Deborah Hunt is the founder, president and CEO of iPower LLC. An experienced professional and recognized visionary leader, Ms. Hunt has more than 30 years of executive level IT managerial and technical experience. Adept at providing hands-on leadership and direction in CMMI, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), NIST 800-171, biometrics systems engineering, quality assurance, internet and telecommunications arenas, she has consistently exceeded client expectations by appropriately matching scarce resources against competing priorities.
Ms. Hunt also served as an advisor to George Mason University's PTAC/SBDC and has been an adjunct professor at American University. Prior to founding iPower in 2001, Debbie was the Vice President/Director for IT Consulting and Integration Company where she was responsible for oversight, business development, business administration, and human resource management of a wide spectrum of IT programs, projects and task orders. During her tenure she grew her department by 100% and attained the company’s first SEI CMM certifications.
Debbie holds M.S., Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and B.S., Mathematics, Greensboro College. She is a certified PMP, certified CMMI Lead Appraiser, and a Certified CMMC Assessor (CCA).
Christine Saurini
Senior Manager
Christine Saurini is iPower LLC’s Senior Manager of Continuous Improvement and Co-Chair of iPower’s Program Management Office (PMO). In these roles, Christine is charged with ensuring iPower organizational goals and objectives are achieved while providing top quality service to our clients.
In her Continuous Improvement role, Christine is responsible for the delivery of process innovation and continuous improvement initiatives across the company to assist the CEO in strategically planning and driving iPower’s success and growth of the business and to ensure the organization and staff have the required certifications to be the leaders in our industry.
Christine has spent her career in continuous improvement and quality leadership positions for both government and commercial sectors. She holds an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University as well as multiple certifications to include ISO 9001/ ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, CMMI Professional, Six Sigma, and Certified CMMC Assessor (CCA). Christine is also the iPower Facility Security Officer (FSO) and Insider Threat Program Senior Officer (ITPSO). She is a thought leader in the continuous improvement, quality, and cybersecurity industries who has consulted hundreds of customers and participated in and lead teams in numerous appraisals, audits, and assessments.
Trish Freeman
Senior Manager
Trish Freeman is an iPower LLC Senior Manager and Co-Chair of iPower’s Program Management Office (PMO). In these roles, Trish is responsible for managing projects that provide CMMI and ISO services to our clients and for maintaining and improving iPower’s operational environment. As a subject matter expert in CMMI and ISO, she provides technical leadership, direction, training, mentoring, and high-level expertise and guidance to organizations in supporting the application of best practices and process improvement concepts.
Trish has over 25 years of process improvement consulting experience supporting both commercial and government organizations ranging in size from 7 to 3000 people. She uses her systems engineering knowledge and experience to help organizations implement best practices in project management, engineering, and services, resulting in a clean, understandable user interface that is supported by an integrated system of processes and process components.
She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina and is a Certified CMMI Practitioner, ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, ISO 20000-1 Lead Auditor, and ASQ Certified Quality Improvement Associate. A skilled facilitator and trainer, Trish designs and facilitates workshops for process definition and implementation, team training, and team performance improvement. She has a special interest in using performance measurement to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of processes and to demonstrate the value and benefits that processes can provide.
