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In this episode of the Highlight Cast, host  Ashley Nichols , VP of Corporate Strategy and Development at Highlight, sits down with  Mandy Graham , Director for National Security Solutions, to explore the often-overlooked art of stakeholder management—especially in the context of government change initiatives and continuous delivery. Fresh from co-leading a session at the Prodacity Conference, Man...

Tune in as Ryan Haywood, alongside Kerry Trahan from Pioneer CX and Ryan McCarthy from Highlight, dives deep into the evolving world of federal contact centers. This episode explores the challenges and innovations shaping how government interacts with its citizens, providing valuable takeaways and strategies for federal agencies and the contractors who support them.

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 digi...

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 thi...

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...

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 Manag...

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 de...

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...

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!