Rhonda Farrell
Dr. Rhonda Farrell is an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, primarily focusing on lifecycle activities as they relate to cybersecurity infrastructures within the IC, DoD, and federal civilian markets. She typically operates in both a management and technical leadership capacity, enabling teams to operate more effectively via organizational change management, strategic alignment, process improvement, and helping to drive higher levels of technical product and service adoption. Her prior career experience included supporting operations, engineering, information security, and training initiatives within Fortune 500 companies throughout Silicon Valley, California and the US Marine Corps at Quantico, Virginia.
Her diverse professional memberships include decades of board and officer level service to the American Society for Quality (ASQ); Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE); Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) International, and the Women Marines Association.
She typically works cross-functionally with these organizations to develop and build on programmatic synergies to offer high value-add member engagement activities across the professional development spectrum at the chapter, area, regional, domestic, and international levels. Additionally, she cross-pollinates strategic, tactical, and operational tools, practices, and infrastructure components to enable more effective long-term strategic partnership programs, while also focusing on increasing efficiencies of implementation and maintenance of highly prioritized business initiatives.
Her educational background includes a BS in Business Administration (1999), an MBA in Strategic Management (2000), a JD (Technology, 2009), and a Doctorate of Science in Information Assurance (2015). Additionally, she is certified as a Change Management Practitioner (ACMP-CCMP, 2016), Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (ASQ-CMQ/OE, 2015), Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (ISC2-CCSLP, 2009), Software Quality Engineer (ASQ-CSQE, 2003), and an Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2-CISSP, 2003).