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Leadership Team
Biographies
Ashok Nalamalapu - President
Ashok has MS in computer science from the New Jersey Institute of
Technology. He has led several
software projects successfully at the Fortune 500 companies including IBM,
The Vanguard Group of Investments and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Ashok also was a technical lead for SAP
implementation at Armstrong World Industries. He is a frequent speaker on topics such as the Internet and E
Business, as well as a motivational speaker and writer. He has authored many articles that have
been featured in the Portland Press Herald. In 1996, Ashok started iCST, in Maine. The Small Business Administration has
selected Ashok as a co-winner of Maine's Minority Small Businessperson of
the year in 1999 and also as a runner up for Maine's Small Business Person
of 2000 and 2001. iCST received
Governor’s award for business excellence in 2001. Ashok has won the highest
achievement awards at the Dale Carnegie courses. He was trained on leadership at Center for Creative Leadership
and Institute of Civic Leadership. Along
with this successful leadership training, he strongly values a fun and
exciting workplace for his team members. He advises Maine's Governor Angus King on technology issues
and is on the board of the United Way of Greater Portland.
Christopher Broadway, Chief Financial Officer
As the CFO for iCST, Chris has a BS in Business
Administration and Decision Sciences from George Mason University. He spent 7 years with Peace Corps, first
at their headquarters in Washington, DC as the Chief Administrative Officer
for 180 staff and a $40 million dollar budget. Then 3 years in Moldova, Eastern Europe, as the Associate
Country Director developing Peace Corps’ most successful start-up post
immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Transitioning to technology, he served
as CEO for a start-up web development company in Fairfax, Virginia
initially winning the contract and developing the comprehensive web site
for the IRS. His client list
included Cable & Wireless, Congressional Budget Office, General
Services Administration, MCI, Netscape and The Washington Post. Prior to joining iCST, he has been a
Corporate Facilitator and Wilderness Instructor with Outward Bound teaching
leadership skills to Fortune 500 CEOs as well as teenagers. Very well traveled, he has spent more
than 24 years living in Africa, Asia and Europe. In the past year, he has visited Belize, Costa Rica and
Thailand. Away from iCST, you can
often find him scaling granite cliffs, sailing Penobscot Bay or exploring
New England with his two Moldovan dogs.
Ted Eaton - Director of Business Development
Ted has 30 years in the Information Technology industry in
management and marketing positions. He has a BA degree from Colgate
University and a MBA in Finance & Business from Hofstra University. He
was Director of Information Technology at Ocean Spray Cranberries,
participating in the growth of the company from $75 Million to $500
Million, and Senior IT Director International at Motorola/Codex, where he
had responsibility for 10 international offices. Ted has recently been
Director of Marketing for Compass Systems & Programming, an IT
Consulting firm. He has extensive experience in directing and implementing
major application systems and databases utilizing all levels of platforms
and networks. Ted resides in Dover, NH.
Dean Ostergaard - Director of Consulting Services
Dean Ostergaard has over 20
years of experience in the IT industry. Most recently Dean was Chief
Architect at Cost Effective Development Corp. where he applied a mix of
traditional and agile development methodologies such as the Software
Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the Rational
Unified Process (RUP), eXtreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Development
(TDD), and scrum, in a distributed dynamic, virtual team environment. He is
convinced that the responsiveness to changing needs and requirements of
Agile Methodologies, blended with the appropriate mix of management control
and reporting from traditional methodologies produces results that satisfy
users, developers, and managers.
Dean's history in the IT field includes directing
the activities of teams of world-class developers using Java, J2EE, SOAP,
XML, Web Services, and Microsoft technologies to deliver custom solutions
and integration projects to clients; Managing the IT Services department
for an integrated circuits manufacturing company; Managing the networking
and end-user computing services department for one of the worlds largest
book distributors; and making major software contributions to the early
development of EDI, B2B, B2C, and Web Services techniques in the bookseller
and book wholesaling and distribution markets.
Lincoln Page - Senior Technical Recruiter
Lincoln Page is the Senior Technical Recruiter at iCST. His experience in the field started in
1980 when he worked for Exeter Associates in Hampton, New Hampshire. After representing several prestigious
firms, Lincoln opened his own company CompuSource Inc., which started with
just Lincoln and his partner. It
quickly became the largest technical recruiting company in Maine. Lincoln is an avid sports participant and
enthusiast all year long. He has
been involved in coaching kids at all ages in baseball and basketball.
Lincoln resides in Saco with his best friend Maggie (his black Laborador). Linc and Maggie are both avid Red Sox
fans and neither believe in the Curse of the Bambino. They both believe this is the year the
Red Sox will win the World Series without a doubt.
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