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Zain Ahmed

Zain Ahmed serves as SVP of Public Sector at Lumen Technologies. His responsibilities include the company’s civilian, special programs and U.S. Department of Defense sales. Zain leads a team of business professionals delivering innovative adaptive networking, cybersecurity, collaboration, edge cloud & IT agility solutions and mission support services to government and military agencies with an emphasis on delivering an excellent customer experience and best-in-class solutions via GSA’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions, Alliant 2, and other contract vehicles.


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ESnet6 powers scientific research around the world

Datasets are growing in size and complexity for every organization. But, what if you’re […]

Zain Ahmed Posted On January 10, 2023

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Making progress on IT modernization and cybersecurity

The state of IT modernization in the federal government will always be a work […]

Zain Ahmed Posted On April 19, 2022

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Public Sector Looks ahead to 2022

The last year came with many hopes and challenges. The public sector navigated the […]

Zain Ahmed Posted On December 15, 2021

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Securing the public sector’s edge in a new era of cloud computing

This blog was co-written with Mark Ramach, Principal Software Developer. The federal cloud migration […]

Zain Ahmed Posted On August 10, 2021

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Edge computing innovations to meet federal government missions

Government today is both centralized and distributed. For all the halls of power around […]

Zain Ahmed Posted On April 23, 2021

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Bringing the Power of Edge Computing to Federal Agencies

In science fiction, from Star Trek to Star Wars, the protagonists always hold small […]

Zain Ahmed Posted On January 13, 2021

Lumen’s Mission Is to Support Your Mission

I’ve worked with federal government agencies for most of my career. One of the […]

Zain Ahmed Posted On October 21, 2020