Lamont Copeland

Lamont Copeland is the Director of Federal Solutions Architecture for Verizon’s Global Presales organization in support of the Verizon Business Group Public Sector Vertical. He leads a team of technology subject matter experts who are focused on developing integrated, complex enterprise solutions and enabling business outcomes for Federal customers through the power of Verizon technology portfolios and partner solutions. He also supports the growth and development of Verizon Product Portfolio working closely with Verizon’s Product teams to enhance and deploy new products for our Federal consumer base.

In his previous role with Booz Allen Hamilton, Lamont served as Senior Associate/Engineering Manager where he led a team of engineers and analysts for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reporting directly to the National Protection and Programs Directorate/Network Security Deployment (NPPD/NSD) Director and Chief Security Engineer for the EINSTEIN3 Program. The team delivered system engineering, architecture design, and integration support of network security sensor systems and communications infrastructure designs for Government networks. He was also responsible for the development the market strategy for growth of the cyber engineering and analysis products and contract Profit and Loss (P/L) and growth for Booz Allen’s Federal cyber contracts.

While at Sprint, Lamont was Chief Engineer leading the engineering design and performance of Sprint’s core IP network services. He led the infrastructure build outs, feature functionality testing of network capabilities, and managed the project schedules and annual capital budget for network capacity deployment and new product roll outs.

Lamont holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University and a Masters of Business Administration with a focus on Management of Technology Innovation, Venture Capital/Finance Investment, and Small Business Development from George Washington University.