Technuf, When Technology is Not Enough...

Faisal Quader

President & Cofounder | Technuf

Faisal Quader, Ph.D has spent twenty-seven years in the field of Engineering, Computer Science and Information Science as an industry leader covering large scale product development to complex service delivery for demanding federal and commercial customers. He holds Ph.D. in Cybersecurity & Data Science from the University of Maryland. He holds Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering from John Hopkins University and holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin. He was a Merit Scholar at all his universities in academic work. His academic interests are in Cybersecurity, Data Mining, Human-computer Interaction, R&D process optimization as well as Health IT. He actively participates in IEEE and ACM. He is recipient of a number of academic and industry awards and certified in multiple standards including Six Sigma. Faisal has numerous publications on cybersecurity and data mining. Faisal is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland teaching Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science and Cybersecurity for their College of Engineering and Information Technology.

Faisal spent more than fifteen years with General Electric and Lockheed Martin Corporation. During his tenure, he oversaw an off-shore development center, re-engineered multiple business processes for cost optimization and improved efficiency and provided direction to new product lines. As the senior manager of GE, Faisal grew the R&D division at an offshore facility from ten to six hundred employees over a span of seven years. He brought his technical and management expertise with Fortune 100 corporations developed during his tenure with these multinational organizations to new technology startups. In 2007, he cofounded TISTA Science and Technology Corporation and provided leadership roles until 2013 when he cofounded the current organization, Technuf. His current interest as the president of his organization is in emerging technology that includes collaboration application development for mobile platforms, cybersecurity, cloud computing and forensic analysis embedded in Big Data.

Faisal has closely worked with both federal civilian and defense organizations. In the civilian sector, he has supported the agencies in defining cybersecurity countermeasures to ensure the protection of federal assets with Identity Access Management, Deep Packet Capture, Forensic Analysis and E-Discovery and litigation support. He is also a researcher in human behavior analytics for smart cars.

Faisal is passionate about serving his community and in the past has served in the leadership role as the chair of a number of non-profit organizations including professional engineering bodies. He is currently serving as the President of AABEA Central in the US. Faisal also loves music. He is an active singer and involved with numerous cultural activities.

He is married with two children and lives in Bethesda, Maryland, a few minutes from the nation’s capital.

Shah Ahmed

CEO & Cofounder | Technuf

Mr. Ahmed received his BSc in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has four decades of experience in defense, software and system development, real-time embedded systems, safety, and mission-critical systems, nuclear reactor safety shutdown systems, air traffic management system, avionics, and telecommunications engineering.

After graduation, he worked as a NATO defense engineer working on Command, Control, and Communication systems for warships and tactical helicopters for ten years. Subsequently, he worked on the safety shutdown system for the fully automated Darlington Nuclear Reactor. He spent several years in aviation, air-traffic control, and the avionics industry developing computerized and integrated solutions for navigation, communication, and electronic warfare systems.

After leaving the defense industry, he joined Bell Northern Research as a telecom engineer working on both next-generation wireline and wireless telephony switches.

After leaving Canada, he joined IBM within their Rational brand. He held multiple roles over the ten years of service with them culminating in being the Lead System Engineer for the Americas. He also received the award of The Top Tech Rep of the Year for this role during his tenure.

He currently provides a leadership role as a Subject Matter Expert for multiple US federal government agencies on cybersecurity, software engineering, data analytics, visualization, and IoT.

He is a board member of several non-profit and charitable organizations including the American Association of Bangladeshi Engineers and Architects, Help International, based in Canada, and Sonar Bangla Foundation, based in California.

Marlene Duvall

Executive Vice President | Technuf

As a member of the Technuf leadership team, Marlene Milder-Duvall is the Executive Vice President of Corporate Growth and Strategy, responsible for leading the company’s new business focus, strengthening the organizational vitality, and driving operational excellence. Her career spans 25 years and includes tenure where she repeatedly built and led corporate and business development organizations for federal integrators that were acquired and subsequently integrated and built new business organizations. This included the transitions of Martin Marietta to Lockheed Martin; CDSI to ACS Government Solutions; Wang Global to Getronics, PEC to Nortel Government Solutions, Marlene pivoted to directly supporting small businesses, co-founding The Veschi Group, a management consulting firm. Acting as a player-coach, she advised companies targeting their next level growth. She thrives under the challenge of building, strengthening, and energizing strategic and business development organizations with a leadership approach that consistently promotes accountability, action and teamwork. Marlene communicates and presents with impact, with a keen focus on building strong and trusted professional relationships. Recognized as a change agent, she excels in dynamic environments and works the anatomy of a deal to a successful outcome. Her honed leadership acumen is respected for building loyalty within company organizations as well as with business partners. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and mass communications from Towson State University.

Bruse Scott

Vice President | Technuf

Bruse Scott serves as Vice President of Proposal Operations and Compliance at Technuf LLC. He comes to Technuf as a trusted advisor on State, Local and Federal Business Development and Proposal practices with his expertise of over 25 years. Bruse brings a unique balance of knowledge and passion to the “business of winning” by establishing critical and repeatable Concept of Operations across Business Development, Capture and Proposal Management.

Bruse focuses on the leadership of large strategic bids and the initiation and revitalization of self-managed proposal teams. He specializes in continuous improvement of Business Development best practices that streamline procedures to elevate quality resulting in tangible and successful outcomes.

Before joining Technuf, he led the Proposal Operations and Production Department for 10 years at Serco. He directed multiple sites across country that were responsible for winning multi-billion-dollar opportunities and still to this date some of the largest wins in the history of Serco. He has garnered the similar successes from other past companies such as IBM and BearingPoint.