Small Business Innovation, Big Business Results
Leadership

Indrani Seetharam
President & CEO

Indrani (Indu) has over20 years of experience in Enterprise, Business, Application and Data Architecture, Business Process Reengineering, Vision and Strategy, Requirements Analysis, and Application Design and Development. She has expertise in several full life cycle methodologies such as the Enterprise Life Cycle, implemented at the IRS; Catalyst, implemented at CSC; and WSDDM, implemented at IBM. She is adept with frameworks such as Zachman, FEAF, and TEAF. Her communication skills have been proven at multiple government and industry leadership levels, further bolstered by a complete understanding of the business needs for customer organizations in today’s complex information technology environment. As the head of a small, disadvantaged business, she recognizes the need for simplicity and agility in the marketplace and has established a culture to perform. She holds a BS and MS in Speech and Hearing. She also has a MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins.

Seetharam Sampath
CFO

Seetharam has over 20 years of experience in Project Management, Business Consulting, Business Systems Architecture, Business Application Development and Financial Management. He has extensive experience in managing numerous system design/development and conversion activities on a wide range of applications including financial systems, production planning and inventory control, real estate management, equipment service tracking, and hospital information systems. He has provided Strategic Technology Visioning Road Maps and integration Strategy to achieve Client Business Goals, providing innovative business and financial management models. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a MBA in Finance from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a MS in Computer Science from Villanova University, PA.

Dale Luddeke
COO

Dale has over 30 years of experience in Information Technology having performed across the engineering, business development, marketing and operations management disciplines. He has served in an executive leadership capacity for over 15 years having led both business operations and business development activities for major corporations, and achieving double and triple digit growth for his business areas. He began his career with automated test engineering, then developed and managed system/software programs for small businesses over a 10 year period. This led to his taking on business challenges at larger companies (to include Unisys, CSC and CACI) with expanded marketing and operations roles that resulted in establishing new customer accounts and achieving major wins. Dale has also led the successful development and growth of major contracting vehicles competing in multiple award, task order environments. He served on the Industry Advisory Council board, to include the position of Executive Chair. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology and a MS in Engineering Technology Management from Oklahoma State.

Sandeep Jain
Practice Leader—Systems Engineering & Software Development

Sandeep brings 32 years of strong combination of strategic management and tactical service delivery to ISI. He provides our clients subject matter expertise across a number of areas applying expertise in IT strategy, business process management, enterprise architecture, and service/solution delivery models (ITIL, CMMI) to deliver strong value propositions. Sandeep has led high performance teams for business transformation with advances in IT practices and technologies, and steered clients into high return on IT investments with increased automation, data and process consolidation, and introduction of Agile and DevOps processes. Prior to joining ISI, Sandeep managed IT delivery and programs in the Federal government and large corporations in the manufacturing, telecom, finance, and retail domains. At British Telecom Global Services, Sandeep received an award: “Excellence in Action” for taking the initiative to re-engineer the organization’s billing and settlement systems to perform over 10 times faster in less than a year. Sandeep has a Bachelor of Technology (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and numerous technical and management certifications.

Debra Ware
Senior Program Manager

Debbie brings 40 years of Government experience, 34 years spent in the Internal Revenue Service. Her IRS experience spanned multiple lines of business and multiple IT disciplines, with an emphasis on IT Program Management and Business/IT alignment, in the most significant and complex Modernization Efforts. She was a Government Leader and Subject Matter Expert in the full breadth of Program and Project management disciplines including Strategic Planning, Program Release Management, Requirements Engineering, Risk Management, Program Acquisitions, Program and Technical Integration and Project Portfolio Management. She manages Integrated System’s Portfolio of contracts at the Internal Revenue Service which include the implementation of Innovative Technologies, PMO Support, Requirements Engineering and Software Development. She also ran IT Portfolio Management and Testing and Change Management at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Debbie has a BA in Community Health and Sociology. She is a Certified Project Management Professional since 2008, holds Master’s Certificates in IT Project Management and Government Financial Management, is a certified Business Rules Analyst and Scrum Master. In 2020 she received recognition from the AIM Council at the FitGov Summit as an Outstanding Industry Partner acknowledging her commitment to serving the government with excellence.

Judith Shetterly McIntosh
Director-Human Resources and Administration

Judith brings over 20 years of Human Resources, Finance and Administration experience to ISI. She oversees the Human Resources, Recruiting, Finance and Administration Departments. She works with the Executive Management team to align these departments with the Corporate Strategic Vision and goals. She has been an integral part of the teams that lead to certification for CMMI L3 Dev, ISO 9001, 20000 and 27001 and successful DCAA audits. She has developed continuous process improvements across the company. She has a Bachelor of Science from Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University. She is SPHR certified and a member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM).