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Centennial Technologies uses holistic applications, digital strategies, and a seamless integration approach to enhance competitive advantage, reduce implementation cycles, and reduce costs, while improving quality.
As IT evolves from technology-centric to value-centric, Centennial Technologies uses an agile and future-proof portfolio that sets the tone for simplifying, modernizing, and securing applications. By redesigning applications, Centennial Technologies enriches customer experiences and accelerates digital transformation in a secure environment.
As businesses transform their IT systems, they are increasingly finding that the ideal digital experience must also be a more human experience. The agencies that embark on IT modernization programs must put the customer above all other considerations. As such, Technology innovation is key to a transformation strategy. We help you explore emerging and proven technologies to enable transformation, develop approaches, and provide evaluation and implementation support in these critical areas.
Centennial specializes in emerging technologies that position agencies and corporations as leaders in their respective fields by providing them with the tools and means to leapfrog their competition. As many organizations try to catch up with the latest innovations, we believe it is vital to anticipate and lay out the groundwork for the adoption to provide the best solution with the best value. By combining building blocks for a specific use case, we design custom solutions and, as patterns emerge through subsequent use cases, develop reusable solutions, creating an environment of ongoing innovation and improvement.
Our Emerging Technologies Lab specializes in the four leading-edge technologies that we believe will have the most significant impact over the next decade on your business and mission: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Advanced Analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Our AI experts augment RPA to replicate human actions and enable better decisions using machine learning algorithms. Our expert data analysts evaluate and consider emerging technologies such as predictive, prescriptive, and augmented solutions to realize benefits from data insights. As we have done for so many of our commercial and federal clients, we can help you achieve a fast ROI by implementing bots for your key business processes. This enables your talented staff free from many elementary functions, thereby focusing more time on critical analysis and decision-making.
Organizations are changing the way they operate in business, meet their missions, and address emerging threats. They are actively working to meet the evolving needs of their customers and citizens while increasing customer engagement through an enhanced customer experience (CX). We focus on delivering strategic business outcomes by helping clients maximize the value of their applications, drive operational excellence, and competitive advantage.
Centennial is a transformation partner that understands your requirements, technology environment, operating structure, and adoption readiness to address modernization with purpose. Our application support services ensure that the right capabilities, with the most valuable data insights, are delivered at the moments that matter most.
As technology solutions converge, there are advanced opportunities to serve better and protect citizens. We provide industry and technology expertise, frameworks, and tools to enable our clients to drive business agility, competitive advantage, transformation, and cost efficiencies. Our Agile-based framework uses the principles of Lean and Kanban to deliver value quickly with increased transparency. We provide application development and maintenance support, perform portfolio management and application integration, transform and modernize applications, and provide website development and management.
With continuous pressure to modernize and accelerate innovation, organizations face the challenge of purposeful transformation. Lowered costs, enhanced flexibility, and the ability to create new revenue streams make cloud a technology of choice for high performance. But the cloud can do more. Cloud can connect customers and citizens anytime, anywhere, eliminate organizational boundaries, spur new products and services, broaden global footprint at a lowered cost, and enhance insight through advanced analytics. Cloud is now a true driver to business change, bringing together a range of public and private services to deliver agility, scalability, simplicity, and speed to market. We provide cloud support services that use the best of today’s available technologies and methods.
At Centennial, we engage with customers to holistically examine their business needs. Our Cloud services are then tailored to meet these requirements and deliver the key benefits of business agility, scalability, and flexibility in a robust and secure environment. Switching from an un-virtualized environment to a cloud can provide substantial cost savings. With greater automation and consolidation, we enable organizations to extract more significant savings from their IT footprint.
Centennial helps its clients navigate the challenges and opportunities available to improve business processes and create dynamic, collaborative work environments. We offer end-to-end services from consulting and implementation to ongoing support activities, along with the tools and partner relationships to implement, manage, and monitor any cloud-based process. Our services include strategy, assessment, and gap analysis, planning, designing, and performing migrations to industry-leading cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Salesforce, performing infrastructure optimization, and providing operations and maintenance support.
Information is one of your most valuable business asset. Effective management and data interpretation can set your organization apart and enhance your business performance while improving the value. Centennial’s Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Analytical services address the whole information lifecycle to ensure your organization obtains real business value from its data resources. We help our clients coalesce business intelligence, business process management, and enterprise data management initiatives, thus driving down the cost of IT and providing the agility to address changing business and regulatory requirements.
As companies demand advanced BI and analytical solutions to enable and, in many cases, automate their decision-making, we help them leverage information as an asset. Our consultants helped several clients develop the frameworks needed to implement new strategies and steer businesses toward greater efficiency and better performance. Our information strategy suite, data warehousing, data mining, and information analytics services measure, analyze, and optimize business performance across the entire enterprise.
Centennial brings together a deep understanding of the business and technology dimensions of an organization to harness information to improve decision-making, financial management, regulatory compliance, and customer service. Our BI and data analytics services help organizations transform data into insight and achieve higher levels of performance. We enable faster problem-solving and decision making at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels by internal and external users. By integrating best of breed technology from leading software vendors and alliance partners, we help our clients measure, analyze and optimize business performance across the entire enterprise to improve decision making, regulatory compliance, financial management, and customer service.
As security threats become more sophisticated, organizations must move from pure compliance to proactive defense and value-creation. Centennial Cyber Security Services leverage decades of experience, in-depth industry knowledge, and business-process know-how to help protect against threats, minimize risks and enable the adoption of new technologies that promote growth. We help organizations maximize the business value of enterprise security to achieve high performance.
Collaboration is at the heart of our approach—close collaboration with our clients and our technology partners. We work side by side with you to identify the holistic set of requirements relevant to your business and regulatory environment, to define a solution that delivers an appropriate ROI. Our certified cyber consultants help organizations and agencies defend against malicious threats, optimize and operate business processes while maintaining acceptable risk levels.
We offer a broad range of information security services from strategy through design, build, and deployment to the run and operations of security, including identity and access management support, application and data security support, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) services. We help clients assess their security posture and risk tolerance, determine the appropriate security levels, and design a comprehensive strategy that supports the business goals. We perform security risk assessments and help you navigate through your compliance challenges, inform you of current risks, and establish prioritized remediation strategies.
As organizations increasingly digitize their operations, the complexity and scale of IT infrastructure has grown exponentially. Today’s businesses experience a significant increase in data volume and struggle to store, organize, and maintain their data in an efficient way. Depending on an organization’s size and complexity, common pitfalls may include disruptive IT infrastructure updates, poor data management, inconsistent service assurance practices, and frustrated end users who lack support. These issues combined can have a devastating impact on an organization’s productivity. To ensure seamless and efficient IT infrastructure, it is imperative to establish robust IT operations support.
Centennial’s IT operations and support service experts have extensive experience transforming business IT operations. Our services include IT Infrastructure Management, IT Service Management, IT Service Assurance, and IT Service Desk and User Support. Our team uses agile-based work methodologies and ITIL principles to enhance infrastructure technologies with minimal disruption. This includes proactive monitoring, patching, and security support; optimizing performance and mitigating risks while meeting regulatory requirements; and maintaining industry standards. Our IT service management support encompasses everything from hardware configurations to software upgrades in support of end-to-end IT delivery. We ensure seamless continuity of these management services through a centralized solution to support ticket requests and user inquiries. Our IT service assurance support ensures that all these functions operate as intended and in a consistent manner. We conduct rigorous quality control and system requirement tests to build end users’ trust in their organization’s IT operations. Similarly, Centennial’s IT service desk and user support services provide 24/7/365 enterprise support, including Tiers 1-4 help desk/subject matter expert (SME) support to ensure that end users receive responsive, accurate, and timely assistance. We use ITIL standards to ensure service assurance, Artificial Intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) to automate regular tasks, and deploy chatbots to enhance the customer experience at reduced costs.
Businesses can achieve greater efficiency, security, and overall success by addressing current challenges and proactively managing IT infrastructure. A business that invests in IT operations and support services is well on its way to increased profitability, productivity, and customer satisfaction. At Centennial, we work side by side with our clients to develop a unified IT vision that aligns with their business objectives. In conjunction with enhanced IT systems, our support services provide clients with the foundation to deliver high-quality IT operations continuously. Benefits include improved customer service experience, operational cost reduction, productivity, and accountability. All these benefits combined lead to an overall improvement in business processes.
A strong, centralized Program Management Office (PMO) with efficient project leadership is key to any successful organization. Many large, complex organizations struggle in forming a strategic vison to implement and maintain a streamlined PMO. In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, organizations must adapt quickly to new regulations, competitors, and consumer expectations. Failure to do so may result in missing out on valuable opportunities, wasting significant resources, and mediocre business outcomes that fail to meet objectives. Some specific organizational challenges may include lack of oversight, misguided prioritization, and improper allocation of resources.
Centennial’s certified project management professionals and program experts take a holistic approach to solving organizations’ most challenging PMO problems. Centennial works closely with clients to develop customized solutions that address their unique business needs. Our solutions are based on four key tenets: independent, objective assessments; smart, strategic program management; data-driven decision making; and dynamic program involvement that aligns internal and external stakeholders. These strategies have proven effective across our diverse portfolio of programs involving technology evaluations, systems management, legacy system migration, application development, procurement support, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Exhibit 300 business case management.
Centennial ensures that its clients are well positioned to succeed with a centralized PMO and overarching strategic vision. A properly implemented PMO creates a seamless link between strategy definition and program execution to ensure alignment. Strategically configured dashboards provide data that support strong decision making to achieve project objectives on time and within budget. The decision-making process becomes objective and data-driven, which mitigates wasted resources. Centennial’s PMO services ensure organizational longevity with increased engagement, superior work quality, and improved outcomes for the organization and its stakeholders.
Ben Marglin is Vice President of Business Development at Centennial Technologies, focused on developing and leading the growth strategy for Centennial. With over 25 years of experience in public sector management and technology consulting, Ben’s strengths include building strong client relationships with both existing and prospective clients, and serving as a people leader across the organization, helping to promote a strong and healthy company culture. Ben leads the growth team to identify and capture new opportunities across the business development lifecycle, working to expand Centennial’s business in the Federal and commercial space.
Before Centennial, Ben was a Senior Vice President at Karsun Solutions, where he led client delivery for a ~$130M portfolio across several Federal civilian agencies and led a team of over 500 folks providing support to Federal clients. He spent 17 years with Booz Allen Hamilton, mainly in Federal Civilian market leadership roles where he had full P&L responsibility for a portfolio of Federal agencies, and he also spent two years in BAH’s Strategic Innovation Group (SIG) helping to lead the Digital Solutions practice area. Earlier, Ben worked for American Management Systems (AMS) providing IT and management solutions to state and local clients, and he spent three years on Capitol Hill working in the U.S. Senate.
Ben’s areas of expertise include digital strategy and transformation, acquisition, change management, and IT program management. He has a master’s degree in public policy from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree from Colby College and has professional certifications in Program Management (PMP), AWS Cloud, Agile (SAFe and ICAgile), Change Management (CMAP), ITIL, and Technology Business Management (TBM). Ben lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, son, and goldendoodle Sophie, and when he’s not doing yard work, he enjoys golf, running and biking, and following his native Boston sports teams. You can connect with him on LinkedIn or Twitter.
Sunitha Ravi is the Vice President of Operations and Delivery at Centennial Technologies Inc. In her role, she focuses on building trusted relationships with senior federal clients while driving innovative and customer-centric solutions. Using over 26 years of experience supporting both the public and private sectors, Sunitha aligns technology with strategic business and operational goals while managing operations and technology teams to deliver excellent customer service.
Before Centennial, Sunitha was a Director at VMWare public sector and led various programs for federal clients through agile and scrum practices while meeting growth and profitability goals. Before VMWare, Sunitha held various leadership positions at Verizon, Terramark, and Tetra Tech. She managed the delivery of financial and technology solutions and served as a trusted advisor to executive and management stakeholders. She successfully led teams of over 200 staff and agency portfolios with ~$100M in annual revenue. She supported financial teams and improved the finance function by driving more efficient processes and streamlining financial reporting.
She holds a Master’s degree in environmental engineering and is an Earned Value Practitioner (EVP), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certified. She lives in Ashburn, Virginia, with her husband and two daughters and enjoys traveling, spending time with friends and family, and cooking.
Saishree Shetty is the Senior Director of Growth and Client Success at Centennial Technologies. Saishree’s role is to expand our presence within the Civilian Health agencies, foster relationships with clients and potential partners, and enhance our current capabilities. She brings over two decades of experience in IT strategy, program management and delivery and business development in the federal and commercial sectors.
Before joining Centennial, Saishree was a Vice President of Business Development at a mid-size company and a woman-owned small business prior to that. She focused on growing accounts, increasing market presence, and capturing new business at various federal agencies. Having held several leadership positions in small and large consulting companies, Saishree brings a wealth of program management and delivery knowledge into her business development role.
Saishree has her Executive Leadership from Yale School of Management, Master of Science in Information Systems from Marshall University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering. Outside of work, Saishree’s interests lie in outdoor activities, organizing social events and bringing people together.
Brad Marchand is the Executive Director of Growth and Client Success at Centennial Technologies Inc. In this role, he focuses on enhancing client relationships and expanding Centennial’s footprint across federal clients. With over 30 years of experience in digital modernization, enterprise systems implementation, and business optimization, Brad is dedicated to driving growth and delivering exceptional customer success strategies.
Previously, Brad served as a Partner at Grant Thornton’s Public Sector practice, where he led the Finance Transformation Service Line and ERP Practice. His leadership extended to SRA, Inc., where he played a key role in IT systems implementations for the federal government. Additionally, Brad brings private-sector expertise from his tenure at JPMorgan Chase as Vice President specializing in global supply chain implementations.
Brad holds a bachelor’s degree from DePauw University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). A resident of Haymarket, Virginia, Brad enjoys golfing and supporting Chicago sports teams. He is also a proud parent who has coached his children in basketball and baseball.
Shabiha Yasmin serves as the Senior Director of Delivery at Centennial Technologies Inc., leveraging over 20 years of experience in the IT sector. With a process-oriented approach honed through extensive work with federal agencies such as CMS, FDA, EPA, and SSA, Shabiha excels in requirements elaboration, project definition, initialization, planning, and the successful delivery of complex technical projects. Known for her tenacity in securing stakeholder commitment to objectives, she excels in clarifying misaligned initiatives within strategic portfolios and resolving conflicts across cross-functional teams.
In her leadership role, Shabiha prioritizes exceeding client expectations by delivering innovative solutions, mentoring leaders, and staying abreast of emerging technologies.
Before joining Centennial, Shabiha served as a Program Manager at CareFirst, where she provided subject matter expertise in IT modernization, financial management, and business transformation initiatives. She focused on assembling robust and agile teams to support diverse federal agencies. Shabiha’s professional journey also includes holding leadership positions in technology divisions of esteemed organizations such as Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and CareFirst.
Shabiha holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in Biochemistry and Botany, complemented by an MBA degree in IT and Marketing. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFE Agilist, and ITIL4 practitioner.
Shabiha resides in Clarksburg, Maryland, and is a proud parent of two children aged 20 and 13. Outside of work, she enjoys indulging her passions for rock music, attending concerts, embarking on hikes, exploring new destinations through travel, and engaging in various crafts.
Prasad Siddabathuni is the Director of Technology at Centennial Technologies Inc. He provides invaluable technical and strategic leadership, solutions, and advisory services to our clients, partners, and internal teams.
With 25 years of experience in the technology domain, Prasad has a remarkable track record in delivering technical services and solutions across diverse IT sectors. He specializes in delivering integration, cloud, and data/AI strategies that drive enhanced process improvements and reduce costs. Prasad is adept at building and executing long-term product and service strategies across matrixed organizations, as well as in establishing and directing multinational technical and business teams. His proficiency areas include ownership and innovation, presales, architecture, transformation, delivery, M&A, integration, and field operations.
Prasad resides in Fairfax, Virginia, and enjoys traveling, playing the violin, and supporting local sports teams.
Matthew Shields is the Director of Delivery and Customer Support at Centennial Technologies Inc. He excels in building and leading high-performing teams across multiple concurrent contracts in fast-paced, high-profile environments. With a focus on cultivating professional relationships with clients, Matt brings over 25 years of experience in federal consulting, account management, program management, contract execution, and quality management to his role at Centennial.
Before joining Centennial, Matt served as a Senior Program Manager at Halvik Corp., where he provided expert contract management, budgeting, financial management, and program management services to an Agency-level portfolio. He oversaw the efforts of multiple project managers, prioritizing the achievement of program objectives and the delivery of high-quality results while maintaining disciplined financial management practices. Before his tenure at Halvik, Matt was a Director at Evoke Consulting, where he supported Operations and Business Development, spearheading enterprise-level transformational initiatives across various government agencies.
Matt earned his bachelor’s degree from Washington College and holds certifications as a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Project Management Professional (PMP). He is trained in Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), ISO standards, and Organizational Change Management (OCM).
A lifelong resident of Loudoun County, Virginia, Matt is passionate about adventure travel, hiking, and cycling in his leisure time. He and his wife take pride in being parents to two Eagle Scouts and are actively involved in volunteering with their sons’ troop.
Ned Blackburn is the Senior Director of Growth and Client Success at Centennial Technologies Inc. In his role, he focuses on exceeding clients’ expectations through delivering innovative solutions, advising customers, and working with solution partners. Ned brings 25 years of experience in strategic account management, program management, and business development in the federal and commercial sectors to Centennial.
Before Centennial, Ned was a Director at Grant Thornton, providing subject matter expertise on IT modernization, financial management, and business transformation initiatives. He focused on building resilient and agile teams to support various federal agencies. Prior to Grant Thornton, Ned held several leadership positions in small and large businesses where he led business development, capture management, and vendor partnerships. He built and managed large teams specializing in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Intelligence, and Data Warehousing solutions.
Ned earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Ohio University, is a Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and ITIL4 certified. He lives in Ashburn, Virginia, with his wife and three children. He enjoys coaching little league baseball, playing golf, and cheering for Cleveland sports teams.
Antonio “Tony” Hylton is Chief Strategy Officer for federal and state sectors at Centennial Technologies Inc. In this role, he develops service offerings, establishes strategic partnerships, and supports acquisitions. Tony brings over 30 years of public and private sector experience with business transformation, organizational change management, and innovative solutions to Centennial.
Before Centennial, Tony held various leadership positions at Verizon and managed over $100 million per quarter in sales. He guided the relationships with the National Association of State CIOs, National Association of State Technology Directors, US Conference of Mayors, and numerous state, local, and public safety agencies. Before Verizon, Tony served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Cook County, IL, where he led budget planning and execution, process optimizations, and technology innovation. Before Cook County, Tony held a variety of leadership positions with the Center for Digital Government (CDG), Dell-EMC, AT&T, and MCI.
Tony earned his bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University, is an accomplished Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and Certified Scrum Master. He loves golf and watersport activities. He is a home chef with a specialty in Asian-Fusion and Japanese Cuisines.
Mani Allu is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Centennial Technologies Inc. With over 25 years of experience providing financial and technical solutions, Mani provides overall direction to the corporate growth strategies, differentiated capabilities, and company culture. He works directly with customers, employees, and partners daily and fosters the work environment to develop and deliver highly innovative solutions.
Before founding Centennial, Mani held leadership positions at Verizon, where he led operations and delivery of enterprise services for public and commercial sectors, supporting $240M in revenue. He focused on solutions that drove efficiency and effectiveness, including financial transformation, organizational development, business intelligence, data analytics, application and system modernization, cloud enablement, and cybersecurity. Before Verizon, Mani served as the Vice President at ADS Inc. and supported the telecommunications, financial, retail, and media sectors. He orchestrated the creation and management of service offerings, supervised partnerships, and supported mergers and acquisitions.
He earned his Master’s degree from West Virginia University and lives in Ashburn, Virginia, with his wife and kids. He enjoys tennis and supporting his home sports teams.