Emergency Preparedness

Program will discuss the critical issues of coordinating efforts with the federal, state/local governments and the corporate communities-surrounding the issues of:

• Natural Disasters

• Terrorists Attacks

• Pandemic Flu

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Panelists:

Steve Cooper - CIO, American Red Cross

Suzanne Peck - CTO/CIO, District of Columbia

Tom Lockwood - Director Office of National Capital Region Coordination, DHS

David Songco - CIO, NICHD/NIH

Lou Anne Brossman - Director of Marketing, U.S. Public Sector, Juniper Networks


Moderator

Jim Flyzik - Flyzik Group

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About the Panel

Jim Flyzik
President
The Flyzik Group

Jim Flyzik is the President of TheFlyzikGroup www.theflyzikgroup.com . The company specializes in Strategic Business Consulting, Performance Based Contracting Consulting and Training and Thought Leadership media events. The company assists small, medium and large companies in providing world-class government services. Jim also serves as the Chairman of the Information Technology Association of America Committee on Homeland Security. Jim also hosts the monthly radio program, The Federal Executive Forum on WFED 1050 AM and www.federalnewsradio.com .

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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Steve Cooper
CIO
American Red Cross

Steven I. Cooper is the senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) of the American Red Cross, a position he has held since May 2005. Steven is responsible for the information technology (IT) assets of the Red Cross and leveraging them to support the humanitarian organization's 35,000 employees and the 300 million Americans they serve. Based upon collective experience derived during Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, Steven and his team of dedicated IT professionals are currently engaged in a transformation to ensure the Red Cross IT Organization is at its highest level of readiness and IT excellence. Prior to joining the Red Cross, Steven was active in the federal government. In February 2003, he was appointed by President George W. Bush as the first CIO of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). During his tenure at DHS, he focused on integrating new and existing sources of essential homeland security information via proven and emerging technologies, in accord with broader values of privacy, civil liberties, and openness. His accomplishments include the implementation of a Homeland Secure Data Network to enable the exchange of classified homeland security information among federal civilian agencies and with the Department of Defense; and, in partnership, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the deployment of a Homeland Security Information Network to share sensitive information with state and local agencies; first responders, and private sector entities who own critical infrastructure. Earlier, in March 2002, Steven was appointed Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and also served as senior director for information integration in the White House Office of Homeland Security. In this role, he launched the development of the National Enterprise Architecture for Homeland Security to address information integration within the federal government and the sharing of homeland security information with state, local, and relevant private-sector entities. Prior to his federal government service, Steven spent more than twenty years in the private sector as an IT executive, having last served as CIO of Corning Incorporated in Corning, NY. Previously, he served as director of information technology for Eli Lilly & Company in Indianapolis, IN. Steven also held several senior-level technical and management positions with CSC, MAXIMA, and CACI before forming his own consulting organization, Strategic Information Concepts.

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Suzanne Peck
CTO/CIO
District of Columbia

Prior to her appointment as the Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, Suzanne Peck served as senior technology and operations executive for several Fortune 500 companies. In the private sector, she has expanded and strengthened existing businesses and established technology start-ups. In the public sector, as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the District of Columbia government, she has transformed the District from a technology-deficient enterprise in 1999 to a technology best-practice leader and multi-award winner in 2006.

Peck's expertise is in the conception and implementation of large-scale technology operations. Her decade-long service with the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) as senior vice president, chief information officer, and chief servicing centers officer helped transform the $46 billion corporation into one of the nation's largest wholesale credit providers. More recently, Peck was senior vice president with Corestates Financial Corp. (now Wachovia) and chief executive officer of its $50 million technology start-up subsidiary Transys. Previously, Peck served as a technical director with Honeywell Information Systems and as a technology vice president with Bankers Trust New York Corp.

Suzanne Peck participates as a member and/or officer of government IT organizations including the National Association of State and County Information Officers (NASCIO), the National Capital Region (NCR) MetroCIOs Senior Policy Group Interoperability Committee, and the NCR Executive Interoperability Committee. In addition, she is a founding and current board member of the Washington Technology Council. Peck speaks, writes, and is profiled regularly in IT forums. Recent speeches and articles include "Citywide Technology Integration in Washington DC," State Tech magazine (fall 2005); "Pulling Together an SOA Strategy" Computerworld and CIO's Next-GenIt; presentations to the National Defense University (October 2000); FOSE (speech delivered by Mayor Anthony Williams, April 2003); Women CIOs (August 2003), Women in Technology (September 2003 and January 2004); the National League of Cities (speech delivered by Mayor Anthony Williams, April 2004); the Logan Circle, Thomas Circle, and Georgetown, DC Community Associations (June 2004); the State of Maryland CIO Summit (annual—most recent, March 2006); and Georgetown University (September 2005).

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Tom Lockwood
Director Office of National Capital Region Coordination
DHS

Thomas J. Lockwood is a member of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's leadership team and is the Director of the Office of National Capital Region Coordination.

With a growing awareness of the importance of coordinated preparedness, prevention, and response initiatives, the U.S. Congress created the Office of National Capital Region Coordination (ONCRC) as a distinct entity within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to oversee and coordinate federal programs and to strengthen ties with state, local, and regional authorities in the National Capital Region. In May of 2004, Mr. Lockwood became Director of the ONCRC and is currently leading its effort with federal, state, local, and regional officials to plan, coordinate and execute domestic preparedness activities in the National Capital Region.

Mr. Lockwood is the former Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy Director of Maryland's Office for Homeland Security where he served on several executive boards including: U.S. Attorney Maryland District's Anti-Terrorism Task Force; Department of Homeland Security's National Capital Region Senior Policy Group; Maryland Maritime Security Group; Maryland Terrorism Forum; Washington Council of Government's National Capital Region Emergency Preparedness Council; and National Emergency Management Association's Homeland Security Committee. Mr. Lockwood was the senior staff member supporting Governor Robert L. Ehrlich's efforts on President George W. Bush's National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC). He was also an ex-officio board member of the Maryland Military Council as well as the Maryland Chapter of InfraGard (a partnership between private industry and the FBI to encourage infrastructure protection). Additionally, he has served on the University of Maryland University College Alumni Board and is a Past-President and former Board Chair of the Naval Sea System Command's Association of Scientists and Engineers.

Mr. Lockwood's experience includes serving as a key leader for the Ehrlich-Steele Transition Team, a Brookings Institution Legislative Fellow, and a leader within multiple management positions in the Navy's Virginia Nuclear Submarine Program. Other experiences include serving as Executive Assistant to the Chief Engineer of the Navy, Assistant Project Manager with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and as a Propulsion Systems Life Cycle Manager and Systems Engineer. Mr. Lockwood also served as project manager and engineer on multiple efforts in the private sector including efforts in the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical process industries as well as an operating engineer in the maritime industry.

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David Songco
CIO
NICHD/NIH

David Songco serves as Chief Information Officer for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. NICHD was established as a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1962. The NICHD mission is substantially devoted to the many facets of human development -- with the broad goal to ensure, through research, the birth of healthy and wanted babies that have the opportunity to reach adulthood unimpaired by physical or mental disabilities and able to achieve their full potential.

As CIO Songco's first responsibility is to ensure that NICHD staff have the information technology resources they need to carry out the mission of the NICHD.

Beginning his career at the Census Bureau in 1960, Songco's expertise includes 26 years of IT management experience coupled with over 20 years experience leading the design and development of computer systems for real-time data acquisition and control, clinical automation, and analysis of biomedical signals in support of biomedical research and the NASA space program. Songco also designed one of the first synthesized voice terminals for the blind.

As a senior IT manager at NIH for he developed the first PC support program at NIH that provided guidance and support to over 18,000 scientists and administrators in the development and effective use of personal computing, including workstations, computer networks, and associated automation technology. Songco also led the Network Task Group in the design and implementation of NIHnet, a campus wide backbone network. This network today connects over 350 LANs representing over 22,000 users. In addition, he provided tactical and strategic planning and review for cross cutting projects involving business process engineering, organizational design, networking, database, and client/server architecture.

Currently, Songco is the IT Project Leader for the National Children's Study, the largest and most in-depth study of children's health ever conducted. He also is leading the development of the NICHD Emergency Management and Continuity of Operations plan including the NICHD response for the pandemic flu threat.

In May 2006, David was selected as one of 12 individuals to receive the 2006 GCN IT Leadership Award. This award recognizes distinguished individuals each year from federal, state and local governments for their outstanding work in the field of government information technology.

Mr. Songco has an M.E.A. degree in Administration of Research and Development from George Washington University, Washington, DC, and a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Lou Anne Brossman
Director of Marketing, U.S. Public Sector
Juniper Networks

Lou Anne Brossman is Director of U.S. Public Sector Marketing with Juniper Networks responsible for vision, strategy and development of integrated advertising, branding, marketing communications, PR and channel marketing. Brossman brings over 25 years of high technology marketing experience within the federal market space. Prior to joining Juniper, she was with EMC Corporation where she managed all federal marketing activities.

She's held senior marketing and management positions with MainControl Corporation and SAGA Software. Brossman was also Territory Manager with Tech Data Corporation where she was responsible for all distribution channel sales initiatives for the federal system integrator community. Brossman sits on the boards of the immixGroup and AFCEA International and has won numerous awards in the industry for her work. She was most recently awarded the 2004 Women in Technology "Heroines in Technology" award, the 2005 "IAC Commitment to Making a Difference Award" and IPIC 2005 President's award for outstanding contribution.