Rafael Fagundo, Founder & CEO, Sierra7, Inc.

Rafael FagundoRafael Fagundo has more than 30 years of business experience and more than 23 years in information technology, client care, and business development. At Sierra 7, Rafael is responsible for Sierra 7’s overall success. Previous to Sierra 7, Rafael was CEO of Xcalibur, Inc, an IT Government Consulting firm based in Reston, VA. Prior to joining Xcalibur, Rafael was responsible for business development with Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors group. At Lockheed Martin, Rafael worked to grow the U.S. Coast Guard’s largest recapitalization effort, the $17 billion dollar Integrated Deepwater System.Before joining Lockheed Martin in 2003, Rafael served as President and CEO of ASPEN, an Application Service Provider based in Reston, VA. Rafael successfully led the sales, consulting, and operations units, ultimately executing a successful sale of the business to OutTask, a larger Application Service Provider based in Alexandria, VA.Prior to ASPEN, Rafael served as Chief Technology Officer at Warmcorners.com. In this capacity, Rafael successfully guided the development of Warmcorners’ e-commerce portal. Rafael also served as a Senior Manager at KPMG (now BearingPoint, Inc., delivering client relationship management solutions for Fortune 500 organizations. Rafael also served as Vice President of Information Technology and Operations and ultimately Chief Information Officer for Max Worldwide, a leading strategic marketing firm with a significant client care specialty in Herndon, Virginia, Toronto, and London. In this capacity, he was responsible for all aspects of client care, including service delivery, technology, staffing, quality assurance, and training. Rafael also worked with USEC, a Global Energy Company, as Director of Information Systems. At USEC, Rafael led the re-engineering of all plant-wide business systems and all information systems at the newly created headquarters.In addition, Rafael worked on Capitol Hill as an aid to a member of the U.S. Senate. Rafael also worked for several political organizations ensuring appropriate operations and information technology. Rafael served more than 4 years in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Kidd as well as for the Navy Judge Advocate General in Alexandria, VA. Rafael studied Business Management at the University of Phoenix and has also completed Six Sigma Training.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.