Open Source Solutions - 2 Years In Review

Panelists:
Patrick Gorman - CIO, ODNI

Chris Fornecker - Program Manager, Integrated Acquisition Environment, GSA

Daniel Risacher - Associate Director for Information Policy and Integration, Office of the Deputy CIO, DoD

Dave Mihelcic - CTO, DISA

Paul Smith - Vice President, Government Sales Operations, Red Hat

Peter Gallagher - Partner, Federal Civilian Agencies, Unisys

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 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.

Before becoming the IAE Program Manager in November of 2007, Chris had been the GSA Chief Technology Officer where he focused on enterprise architecture, capital planning, and governmentwide applications development. Prior to coming to GSA in November 2007, he was the Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Advanced Systems and Concepts), managing leading edge IT projects supporting the nation's four star commanders. Chris had a 26-year Army career, retiring in 1998. His last four years on active duty were spent as the Chief of the System Engineering and Architecture Division, in the Army Digitization Office, where he was responsible for defining and developing an overall enterprise architecture supporting the Army's digitization project.

Chris graduated from West Point in 1972 and has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He is married, has two children, and resides in Burke, Virginia.

Prior to his appointment as CTO, Mr. Mihelcic served as the Deputy Program Director and Chief Executive Engineer for the Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE) Program. Mr. Mihelcic was the ultimate technical authority for this critical, $877 million expansion of DoD terrestrial communications and was responsible for defining the GIG-BE architecture and leading all technical aspects of the Program.

Previously, Mr. Mihelcic served as the Chief Executive Engineer for the Defense Information System Network (DISN), Commander of the Center for Horizontal Integration, and Deputy Chief Executive Engineer for Information Processing at DISA. Prior to his appointment to the Senior Executive Service at DISA in 1999, Mr. Mihelcic headed the Network Security Section of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and has also worked in private industry as a Senior Consultant with SRI Consulting.

Mr. Mihelcic is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.