IT Infrastructure Consolidation

• What are some of the most difficult challenges to overcome to accomplish infrastructure consolidation?

• How do you deal with the funding issues?

• Is security a concern with consolidation?

• Are we making progress with getting systems Certified and Accredited?

• Share a vision for the future. Will we have consolidated infrastructure in 3 years? 5 years? 10 years?

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.

Mr. Tipton launched Interior's first published Enterprise Architecture and Technical Reference Model. As Chief Information Officer he institutionalized an IT Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) model and initiated the inaugural IT Capital Investment Review Board. Under his leadership, Interior has established sound IT Security policy and guidelines, and initiated testing and IT security training programs throughout the agency. Mr. Tipton's objectives are to establish an agency IT business architecture including human capital planning, further refine the IT Security program and drive business investment capital planning into the heart of IT life cycle management.

Mr. Tipton previously served in the Bureau of Land Management as Assistant Directors' for Information Resource Management (Chief Information Officer), Energy and Minerals, and Resource Use and Protection. Mr. Tipton has served as State Director for the Bureau of Land Management, Director for Offshore Minerals and International Affairs for the Minerals Management Service, and as Acting Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.

Mr. Tipton holds a Masters Degree in Engineering Administration from the University of Tennessee, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Morehead University in Kentucky and is a Certified Information System Security Information Professional (CISSP) and also an Information System Security Engineering Professional. Mr. Tipton has served 25 years with the Federal government, and has received the President's Meritorious Service Rank Award and the Silver Executive Leadership Award from the Secretary of the Interior.

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

She has a broad background in information technology within government as a former government employee who performed IT/Security responsibilities ranging from programmer/analyst to IT Executive in a variety of Federal entities including the US Navy, Federal Energy Administration, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Agriculture and the Department of Justice.

Ms. Condon is currently Vice President and Deputy Director of SRA's Homeland Security Program. In this capacity she oversees and leads a broad spectrum of services including: business process re-design and deployment, security, privacy and tactical vulnerability assessments and remediation solutions; investigative and advance analytics in support of homeland security, law enforcement and other communities.

She is a strong advocate of public/private sector collaboration. She has done and continues to practice this in a variety of environments. During her government tenure among her other responsibilities were serving as Chair of the Information Technology Resources Board (ITRB) a senior level interagency project and program assessment body; Chair of the GSA Program Management Council, known as the Trail Boss Program; also she was a founding member of the Federal CIO Council and a co-founder of the CIO Security Committee which has morphed into a number of CIO Council Committees/Lines of Business. Since joining SRA in 1999, she has been actively engaged with Women In Technology and the Industry Advisory Council. She was a founding member of the IAC Enterprise Architecture SIG. In 2004 she moved her attention to the emerging Info Sec and Privacy SIG. She was elected Chair of the 2005 and 2006 Info Sec & Privacy SIG in 2005...

Ms. Condon holds Bachelor and Masters Degrees from American University.