OUR STORY
OUR NORTH STAR
We are driven by core technological and cultural principles that underpin our approach to solving our customers’ technology challenges.
HISTORY
WE WERE BORN IN THE CLOUD
Plus3 IT was founded as a specialty company with the acumen, innovative culture, and experience necessary to truly make a difference. Here are a few pivotal moments that brought us where we are today:
2015 - Founded & within months began directed work delivering cloud expertise advisory services to DoD client. Established as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Consulting Partner (Advanced Tier).
2016 - 2019 Established strategic growth initiatives, expanded contracts and services to four new customers across the DoD, IC, and Fed Civ sectors.
2020 - Celebrated five years in business. First prime contract award and established GSA Multiple Award Schedule.
2021 - Prime awardee on DIA’s SITE III vehicle; achieved AWS Government Competency, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013 certifications.
2022 - Prime awardee on JAIC DRAID, first NatSec partner accepted to the AWS GSCA program. Added the GSA Cloud SIN code to our Schedule.
2023 - Expanded capability portfolio to include cloud solutions for space-based systems and missions. Achieved the AWS DevOps and AWS Migration competencies.
2024 - Became the first NatSec focused small business to achieve AWS Premier Tier Partnership. Expanded our cloud capabilities to support Space Situational Awareness missions.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Our Management team has significant experience delivering complex solutions for customers. Together, they have a track record of building successful companies where employees can grow and thrive.
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
Mark Jefferson
CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT
Mark is a senior solutions architect and technology entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in cloud solution development, architecting technology capabilities to address mission and business problem sets. Mark is an experienced business executive with success in driving high return business development and capture while supporting multiple programs and organizational change efforts.
Chris Isaacs
CO-FOUNDER & CTO
Chris provides thought leadership for the firm’s mission-focused secure cloud solutions, promoting innovative thinking, fostering new technology partnerships, and codifying advanced methodologies for automated processes. Chris has 20+ years of experience working with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC), developing and implementing enterprise-level cloud adoption strategies.
Joel Loyd
VICE PRESIDENT, CLOUD SERVICES
Joel serves as a senior advisor developing visionary and innovative solutions, providing industry expertise, and overseeing all cloud service delivery. Joel is responsible for delivery of multiple engineering, development, and IT solutions, while maintaining alignment with client’s business strategy, drivers, and goals. Joel has 20+ years of experience with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC).
CORPORATE DIRECTORS
Kate Tewell
Senior Director, Contracts and Finance
Kate provides strategic finance and contracts expertise, holistically managing organizational contract execution, profitability, and compliance. Kate leads policy creation and interpretation, contract administration, and financial analysis. Kate has 6 years of experience in DoD Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) contracting and program control and analysis.
John Gannon
Senior Delivery Manager
John develops transition and program delivery strategies, ensuring quality delivery of projects that align with business growth objectives. John coordinates efforts between senior leadership, corporate operations, and delivery teams, and further strengthens relationships with Federal entities and Industry partners. John has 40+ years of corporate operations and technical experience with a 20 year relationship with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
Emma Webster
Director, Corporate Growth and Communication
Emma provides strategic plans with a focus on deriving long term value and growth opportunities for small businesses. Emma leads all business development activities and is responsible for corporate branding and internal/external communication strategies. Emma has 11 years of experience in DoD Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) proposal management and 13 years of business development and marketing experience.
Michelle Lansel
Director, Strategic Initiatives and Innovation
Michelle develops corporate strategy and promotes strategic initiatives, facilitating collaboration cross-functionally to ensure initiatives are aligned with company objectives. Michelle identifies growth opportunities, areas of innovation, and training capabilities. Michelle has over 24 years of experience supporting the IC and DoD space as an IT Program Manager; possessing expertise from infrastructure management to application development, and capture and proposals.
Seneca Johns
Senior Account Executive, Professional Services
Seneca leads a team of high skilled professionals in driving transformative strategies and tangible outcomes that empower businesses across diverse industries. Seneca joined P3 from Amazon Web Services where he played a pivotal role in the growth and successes of the Navy vertical within the DoD professional services organization. His tenure at AWS equipped him with invaluable insights into the unique challenges and opportunities within the defense sector. Seneca brings with him more than 22 years of military service, serving in various roles in the US Navy.
Tom Walton
Senior Account Executive, GEOINT Services
Tom leads project teams focusing on providing innovative cloud solutions for our US Department of Justice and US Air Force projects. Tom has over 30 years of experience, including 22 years of service to the Air Force and 13 years of service at the DoJ. His expertise spans the entire system development life cycle, from requirements gathering and analysis through testing and implementation, with seven years of agile system development and cloud migration programs for the FBI. He is an active member of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard.
Loren Gordon
Director of Engineering
Loren guides the technical direction of the company to ensure alignment between delivery models and guiding technical principles. Loren leads technical innovation, authoring open source solutions that apply security and standardization to solve complex customer challenges. Loren has more than 20 years of experience in Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) Information Technology delivery with a focus on cloud, devsecops, security, networking, and operating systems.
MEMBERSHIPS
“Plus3 IT Systems leadership has been recognized as a “trusted advisor” to senior IT executives on our government programs. Our customers have lauded our ability to garner support and participation from multiple stakeholders to execute complex technical shifts.”
— Sr. Federal Relationship Manager
SUCCESS STORIES
WatchMaker: greater precision with fewer moving parts
Many organizations use manual processes to create and manage custom system images. Besides being time consuming and labor intensive, this often introduces errors and inconsistencies into builds. Plus3 IT is currently managing a customer environment with our open source provisioning tool, WatchMaker, and is importing the services that were built prior to our provisioning framework implementation. With this framework, we have simplified the process of adding new accounts and provided self-service account provisioning for application owners. We make all documentation self-service and accessible, along with the code, in the client’s GitHub repository.
Reference Architectures: the cloud adoption starter pack
When moving to the cloud, recreating your organization’s existing architecture shouldn’t mean reinventing the wheel. That’s why we apply cloud adoption best practices, such as designing, implementing, and promoting reference architectures, to enhance and accelerate adoption and security compliance. Plus3 IT’s Simple Storage Server (S3) reference architecture and use of native encryption features have been authorized to meet mission data level security requirements for production workloads of a DoD client.