Lamont Copeland

Senior Director, Public Sector Sales Engineering at Verizon Business

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Lamont Copeland, Senior Director of Public Sector Solutions for Verizon Business Group, leads a team of technology experts developing integrated, enterprise solutions for Federal, State and Local Government clients. His goal is to grow Verizon's $4B+ Public Sector market share by delivering strategic and innovative business solutions that leverage Verizon's technology portfolios and partner solutions enabling business outcomes and providing value for customers.

Lamont, in his previous role with Booz Allen Hamilton, served as Senior Associate/Engineering Director where he led a team of engineers and analysts for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Security Agency (NSA) security programs. The team delivered system engineering, architecture design, and integration support of network security sensor systems and communications infrastructure designs for Government networks.

Prior to that 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.