Larry Ohaka

Larry Ohaka joined ZRA in June of 2018 as Associate Creative Director with expertise in communication, research, and graphic and visual arts. Through a cybersecurity lens, Mr. Ohaka provides a multitude of creative templates and visuals that communicate the principles presented by the policies, strategies, and risk management within the cybersecurity field. By incorporating his graphic, communications, and research skills, Mr. Ohaka works on Sandia-based documents that include areas of cloud research, security analysis, business models, and other areas. For these areas, Mr. Ohaka develops visual analogies and metaphors to bring out a more digestible meaning with the purpose that it will meet ZRA’s clients from both the private and public sectors in a more comprehensible presentation.

Prior to joining the team, Mr. Ohaka interned with a company that extracted utility and knowledge from multiple data sources and standards in national intelligence, banking, healthcare, cyber, federal, & other sectors. In this position, Mr. Ohaka worked on the communications team where he translated complex concepts related to data sources and standards into graphical representations.

Prior to joining the workforce, Mr. Ohaka attended multiple universities where he engaged in diverse areas of study. Beginning in 2013 where he attended Bowie State University and began majoring in the arts with a focus on Advertisement Design. Later transferring to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2015 where he changed his consecration to Graphic Arts and graduated in 2017. 2020 is when Mr.Ohaka decided to pursue an education in Web Development and enrolled in an accelerated course at Bellevue University later graduating in 2021.