Our Team for Success

Mr. Abebe has over 25 years of experience in the IT and applications program and design industries. As a pioneer in the IT and government contracting industries, he leverages his expertise to serve the essential business requirements of several Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies. Under Mr. Abebe’s leadership, Eagle Technologies has achieved high scores with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), the Office of Head Start (OHS), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Before founding Eagle Technologies, Mr. Abebe was a senior consultant for Intelsat, a major satellite company. In this role, he was responsible for programming many mission-critical launches. Several of his former team members at Intelsat joined Mr. Abebe at Eagle Technologies. Together they built the Head Start Enterprise System (HSES), a significant Enterprise Management Solution developed for OHS grant recipients and federal program offices across the country. Eagle’s SAMHSA project was another significant accomplishment with an unprecedented $120M budget. Both projects have earned outstanding ratings under the management of Eagle Technologies contractors. Mr. Abebe continues to lead and evolve Eagle Technologies in its mission to develop IT solutions that benefit the nation’s important end users into the next century.

Mr. Abebe received a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science from the University of Maryland University College in College Park, MD. An advocate of the power of education, Mr. Abebe ensures Eagle Technologies employees are funded in educational pursuits that support the evolving IT industry. As a result, Eagle holds applauded corporate ISO and CMMI certifications, and over 90% of staff hold Agile, AWS, and other certifications related to their functional roles.

​Ms. Margaret Smith is an experienced leader with a strong background in accounting and finance, as well as Information Technology and e-commerce. She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Temple University and a master’s degree in business administration with a post-graduate certificate in e-commerce from Johns Hopkins University. In her current role at Eagle Technologies, Ms. Smith serves as the Chief Operating Officer. She aligns teams around shared vision and goals and ensures high-quality communications that comply with government initiatives. Ms. Smith also serves as the IT Program Director for the Head Start Enterprise System, leading a multi-year project to consolidate data and applications for the Head Start Program. In this role, Ms. Smith is responsible for overseeing the IT operations of the Head Start Enterprise System (HSES) for the Office of Head Start (OHS) and leading a team of 50 professional business and technical staff. She also worked closely with top-level OHS federal officials and Head Start contractors to provide or receive data via API channels. Ms. Smith collaborated to develop a world-class help desk that provides technical and business solutions and training on new features, including the annual program survey (PIR).

As the Chief Growth Officer (CGO) at Eagle Technologies, Mr. Viswanath brings together strong business acumen, extensive leadership experience, effective management, and technology expertise to drive business growth and innovation. He leads the company’s expansion using strategic initiatives that span organic and inorganic growth.

With over 25 years of experience in various industries, including engineering, manufacturing, telecom, financial, entertainment, healthcare, civilian, and defense sectors, Mr. Viswanath has successfully delivered projects for prestigious clients such as Caterpillar, Morgan Stanley, Vodafone, Kodak, Library of Congress, CMS, IRS, and DoD. His leadership and technical skills have driven business success and delivered innovative solutions to complex challenges. He holds an M.S. in Engineering from Iowa State University and certifications in PMP and ITIL

Mr. Viswanath is dedicated to fostering strong business relationships and developing partnerships that create value for Eagle, its partners, and its clients. His expertise in business process reengineering, automation, enterprise data integration, application modernization, and cloud migration are instrumental in driving growth and innovation at Eagle Technologies.

Doren H. Walker (Ph.D., Health Administration) is a seasoned leader, health care administrator, and research/analyst with more than 30 years of experience in health care systems management. As the former BHSIS project director, Dr. Walker led a diverse team of more than 100 professionals, including research scientists, analysts, and IT professionals in administering this multimillion-dollar, high-visibility program for CBHSQ. Dr. Walker possesses extensive experience in substance use research, including treatment and prevention, with a focus on needs assessment and management. Dr. Walker is also well respected in the substance use and mental health communities and has an exemplary reputation for working collaboratively with federal and state agencies to drive policies that support the health of the nation.

Dr. Walker served as deputy director of research in Howard University’s DC-Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities, where he developed research protocols that identify and examine critical biological factors that sustain disparities in substance use and intentional/unintentional injury within and between groups of minority children. He also provided innovative, age-appropriate, theoretical, and practical models for the prevention and reduction of disparities in children and adolescents with substance use, diabetes, obesity, and intentional/unintentional injury.

As project director of the Minority Institution Drug Abuse Research Program at Howard University, Dr. Walker developed research training programs in drug abuse and AIDS prevention in communities of color designed to increase faculty’s and student’s capacity to conduct rigorous and competitive research in these areas. The program emphasized training in transdisciplinary research on relationships among environmental stress, biological responses, risk behaviors, and health outcomes and fostered mentorships between senior investigators in research-intensive universities and Howard faculty investigators.

Mr. Whitesell leverages 30 years of experience serving Federal and Fortune 100 companies to drive business and technology excellence, providing business process and information model-driven application and implementation and supporting improvements. He leads Eagle’s federal grants management practice, including business analysis, requirements, operations and help desk support, access control, data analysis, and reporting.

Mr. Whitesell worked as a consultant, serving as an information architect for transformational projects, and was the business process and information architecture lead for a successful global asset management system consolidation and alignment initiative. He also served as the business and design lead for developing a contract management system for tracking clinical trial contracts and outsourcing.

Li-Yong Yu is Eagle’s Director of Information Systems. He joined Eagle in 2007 and is an innovative, accomplished global senior information technology professional with 30+ years of technology experience and track records of success in directing complex multimillion-dollar initiatives, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and marketing partnerships to successful outcomes. His exceptional performance in leading multi-national and multi-cultural cross-functional teams in designing, developing, and operating large-scale global ICT infrastructure, data center, and application system solutions meet tight timelines and budget requirements. He is an effective analyst, facilitator, problem-solver, and communicator, particularly adept in aligning innovative technologies with the top-priority business need of public, international, and private sectors. He served as the chief infrastructure architect to establish ICT infrastructure and application platforms (On-premises and Cloud) for Eagle’s BHSIS and HSES projects. He also supported the BHSIS project to collect and compile a range of behavioral health services information for CBHSQ/SAMHSA. Before joining Eagle, Mr. Yu served in various technical and managerial roles, including Director of Information System Management, Director of Program Management, Chief Architect, and Department Head in Intelsat, CSC, and SAIC.

Mr. Yu holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan, and a Ph. D. Candidate in Computer Science at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.