Green Government

• Key Energy Priorities for the coming year

• Key Challenges we need to overcome to make progress on Energy Savings and other Environmental Initiatives

• What kind of Metrics is needed to monitor progress

• How to justify ROI

• Vision for the future

  
  Panelists:
  

  Molly O'Neill Assistant Administrator for the Office of Environmental Information(OEI) Chief Information Officer(CIO)

  John Johnson Assistant Commissioner General Services Administration(CIO)

  Catherine Cesnik Senior Program Manager, U.S. DOI, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance

  Myra Galbreath Office Director and Chief Technology Officer, EPA

  Tom Simmons Area Vice President for Federal Systems, Citrix

  Edward Vaccaro Partner, Homeland Security, Federal Systems - Unisys

  Erin Rae Hoffer Industry Program Manager, Autodesk

  Moderator:

  Jim Flyzik -Flyzik Group
  

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  About the Panel
  

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.

Prior to joining EPA, Ms. O'Neill was the State Director for the National Environmental Information Exchange at the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS). As State Director, she was responsible for coordinating, supporting, and leading the efforts of 50 state environmental department participants, and interfacing with U.S. EPA counterparts and other partners. In recognition for her leadership on the Exchange Network, Ms. O'Neill received a 2004 Federal 100 award as one of the top executives influencing government technology.

Prior to her work on the Exchange Network, Ms. O'Neill spent 14 years working as a management and information technology consultant in the private sector focusing on the environment, health, and safety industry. She has many years of experience working on organizational and performance assessments; performance measures; business process reengineering; and large-scale information management system implementation projects. She is a graduate of Virginia Tech.

In 1994, he co-led DISA's strategy analysis team that identified DoD's Defense Information System Network (DISN). Subsequently, he served as Deputy Program Manager, DISN, until he was selected for a position in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (OASD-C3l). As a member of the OASD-C3I staff, he was responsible for DoD's long-haul telecommunications policy and oversight. He also served as DoD's principal representative on the FTS Interagency Management Council (IMC). In October 1998, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, C3l, identified Mr. Johnson as DoD's Transition Manager for FTS2001, where he lead the movement of all of DoD's FTS2000 voice, video, and data services to FTS2001 and the DISN.

In September 2000, he entered the Senior Executive Service and was selected by GSA to serve as the Federal Technology Service, Assistant Commissioner for Service Development. In January of 2003, he also assumed responsibility for the FTS Network Service Delivery organization. As the FTS Assistant Commissioner for Service Development and Service Delivery, Mr. Johnson leads the development of new Network Service Programs while he manages day-to-day operations for FTS2001/FTS Crossover contracts and several satellite service contracts. Under his leadership, his organization is developing and implementing the Networx, Alliant, and SATCOM II initiatives, and is providing worldwide services to 135 Federal Agencies and Departments. On June 5, 2006, Mr. Johnson was also asked to serve as the Acting Assistant Commissioner for the Integrated Technology Service of the newly formed Federal Acquisition Service.

Mr. Johnson has a Bachelor's degree in Applied Behavioral Science (Business Management), and a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy. His training includes the Army's Signal Officer Advanced Course, and studies at the Armed Forces Staff College, the Federal Executive Institute, and the National Defense University (Industrial College of the Armed Forces). He is a graduate of DoD's Senior Acquisition Program, and he is a certified member of the DoD Acquisition Corps where he holds Level III certifications in Communications and Computers Acquisition and Program Management. Mr. Johnson and his wife Melanie reside in Ashburn, VA

In 2004, Ms. Cesnik lead a pilot test of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) making Interior the first federal agency to use EPEAT. By integrating the EPEAT criteria into the Interior-wide mandatory-use IT Hardware Contract, she paved the way for the Federal government to use EPEAT as an environmentally beneficial and cost effective contracting tool. So far, Interior's Contract has prevented 19,204 metric tons of air emissions, prevented 39.9 metric tons of water emissions, and saved electricity equivalent to use by 411 US households in one year per the Federal Electronics Challenge Environmental Benefits Calculator. By leveraging Interior's purchasing power, the Contract saved Interior approximately $16 million through cost avoidance.

Ms. Cesnik co-chairs several interdisciplinary committees to implement Interior's Electronics Stewardship and Sustainable Building programs, among others. She is Interior's representative to interagency coordination groups, and regularly presents Interior's best practices and lessons learned at conferences around the country.

Ms. Cesnik's responsibilities cover a broad range of environmental disciplines including leadership for electronics life-cycle management and sustainable building implementation as well as: greening of the government programs; recycling and reuse programs; environmental award programs; environmental education programs and conferences; and the Greening Interior website. She assists management of environmental information technology systems; natural and cultural resource protection in emergency response to disasters; and oil spill contingency planning and response.

Ms. Cesnik has worked for Interior for over seven years. She holds an interdisciplinary B.A. with a focus in Environmental Policy from the University of Iowa.

Catherine Cesnik lives with her husband in Alexandria, Virginia.

Previously, Ms. Galbreath worked in the Office of Solid Waste for over ten years as the Branch Chief of the Information Management Branch. She was responsible for overall management of the local area network, Confidential Business Information, and two national systems to support the information needs of the RCRA program. Prior to her assignment in the Office of Solid Waste, Ms. Galbreath worked in several EPA program offices, the State of Virginia, and a consulting firm in North Carolina.

Ms. Galbreath received her B.A. in Mathematics (minor in Computer Science) from East Carolina University and a Masters in Science and Technology Management from American University.

Ed joined Unisys from BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting, Inc.), where he was a managing director and partner of the operations support systems practice for the telecommunications market. Ed designed and managed the solutions offerings for order management, service provisioning and service assurance. He was responsible for developing solutions strategy, building a global experts team, client delivery, managing vendor alliances and business development.

Before joining BearingPoint, Ed was the chief information officer with General Electric Medical Systems, where he was responsible for transforming the information technology organization to support both manufacturing and service operations. He directed the information systems organization of the leading supplier of medical imaging equipment and services. In addition, he managed the technology selection, integration, implementation, support and operation of the internal enterprise systems utilized by business operations worldwide.

Prior to his work at General Electric Medical Systems, Ed served as vice president, IT consulting and chief information officer of Booz Allen & Hamilton. Here, he directed the information systems organization of the global consulting firm. Ed restructured the internal IT organization, stabilizing the systems operations and applications that provided optimal 24-hour support to the global consulting practices.

Ed holds a degree in chemistry from LaSalle University.