Vanitha Khera

Vanitha Khera is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Creative Systems and Consulting. She is the chief architect of the solutions developed by Creative and has directed the company’s growth strategy since inception in 2010. She oversees all day-to-day operations and establishes strategic partnerships with major prime contractors and leading industry vendors.

Vanitha has been named the Fast 50 - Women lead companies by Inc Magazine as well as Fast 100 by USPACC. Under her leadership, Creative has been ranked of the Fastest growing companies by Inc, each year - since 2015.

Vanitha began her professional career as a programmer at Fujitsu for Singapore Telecom and has since earned over 20 years of technical and management expertise in multiple IT disciplines working for startups to big-five consulting companies. She holds a B.S. from Ethiraj College, University of Madras and Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management from the National Institute of Information Technology and has also achieved multiple professional and technical certifications. Vanitha is married and has two sons and loves to travel.

Vishal Khera

Vishal Khera, has over 20 years of IT and Management Consulting. Mr. Khera co-founded the company in 2010 and is a passionate technology strategist with proven track record for delivering Cloud technologies based solutions. He has led several secure cloud application implementations and IT transformation efforts for multiple federal agencies. As one of the founders and President of Creative, he has been instrumental in talent acquisition, business development and delivery of Creative’s several Cloud Computing offerings.

Prior of joining USDA, Mr. Khera was the Chief Architect at Federal Reserve IT. He team was responsible for providing architectural direction for major initiatives across the Federal Reserve System (FRS). Mr. Khera led the development of Cloud computing strategy and implementation of Cloud based services at FRS. In addition, he was responsible for the management of EA governance and compliance processes that were broadly used across the FRS.

Before that Mr. Khera was a Sr. Director at Gartner and provided strategic consulting across wide range of IT management and planning disciplines including Enterprise Architecture, Process Optimization and Strategic Sourcing.

Mr. Khera has an MBA in Finance from the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering.

Andrew Gonzalez

Andrew has over 25 years of successful professional work experience in aligning technology with strategic business and operational goals of organizations, and has vast experience in leading organizations and project teams for both government and commercial customers. Mr. Gonzalez brings many years of business leadership and knowledge to the clients having worked in a cross section of organizational areas for a number of large organizations.  Mr. Gonzalez is Six Sigma trained and is an expert in Business Process Management.  

Prior to joining Creative, Mr. Gonzalez’s worked in a leadership role for Corporate Express in a variety of Executive assignments including VP of Information Technology, VP of Operations and VP of Customer Care and well as Managing Partner in Building Automation company.  Through his 25 years plus experience, he has led countless programs and projects, ranging from IT to CRM to Sales to Facilities and Operations.  Andy has a BS in Electrical Engineering Technologies.

Bill Annibell

Bill Annibell is a dynamic digital strategist and tranformation leader with over 18-years of experience supporting clients in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. He serves as the Vice President of Digital Services at Creative Systems and Consulting driving innovative, customer-centric solutions in support of our clients' missions. His expertise spans the information technology lifecycleóincluding digital transformation, IT modernization, organizational change management & business process re-engineering, design thinking, user & customer experience, service design, solution architecture, delivery, support and information security.  Mr. Annibell leads intergrated delivery teams specializing in customer and user experience design, business analysis, software development, cloud platforms, analytics, and DevOps to create a rapid, flexible, scalable delivery framework that features high levels of transparency with customer and stakeholder involvement. His teams consistently produce high-quality, customer-centered, digital solutions on-time and on-budget. As a trusted advisor, he regularly provides guidance and support to organizational executives to include CIOís, CDOís, CSOís and Board of Directors.

Mr. Annibell is a frequent speaker at industry events including Argyle CIO Executive Forum, DePaul Universityís Cyber-risk Conference, Citizen2015, ACT-IAC Management of Change Conference, Northern Virginia Technology Council, MoDev, Adobe Digital Government Assembly, and the Federal CIO Boot Camp at National Defense University.  He penned a blog post for the Federal times sharing his opinions on innovative uses of consumer electronics in government after attending CES 2016. Washington Executive magazine featured several of his perspectives on Internet of Things, Big Data and Mobile Development. His thoughts on technology and digital engagement in government have been featured by Fedscoop, WashingtonExec and GovLoop. 

Viral Sodha

Viral is a Director of Consulting Services at Creative. He brings 12 years of experience in aligning technology with strategic, tactical, and operational goals of organizations, and has a successful track record in leading technology programs and teams for both the government and commercial customers.  In the last few years, Viral has led several mission critical Federal cloud technology programs, notably at the USDA (US Dept of Agriculture) including at ARS, GIPSA, AMS, and USDA OCIO, including Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics, and ServiceNow. 

Viral is adept in both Agile Scrum and Waterfall SDLC methodologies.  Viral is a certified ITIL Foundation v3 (2011) in ITSM, Certified Scrum Master (Agile) and Certified Product Owner (Agile).  

Viral has a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), a Bachelor's in Engineering, and a Fellowship of Solution Designers and Business Analysts (Solution Architecture Program). 

Pamela Schwarting

Ms. Schwarting is Creative Systems and Consulting’s Director of Human Resources and has nearly two decades of experience in human resources with a subspecialty in technology.  In this role, she oversees workforce development, organizational effectiveness, compliance, benefits and compensation for the fast-paced, rapidly-growing firm.  In addition to Human Resources, Pamela also brings several years of marketing and communications management experience to Creative.  Pamela leverages this blend of expertise to help showcase Creative’s innovative work environment and modern corporate culture to prospective new hires.  Pamela attended American University in Washington, DC and is an active member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Pranjal Sharma

Pranjal Sharma is the Senior Director of Business Consulting Services at Creative. He brings in 20 years of successful technology, business, management consulting, and strategic leadership experience to Creative. He is the leader of Agile and Agile-at-scale best practices at Creative. He is driven toward achieving greater organizational performance and process maturity to ensure Creative teams continue their proud tradition of delivering great value on all client programs and add to their success stories. Pranjal's leadership approach focuses on improving the organization's collective intellect and work ethics to enable the organization to respond nimbly to changing marketplace and customer needs.

Pranjal holds a Masters degree in Technology Management as well as an MBA from University of Maryland University College, both completed summa cum laude. He also holds the prestigious Business Analytics certificate from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania (online). Pranjal has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Bangalore University, completed in First Class with Distinction. He is a Project Management Professional, Certified Scrum Master, and a Certified Scaled Agile Framework Agilist.

Veronika Fedorov

Veronika Fedorov is the Director of Consulting Services at Creative. Veronika has 20 years of professional experience in the Information Technology (IT) field working for small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. Her experience includes 15+ years of consulting services supporting federal clients in the Washington, D.C. area.

Veronika led and contributed to many transformational software development projects, ranging from refreshing existing solutions with new technologies to implementing brand new systems based on business process re-engineering efforts. She has a proven track record of following best practices, establishing high standards, and streamlining processes on her projects. Veronika utilizes her combined experience in software development, business analysis, process re-engineering, quality assurance and project leadership to deliver innovative solutions that meet and exceed client expectations, and provide time and cost savings benefits.

Veronika holds a Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Tomsk Polytechnic University in Russia. She also has a Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate.