Ben Barker
Vice President, Federal Growth & Innovation
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Barker is a hands-on federal growth and innovation executive with 14 years of experience driving capture-to-contract outcomes and technical solutioning for government customers. He has led large capture, pricing, and proposal teams—most recently building a 24-person organization that delivered $191M+ in funded new business and secured positions on vehicles exceeding $37B in ceiling value—and played a central role in scaling GovCIO from $70M to $220M ahead of a private equity exit. Comfortable in the weeds, he still architects solutions, authors technical volumes, and coaches orals teams, blending technical depth with commercial rigor. His focus spans capture management, AI/automation in growth operations, orals strategy, and M&A integration, and his archived code repositories were consolidated to codeberg.org/BBarker, reflecting a preference for deliberate, long-term stewardship of work. Based in Falls Church, VA, he is a repeat industry honoree (FedHealthIT100, Engage/Elev8) recognized for measurable, scalable growth.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Information Science and Systems, IT, Business, Information Science and Systems, IT, Business at Radford University
Github Skills (19)
package7
bundle7
python6
cffi6
revit-api6
craigslist5
pyinstaller5
freeze4
wrapper3
setuptools3
conda3
linux1
onvif1
obs1
py2exe1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BenBarker/CurveRigger
May 2014 - Feb 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes in 4 years 9 months
BenBarker/mpyr
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:87 commits, 55 pushes, 3 comments in 10 months
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