Karlie has been a part of the technology industry for 20+ years and is passionate about helping customers through technology transitions by modernizing their environments to meet their mission. She entered Cisco as a Federal Account Executive in 2004, then after nine years she transitioned into a Data Center Product Specialist supporting the Federal Government.  An opportunity arose in 2015 to move into a Federal Regional Manager role, which she grew the business over a 5-year period and led a large team of Senior Account Executives. 

In February 2021, she departed Cisco for a unique opportunity with Amazon Web Services as a Senior Manager to expand a customer facing team for a critical US Federal agency. While at AWS she hired six team members across multiple client facing roles and grew her knowledge of cloud technology.

In June of 2022, she returned to Cisco as an Operations Director supporting Cisco’s broad product and service portfolio for the US Department of Defense ($900M - $1B business annually).  Her three regions support the ARMY, DISA, Defense Agencies, Special Operations Forces and US Department of Defense business in Europe, Africa and Asia.

She embarked on her tech career at Sun Microsystems in 2000 through a college new-hire program and participated in a sales focused development track. She completed the one-year program and began supporting large Systems Integrators, then the US Federal Government.  

Karlie resides in the Washington DC metro area and is a Maryland native.  She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland College Park (Robert H. Smith school of business).  She holds a dual major in Marketing and Logistics. She enjoys building teams, running large, strategic sales efforts and helping customers solve complex challenges. Additionally, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two kids (age 9 and 12), two dogs, traveling and running.

Mr. Rob Vietmeyer is the Department of Defense Chief Software Officer for the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Information Enterprise (DCIO(IE)). In this position, he is the principal advisor to the DoD CIO for the implementation and evolution of the Department’s Software Modernization Strategy. Mr. Vietmeyer will drive strategy implementation, establishing the foundation to deliver resilient software at speed and scale advocating for the latest software development approaches, cloud services, and process transformation. Through collaboration with other DoD Components, government, industry, and academia partners, he is responsible for advancing the Department’s adoption of DevSecOps practices, agile software development, and cloud native modernization.

Mr. Vietmeyer holds an M.S. in Information and Telecommunications Systems from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Physics from Randolph Macon College.