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.
OUR NORTH STAR
We are driven by core technological and cultural values that underpin our approach to solving our customers’ technology challenges.
CORE PRINCIPLES:
TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY
CORE PRINCIPLES:
CULTURE
Do you have the skills, knowledge, and most importantly, fascination with cloud technology that it takes to become a part of our team?
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.
2015
Established as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Consulting Partner (Advanced Tier).
2016
Staffed 20 cleared and badged personnel with a combined 132 years of specialized cloud experience on Day One of contract performance for DoD client.
2017
Reduced a Federal client’s overall application inventory by 71% (from 2504 to 735 applications) through our cloud adoption and migration approach.
2019
Three+ years and counting of delivery in Microsoft Azure and AWS environments for Federal customers.
2020
Celebrated five years in business. First prime contract award and established GSA Multiple Award Schedule.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Our Executive Management team has significant experience delivering complex solutions for customers, and together they have a track record of building successful companies.
Christopher Isaacs
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
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 17 years of experience working with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC), developing and implementing enterprise 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).
MEMBERSHIPS
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.
