Zach LaCelle currently serves as the Head of Product at Forterra, a position held since March 2022. Prior to this role, Zach gained extensive experience at MITRE from November 2017 to March 2022, where responsibilities included serving as an Autonomous Systems Principal and Group Leader for Robotics and Unmanned Systems. Zach also operated LaCelle Consulting, LLC, from September 2017 to May 2021, focusing on network security and system hardening for server environments. Earlier in the career, Zach worked at Robotic Research, LLC, from August 2009 to September 2017, as a Lead Software Engineer managing various robotics projects and IT solutions. An internship at Era Corporation in 2008 involved Perl scripting and system integration. Zach holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech, earned between 2005 and 2009.