Citizant Promotes Collette Dziemian to Vice
President of Quality Programs
Leading process quality expert to formalize EVM initiative to further enhance value delivery to federal
customers
May 03, 2010 09:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time
CHANTILLY, Va.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Citizant, a leading provider of professional technical and
business solutions to the federal government, has promoted Collette Dziemian to vice president of quality programs,
a new position created to formalize the company’s focus on quality programs and processes.
“Citizant’s commitment to delivering high-quality solutions has been a key to our continued growth and success in the
federal marketplace,” said Alba M. Alemán, Citizant’s president and chief customer advocate. “Because of this, and
the great work Collette has already done for our organization, we see huge value in placing even greater resources
and focus behind our quality initiative. In her new role, Collette will help to ensure that our quality standards are
consistently applied in the most appropriate way to produce clear value for our federal customers and contribute to
better government service for the nation’s taxpayers.”
Most recently, Dziemian was director of quality programs, a position she has held since joining Citizant in 2008. She
has more than a decade of experience in process improvement, project management and organizational change
management, including nine years at SAIC focusing on program management, process deployment and business
transformation.
Federal agencies are increasingly specifying strong process quality and earned value management (EVM) capabilities
as minimum requirements on new procurements, especially in software and systems development efforts. Citizant has
invested nearly a million dollars during the last three years on quality-related corporate and staff qualifications,
including ISO 9001:2008, Software Engineering Institute’s CMMI Maturity Level 3, ISO 8000-100:2008 (master
data quality manager), Information Tec