Rocio Bauer’s profile over at WashingtonExec is worth your time if you’re thinking about what leadership looks like when you’re serving the Army through a technology lens. The through-line in her career isn’t just technical chops—it’s the ability to translate mission requirements into executable programs while keeping the operator’s perspective front and center.
That combination is harder to find than you’d think. I see plenty of candidates with strong delivery records who can’t speak the customer’s language, and just as many with deep mission fluency who struggle to scale or modernize. The ones who can do both—and lead teams through that tension—are the profiles that move fastest when a search opens up.