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The intel I never collected was about my own future.

Why a 35F Intelligence Analyst started a company to walk servicemembers through the transition nobody briefed us on.

Quataize Dutch
Founder
  • ClearanceTS/SCI with CI Polygraph
  • ServiceU.S. Army, 35F Intelligence Analyst
  • Duty stationFort Johnson, LA (formerly Fort Polk)
    3BCT, 10th Mountain Division
  • Since transitioningIT Auditor · IT Risk & Controls Consultant
  • CertificationsSecurity+ · Network+ · CySA+ · PenTest+ · Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
  • EducationM.S. Cybersecurity, Loyola University Chicago (2027) · M.F.A. Creative Writing
  • RecognitionArmy Commendation Medal
Why this exists

My job was collecting intel for my country. The most valuable intel I ever got was about my own future.

I served as a 35F, an Intelligence Analyst. My entire job was knowing things: connecting dots, finding what others missed, briefing leaders on threats before they became problems. And the one piece of intel I never collected was the one that mattered most to my own future. Nobody told me the Army would pay for the certifications that could change my life. I found out because one Staff Sergeant pulled me aside and pointed me to the education center. I used Credentialing Assistance to earn my Security+, Network+, CySA+, PenTest+, and CEH while still in uniform. That single conversation changed everything.

None of it is a secret. It's just that our job was to be soldiers, not to dig through benefits programs, so most of us walk out the gate never knowing the door was open.

Within a year of leaving I was auditing enterprise IT systems, then consulting on cyber risk in the federal space. Not because I got lucky, but because I finally learned to describe what I'd done in a language the other side of the table could hear.

This company is me paying that conversation forward. I show you the opportunities you already qualify for, including the free ones. I help you get the certs, make your service legible to a hiring manager, and tell you what to ask for when the offer comes. You did the mission. You shouldn't have to figure out the rest of it alone.

— Quataize DutchFounder, Cleared GovTech Partners

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