Rocio Bauer’s profile over at WashingtonExec is worth your time if you’re thinking about how technology leadership shows up in uniform. She’s spent her career bridging the Army’s operational needs with the kind of enterprise IT and modernization work that doesn’t make headlines but absolutely has to work.
What stands out is the through-line: she’s consistently taken on roles where the mission depends on getting the technology right and the people aligned. That’s the profile we map for when a client needs someone who can translate between the warfighter and the CIO’s office. It’s not common, and it doesn’t come from a résumé keyword search.
If you’re building or rebuilding a technology function that serves a federal customer—especially DoD—look for operators who’ve done the job in context. The clearance and the technical chops matter, but so does the ability to serve a mission that isn’t yours to define.