These 1 hour radio and video programs are produced and broadcast monthly in Washington, DC and feature 3-4 Top Government IT Executives on our panel-discussing mission critical issues. Our programs include some of the top government technology leaders in the federal government.
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Panelists:
Bob Mocny- Director, US VISIT Program, DHS
Stephen Morris- FBI CJIS Division's Policy, Administrative and Liaison Branch Deputy Assistant Director
Mr. Tom Dee- Director, Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell, Director, Defense Biometrics, OUSD AT&L / DDR&E, OSD
Michael Donovan- Chief Technologist, HP Enterprise Services
Robert Dix- President, Government Affairs & Critical Infrastructure Protection, Juniper Networks
Joseph J. Moorcones- Corporate Vice President & General Manager Commercial Enterprise Data Protection Division, SafeNet Inc
Moderator: Jim Flyzik -Flyzik Group
Jim Flyzik
President
The Flyzik Group
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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.
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Operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US VISIT is part of a continuum of security measures that begins overseas and across our land borders and continues through arrival in and departure from the United States.
Mr. Mocny is responsible for the day-to-day operations of US VISIT. This includes managing the development and deployment of the US-VISIT program, which integrates vital information and makes it available to appropriate federal organizations.
Over the course of his career, he has served in several senior federal government positions related to U.S. immigration policy and operations, including director of the Entry/Exit Project and acting assistant commissioner and assistant chief inspector with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Mr. Mocny is a leading authority on the evolution to an automated entry-exit border system in the United States. He led the establishment of the dedicated commuter lane program Secure Electronic Network for Traveler's Rapid Inspection (SENTRI) at U.S. land border ports and initiated the policy of interagency project teams to meet critical U.S. government mandates.
Mr. Mocny holds a joint degree in Soviet and liberal studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has received numerous awards in his career, including the U.S. vice president's annual Hammer Award for the SENTRI program's innovative use of information technology.
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Most recently, Donovan was Chief Architect for the Atlas Consortium, providing the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) to the UK Ministry of Defence. Previously, he developed and managed enterprise architectures for large organizations in the role of Chief Architect and CTO for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) and as Chief Architect for EDS' Office of the CIO.
Donovan began his career with EDS in 1986 supporting operations of mainframe systems for General Motors in Auburn Hills, Mich. He moved from there to provide technical leadership for EDS' chargeback systems for cost recovery of mainframe systems utilization. He was Chief Architect for EDS' Service Excellence systems, in use today to track delivery quality and customer satisfaction across the spectrum of EDS clients and services.
Donovan holds five U.S. patents in areas ranging from measurement of computer usage to Web-based customer satisfaction and performance measurement.
Robert Dix
Vice President
Government Affairs & Critical Infrastructure Protection
Juniper Networks
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Joseph J. Moorcones
Corporate Vice President & General Manager Commercial Enterprise Data Protection Division
SafeNet Inc.
Joseph Moorcones brings more than 40 years of leadership and experience to SafeNet. Since joining the Company in March 2008 as SafeNet's corporate vice president, Mr. Moorcones has lead the strategic positioning and migration of new technologies into SafeNet. He is responsible for assuring the continued impact of new technologies on the Company's highly successful product portfolios.
In January 2009, Mr. Moorcones was named General Manager of the Commercial Enterprise Data Protection Division (EDP). In this role, he is building the company's comprehensive EDP solution for reducing the cost and complexity of regulatory compliance, data privacy, and information risk management for commercial customers that secures data across the connected enterprise, from core to edge, protecting data at rest, data in transit, and data in use. In addition, the Office of the CTO reports into Mr. Moorcones.
Mr. Moorcones joins SafeNet from Johnson & Johnson, a Fortune 50 company, where he was the Vice President of Worldwide Information Security. In that capacity, he established the Company security strategies and technologies, and oversaw the security implementation of the worldwide information asset protection program that spans 250 independent operating companies within Johnson & Johnson and more than 100,000 global Enterprise users.
Prior to his 10-year tenure with Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Moorcones was the Assistant Deputy Director for Information Security at the United States National Security Agency. During his 24-year career at the agency, he held senior executive positions in information security research and technology, design & manufacturing, strategic planning, business process re-engineering and business development.
Mr. Moorcones also served on the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, which developed a report of national policy and strategy recommendations for the President to ensure the availability and continued operation of the United States five critical infrastructures (Information & Communications, Energy, Banking & Finance, Physical Distribution, and Vital Human Services).
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