Management Team

Darrell L. Crapps

President and CEO

Darrell L. Crapps, President and CEO of Sentel Corp., has quietly built a solid reputation as a visionary entrepreneur, dedicated to growing and maintaining successful enterprises and preparing small-business leaders to do the same. As President and CEO of SENTEL Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mr. Crapps' holding company, WC Holding, Inc., he has responsibility for the overall direction and leadership of the company's operations and strategic vision.

Mr. Crapps acquired Sentel Corp. in 2007, and has more than two decades of industry experience in executive management, business law, mergers and acquisitions, and quality assurance. In the first three years under Mr. Crapps' leadership, he propelled the engineering, technology, logistics and intelligence firm to the forefront of these industries, growing the firm's revenues by a phenomenal 55%. The company's tagline —"Engineering the Future''— is a clear reflection of both his leadership style and of the company's value proposition to clients. In May 2009, Mr. Crapps acquired 24/7 Solutions as a subsidiary of SENTEL to expand its service offerings, into the intelligence community.

Mr. Crapps formerly served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Dimensions International, Inc. (DI), an award-winning international government contractor. During his five-year tenure there, the organization grew from $52M to over $210M in consolidated revenues and expanded to over 30 locations worldwide. As a key member of the strategic acquisitions team, Mr. Crapps evaluated and qualified potential partnerships, acquisitions and divestitures, and was instrumental in the successfully completed sale of DI to Honeywell Technology Solutions in 2007.

Mr. Crapps holds a J.D. from Florida State University College of Law, and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Management and Finance from Morehouse College. He sits on the boards of WC Holding, Inc., and the Northern Virginia Urban League. Mr. Crapps is also an inventor; he was granted a U.S. Patent in November of 2006 for a Method and Apparatus for Protecting Personnel from RF-triggered explosive devices using ultra-wideband transmission. He is an active member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the National Defense Transportation Association, and was named a 2011 Minority Business Leader by the Washington Business Journal.

Gen. Roger Schultz

Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Roger Schultz is SENTEL’s Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He will be responsible for leading all operational programs in each of the company’s four business segments, including Engineering Services, Information Technology, Logistics and Intelligence (SENTEL’s wholly-owned subsidiary 24/7 Solutions.)

Prior to joining SENTEL Lieutenant General Schultz served as a Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and President of a Services Company, Universal Systems & Technology (UNITECH) Inc., LLC. Following the acquisition of UNITECH by Lockheed Martin Corp, Roger served as a Program Management Director.

He retired from the Army National Guard as a Lieutenant General in October 2005 after more than 42 years of service in operational positions within the State of Iowa and at the national level. This included three tours of active duty and a seven-year stint directing Soldier and unit readiness, mobilization and emergency management for the Army National Guard. He was the first Soldier to reach the rank of lieutenant general within the Army National Guard Directorate.

General Schultz began his military career while still in high school. He served 4 years as an enlisted Soldier prior to his graduation from the Iowa Military Academy.  He was commissioned as an Infantry Officer.

An expert in operational logistics and emergency management, General Schultz held several key leadership positions in the National Guard at both the state and national levels. He served as a Brigade Commander, Operations Officer, Chief of Staff, and Deputy Adjutant General for the Iowa National Guard. Following his service in the Iowa National Guard General Schultz served as the Deputy Director of Operations on the Department of the Army Staff. In that capacity, General Schultz was also responsible for coordinating all Department of Defense military support, including disaster relief operations, to civilian authorities.

As Director of the Army National Guard, National Guard Bureau, in Washington, DC, he was responsible for the formulation, development and implementation of all programs and policies affecting the Army National Guard. In this capacity, he was the longest serving director in the history of the National Guard.

General Schultz is a licensed commercial pilot (Commercial and Multi-Engine Land Instrument Rating). He is a 1963 graduate of Le Mars Community School in Iowa, holds a B.S. degree in Management from Upper Iowa University, and masters in Public Administration from Shippensburg University.

Allan Shure

Chief Financial Officer

Allan R. Shure is the Chief Financial Officer and has executive responsibility and authority for corporate infrastructure operations and leads his team to deliver excellent service to internal and external customers. He is skilled in strategic pricing, sound internal controls, financial growth, due diligence and acquisitions. In 2005, he was the winner of the Greater Washington Technology Council’s Private Company CFO of the year award.

With over 40 years public and private industry experience, he most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Artel, Inc., a $200 plus million Government contractor. He has extensive experience as the senior financial executive in rapidly growing private and public companies in the Government contracting arena. With tenures at SAIC as a Corporate Vice President for Administration and the Titan Corporation as Vice President of Finance, he has a sound grasp of the operations of large public industry leaders involved in both acquisition based and organic growth. His experience in leading the financial organization through rapid growth in public companies adds leadership to Sentel’s strategic objectives.

As CFO at NetStar-1, Inc., FCBS/General Dynamics and STG, Inc, he was responsible for all financial, contractual and administrative functions within very dynamic, rapidly growing companies and the principal executive leading acquisition selection, qualification and execution.

With over 20 successful acquisition and integration events, many of which he led the effort, he enabled management teams to navigate the path to success and growth while insuring employees responsible for the company’s success and the customers that relied on the company’s services were not adversely impacted. Many of the employees that worked in administration in those companies have worked with him at more than one of those companies and share his vision of support to both internal and external customers.

A native of Norfolk, Virginia, he received his BS in Business Administration in Accounting from Old Dominion University and is a Certified Public Accountant in Virginia. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is on the advisory board of a number of small companies in the area.

Chris Gates

Vice President, Test Engineering Group

Chris Gates is SENTEL's Vice President for the Test Engineering Group, which represents an estimated 45 percent of total company revenues. The technical focus of the group spans test and evaluation (joint, developmental, and independent), systems acquisition, comparative test support, electronic warfare system reprogramming, and classified networks. The various divisions in this group support customers at nine locations.

A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Mr. Gates held operational positions of increasing responsibility as a carrier aviator, culminating as a Commanding Officer of a carrier-based light attack squadron.

Mr. Gates earned an M.S. in Systems Acquisition Management from the Naval Post Graduate School then served as Director of Flight Operations for a Naval Plant Representative’s Office charged with monitoring and accepting aircraft at a manufacturer’s plant. Later in his Naval career, Mr. Gates was assigned to the Naval Air Systems Command in Washington, D.C., as the Deputy Director for the Product Integrity Division. He was then selected as the Division Director of the Air Warfare Analysis Division.

Mr. Gates continues his role as Program Manager for the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Office of Safety Support and Independent Assessment (SSIA) contract, a program he has led and expanded since 1994.

Mr. Gates is Co-chair of SENTEL’s Ethics and Compliance Committee and also serves as a liaison for SENTEL employees on all ethics matters.

O.B. McCane

Vice President of Logistics

O.B. McCane is Vice President of Sentel’s newly established Logistics Division. The focus of the division spans the full range of staff augmentation and logistics support services for customers at CONUS and OCONUS locations. Mr. McCane is a graduate of Kentucky State University with a BS in mathematics. After attending officer’s candidate school, he was commissioned in the Ordnance Corps and assigned as a Nuclear Weapons and Materiel Officer. During his 30 year military career Colonel(R) McCane earned dual master degrees in Finance and International Relations, and held logistics command and staff positions at every level from company to depot, and departmental and joint staffs. Colonel(R) McCane’s final assignment was as Chief, Technical Inspection Division, Office of the Inspector General of the Army, where he was responsible for assessing the effectiveness of Army-wide nuclear and chemical surety programs and programmatic inspections systems, and the development of related policy and guidance.
 
Prior to joining Sentel, Mr. McCane spent 6 years as an independent logistics management consultant, then joined Dimensions International in 2005 and served as its Technical Director of Logistics Management Operations until its acquisition by Honeywell Corporation. He then spent two years in the same position for Honeywell Technical Solutions, Inc.

Michael J Smith

Vice President, Sensor Technology Group

Michael J Smith is Vice President for the Sensor Technology Group and leads the Sensor Development, Engineering, Integration and Support business area. This includes applications related to Chemical Biological Defense, Force Protection and Border Security Programs.

Prior to joining Sentel, Michael was Director of Scientific & Engineering Applications Group for ITT Corporation. During his 13 years with ITT, Michael led several major programs in support the Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) Defense Program. As a senior technical program manager, he managed the $500M ECBC Research & Technology Support ID/IQ Contract and the $485M CBRNE Mission Support ID/IQ Contract. Additionally, Michael successfully led the Worldwide Collection of Backgrounds and Interferent Signatures Program to establish a compendium of environmental signatures that affect the performance of chemical and biological detection sensor technologies and modalities. He was the program manager for the Sensor Location Optimization Tool Set (SLOTS) Development Project; an advanced artificial intelligence research effort to adjust detector placement solutions to meet operationally defined criteria. Michael led the Restoration of Operations (RestOps) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) Information Management System Project to integrate CB sensor systems, installation incident reports, and event tracking at Osan AB, Korea to provide persistent situational awareness. Transitioned this system to PACAF for incorporation in the Air Force's C2 system, TBMCS-UL. This team was awarded the ITT Silver Ring of Quality and the US Army Materiel Command Greatest Inventions Awards.

Michael also spent 13 years as a Department of Defense civilian, as a Research Physicist. He conducted research in the Applications of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, and Laser-based Detection of Biological Agents. In 2006, Michael was awarded Science Spectrum magazine's Emerald Award as a Senior Investigator for his contributions to Science. Michael holds a degree in Physics from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Amy LaCivita

Vice President of Contracts

Ms. Amy LaCivita is the Vice President of Contracts at SENTEL Corporation. Ms. LaCivita has the executive authority and responsibility in the company for contracts, subcontracts, purchasing, consulting agreements, government property, teaming agreements, nondisclosure agreements, and cost proposals. She joined the team in February 2009 with more than twenty years experience.

Prior to joining SENTEL, Ms. LaCivita served for ten years as Vice President of Contracts of Dimensions International, Inc., managing a staff of fourteen contracts professionals, until they were acquired by Honeywell. During that ten-year period, the company grew from $30M in annual revenue to $210M in annual revenue. Accomplishments included receiving “Outstanding” rating on GSA Schedule Contracts Compliance Reviews (IT, MOBIS and Logistics Worldwide), receiving “Outstanding” ratings on DCMA Small Business Compliance Reviews, and maintaining an “Approved” status on Government Property Audits.

At Honeywell, she had the role of Contracts Manager of the Logistics Division of Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honeywell, where she served for a year and a half.

Her previous roles included Subcontracts Manager of the Civil Programs team at Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. and Senior Subcontract Administrator at TRW (now Northrop Grumman). While at TRW, Ms. LaCivita formed a continuous process improvement team to reduce the contract closeout cycle time. As a result of the team’s efforts, the time to close a contract was reduced by half. Her team’s achievement was recognized when they were awarded the TRW Systems Integration Group’s East Division Continuous Process Improvement Award in 1994.

Before beginning her career in contract administration, Ms. LaCivita was a music teacher in the Prince George’s County, Maryland public school systems. While teaching she was voted Outstanding Teacher of the Year by the faculty at Gwynn Park High School in Prince Georges County.

Ms. LaCivita graduated summa cum laude earning a B.A. in Education from The Ohio State University. She holds a Master's of Science in Technology Management from the University of Maryland, and a Certificate in Contracts and Procurement from the University of Virginia. She is an active member of the National Contract Management Association and serves the community as a member of the City of Fairfax Band, the Virginia Grand Military Band, and the Cathedral Brass.

Sandy Brucker

Director of Contacts

Ms. Sandy Brucker is the Director of Contracts at SENTEL Corporation. She joined the team in January 2009 with more than twenty-five years government contracts experience.

Prior to joining SENTEL, Ms. Brucker served for seven years with Dimensions International, Inc. (DI) as the Director of Contracts. During her seven-year tenure with DI, the organization grew from $52M to over $210M in consolidated revenues and expanded to over 30 locations worldwide.

DI was acquired by Honeywell, Inc. in 2007. At Honeywell she had the role of Contracts Manager in the Logistics Division of Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. (HTSI), where she served for a year and a half. She was a key member of the both the acquisition and transition teams.

Prior to working for DI, Ms. Brucker was the Contracts Manager at MCI Telecommunications Corporation responsible for the contracts response to their FTS2000 proposal. Her previous roles included Contracts Manager at Booz Allen Hamilton and Senior Contracts Administrator at JAYCOR and McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Throughout her career, Ms. Brucker has worked with most every civilian (including the FAA) and DOD agency and has a special interest in logistics and international efforts.

Ms. Brucker earned a B.A. in Business Administration from Michigan State University and a Certificate in Contracts and Procurement from the University of Virginia.

Gregory A. Vogel

Vice President, Business Development

Gregory Vogel has extensive and diverse Domestic and International experience in the Federal Government Marketplace.

Mr. Vogel brings more than 30 years experience in management, business operations, program management, business development, planning, and finance and accounting, including eight years with Lockheed Martin and 15 years at IBM.

Most recently, Mr. Vogel served as Vice President for NSA, DOD and Civil Market Components for Everest Technology Solutions. In addition, Mr. Vogel served in executive positions at immixGroup and ePlus Government.

Mr. Vogel is a graduate of Temple University's Fox School of Business and Management as well as the International Trade Policy and Management Masters program at George Mason University, and attended the MBA program at American University.

 

Gladys Mitchell-Reed

Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer

Gladys Mitchell-Reed is the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer for SENTEL. She manages the corporate-wide ethics and compliance program initiatives and assists the company in continuing to maintain the highest level of ethical standards in daily operations. She also provides guidance to employees on how to make appropriate decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas.

Previously, Ms. Mitchell-Reed served as Chief Ethics Officer for Dimensions International, Inc. (DI), Lockheed Martin, and Affiliated Computer Services Inc. for a combined 10 years of ethics program experience. She is member of both the Ethics Officer Association and the Ombudsman Association and is a mediator certified by the Justice Center of Atlanta, GA.

Ms. Mitchell-Reed has more than 22 years of local and federal government experience, notably in key senior management positions within the Department of Human Services, as well as 15 years of experience in the private sector.

Ms. Mitchell-Reed received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the District of Columbia. Her post-graduate education continued with the Senior Fellows Program at Harvard University and the Appraisal Program at the University of the District of Columbia.