With a background in government affairs and contracting, Tasia Rechisky is currently the Operations Lead and Contracts Administrator at Aptima, a research and development firm specializing in the optimization and improvement of human performance in mission-critical, technology intensive settings. She also works on various special projects at Aptima including protecting intellectual property through trademarks, organizational change and process and information systems implementation. She previously worked at Raytheon in Contracts and for the Office of the Governor of Massachusetts under Deval Patrick in Constituent Services. She holds a dual undergraduate degree from Boston University (Bachelor of Arts in History and a Bachelor of Business Administration) and an MBA from UMass Lowell. She is also an active rare disease patient and disability rights advocate. In her free time, she loves to read, write, travel and be outdoors as much as possible.