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CTI Infrastructure Q&A Series: Kaylee Curran

3/8/2021

What is your official title at CTI? I am a Corporate Administrator.

Give some background on what responsibilities you have at CTI within the Infrastructure team: I started with basic office duties and managing travel expense reports. Then, moved into assisting wherever I could to get to touch each piece of executing a government contract from finance, HR, procurement, and more. I learned that I...

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CTI Infrastructure Q&A Series: Matt Streeton

3/2/2021

What is your official title at CTI? My title is Director of Operations. I realize this is the "Infrastructure Q&A series", which might cause some confusion to our valiant readers. To ease any concerns, we recently merged Infrastructure with Programs, and turned it into Operations. Maybe we should rename this series the "Operations Q&A series"?!
Give some background on what responsibilities you...

CTI Infrastructure Q&A Series: Sara Rutherford

2/22/2021

What is your official title at CTI? My official title is Purchasing Administrator
Give some background on what responsibilities you have at CTI within the Infrastructure team: The short answer? Basically if it involves buying something I’m probably involved at some level.
I purchase any requests that come through Jira—or find an existing asset that fits the need, and then twice a month I...

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CTI Infrastructure Q&A Series: Carly Ricketts

2/17/2021

What is your official title at CTI? I am a Contract Administrator.

Give some background on what responsibilities you have at CTI within the Infrastructure team: I handle day to day management of contracts, from proposal assistance to subcontractor administration, to contract closeout. I work closely with Finance and Program Management to ensure our projects run smoothly and successfully.

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CTI Infrastructure Q&A Series: Regina O'Sullivan

2/8/2021

What is your official title at CTI? I am CTIs Controller
Give some background on what responsibilities you have at CTI within the Infrastructure team: Most importantly, my job is to ensure there is complete transparency regarding the financial...

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CTI Infrastructure Q&A Series: Adriene Capers

2/1/2021

What is your official title at CTI? Program Financial Analyst

Give some background on what responsibilities you have at CTI within the Infrastructure team: I am responsible for managing and tracking all aspects of the program/project costs with the Program Managers. I coordinate on a regular basis with Program Managers to update labor, subcontractor, travel and materials projection for...

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CTI Infrastructure Q&A Series: Sara Armiger

1/25/2021

What is your official title at CTI? I am the Contracts Manager.

Give some background on what responsibilities you have at CTI within the Infrastructure team: I am involved in the proposal process through the closeout of a contract and everything in between! I am the main liaison between CTI, Contracting Officers, Contracting Officer Representatives and handle the day-to-day administration of...

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CTI Infrastructure Q&A Series: Brooke Franklin

1/5/2021

What is your official title at CTI? Human Resources Administrator

Give some background on what responsibilities you have at CTI within the Infrastructure team: I am responsible for a variety of tasks at CTI. Recently, in response to remote employment and the growth of CTI, we improved and redesigned the onboarding process as well as digitizing all of CTI’s Human Resource records. I conduct...

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CTI Infrastructure Q&A Series: Diana Arnold

12/22/2020

What is your official title at CTI? My official title is Business Compliance Manager.

Give some background on what responsibilities you have at CTI within the Infrastructure team: I oversee and manage the corporate compliance program and am currently developing corporate policies and procedures for the general operation of the compliance program and its related activities. I am responsible for...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Gary Mitchell

12/15/2020

Give us some background and a summary on your military experience: I am a US Army Special Forces combat veteran with over 20 years of planning, management and leadership experience in Special Operations. I’ve supported U.S. Special Operations...

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CTI 'Folds for Covid'

12/9/2020

Team CTI has been contributing spare CPU cycles to the Fold for Covid project. Rosetta@Home is a terrific endeavor designed to provide distributed computing resources to scientists and doctors around the world. CTI contributed clock cycles from Raspberry Pi’s, Laptops, AWS and Azure servers, and even mobile devices in a friendly competition. Check out https://foldforcovid.io — while great...

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CTI Infrastructure Q&A Series: Teresa Thies

12/9/2020

What is your official title at CTI? I am the Human Resources Manager.

Give some background on what responsibilities you have at CTI within the Infrastructure team: My responsibilities run the gamut of the employee life cycle from recruiting to separation of service and everything in between. That means oversight of onboarding, training, mentoring, benefit administration, employee counseling,...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Benjamin Washington

12/7/2020

Give us some background and a summary on your military experience: I grew up as an Air Force brat, even though I was born in a Naval Hospital (U.S. Naval Base, Philadelphia, PA). When my father retired, we never really lived far from an Air...

CTI's Tech Division Manager, Jen Free, speaks on transition with The Honor Foundation

11/17/2020

The Honor Foundation gives back to those who serve by preparing Special Operations service members to transition to the civilian sector. CTI's own Tech Division Manager, Jen Free, speaks about her transition experience with the Honor Foundation to CTI:

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CTI hosts Special Operations Veterans at THF Fall 'Virtual Trek'

11/13/2020

CTI recently hosted a group of Special Operations veterans as a part of The Honor Foundation's Fall Virtual Trek. This amazing event is an opportunity for SOF veterans going through the THF program to hear from a variety of companies and staff...

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Brown Bag Series: The UX of Real Life: A Discussion of Stress Management and Psychological Well-Being

11/6/2020

During our internal 'Brown-Bag' discussion series, Dr. McVay, a cognitive psychologist and new member of the CTI team, presented empirically-validated methods for managing stress and promoting psychological well-being. Discussion ranged from...

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Brown Bag Series: Monolith or Microservices

10/22/2020

On this week's Internal CTI Brown Bag Series, one of our engineers will be discussing Monolith & Microservices. Have you heard these terms tossed around but struggle to define them or feel like you don’t know the benefits and drawbacks of...

CTI CEO, Dustan Hellwig, Presents “Multi-Domain Cyber-Spectral Operations”

10/21/2020

What does “All- or Multi- Domain Cyber-Spectral Operations” mean? Cyber and spectrum cross all of the physical domains and live wholly within none. Operations from and through one physical domain can impact operations and adversaries within any other physical domain. And when we combine cyber and spectral activities, operational reach extends even...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Kyle Steinman

10/20/2020

Give us some background and summary of your military experience. I came into the military in 1999 after I had spent some time attending college and spinning around in circles. I took off to beautiful Fort Benning, GA where I attended Basic,...

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Dr. Jennifer McVay, data scientist and human performance SME for CTI, speaks at 9th Annual Information Operations & Electronic Warfare Symposium

10/20/2020

Dr. Jennifer McVay, a data scientist and human performance SME for CTI, will be speaking on the topic of applying signal detection theory to military planning and decision making at the 9th Annual Information Operations & Electronic Warfare...

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Brown Bag Series: Non-Technical Raptor Executive

10/15/2020

Once a week, our team at CTI presents a different project, effort, or piece of technology to the rest of the company. Today, one of our senior engineers is giving a non-technical overview of Raptor, including its history, some of the key...

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CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Richard Trundy

10/7/2020

Give us some background and a summary on your military experience: Joined the service in Nov 1979; the same week that 70 American Hostages were taken in Iran. I spent half of my military career working is Special Operations serving as a Company and...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Brian Phillips

9/24/2020

Give us some background and a summary on your military experience: I joined the Army in 1998 out of Lakeland, Florida. Most people do not join the military with the intention of retiring, but that wasn’t the case with me. I enlisted with the...

How CTI Stays Active

9/21/2020

With the gyms closed in many places due to Covid-19, the CTI team has come up with creative ways on how to remain active! From at-home weight lifting, hitting a batting cage, or doing pull-ups on a playground, our team doesn't make excuses for not staying in-shape. Remaining physically active during quarantine provides important mental and physical health benefits, so get out there and start...

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CTI Veteran Q&A Series: O'Neil "Dean" Gardner

9/9/2020

Give us some background and a summary of military experience:· Retired after over 20 years of active duty service in the U.S Army.· Spent 18 years in Army Special Forces.· Served as Special Forces Communications Specialist,...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Kevin Cuartas

8/31/2020

Give us some background and a summary on your military experience: I joined the Air Force in February of 2000 after receiving my commission from Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps out of the University of Miami while earning my Criminal...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Steve Goodnight

8/19/2020

Give us some background and a summary on your military experience: Being the son of a Marine growing up in the '80s and '90s, I knew I wanted to be a Marine from a very early age (5). Enlisting right out of High School in Fredericksburg, VA, I...

CTI 2020 Hack-A-Thon Video

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8/6/2020

CTI's 2020 in-person Hackathon in San Diego, CA had to be cancelled due to safety concerns surrounding COVID-19, but we still wanted to get our amazing team together to tackle difficult technical challenges. Check out the video to learn more...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Brian Richardson

8/4/2020

Give us some background on your military experience: I joined the Navy in 1992, attending both boot camp and Nuclear Electronics Technician “A” school in Orlando, FL. After it was determined I did not have the aptitude to be a Nuclear Reactor...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: John Goodson

7/27/2020

Give us some background and a summary on your military experience: I enlisted in the US Navy out of Dallas, Texas in the Winter of 2007. I knew immediately that I wanted to join the Special Operations community, but took a long road to get there....

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Christian Rowlands

7/20/2020

Give us some background and a summary on your military experience. In 2004 I enlisted in the Marine Corps and began a 5-year journey. I started my career as a 2651 (ISR Systems Engineer) and was stationed at 1st Radio Battalion in Camp Pendleton,...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Jennifer Free

7/14/2020

Give us some background and a summary on your military experience: I enlisted in the Navy from Cleveland, Ohio when I was 17 years old. I served a little over three years as a Hospital Corpsman when I applied to and received a Naval Reserve...

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CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Rob Tisdale

6/30/2020

Give us some background and a summary on your military experience: I joined in 2009 in hopes of being a Combat Controller (CCT), however events do not always go as expected and I was medically eliminated shortly after successful completion of the...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Joren McSorley

6/22/2020

Give us some background and a summary on your military experience: I grew up in Southeastern Wisconsin and spent most of my time outdoors, playing sports, and taking apart anything I could get my hands on. I attended a technical high school with...

CTI Hack-A-Thon Finale

6/19/2020

CTI's 2020 Hackathon has come to an end! Our team had an amazing week prototyping new software applications, integrating hardware components, exploring new CONOPs, and evaluating exciting emerging technologies for applications in Defense. ...

CTI Hack-A-Thon Infrastructure

6/18/2020

One of the benefits of being a technology company is being able to tap into software engineering expertise to improve all aspects of the business, including behind-the-scenes aspects of operations and infrastructure. From having an engineer help...

CTI Hack-A-Thon Services

6/17/2020

Day 3 of our virtual Hack-a-thon is wrapping up here at CTI! One of the things that makes our company truly unique is the tight partnership of our software development and technical training teams. Our team of world-class software developers,...

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CTI Hack-A-Thon Technology

6/16/2020

CTI has been in business for 20 years! To celebrate, we’re hosting an internal event where everyone rolls their sleeves up to ship something meaningful this week! We’re tackling everything including making our business processes more...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Derrick Lewis

6/16/2020

Derrick Lewis is an 8-year Navy Veteran who worked as an Intelligence Analyst.
Give us some background and a summary on your military experience: I was an intelligence analyst in the Navy. That means I would study some type of problem whether...

CTI Veteran Q&A Series: Bennie Peterson

5/26/2020

Bennie Peterson is a retired Naval Officer with 24 years of experience working in the EW/Cyber mission space. He is currently working as a Program Manager overseeing CTI's Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations portfolio.
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