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Appointments and promotions

, president and chief operating officer of ManTech International Corp., Fairfax, Va., was elected to the company's board of directors. Coleman has been president and COO since September 2004., former director of the National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development with the Executive Office of the President, has joined the Input Consulting Group at Input Inc., Reston, Va. Before his stint at the White House, Nelson was deputy chief information officer at NASA, also handling chief information security officer tasks in scientific computing and enterprise architecture. has joined data visualization software developer Corda Technologies Inc. of Salt Lake City as president and CEO. Purvis most recently was senior vice president of global sales and marketing at Oracle Corp. Corda founder and former CEO will remain as chairman of the board and take on a new role as chief operating officer. Former NASA Deputy Administrator has joined Lohfeld Consulting Group Inc., Edgewater, Md., as managing director for aerospace and defense strategies, offering consulting services to aerospace, defense and IT companies. At NASA, Gregory helped set the direction for new initiatives including development of NASA's Crew Exploration Vehicle, plans for human return to the moon and human exploration of Mars.Former deputy director of the Missile Defense Agency and Army Maj. Gen. has joined Analytical Services Inc., Huntsville, Ala., as president and managing director. A current ASI board member, Holly most recently was senior vice president and general manager of Huntsville, Ala.-based Intergraph Corp.'s federal solutions business unit.Former Commander of the Joint Contracting Command in Iraq/Afghanistan and Army Maj. Gen. has joined Quantum Research International Inc., Huntsville, Ala., as vice president and manager of the defense systems sector and program/capture manager of Quantum's SETAC 07 proposal effort.Former IRS software development program manager has joined IT, geospatial, engineering and program management services provider Avineon Inc., Alexandria, Va., as senior program manager of the company's IT services division. Meranda will lead development under the company's Total Information Processing Support Services contract. has joined Advice Unlimited LLC, Olney, Md., as public relations account executive. Lauer most recently was a federal police officer with the U.S. Capitol Police Department's public information office. have joined data center Baltimore Technology Park, owned by Alabanza Inc. of Baltimore. Seibert, named chief operating officer, most recently was vice president of operations for Hosting Ventures Inc. Fleisher, the company's new chief financial officer, previously was a finance manager at Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. Now vice president of business development at BTP, Weller most recently held a similar position at Switch and Data Management Co. LLC. Chaffin built and directed Albanza's product management department before becoming BTP's director of product marketing.Former White House Communications Agency CIO and Army Lt. Col. has joined Akamai Technologies Inc., Cambridge, Mass., as director of operations and delivery. Trentley will oversee the company's managed services offerings for government. Also, Akamai has promoted to vice president charged with leading the company's public sector division to be headquartered in Reston, Va. Appleby in 2005 left a position in IT acquisition and program management at the Defense Department. has joined Stanley Associates Inc., Arlington, Va., as chief financial officer, succeeding . Clark most recently was vice president, corporate controller and principal accounting officer at Titan, which was acquired by L-3 Communications Corp. Zaramba, named to the newly created position of chief strategy officer, will lead development and implementation of Stanley's corporate strategy initiatives. have joined Northrop Grumman Corp.'s IT sector, Fisher as director of global life sciences and King as director of health care financing and management. Fisher was president and founder of PQ Consulting LLC. King most recently was vice president for federal health care at CGI-AMS Inc.At , Alexandria, Va.: to division president for civilian agencies, overseeing all Robbins-Gioia engagements with federal civilian agencies, state agencies, Canada, and the Homeland Security Department.At , Arlington, Va.: to vice president of human resources, overseeing all personnel activities of the company's 2,300 employees worldwide.At Boeing Co.: to president of Boeing International Relations, replacing , who is retiring; and to president of Connexion by Boeing, replacing Koellner.At : to president of the company's Defense Integrated Solutions and Services division; and to president of business development for the federal sector business unit.At : In the company's Washington office: to vice president of corporate business development.At , Reston, Va.: to sector vice president and general manager of tactical systems; and to sector vice president of mission assurance.At in Baltimore: to director of communications.At , Rolling Meadows, Ill.: to vice president of infrared countermeasures for the Defensive Systems division; and to president of Amherst Systems, laboratory simulation and open-air range simulation training systems.At , McLean, Va.: to vice president of Washington operations; to vice president of business development; and to sector vice president and president of the Defense group.At , McLean, Va.: to general manager of the Command and Control Center, a newly integrated unit comprising centers in Bedford, Mass., and McLean.At Mitre's Bedford, Mass., office: to senior vice president and corporate chief engineer, charged with strengthening, integrating and ensuring technical quality across Mitre's three federally funded research and development centers.At , Houston: to managing director of the company's federal government unit; and to managing director of state and local initiatives.At : At the company's Intelligence and Information Systems unit, Aurora, Colo.: to vice president of space systems.Send personnel announcements to whosonfirst@postnewsweektech.com.
Appointed

Robert Coleman

David Nelson

John PurvisNeal Williams

Frederick Gregory

John Holly

John Urias

Andrew Meranda

Michael Lauer

Shelley Seibert, Andrew Fleischer, Jim Weller and Jeana Chaffin

Fran TrentleyBetsy Appleby

Brian ClarkMichael Zaramba

Harry Fisher and Amy King

Promoted

Robbins-Gioia LLCJohn Madej

Stanley Associates Inc.Sandy Eichelberger

Laurette KoellnerThomas PickeringStanley Deal

Computer Sciences Corp.Austin YerksMichael Gaffney

Northrop Grumman Corp.Chineta Davis

Northrop Grumman's Mission Systems sectorKelley ZelicksonDiane Murray

Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sectorCatherine Lamb-Heinz

Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sectorJeffrey PalomboJohn D. Stanfill

Northrop Grumman's IT sectorSteve PerkinsKent SchneiderDavid Zolet

Mitre Corp.David Lehman

Louis Metzger

BMC Software Inc.Chris AherneJohn Milbank

Raytheon Co.Chuck Enoch