was traffic safety and enforcement. Nationally known for his efforts, Col. Massengill was an integral part in the planning and implementation of traffic safety campaigns. A relationship builder, he worked to preserve high quality professional ties between state and local law enforcement agencies. Because of his many contributions, Massengill is credited for helping shape public policies that have made Virginia's roads safer.

Beginning as a trooper trainee in October 1966, members of his Academy class saw him as a leader and elected him president of the 45th Basic Session. He graduated from the Academy in 1967 and was assigned to Isle of Wight County. After patrolling for eight years, he was promoted to sergeant, Claypool Hill. Thus began his climb through the ranks, which unbeknownst to him would lead him to the top.

In July 1979, Massengill was promoted to first sergeant at the Petersburg office, responsible for Dinwiddie, Nottoway and Amelia counties. It is no small coincidence that the Massengills still live in Dinwiddie, as this was one of his favorite assignments, both by location and rank.

Massengill was promoted to field lieutenant in 1987, responsible for state police activities in twenty counties and four cities. Six years later, he was named captain, division commander of the Safety Division. He was responsible for the Motor Vehicle Inspection Program statewide.

In June 1994, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, Director of Bureau of Field Operations (BFO), responsible for all uniform troopers. He maintained these responsibilities while he served as acting superintendent beginning January 2000. On June 22, 2000, the official announcement came through from Governor Gilmore’s office that Colonel Massengill would be superintendent.

Col. Massengill is a graduate of the University of Louisville's Advanced Administrative Officers Course at the university's Southern Police Institute. He also is a graduate of the FBI's Tactical Weapons Course, the U.S. Department of Justice's Anti-Terrorism/Hostage Course and the Virginia Executive Institute.

Dr. Earl R. Smith II
Adviser / Executive Coaching
Dr. Smith is an entrepreneur, seasoned senior executive, political and social theorist, published author and speaker. He is a veteran of Wall Street and has founded and managed two non-profit and six for-profit companies. Those companies have ranged from a NASDAQ Broker Dealer in which he was a principal to a company that revolutionized the financing structure of the US film industry.

Throughout his career, Dr. Smith has demonstrated a capability for managing change in both startup and mature environments. He is skilled at restructuring organizations. An effective communicator, he is proficient at crafting and delivering persuasive messages. Earl has consistently demonstrated leadership skills by developing and mentoring strong professional teams. He is experienced at building and maintaining strong alliances and strategic partnerships.

An effective leader and innovator, Dr. Smith blends academic research with hands-on management expertise. He has a record of successful innovation in a variety of industries including technology transfer, film financing, property investment and management, team building and leadership, board design/population and management, management/team/board assessment and executive/leadership/team coaching.

Dr. Smith has managed multi-million dollar budgets and staffs up to three hundred. He has served on seven Boards of Directors and three Advisory Boards.

Donald “Scotty” Walsh
Donald “Scotty” Walsh was most recently Recruited by W. James Hindman, Chairman, to head up the operation of a foundering high tech company, Avatech Solutions, Inc., as CEO.  Scotty was responsible for all aspects of the company with the assistance of a small executive management team. He took the company from a 200 employee, 23MM sales to 300 plus employees and annual sales in excess of $56mm. Along the way, he engineered the merger and acquisitions of 4 companies during a five-year tenure.  Prior to Avatech, Scotty was appointed as Executive Vice President of Brite Voice System, a 100-person company with revenue of $10,000,000.  Scotty managed virtually all aspects of the business except finance.  He reported to the CEO/President/Founder of Brite Voice Systems until the merger in 1999 with InterVoice, Inc. 

Prior to InterVoice, Scotty served as a senior executive with IBM’s public sector business, where he progressed through several management positions including managing the IBM business with the Commonwealth of PA with a team of 40 professionals and then Philadelphia branch office.  His final position was in Washington, DC as Manager of Field Operations and Support for the public sector with a quota of $2,000,000,000, which he achieved.