Noblis Experience Corporate Award Winner

The Noblis Experience Corporate Award recognizes employees who go above and beyond to deliver consistently exceptional service to customers and colleagues. This series spotlights the recipients of this award and their stories.

Meet Dr. Lance McLean

Lance McClean

Dr. Lance McLean works at Noblis ESI in our Homeland Security Mission Area. He works across task orders, one providing broad scientific and engineering subject matter expertise, and the other focusing on AI/ML for aviation security.

Bringing His Best with Every Colleague and Customer

Lance is a role model in demonstrating Noblis’s service standards. He is able to balance his numerous responsibilities to ensure he brings his best with every colleague and every customer. Lance coaches and mentors colleagues, often those new to government contracting. He is respectful of their viewpoints and focuses on ensuring they deliver the Noblis Experience while they learn about our industry.

Lance brings substantial efficiency to his team, paying close attention to using resources wisely and incorporating lessons learned into ongoing development efforts. Working side-by-side with the customer, Lance has established a strong ethical culture that enables effective communication and collaboration within an environment where this can be challenging.

Innovating for Our Customers

In addition to his customer work, Lance provides leadership across a portfolio of Noblis Sponsored Research (NSR) projects that are developing innovative immersive environments and augmented reality/virtual reality tools that apply to customer missions and the Noblis enterprise. Lance ensures the team delivers compelling demonstrations to convert efforts to customer funding. Through this ongoing work, Lance continues to guide interns in developing skills that will continue to serve them including developing and delivering polished demonstrations.

Congratulations, Lance, on receiving the Noblis Experience Corporate Award! And thank you for bringing the Noblis Experience to life!


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