Fellows Program
Meet Our Current Fellows
Our highly selective technical career path recognizes accomplished individuals with deep expertise and a history as innovation change agents, technical executive leaders, and strategic visionaries. LMI fellows work across the enterprise to match LMI capabilities and strategy with government challenges, differentiating our solutions.
Kim Barnette, PhD
Fellow, Data AnalysisLMI data analysis Fellow, Dr. Kim Barnette, offers a wealth of experience as a consultant, project director, and senior researcher, helping local and federal government agencies by translating their data into useful information. She leverages her strengths as a leader, mentor, strategic planner, facilitator, public speaker, and collaborator while cultivating opportunities for academic partners, technicians and data scientists to develop products and deliver services.
Ray Compton
Fellow, Solutions ArchitectureRay Compton has over 30 years of experience in solving critical acquisition gaps within the federal government. His leadership and strategic experience encompass working with all aspects of the acquisition lifecycle, from research and development to production of complex systems supporting our national defense. He is a retired U.S. Army colonel who joined LMI in 2019. Prior to being named a fellow, Ray supported internal and external LMI stakeholders in the strategic development of integrated solutions for capability gaps in national defense.
Alexander Holston, MD
Fellow, BioinformaticsDr. Alexander Holston serves as LMI’s chief medical informatics officer and fellow in bioinformatics, advising on the use of data, analytics, and information systems. Prior to joining LMI, he devoted over 25 years to serving in the United States Navy, where he championed the deployment of MHS GENESIS and was influential in the establishment of the Office of Health Informatics. Continuing his commitment to serve, Alex pursued medicine at the Uniformed Services University, specializing in pediatrics during his residency at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth.
Brant Horio
Senior Fellow, Data ScienceTen years ago, our data science senior fellow, Brant Horio sought a new opportunity with increased technical mentorship, leadership, and collaboration. Since joining LMI, Brant found what he was looking for—collaborative peers who drive mutual growth. Learn what makes Brant proudest to be a part of LMI and how he uses his expertise in his role as data science fellow to innovate.
Joseph Mariña
Fellow, Agile Transformation CoachJoseph Mariña is our agile coaching fellow with experience across technology projects in digital distribution, healthcare, logistics, and holographic computing. As a specialized generalist, Joseph finds patterns across seemingly unrelated challenges and promotes lateral innovation. His experience working across many agile frameworks led to his development of a custom agile framework to support efforts producing LMI Forge™ prototypes in 30–45 business days.
