Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship

The Dingman Center is pleased to announce the addition of another successful founder, Rashad Moore, to our impressive group of Entrepreneurs-in-Residence. Rashad is excited to become more integrated into the Dingman community and to do what he enjoys most of all—helping young entrepreneurs. He started attending Dingman Fridays a few years ago and loved getting access to smart people with great ideas. He states, “Dingman is doing a lot of great stuff—if I had this in college, I may be further along.”

Rashad began his career in the defense industry in the outskirts of Washington, D.C., working for Northrop Grumman where he saw an unmet need for software engineers within the defense industry. After learning how to win government contracts while working for Clear Solutions, Rashad quickly realized it didn’t matter what company got the government bid, they would still come to him for software engineering.

His unique skill set, including programmer languages Java, C++ and UML to name a few, was a rare find in the DMV. Armed with a strong understanding of how the defense industry worked and recognizing that his skill set was in high demand, Rashad decided to start his own company, Software Theoretic Corp. The business opened in 2007 with Rashad working on projects for the intelligence industry such as sentiment analysis and war simulations. After years of building the company, he sold it to RGS in 2015.

Rashad is excited to join the Dingman Center and hopes to share his knowledge and insights with young entrepreneurs throughout campus. He likes to reinforce to early stage entrepreneurs that even if a good idea doesn’t work out, they are going to do something great. His advice for early stage entrepreneurs is to “be fearless in all of its forms—UMD lives up to that. Life is going to be tough and remember, ‘If I can manage the fear, I will come out ahead.’ Just get started and don’t let fear get the best of you.”