About TalaTek
Staff Biographies
Baan Alsinawi
Baan Alsinawi is the founder and president of TalaTek, LLC. She has served in that capacity since 2006. Ms Alsinawi’s vision for TalaTek was the need for an integrated platform that could both control security and minimize risk, and which could be implemented to ensure compliance by agencies and organizations... read more
Azzah Al Gburi
Azzah Al Gburi is a TalaTek IT consultant with more than 5 years of experience in information technology. She performs security control read more
Maureen Aubrey
Maureen Aubrey has more than 20 years of network and information technology experience, and has served in various capacities from managing networks and implementation teams to supporting special project teams in deploying leading-edge technology... read more
Hunter Barrat
Hunter Barrat has more than 30 years of writing and editing experience in both the public and private sector. She has worked for government contractors supporting federal agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Justice ... read more
Joshua Burnett
Joshua Burnett is a cyber security professional with more than 10 years of experience in the information technology field. Mr. Burnett ... read more
Johann Dettweiler
Johann Dettweiler is the TalaTek Director of Operations and a Senior Information Security Consultant. As an IT security specialist, Mr. read more
Joshua Grove
Joshua Grove is TalaTek’s Chief Technology Officer. He leads Talatek’s development operations of Talatek’s TiGRIS GRC solution and is ... read more
Andrew Lowe
Andrew Lowe is a compliance and cyber security professional with more than 10 years of experience in the information security field. ... read more
Ken Russman
Ken Russman is a Senior Project Manager and holds Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certifications. He began his career in 1985 as a hardware and software test engineer, then moved into the roles of research and design engineer and software engineer. Mr. Russman began managing projects in 1994 before starting his technical and operations management career in ... read more
Cory Russman
Cory Russman is a project manager for several TalaTek contracts, overseeing daily tasking and assignments for the life of each project, producing quality documentation, interacting with clients, and coordinating with team ... read more
Peter Russman
Peter Russman is part of TalaTek’s IT team and assists with vulnerability scanning on several projects, setting up scan servers, ... read more
Elvis Silva
Elvis Silva is a Cyber Security Analyst at TalaTek, with 10 years of IT experience, 4 years of that in the information security field. Mr. Silva brings to TalaTek’s Security Assessment and Continuous Monitoring ... read more
Matthew Steele
As the Director of IT, Matthew Steele strives to provide the best possible IT infrastructure for TalaTek’s staff while leading projects and initiatives to further company growth and improve efficiency. He has worked in ... read more
BreAunna Tucker
BreAunna Tucker is a junior developer on TalaTek’s development team where she develops, debugs, and tests software for the TiGRIS GRC ... read more
Diane Weeks
Diane Weeks is a TalaTek Information Assurance consultant and Project Manager. She is C&A-certified and her background includes IT in the communications and publishing industries. Ms. Weeks extensive IT experience includes 26 years at the Washington Post working in the newsroom’s IT department as a liaison between the reporters and editors and the ... read more
Madeline Weeks
Madeline Weeks serves in the roles of Information Assurance Consultant, Information System Owner, and Quality System Manager for ... read more
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas has over a decade of business development, project management, technical writing and editing, and proposal writing and management experience in the public and private sectors. In his business development and proposal writing/management capacity, Thomas has been instrumental in winning awards with the combined amount of over $100M. In his technical writing, editing, and project management capacities, Thomas has supported such federal agencies as Federal Aviation Administration, General Services Administration, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Education, among others. Thomas graduated from West Virginia University with a major in ... read more
