Open Source Computing

Colonel Kevin M. Dietrick Army

Michele Weslander Principal Deputy Associate Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Chief Information Officer - ODNI

Casey Coleman CIO-FAS -GSA

Andrew Gordon Director, Open Source Solutions - Federal Systems - Unisys Corporation

Chris Runge Technical Director - Red Hat

Moderator

Jim Flyzik - Flyzik Group

Jim served over 27 years in the federal government. He served as Senior Advisor to Governor Ridge in the White House Office of Homeland Security (OHS). He provided advice to OHS on the National Strategy and Information Management in support of the OHS mission. From February 1998 until December 2002, Jim also served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Government CIO Council overseeing numerous governmentwide IT initiatives. He was also a member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board.

Prior to this, from August 1997 until April 2002, Jim was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Systems and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of the Treasury. He provided oversight, strategic planning and management direction on over $3.0 billion in annual information technology and information infrastructure programs within Treasury and its fourteen Bureaus. Jim also served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Management for the Treasury Department from January 20, 2001 until February 8, 2002. In that role he provided oversight of all Treasury bureaus and served as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on matters involving the internal management of the Department and its bureaus. Jim received the Secretary Certificate of Appreciation on February 12, 2002 for his efforts during this transition period.

Prior to his Treasury positions, Jim worked for 15 years at the U.S. Secret Service where he held key IT management positions, including the Chief of the Communications Division, providing world class telecommunications in support of Secret Service tactical and operational requirements.

Jim served as Team Leader on Vice President Gore's National Performance Review (NPR) Information Technology Team. Following this assignment, he was selected as Chairman of the Government Information Technology Services Working Group, to implement the NPR Information Technology recommendations and coordinate the government services portion of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). He was given the prestigious Eagle Award as the government information technology executive of the year in 1994, a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award in 1995, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Award for Excellence in Information Technology in 1996, the AFFIRM Award for Outstanding Service to the Citizens in 1997, the Industry Advisory Council Award for Special Achievements and Leadership in 1997, the AFFIRM IRM Executive of the Year Award in 1998, and the Distinguished Rank Executive Award from President Clinton in 1999. In 2001 the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils presented him the John J. Franke award for outstanding government service. In March 2002, Jim was selected by the Federal CIO Council to receive the Azimuth Award as the Government Executive of the Year.

Jim has extensive public speaking experience and frequently serves as a featured speaker at industry events. He has developed, and currently teaches part-time, a graduate level course on Information Systems Security and Risk Assessment at the University of Maryland. Jim was given the Stanley J. Drazek Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998 by the University of Maryland.

Jim has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Computer Science and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Maryland with an area of concentration in Information Systems Management.

Upon completion of the Signal Officer Basic Course at Fort Gordon, Georgia, and the Communications Electronics Staff Officer Course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, COL Dietrick was assigned to the 193rd Infantry Brigade in the Republic of Panama. While there he served as platoon leader, maintenance officer and executive officer in the 396th Signal Company.

In 1982, COL Dietrick was assigned to the U.S. Army Foreign Science and Technology Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he authored reports on Soviet and Warsaw Pact command, control and communications equipment and doctrine.

COL Dietrick returned to Fort Gordon, Georgia in 1985 to command the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 67th Signal Battalion. He later served in the office of the TRADOC System Manager for Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE).

COL Dietrick earned a Master of Science degree in Physics from the University of Virginia in 1990. He went on to teach undergraduate Physics at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, teaching courses in general physics, advanced optics and advanced lasers.

His next assignment was at the Army Space and Strategic Defense Command in Huntsville, Alabama where he managed Small Business Innovative Research Technology Programs and the Space Applications Technology Program for Missile Defense. From there, he went on to the Defense Systems Management College in 1996, where he completed the Advanced Program Manager's Course.

In August 1996, COL Dietrick was assigned as a Staff Officer in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition where he coordinated actions in the Pentagon, Washington, DC for the Program Executive Officer for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors.

COL Dietrick was appointed Product Manager for Manportable Satellite Systems at Project Manager - Milsatcom from June 1997 until June 2000. As Product Manager, he fielded thousands of Spitfire and SCAMP terminals to Joint and Army users that are being used today to fight the Global War on Terror.

COL Dietrick graduated from the US Army War College in 2001, after which he served as the Executive Secretary of the Army Science Board. Today he completes a three year assignment as the Project Manager for Constructive Simulation. After a one year deployment to Kuwait, he will return to PEO STRI as the Deputy Program Executive Officer.

COL Dietrick's awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Army Achievement Medal.

Prior to government service, Ms. Weslander spent over a decade as a systems engineering and technical assistance industry partner and consultant supporting the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, working primarily with the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency. Appointed a Chief Engineer at her company, her technical expertise includes image science, systems engineering, and operational prototyping and insertion of leading-edge technology to support operations. Ms. Weslander was selectively recruited directly from industry because of her renowned trail-blazing achievements in promoting multi-discipline intelligence collaboration and information sharing among Intelligence Community agencies and the Department of Defense.

A true ambassador, her efforts to transform culture, as well as technology, have led to unprecedented collaboration and cooperation between the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office and their Commonwealth partners.

Ms. Weslander received a Bachelor of Science degree in both Physics and Engineering Science, cum laude, from Seattle Pacific University in Washington, and a Master of Science degree in Optics from the University of Rochester in New York. She is a member of a multi-agency and military team that was awarded the National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation, and was personally awarded the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Meritorious Civilian Service Medal. Ms. Weslander is a member of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CAPSTONE 2003-4 Fellows, and attended the program for Senior Managers in Government at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government in Massachusetts.

As CIO, Ms. Coleman is responsible for aligning technology with GSA and FAS strategic business objectives. Her primary focus is leading and implementing the effective and efficient acquisition and management of information technology solutions across FAS. Ms. Coleman manages the Service's $180 million IT program, overseeing management, acquisition and integration of the Service's information resources. Her oversight includes strategic planning, policy, capital planning, systems development, information security, enterprise architecture, and e-government.

Prior to her designation as FAS CIO, Ms. Coleman served two years as the GSA Federal Technology Service CIO. She also headed the GSA Office of Citizen Services from June 2002 through July 2004, where she developed and successfully launched the USA Services government-wide citizen customer service program.

Ms. Coleman began her career at Lockheed Martin, where she spent several years in software and system engineering roles, developing onboard command and control systems for military systems employed during the Gulf War. She also served for a year as a Congressional Legislative Fellow in 1994.

With more than 18 years of experience in the high tech sector and a background in electronic business commerce, Ms. Coleman is known for her ability to implement organizational change, and using technology to achieve business and mission goals.

Ms. Coleman is a native Texan and graduated with honors from Texas A&M University with a degree in computer science. She later earned a master's degree in business administration and finance from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Before joining Unisys, Andrew served as vice president, Engineering, at FiveRuns, a professional open source software company whose products are completely developed with open source and serve the open source software market. He was responsible for architecture, design and implementation of JMX Java and J2EE-based client side adapters for Tomcat, JBoss, MySQL and Apache on Linux and Windows platforms.

Previously, Andrew was director of Product Development at Butterfly.net, a leading provider of highly scalable grid computing architectures for the online video game market. He drove the definition and execution of strategic and tactical product plans for Butterfly's online game managed service, e-commerce website and game development IDE. Andrew has 25 years of enterprise software experience and acumen for identifying technology trends and delivering cutting edge products. He is a member of the American Council of Technology/Industry Advisory Council (ACT/IAC) ET-SIG open source subcommittee and a member of the Open Technology Development working group. Andrew holds a bachelor of science degree in Accounting from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.