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    Shelly Pasierb

    Shelly joined Synteractive in 2010 as a Business Systems Architect looking to leverage her expertise in SharePoint 2010 infrastructure and administration as well as her interest in public cloud platforms. As the primary SharePoint infrastructure expert on Treasury.gov, Shelly architected, built, and continues to manage the SharePoint 2010 platform on AWS that supports over 30 million visitors per year.
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 Petra Groat

 Director of Marketing

Petra Groat
A fun fact: Petra has ridden horses since the age of 5 and was a nationally ranked competitive equestrian in the sport of eventing. She also enjoys playing classical violin, drawing, and photography.

Petra joined Synteractive in 2011 and brings 13 years of experience in technology marketing program development. Having worked at startups, large corporations, and everything in between, Petra brings a diverse background with deep expertise in marketing and corporate communications, public relations, marketing strategy, and art direction.

Prior to working at Synteractive, Petra was CEO of First Order Marketing Services where she provided creative marketing consulting support for emerging businesses in a wide range of industries including technology, health services, equestrian sports, and fashion design. Before that, she served as Director of Marketing Programs for Brainware in Ashburn, VA designing successful marketing campaigns directed at Fortune 100 clients as well as creative incentive programs for internal sales teams. Throughout her career she also held marketing positions with AT&T, Winstar, and Ikimbo. 

Petra holds a Master of Science degree from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Catholic University of America in Biology.