Meet Our Tribe
While our company is grounded in firm roots of tribal citizenship, we also believe strongly in our chosen family, a community of great people built through a focus on diversity and character with a drive to get the job done right and well. We are as diverse and storied as the various, sometimes international, places that we live and we believe that our solutions are that much better when a variety of voices, perspectives, and empowered team members contribute to them.
Rusty served as Acting New Media Technologies Director at the White House under President Obama helping shape cloud platform policy across the federal government.
Founder: Rusty D. Pickens
Rusty D. Pickens is the Founder and Principal of 580 Strategies. He is the former Senior Advisor for Digital Platforms at the U.S. Department of State, and former Acting Director for New Media Technologies at the White House, where he led teams who operated cloud platforms for the Obama Administration to increase public engagement, improve user experience, enhance staff productivity, and heighten security posture. During this time, Rusty created new systems for and built new teams to lead Whitehouse.gov, the White House email outreach services, the Presidential correspondence system, the We The People petitions system, the White House Appointment Center, and the U.S. Embassy contact management systems.
Rusty's two decades of leadership experience aligning organizational vision with technology strategy across top federal agencies and start-up environments included the Federal Salesforce Community of Excellence, the U.S. Small Business Administration, the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee, Obama for America 2008, and the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. He currently advises clients on unlocking the potential of cloud computing and agile software delivery to vastly improve their digital presence and citizen experience.
CERTIFICATIONS & SKILLS / US Govt. Top Secret Clearance, Scrum & Kanban Methods, Salesforce Developer, Project Management Professional, Cisco Network Associate, Microsoft Systems Engineer, Amazon Web Services, Dale Carnegie Leadership Course
EDUCATION / BS Computer Science and Software Engineering | East Central University | Ada, Oklahoma / MS Public Policy and Cybersecurity | Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz Collge | Pittsburgh PA
Rusty currently divides his time across a healthy mix of Washington, DC, Stonewall, Oklahoma, and Lost River, West Virginia.
Software Developer: Jett McDowell
Jett is an Air Force veteran who has recently graduated from reskilling into Computer Science. He has a deep background in the armed services with focus on electrical engineering and avionics types of work. During the summer and fall of his senior year he has pursued capstone studies in software development and augmented that work with a product management internship with 580 Strategies learning the Salesforce platform, Amazon Web Services ecosystem, and supporting public sector product teams with agile methodologies and quality assurance testing.
He is currently working full time for the company, supporting multiple clients across multiple sectors, while he continues to deepen his knowledge of the Salesforce platform and continue achieving more formal certifications.
LANGUAGES / C, C++, HTML5, JavaScript, Python, CSS, Apex
SKILLS / Software development in multi-tier environments, agile methodologies and product management, scrum master, Salesforce platform, Amazon Web Services
EDUCATION / BS Computer Science, East Central University, Ada, OK | AAS Avionics System Technology, Air University | Salesforce Certified Associate
He currently resides in Oklahoma.
Salesforce Engineer: Bhavya (Kiran) Valiveti
Bhavya (Kiran) is a multi-certified Salesforce professional with over 10 years of experience in Salesforce technologies: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing cloud Force.com Platform with domain experience including analysis, requirement gathering, design, developer, enhancements, testing, deployment and maintenance of standalone object-oriented enterprise applications.
CERTIFICATIONS / Salesforce Certified Administrator, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I & II, Salesforce Certified SalesCloud Consultant
LANGUAGES / PEX, SQL, C, C++, Java, Python | Web Development XML, HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular JS | ETL Tools Data Loader, Connect offline, Salesforce-to-Salesforce, Apex Explorer
SKILLS / Lightning Components, Aura Framework, SOQL, SOSL, Apex Classes, Apex Triggers, Workflow and Approvals, Sharing Rules, Apex Extensions, Visualforce, Formulas, Validation Rules, Assignment Rules, Knowledge Articles, AppExchange, Custom Objects, Custom Fields, Dashboards and Reports, Opportunity Management, Lightning, Case Management, SOAP API, REST API.
EDUCATION / MS Information Systems Security, Wilmington University, Delaware | BS Electronics and Communications Engineering, Gitam University, India
He currently resides in Virginia.
Salesforce Engineer: Siri Nimmagadda
Siri is a multi-certified Salesforce professional with over 7+ years of work experience in Salesforce technologies: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing cloud Force.com Platform with domain experience including analysis, requirement gathering, design, developer, enhancements, testing, deployment and maintenance of standalone object-oriented enterprise applications.
LANGUAGES / APEX, SQL, C, C++, Java, Python | Web Development XML, HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular JS | ETL Tools Data Loader, Connect offline, Salesforce-to-Salesforce, Apex Explorer
SKILLS / Javascript, HTML/XML, APEX, Workflow, Dataloader, Restful API, Angular JS, AWS, CLM, SOQL, SOSL, Apex Classes, Apex Triggers, Workflow and Approvals, Sharing Rules, Apex Extensions, Visualforce, Formulas, Validation Rules, Assignment Rules, Knowledge Articles, AppExchange, Custom Objects, Custom Fields, Dashboards and Reports, Opportunity Management, Lightning, Case Management, SOAP API, REST API, Analytic Snapshots.
She currently resides in Virginia.
Product Manager: Isaiah Joo
Isaiah is an experienced government technologist who is adept at leading cross-functional teams and aligning technology strategies with organizational goals. Proven capability in driving efficiency, optimizing workflows, and enhancing data-driven decision-making processes. Highly skilled in Agile and Scrum methodologies, risk assessments, and stakeholder management. Demonstrated expertise in data science, machine learning, and public diplomacy efforts. Holds a strong record of delivering high-impact projects on time and within budget, ranging from enterprise-level data platforms to global CRM deployments.
Isaiah was formerly the Chief Analyst, Redesign Analytics Team, and Project Manager, Office of Digital at the U.S. Department of State.
SKILLS / Agile & Scrum Methodologies, Stakeholder Management, Digital Transformation, Risk Assessments, Salesforce platform, International Relations, Data Science & Analytics, Public Diplomacy, Technical Consultation
EDUCATION / BS Philosophy and Political Science, American University | Digital Design, Corcoran College of Arts and Design
He currently resides in Maryland.
Salesforce Architect (Advisory Partner): Satya Malla
Satya is a skilled Salesforce architect with over 20 years of experience in software development and platform engineering. He has deep experience in federal and state government crafting cloud technology solutions to meet the constraints of government regulations and security requirements.
CERTIFICATIONS & SKILLS / Salesforce Certified Administrator, Salesforce Certified SalesCloud Consultant, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer
EDUCATION / BS Technology and Engineering | Sri Venkateswara Hindu College of Engineering | Andhra Pradesh, India
He currently resides in Virginia.
DevOps Engineer (Advisory Partner): Dave Colangelo
Dave is the technical team lead for engineering subcontract teams for 580 Strategies and a Managing Partner with P&D Technology Solutions. After spending time as a developer and project manager at various large companies in the commercial private sector, he decided it was time to strike out on his own and bring his industry knowledge to everyone. He has recently partnered with 580 Strategies to bring agile development methods, embrace of cloud computing, and industry best-practice of DevOps principles to government.
Dave has had the opportunity to work on large scale data processing and storage projects for the environmental industry. Payment and PCI compliance applications for the credit card industry as well as high-scale code scanning and security solutions for software packages. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Dave’s platform of choice, and he has architected numerous solutions that now run at scale in various high-capacity environment.
Dave is skilled at large scale Java API architecture and development, highly scalable database layers, elastic search optimization and integration, large scale data processing and big data analytics, end to end security and system architecture.
EXPERTISE / Large scale Java API architecture and development, highly scalable database layers, elastic search optimization and integration, large scale data processing and big data analytics, end to end security and system architecture.
EDUCATION / Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering | Lehigh University | Bethlehem, PA
He currently resides in New York.
Human Centered Designer (Advisory Partner): Carl Sieber
Carl Sieber is a process-driven, user-centered, multidisciplinary designer with experience creating design systems, products, services, apps, mobile experiences, websites (intranet and extranet), rich applications, touchscreen kiosks, and all sorts of deliverables. Carl leads all design efforts and subcontract teams for 580 Strategies.
He is adept in all phases of client engagements including sales, planning, ethnographic research, collaborative workshops, usability testing, and stewardship (fully integrated agile or other methodologies). His process for human centered design is pioneering the way of applying HCD to government digital spaces and ensuring we put the citizen, veteran, or constituent in the driver’s seat of any application we develop.
EXPERTISE / Sketch | Abstract | Figma | Illustrator | Photoshop | InDesign | HTML/CSS | JavaScript | Zeplin/UXPin | Axure
EDUCATION / University of North Texas (‘96 - ‘00) Major: Comm. Design Minor: Computer Science
Carl currently resides in Texas.