MAIN – Digital Transformation

Eric Gonzales leads a team of high-performing, impact-driven business development professionals—all working toward the mission of supporting the federal government and achieving corporate growth goals. A federal growth leader, he has more than 13 years of wide-ranging experience in health information technology (IT), including program management, business development and leading corporate strategic initiatives for Fortune 500 and 1000 companies, with a specialization on Veteran-focused initiatives. He has a proven track record of increasing revenue through identifying, qualifying and capturing opportunities that drive business expansion and increase brand recognition.

Eric has overseen capture, bid and delivery of hundreds of millions of dollars of health IT work across the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise and continuously leverages and expands his existing network to match company core competencies to customer needs ahead of public announcement. His expertise includes large-scale capture and proposal development on multi-billion dollar indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts and single award contracts or task orders. Eric is an active participant in the federal professional services community with a history of building talented, winning capture and proposal teams. He has a deep understanding of the government’s needs and objectives in the areas of enterprise IT and emerging technologies. He is also the co-owner/host of the successful Monthly VA T4NG Networking events.

• 2023 and 2022 FedHealthIT100 Awardee
• Certified Scrum Master
• FAC-C Level 1
• BA, Business Management, Hood College

As program director and IPv6 leader, Mr. Wallace leads a 40-person team achieving the IPv6 Transition under M-21-07 for a cabinet-level agency. He has more than 40 years of technology experience in executive leadership, portfolio, program and project management, engineering management, systems engineering leadership and capture management roles with ever-increasing responsibility. He is internationally recognized as an IPv6 subject matter expert; the IPv6 Forum designated him an IPv6 Deployment World Leader and he was inducted into the international IPv6 Hall of Fame. Ralph contributed significantly to the latest U.S. Government IPv6 directive to move all federal agencies to IPv6 Only enterprises by 2025.

Over the past 13 years, Mr. Wallace led various federal cross-organizational teams in their respective enterprise transition to IPv6, including every aspect of the transition from technical to logistics and programmatic. Based on success with the Internal Revenue Service transition (97,000 U.S. workstations in 517 locations fully and securely IPv6 enabled within a Defense in Depth cybersecurity architecture), he was invited to be a member of the Federal IPv6 Task Force executive committee and assist in the drafting of the current OMB memo, M-21-07, requiring the U.S. Government to “Complete the Transition to IPv6.”

Since June 2021, Mr. Wallace has been a member of the IPv6 SME cadre at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, creating IPv6 enterprise transition best practices. He also supports the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council Networks and Telecommunications community of interest (IPv6 working group) supporting the Federal IPv6 Task Force.

As an IPv6 subject matter expert emphasizing all aspects of the transition to an IPv6-only enterprise, he, employing a systems development life cycle, has created and implemented requirements, technical standards, success metrics and programmatic workflows required to implement and operationalize an IPv6 native enterprise at any scale, including all aspects of a functioning enterprise including the network infrastructure, the required IPAM/DHCP/DNS architecture, the coincident complementary cybersecurity architecture and applications’ standards to use industry approaches to operate in an IPv6 only enterprise.

• MSc, Technology Management, George Mason University
• Federal CIO Competencies Certificate, Federal CIO University
• IPv6 Hall of Fame and Deployment World Leader, IPv6 Forum
• Member of ETSI
• Navy Veteran

Chris Hysick is a proven digital and information technology (IT) expert with over 30 years of experience in the industry. Chris leads a comprehensive IT team in delivering innovative, secure solutions to Aptive and its project teams, in addition to maintaining corporate certifications to remain compliant and certified to work. One of his specialties is collaborating with executive leadership and communicating their IT business concerns and objectives throughout all levels of the organization, delivering accurate and suitable information for every employee.

Chris leads the efforts for Aptive to become certified and maintain certifications in CMMC 2.0, ISO/IEC 2000-1:2018 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013. He is largely focused on assisting Aptive’s Digital Transformation services area, working closely with leaders to reduce overhead and help pinpoint valuable areas in a path forward.

Prior to working for Aptive, Chris worked in an IT support role at a company where 15 years later he became a part owner. He then moved to a role that involved overseeing a team of up to 13 people, managing technology infrastructure and operating co-located data center operations. Chris joined Aptive in 2020 and led an effort using gap analysis to understand the company’s IT deficiencies. As a result, he implemented one of the company’s first major project improvement software systems, which Aptive still uses today.