ABOUT ZRA

ZRA is a small business with over 20 years of experience in: 

 

ZRA has an experienced team of strategic thinkers with law and policy, computer science, business, audit, finance, and engineering backgrounds. ZRA’s dynamic team provides the government and leading critical infrastructure companies with innovative approaches to address cybersecurity challenges. ZRA is a trusted advisor to senior leaders and executives in both the public and private sectors. Our community of partners and customers include federal and state governments, Fortune 200 companies, venture capital firms, trade associations, research and development centers, and top universities.

OUR TEAM

Lee Zeichner

President

Lee M. Zeichner is the Founder and President of Zeichner Risk Analytics. Since his service as senior counsel to the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection from 1996-1998, he has led development of cybersecurity policy and operations for both leading public and private sector clients. Mr. Zeichner has published extensively on multiple aspects of cybersecurity law and is the author of Cyber Security & Corporate Liability, a guide for corporate counsel on cybersecurity and risk management, published by LexisNexis Publishing in 2001.

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Lindsay Gold

Executive Vice President

Lindsay Gold serves as the Executive Vice President at Zeichner Risk Analytics (ZRA) and oversees the public and private sector practice. Mrs. Gold focuses on cybersecurity strategy, operations, engineering, policy, and risk communications and manages engagements with a range of cybersecurity policy stakeholders, including CEO and Boards, senior executives, White House National Security Staff, DHS, and national laboratories.

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Morgan Allen

PMP / Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Security Officer

Morgan Allen, PMP has served as the Chief Operating Officer since 1998 and serves as Assistant Security Officer. Ms. Allen has over 20 years’ experience in cybersecurity as well as other homeland security disciplines, was a junior member of the Team during the Year 2000 transition and when the Department of Homeland Security was formed in 2002 – but, since then has experienced over a decade of deep experience working with Government and the critical infrastructure community.

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Rory McGuire

Senior Vice President

Rory McGuire joined ZRA as a Senior Associate in February 2016. Mr. McGuire provides strategic oversight in leading ZRA support for a number of long-running federal cybersecurity initiatives areas like malware reverse engineering, secure cloud transitions, strategy development, technology transformation, tool development, and risk-informed approaches to cybersecurity. His work focuses on ensuring that technical development activities directly support mission and leadership objectives, and meet appropriate metrics for success.

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Emily Rosendall

Senior Vice President

Emily Rosendall is the Vice President of Cybersecurity Strategy and Public Policy at Zeichner Risk Analytics (ZRA). Ms. Rosendall provides policy, legal, and strategic counsel to private sector and federal government clients on cybersecurity, privacy, and other technology issues.

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Joe Chen

Vice President and Facility Security Officer

Joseph Chen joined ZRA in April 2010 and currently serves as a Vice President and Chief Security Officer. Mr. Chen manages most of the Analytics and End User tasks for Sandia National Laboratories, and oversees all facility and personnel security related activities for ZRA. Most recently, he served as an integral member to the Director of Budget and Finance, and the Chief of Acquisitions. Mr. Chen has taken a significant role in development and implementation of new policies, procedures, processes, tools, and reports for budget, finance, procurement, performance metrics, and strategic planning. He also provided technical support, guidance, and analysis to key decision-makers at NCSD with program development, governmental resource controlling, and reporting responsibilities.

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Julie Addison

Chief Financial Officer

Julie Addison is the Chief Financial Officer at ZRA. Julie’s original work with ZRA was with the commissioners and staff at the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) in the development of the Legal Authorities Database. During Year 2000 preparations, Julie organized several initiatives as part of ZRA’s support for the Cyber Assurance National Information Center.

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Jason Burke

Vice President

Jason joined ZRA as an Associate in November 2017. At ZRA, he focuses on advising clients on issues at the intersection of technology, law, and public policy. His subject matter expertise includes cloud security, digital transformation, data strategy, and secure architecture design.

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Matthew Piscitello

Senior Associate

Matthew Piscitello joined ZRA in October 2014 as an Associate. Mr. Piscitello supports management of projects that develop cutting edge solutions to network security that leverage existing and emerging technologies. Such work includes the creation, articulation, and visualization of notional architectures and conceptual frameworks for guidance documents to a diverse set of stakeholders.

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Dustin Ward-Dahl

Senior Associate

Dustin joined ZRA in May 2016 and currently serves as a Senior Associate. In his current role, he provides program management and strategic communication support to clients on issues at the intersection of technology and public policy. His subject matter expertise includes analytics development, cloud security, data strategy, and digital transformation.

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Matthew Kostman

Senior Associate

Matthew Kostman joined ZRA as an Associate in January 2022. At ZRA, Mr. Kostman advises on issues covering technology and public policy, and has assisted clients in project management, program development, and building relationships and collaboration opportunities with CISA and other industry partners.

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NICK WINSTEAD

Senior Associate

Nick Winstead joined ZRA as an Associate in March 2020. Nick provides threat assessments, policy briefs, and technical research to support Federal cybersecurity programs. In addition, Nick helps with the implementation and management of Federal programs focused on developing operational tools for USG stakeholders.

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Larry Ohaka

Creative Director

Larry Ohaka joined ZRA in June of 2018 as Associate Creative Director with an expertise in communication, research, graphic and visual arts. Through a cybersecurity lens, Mr. Ohaka provides a multitude of creative templates and visuals that communicate the principles presented by the policies, strategies, and risk management within the cybersecurity field. By incorporating his graphic, communications and research skills, Mr. Ohaka works on Sandia based documents that include areas of cloud research, security analysis, business models, and other areas.

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John Arterbury

Associate

John Arterbury joined ZRA as an Associate in July 2022. Mr. Arterbury’s work focuses on research and evaluation, strategic research planning and execution, and producing high-quality deliverables for a non-technical audience.

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Sheryl Goldberg

Associate

Sheryl Goldberg joined ZRA as an Associate in November 2020. Sheryl analyzes proposed and implemented changes to cybersecurity policies, directives, and leadership, and implications; provides strategic insight concerning direction, vision, policy, and technical impacts; ensures strategies and mission objectives are met against those considerations, facilitates development of technical deliverables; provides recommendations on approaches, and contributes directly to work products; and contributes directly to the development of risk-informed methodologies and metrics for cybersecurity.

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Brennan Lucas

Associate

Brennan Lucas joined ZRA as a Cybersecurity Consultant in June of 2021. As an Associate at ZRA, Mr. Lucas serves as a strategic advisor for federal and private sector clients’ risk management decisions, provides support on the development of cybersecurity risk management programs, and monitors/reports on national and international regulatory trends related to cybersecurity, compliance, policy, and reporting requirements.

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Rebecca Winslow

Associate

Rebecca Winslow joined ZRA as an Associate in July 2021. At ZRA, Rebecca advises and supports clients on challenges within technology, public policy, and digital transformation. She assists clients in project management, program development, stakeholder engagement, strategic communication, and research projects.

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Elizabeth McCarthy

Associate

Elizabeth McCarthy joined ZRA as an Associate in February 2023. At ZRA, Elizabeth conducts strategic research to produce high-quality deliverables for a non-technical audience, including briefings, research reports, and white papers. She focuses on helping clients address complex risk management decisions.

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Michelle McGovern

Executive Assistant to the President

Michelle McGovern joined ZRA in November 2020. Michelle serves as the Executive Assistant to the President of ZRA. Mrs. McGovern performs clerical duties, coordinates and maintains records, and assists in special projects. Additionally, Mrs. McGovern supports ZRA’s consultant staff and assists in providing technical assistance, quality management, and quality analyses. Mrs. McGovern conducts research and writing, and ensures quality standards on project deliverables. Mrs. McGovern provides support to senior consultants, managers, and supervisors on implementation of ZRA’s development, implementation, and process improvement initiatives.

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CAPABILITIES

ZRA has significant experience and deep capability in building and managing large and complex programs. Our capabilities range from developing the foundational building blocks for a new program to managing a fully developed program office. Our comprehensive focus on governance, inter-/intra-agency processes, policy, political institutions, and engagement strategies provides a uniquely comprehensive offering for our customers.

PILOT PROCESS


At our very core, ZRA is focused on developing effective and efficient risk management frameworks that provide executives and program managers with the ability to eliminate, mitigate, transfer, or accept risk.

CONTRACTS

ZRA’S CONTRACT VEHICLES

ZRA actively manages our contract and contract vehicle portfolio to provide our customers with easy access to our capabilities. We work aggressively to participate in contract vehicles such as indefinite delivery and quantity (IDIQ) and blanket purchase agreements to provide ultimate flexibility for contracting officials. ZRA is also an experienced prime contractor and has teamed with numerous other small and large businesses to identify and win contracts and IDIQ across the Federal Civilian Government and the Department of Defense.

GSA Professional Services Schedule (PSS) Contract Number: 47QRAA19D003F

LegalNet Works Incorporated dba Zeichner Risk Analytics (ZRA) views our consulting services as the backbone our PSS engagements. Our team provides expert advice, guidance, and counsel to improve the performance, quality, timeliness and efficiency of services provided by its government clients. Our consulting services are enhanced by our firsthand knowledge of and experience with commercial and government best practices, broad subject-matter expertise, and a deep understanding of the federal government.

The ZRA team provides comprehensive consulting services that include the following:

• Management and Strategy Consulting

• Program Planning, Audits, and Evaluations

•Studies, Analyses/Assessments, Scenarios, and Reports, such as

– Defense studies

– Tabletop exercises or scenario simulations

– Educational studies

– Regulatory or Policy Assessments

– Organizational Assessments

– Executive/Management Coaching Services

– Customized Business Training

– Policy and Regulation Development

– Business Process Reengineering

– Cost/Benefit Analysis

– Performance Measurement

– Strategic Planning

– Survey Design & Implementation

– Customer Analysis

– Risk and Vulnerability Assessments

CAREERS AT ZRA

Who We Are

A multidisciplinary team with diverse skillsets and educational backgrounds (including technical, political, legal, and social sciences).

What Makes ZRA a Great Place to Work?

Exciting Clients

ZRA consults for major public and private entities that are on the front lines of emerging cybersecurity issues and questions

Conceptual Development

ZRA formulates visionary ideas for the future that shift the paradigm and set the course for future technology development.

Collaborative Environment

ZRA works actively and openly in focused teams to address objectives and realize goals.

High-level Engagements

ZRA works with their clients on new and emerging issues to establish approaches that drive long-term strategy.

Challenging Projects

ZRA regularly develops solutions to address complex and challenging problems.

Broad Exposure

ZRA’s diverse project portfolio ensures that employees are exposed to a wide range of issues and technologies.

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CAREERS

Consulting

ZRA offer employees the opportunity to supplement their existing team members with an outside perspective. Consultants can help organizations streamline operations, increase productivity, build revenue, and make overall functions more efficient across the organization.

A primary reason companies hire consultants is that they may possess in-depth knowledge of a specific industry or issue that the organization has in-house. A seasoned consultant can often devote time and expertise to a project that staff employees just don’t have.

Consultants can also help bring new life to organizations that are stuck, or shift resources to help companies grow or move in a different direction.

Research

A research associate is responsible for assisting the research team, organizing and interpreting findings, and verifying information before presenting the study to the board. Research associates duties also include gathering and comparing data from multiple sources, analyzing the current industry trends, creating draft outlines for reports, collecting individual contacts for interview purposes, and helping with the development of research procedures. A research associate must have excellent time-management skills and ability to multi-task, especially on meeting strict deadlines and conducting studies.

A research associate’s responsibilities can vary depending on the size and needs of the organization. The end purpose of the job, however, is to provide helpful information to the decision-makers. Working at ZRA as research associate means gathering data from primary and secondary sources; organize and analyze this material, and draft outlines for their superiors.

Communications

A communications associate is responsible for assisting with writing and communication projects and tasks within an organization.

They are responsible for planning and implementing communication strategies, overseeing the company’s media promotion, and editing and proofreading communication materials and texts.

Internships

As a ZRA intern, it’s your job to assist your employer with a multitude of tasks. Your duties include conducting research, compiling data, implementing ideas, and helping write papers. You often work closely with other students and interns.

The main qualifications are an interest in the research subject and strong communication skills. You usually need to be enrolled in a relevant degree program at the school to qualify. The short-term goal of a research intern position is to gain academic credit or work experience. The long-term goal is to turn the internship into a career.

Business Operations

Working on ZRA’s operations team means working with managers and other staff members to ensure that administrative tasks are completed and that the business functions efficiently. This position requires the identification of operational risks and opportunity and providing solutions for the same together with the help of relevant departments.

Business Development

Working on ZRA’s business development team means setting goals and developing plans for business and revenue growth. Researching, planning, and implementing new target market initiatives. Researching prospective accounts in target markets. Pursuing leads and moving them through the sales cycle.

CONTACT US

Where to Find Us

Zeichner Risk Analytics (ZRA) is located in the tallest building of the three Ballston Plaza office buildings in the northwest quadrant of North Glebe Road and North Fairfax Drive. It is located between the Marymount University Ballston Campus and I-66, and is recognizable by the CACI corporate sign at the top. Underground parking is available in our building. As unreserved parking can be limited, the entrance off Wakefield is the easiest place to arrange key transfer with the attendant (probably at the tandem spaces near the entrance). The maximum charge per day is currently $11.00. Hours of operation are from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Address
4601 Fairfax Drive
Suite 1130
Arlington, VA 22203
General Inquiry
contact@zra.com
Phone: (703) 351-1101
Fax: (703)-351-1109

ABOUT ZRA

ZRA is a small business with over 20 years of experience in:

 

 

ZRA has an experienced team of strategic thinkers with law and policy, computer science, business, audit, finance, and engineering backgrounds. ZRA’s dynamic team provides the government and leading critical infrastructure companies with innovative approaches to address cybersecurity challenges. ZRA is a trusted advisor to senior leaders and executives in both the public and private sectors. Our community of partners and customers include federal and state governments, Fortune 200 companies, venture capital firms, trade associations, research and development centers, and top universities.

OUR TEAM

Lee Zeichner

President

Lee M. Zeichner is the Founder and President of Zeichner Risk Analytics. Since his service as senior counsel to the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection from 1996-1998, he has led development of cybersecurity policy and operations for both leading public and private sector clients. Mr. Zeichner has published extensively on multiple aspects of cybersecurity law and is the author of Cyber Security & Corporate Liability, a guide for corporate counsel on cybersecurity and risk management, published by LexisNexis Publishing in 2001. Mr. Zeichner is authoring his sixth update of the book, scheduled for release in 2014.

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Lindsay Gold

Executive Vice President

Lindsay Gold serves as the Executive Vice President at Zeichner Risk Analytics (ZRA) and oversees the public and private sector practice. Mrs. Gold focuses on cybersecurity strategy, operations, engineering, policy, and risk communications and manages engagements with a range of cybersecurity policy stakeholders, including CEO and Boards, senior executives, White House National Security Staff, DHS, and national laboratories.

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Morgan Allen

PMP / Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Security Officer

Morgan Allen, PMP has served as the Chief Operating Officer since 1998, and serves as Assistant Security Officer. In addition to her role in supporting the President, she also assists with office management in the following areas: developing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures for employee best practices, maintaining corporate websites and administering corporate email accounts, coordinating and managing corporate telecommunications infrastructure, developing and organizing corporate file system and records, purchasing and installing computer equipment, network equipment, and software, serviced computer and network equipment, and maintaining corporate contacts and calendar databases.

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Rory McGire

Executive Vice President

Rory joined ZRA as a Senior Associate in February 2016. Prior to joining ZRA, Rory most recently worked as a Program Assistant at the Elliott School of International Affairs. Since June 2015, Rory had interned with a risk & security consulting firm, focusing on Enterprise Risk Management. Previously, he spent time supporting a contract for security monitoring and analysis focused on northern Iraq, as well as interning with the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Rory also has previous professional experience in the non-profit and marketing sectors.

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Emily Rosendall

Senior Vice President, Cybersecurity Strategy and Public Policy

Emily Rosendall is the Vice President of Cybersecurity Strategy and Public Policy at Zeichner Risk Analytics (ZRA). Ms. Rosendall provides policy, legal, and strategic counsel to private sector and federal government clients on cybersecurity, privacy, and other technology issues.

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Flora Lethbridge-Çejku

Vice President

Flora Lethbridge-Çejku joined ZRA as an Associate in June 2018. Prior to joining ZRA, she worked as a public opinion research analyst for Lake Research Partners. While there, she worked on quantitative and qualitative research projects helping support different issue advocacy organizations and agencies with messaging campaign development, policy analysis, and political strategy.

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Joe Chen

Vice President and Facility Security Officer

Joseph Chen joined ZRA in April 2010 and currently serves as a Senior Associate and Chief Security Officer. Prior to accepting this position, Mr. Chen served in several analyst roles within the National Cyber Security Division. Most recently, he served as an integral member to the Director of Budget and Finance, and the Chief of Acquisitions. Mr. Chen has taken a significant role in development and implementation of new policies, procedures, processes, tools, and reports for budget, finance, procurement, performance metrics, and strategic planning. He also provided technical support, guidance, and analysis to key decision-makers at NCSD with program development, governmental resource controlling, and reporting responsibilities.

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Julie Addison

Chief Financial Officer

Julie Addison is the Chief Financial Officer at ZRA. Julie’s original work with ZRA was with the commissioners and staff at the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) in the development of the Legal Authorities Database. During Year 2000 preparations, Julie organized several initiatives as part of ZRA’s support for the Cyber Assurance National Information Center. More recently, Julie’s work at ZRA has focused on providing financial analysis including working with the President to provide decision support analysis. She conducts financial and business related analyses, leads business improvement initiatives, and directs other projects.

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Jason Burke

Vice President

Jason joined ZRA as an Associate in November 2017. Before joining ZRA, Jason worked in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Legislative Assistant, where he managed an issue portfolio that included defense, foreign affairs, technology, and homeland security. In this capacity, he provided legal and policy analysis, drafted legislation, and provided voting recommendations. Before working for Congress, Jason worked as the Cybersecurity Fellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, where he researched and analyzed developments in cybersecurity law and policy.

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Matthew Piscatello

Senior Associate

Matthew Piscitello joined ZRA in October 2014 as an Associate. He has taken an interest in cybersecurity from a young age, and previously worked as a freelance cybersecurity journalist, social media manager for SecuritySkeptic, and Member Services Liaison for the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).

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Matt received his MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, with a concentration in International Economics and European & Eurasian Studies. He received his BA in International Affairs with a minor in Russian Language & Literature from George Washington University.

Dustin Ward-Dahl

Senior Associate

Dustin joined ZRA as an Associate in May 2016. In his current role, he provides wide-ranging support for Federal cybersecurity and national laboratory clients, including the development of program management support deliverables, strategic communication documents, and general research products.

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Matthew Kostman

Senior Associate

Matt joined ZRA as an Associate in January 2022. Prior to joining ZRA, Matt worked as a Researcher at Gartner, developing management best practices for Applications and Software Engineering Leaders that focused on topics such as automation, Agile, application modernization and portfolio management. Previously, he worked at a number of nonprofits that focused on international, security, and economic policy in the Eastern European region.

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Larry Ohaka

Creative Director

Larry Ohaka joined ZRA in June of 2018 as Associate Creative Director with an expertise in communication, research, graphic and visual arts. Prior to joining the team, Larry interned with a company that extracted utility and knowledge from multiple data sources and standards in national intelligence, banking, healthcare, cyber, federal, & other sectors. In this position, Larry worked on the communications team where he translated complex concepts related to data sources and standards into graphical representations.

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Nick Winstead

Associate

Nick Winstead joined ZRA as an Associate in March 2020. Prior to joining ZRA, Nick conducted technical and policy research at the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Before this, he gained experience in wargaming and simulation at the Center for Applied Strategic Learning and provided military and strategic analysis at the Atlantic Treaty Association in Belgium.

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Sherry Goldberg

Associate

Sheryl Goldberg joined ZRA as a Research Associate in November, 2020. Sheryl conducts and synthesizes research, assists in compilation and creation of materials used in courses as well as provide other support to the team.

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Brennan Lucas

Associate

Brennan Lucas comes from the hospitality industry, where he executed the enterprise risk management process for seventy contracted hotels. Specifically, he designed risk management solutions to eliminate, mitigate or accept risk affecting company operations.

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Rebecca Winslow

Associate

Rebecca Winslow joined ZRA as an Associate in July 2021. Before joining ZRA, Rebecca worked as a program management analyst supporting the Department of Veteran Affairs’ Office of Research and Development. During graduate school, she worked as a Policy Intern with the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) where she worked on intelligence and policy-related matters in the areas of technology, acquisition, and legal issues.

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Michelle McGovern

Executive Assistant to the President

Michelle McGovern joined ZRA in November 2020. Michelle serves as the Executive Assistant to the President of ZRA. Mrs. McGovern performs clerical duties, coordinates and maintains records, assists in special projects, along with supporting the ZRA team.

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CAPABILITIES

ZRA has significant experience and deep capability in building and managing large and complex programs. Our capabilities range from developing the foundational building blocks for a new program to managing a fully developed program office. Our comprehensive focus on governance, inter-/intra-agency processes, policy, political institutions, and engagement strategies provides a uniquely comprehensive offering for our customers.

 

PILOT PROCESS


At our very core, ZRA is focused on developing effective and efficient risk management frameworks that provide executives and program managers with the ability to eliminate, mitigate, transfer, or accept risk.

CONTRACTS

ZRA’S CONTRACT VEHICLES

ZRA actively manages our contract and contract vehicle portfolio to provide our customers with easy access to our capabilities. We work aggressively to participate in contract vehicles such as indefinite delivery and quantity (IDIQ) and blanket purchase agreements to provide ultimate flexibility for contracting officials. ZRA is also an experienced prime contractor and has teamed with numerous other small and large businesses to identify and win contracts and IDIQ across the Federal Civilian Government and the Department of Defense.

GSA Professional Services Schedule (PSS) Contract Number: 47QRAA19D003F

LegalNet Works Incorporated dba Zeichner Risk Analytics (ZRA) views our consulting services as the backbone our PSS engagements. Our team provides expert advice, guidance, and counsel to improve the performance, quality, timeliness and efficiency of services provided by its government clients. Our consulting services are enhanced by our firsthand knowledge of and experience with commercial and government best practices, broad subject-matter expertise, and a deep understanding of the federal government.

The ZRA team provides comprehensive consulting services that include the following:

• Management and Strategy Consulting

• Program Planning, Audits, and Evaluations

•Studies, Analyses/Assessments, Scenarios, and Reports, such as

– Defense studies

– Tabletop exercises or scenario simulations

– Educational studies

– Regulatory or Policy Assessments

– Organizational Assessments

– Executive/Management Coaching Services

– Customized Business Training

– Policy and Regulation Development

– Business Process Reengineering

– Cost/Benefit Analysis

– Performance Measurement

– Strategic Planning

– Survey Design & Implementation

– Customer Analysis

– Risk and Vulnerability Assessments

CAREERS AT ZRA

Who We Are

A multidisciplinary team with diverse skillsets and educational backgrounds (including technical, political, legal, and social sciences).

What Makes ZRA a Great Place to Work?

Exciting Clients

ZRA consults for major public and private entities that are on the front lines of emerging cybersecurity issues and questions

Conceptual Development

ZRA formulates visionary ideas for the future that shift the paradigm and set the course for future technology development.

Collaborative Environment

ZRA works actively and openly in focused teams to address objectives and realize goals.

High-level Engagements

ZRA works with their clients on new and emerging issues to establish approaches that drive long-term strategy.

Challenging Projects

ZRA regularly develops solutions to address complex and challenging problems.

Broad Exposure

ZRA’s diverse project portfolio ensures that employees are exposed to a wide range of issues and technologies.

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CAREERS

Consulting

ZRA offer employees the opportunity to supplement their existing team members with an outside perspective. Consultants can help organizations streamline operations, increase productivity, build revenue, and make overall functions more efficient across the organization.

A primary reason companies hire consultants is that they may possess in-depth knowledge of a specific industry or issue that the organization has in-house. A seasoned consultant can often devote time and expertise to a project that staff employees just don’t have.

Consultants can also help bring new life to organizations that are stuck, or shift resources to help companies grow or move in a different direction.

Research

A research associate is responsible for assisting the research team, organizing and interpreting findings, and verifying information before presenting the study to the board. Research associates duties also include gathering and comparing data from multiple sources, analyzing the current industry trends, creating draft outlines for reports, collecting individual contacts for interview purposes, and helping with the development of research procedures. A research associate must have excellent time-management skills and ability to multi-task, especially on meeting strict deadlines and conducting studies.

A research associate’s responsibilities can vary depending on the size and needs of the organization. The end purpose of the job, however, is to provide helpful information to the decision-makers. Working at ZRA as research associate means gathering data from primary and secondary sources; organize and analyze this material, and draft outlines for their superiors.

Communications

A communications associate is responsible for assisting with writing and communication projects and tasks within an organization.

They are responsible for planning and implementing communication strategies, overseeing the company’s media promotion, and editing and proofreading communication materials and texts.

Internships

As a ZRA intern, it’s your job to assist your employer with a multitude of tasks. Your duties include conducting research, compiling data, implementing ideas, and helping write papers. You often work closely with other students and interns.

The main qualifications are an interest in the research subject and strong communication skills. You usually need to be enrolled in a relevant degree program at the school to qualify. The short-term goal of a research intern position is to gain academic credit or work experience. The long-term goal is to turn the internship into a career.

Business Operations

Working on ZRA’s operations team means working with managers and other staff members to ensure that administrative tasks are completed and that the business functions efficiently. This position requires the identification of operational risks and opportunity and providing solutions for the same together with the help of relevant departments.

Business Development

Working on ZRA’s business development team means setting goals and developing plans for business and revenue growth. Researching, planning, and implementing new target market initiatives. Researching prospective accounts in target markets. Pursuing leads and moving them through the sales cycle.

CONTACT US

Where to Find Us

Zeichner Risk Analytics (ZRA) is located in the tallest building of the three Ballston Plaza office buildings in the northwest quadrant of North Glebe Road and North Fairfax Drive. It is located between the Marymount University Ballston Campus and I-66, and is recognizable by the CACI corporate sign at the top. Underground parking is available in our building. As unreserved parking can be limited, the entrance off Wakefield is the easiest place to arrange key transfer with the attendant (probably at the tandem spaces near the entrance). The maximum charge per day is currently $11.00. Hours of operation are from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Address
4601 Fairfax Drive
Suite 1130
Arlington, VA 22203
General Inquiry
contact@zra.com
Phone: (703) 351-1101
Fax: (703)-351-1109