Our Leadership Team

Kevin Hodges brings nearly 35 years of military and DoD contractor experience in security operations, training, risks assessment, and methodology development and implementation. Upon retirement as a Chief Master Sergeant/E-9 from the Air Force, Kevin has been involved in security assessment, security system design projects, major security master planning efforts, and business development and growth strategies for clients and Watermark. He led research and development teams responsible for developing unmanned systems and remote weapons for security forces and explosive ordnance operations in high-threat environments. Kevin co-authored the U.S. Air Force effects-based security doctrine and was a co-developer and program manager of the Integrated Defense Risk Management Process (IDRMP) and supporting software tool, ForcePRO. In additional to being President of Watermark, Kevin continues to support clients in developing cost-effective, risk-based security solutions by leading security risk and vulnerability assessment teams examining processes in security, emergency management, communications, and resiliency programs.

Angela Hodges is Watermark’s Vice President. She is responsible for the program management of several of our contracts with both commercial and government clients. As part of the leadership team, she is responsible for developing and refining business processes and procedures to assist in the management and execution of daily operations. Her primary focus is ensuring contract compliance and streamlining business operations to prepare Watermark for future growth.

When Angela joined Watermark in 2012, she fulfilled the roles of Facility Security Officer (FSO), Security Analyst, and later as Director of Operations. She was responsible for managing the company security program, executing security and risk assessments, and managing contracts for our DoD contracts.

In August 2014, Angela took a brief sabbatical from Watermark to work for a large security guard force company, Akal Security. While there, she held different positions supporting Akal operations and the executive team. Those positions included: Quality Assurance Specialist, Deputy Program Manager for the TSA screening support at Kansas City Airport, Chief of Staff to the CEO and President, and lastly Director for Detention Services.

While serving as the Director for Detention Services, Angela oversaw the Program Management and execution of Akal’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) portfolio containing ICE Detention Facilities, Krome and Batavia Processing Centers and ICE Air Operations. These operations encompassed approximately 300 personnel and $20M in annual revenue.

Prior to joining Watermark, Angela worked for Applied Research Associates, Inc. and Integration Innovation, Inc. (i3). Angela’s operations experience began in January 2007, supporting risk and vulnerability assessment teams evaluating security/defense operations that supported various DoD clients including the Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Central Command. Her work environments included military installations both stateside and overseas including, Europe, the Middle-East (Iraq and Kuwait), and Central Asia.

Angela has Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Grantham University, which she earned in 2012 graduating with magna cum laude. Angela is a certified Program Management Professional.

Emily Eskelsen has over twelve years of experience providing highly technical recruiting and staffing solutions to organizations in the private and public sectors. With over a decade of experience specifically inside of the federal government marketplace, Emily is specialized at crafting and executing large scale recruitment strategies in support of the DOD special access and intelligence communities, where she has a built an expansive professional network and has a solid track record of performance. She has a proactive and consultative approach to talent acquisition with a focus on customer service and candidate experience. At Watermark, Emily is responsible for the development and delivery of a customer centric recruiting program.

Emily has a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services from Elon University and maintains a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification through Human Resources Certification Institute.

Dr. Jennifer Hesterman is a retired Air Force colonel who served in three Pentagon tours and in multiple command positions in the field. Her last assignment was Vice Commander at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, where she was responsible for installation security, including the protection of Air Force One.

After retiring in 2007, Dr. Hesterman started work as a private contractor in Washington, DC, studying international and domestic terrorist organizations, transnational threats, soft target hardening, organized crime, and the terrorist and criminal exploitation of the Internet. Dr. Hesterman designs and instructs graduate level security courses for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency and the Department of Defense. She also advises the Homeland Security Training Institute at the College of DuPage in Chicago, the Crisis Response Journal, and three DHS Centers of Excellence.

Dr. Hesterman holds a doctoral degree from Benedictine University, Master of Science degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Air University, and a Bachelor of Science from Penn State University. In 2003, she was a National Defense Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. where she studied the terror-crime nexus. She is a 2006 alumnus of the Harvard Senior Executive Fellows program and was a senior fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University from 2016-2018.

An award-winning author, her book Soft Target Hardening: Protecting People from Attack was the ASIS Security Book of the Year for 2015, and the second edition won the same award in 2019. The book was also named Taylor and Francis Social Sciences Book of the Year in 2019. She also authored Soft Target Crisis Management (2016) and The Terrorist-Criminal Nexus (2013). Dr. Hesterman is dynamic and sought-after public speaker for ASIS, FBI, DHS, ASIS, DoD, state and local law enforcement agencies, Major League Baseball, among others.

Julie Moffett works at Watermark as the Proposal Manager and Director of Social Media. As a Proposal Manager, she organizing and delivering numerous proposals, organizing and securing opportunities, and reviewing business development directives and arrangements. Other responsibilities include, delivery of compliant and professionally produced proposals within defined timeframes, coordination of materials, reviewing, editing and polishing proposal input from a variety of stakeholders, communicating with leadership at a senior level, managing the company’s GovWin account, document management, coaching subject matter experts in persuasive writing, and implementing proposal best practices. She has strong time management skills, excellent written English language skills, and shows great attention to detail.

Ms. Moffett has worked on a wide variety of different kinds of proposals from guard force to security education to biosecurity and threat and vulnerability assessments. She has managed proposals for IDIQs, task orders, firmed fixed price contracts, cost plus, and several others. She has overseen and written extensively on management plans, technical plans, past performance and quality control and assurance.

As Watermark’s Social Media Director, Ms. Moffett quickly and efficiently creates and maintains a strong online presence for the company. She develops and implements targeted communications and recruiting content for a variety of media platforms. She researches, writes, proofreads and edits all company content for release, and plans, oversees and executes all media and advertising campaigns.

Ms. Moffett has also worked as a senior technical editor on various government documents, reviewing and editing for clarity, punctuation, grammar, and content to ensure accuracy of the documentation. She works directly with the writers, as needed.

Ms. Moffett served as a technical editor for the Hampton Roads Water and Wastewater Systems Emergency Preparedness and Response Regional Improvement Plan Report for Watermark. The Report identified five strategies to improve the region’s ability to address planning objectives and regional themes, to leverage current strengths, and to mitigate and/or resolve challenges. Some of the objectives outlined in the report were: enhancing response and recovery capabilities; enhancing communications, coordination, and information sharing; leveraging scientific advances in weather prediction, impact prediction, and water testing; and enhancing water supply infrastructure and interconnections. As a graduate student, she was an English language editor for the Polish Academy of Sciences on a variety of scholarly topics.

Ms. Moffett also supported Watermark with the research development of multiple graduate-level courses for the Defense Security Service’s Center for the Development of Security Excellence (CDSE). As part of her responsibilities, she developed an extensive digital research library capable of supporting thousands of students simultaneously. She populated and maintained the library for CDSE faculty, course instructors, and students, and researched more than a hundred different reference libraries and sources of security content to find specific course readings and articles.

Ms. Moffett has additionally worked as a Research and Data Analyst on behalf of Watermark for remote training courses in Biosafety and Biosecurity in Iraq. She has expertise in online learning management systems (LMS), such as Moodle and Blackboard. She assisted in curriculum development, administration and training support. She hosted and provided administrative and technical support for all the interactive lessons conducted via ZOOM, a video-conferencing and webinar software.

Ms. Moffett has a Master’s of Education and also has several years of classroom and teaching experience.

Outside of Watermark, Ms. Moffett is a best-selling author of twenty-eight fiction novels and audiobooks, and the recipient of several national writing awards including, the 2016 Award of Excellence, the 2014 Mystery & Mayhem Award, the PRISM, the HOLT and the EPIC. She was twice awarded a Merit Award for Best Book by a Virginia Author.

As a graduate student at the George Washington University, Ms. Moffett was selected from among hundreds of applicants to work at Radio Free Europe’s Munich-based headquarters as a young researcher into issues dealing with the former Soviet Union, where she published several articles, one of which made the front page of the Washington Times. She later worked full-time at the Radio for eleven years, serving as a translator, producer, and journalist where she performed duties in the Russian Language Service and English News Division writing short topical articles and longer, more thoughtful political and economic analyses under tight deadlines.

Jaci Fisher is the Financial Analyst and Payroll Administrator for Watermark. She grew up in Fredericksburg, VA and began working in the accounting field in 2015 and earned her bachelor’s degree from UMUC in 2017. Over the course of her career, Ms. Fisher has worked for large and small businesses, learning the different accounting concepts, and applying them to the task at hand. She performs bi-weekly payroll, including payroll taxes and maintain 401K for all employees, manages the general ledger, enters vendor invoices/invoice accruals daily, create customer invoices/receive customer payments and creates financial statements during month end process, among many other financial duties.

Allegra Massey-Elim is Watermark’s Human Resources & Operations Specialist. She assists in administering human resources policies and procedures related to compensation and benefits, employment authorization, new employee onboarding, employee off-boarding, employment verification, performance management, security, education, training and other areas, as needed. She also provides administrative and project control support for Watermark, helping the company manage and execute the numerous tasks required to run Watermark efficiently. Ms. Massey-Elim ensures Watermark is compliant with contractual and government requirements such as timekeeping, training, and contract deliverables. She will also be taking on the role of serving as Watermark’s Alternate Facility Security Officer helping the company maintain an effective and compliant security program.

Allegra was born and raised in Fredericksburg, VA. She attended college at the University of Mary Washington earning a bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Economics. She began her career in 2018 providing administrative and financial management support to a small business. After working for both small and large companies, she is excited for the opportunity to support the growing family-owned business of Watermark.

As a technical recruiter for Watermark, Chloe is responsible for attracting and recruiting top talent to join the Watermark family. Chloe works with inbound candidates who have applied for open positions, as well as sourced candidates she finds amidst various job boards and resume databases. She also formats, posts, and maintains open job requisitions in our Applicant Tracking System. Chloe is a Certified AIRS SearchLab Internet Recruiter.

Chloe was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in northern New Jersey. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and Spanish from Elon University in 2017. After five years of working in the education field, Chloe transitioned into government contracting with a wide range of experience including talent acquisition and development, project management, and data analysis. Chloe enjoys hearing about candidates’ passions and experiences, and loves helping them find a position that is right for them and their family.