Information Sharing

Panelists

Karen Evans - Administrator for Electronic Government and IT, OMB
Dale Meyerrose - CIO, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Vance Hitch - CIO, Department of Justice
Zal Azmi - CIO, FBI
Carter Morris - DHS
Greg J. Baroni - Unisys Corporation
Daniel P. Kent - Cisco Systems, Inc

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.

Prior to becoming Administrator, Ms. Evans was the Chief Information Officer for the Department of Energy. There she was responsible for the design, implementation, and continuing successful operation of Information Technology (IT) programs and initiatives throughout the Department and its offices. During this time, Ms. Evans was also the Vice-Chairman of the Federal Chief Information Officers Council. Elected to this post in December 2002, she coordinated the Council's efforts in developing federal IT programs and improving agency information resource practices.

Before joining Energy, she was Director, Information Resources Management Division, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., where she was responsible for the management and successful operation of the Information Technology program. OJP's bureaus and offices provide funding opportunities for initiatives such as Safe Schools, Safe Start Program, Community Prosecution, Native American Tribal Courts and other programs of high local, state and national interest. Key accomplishments included the implementation of an on-line grants management system to process grants from discretionary, formula and large block grants programs, to streamlining capabilities to ensure for the expeditious processing of claims benefits to families of public safety officers after the September 11th attacks.

She is a 20 year veteran of Government service with responsibilities ranging from GS-2 to SES, working with several agencies, including the National Park Services, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) of the Department of Agriculture.

Mr. Meyerrose serves as the Chief Information Officer for the United States Intelligence Community. Mr. Meyerrose manages activities relating to the information technology infrastructure and enterprise requirements of the Intelligence Community. He has procurement approval authority over all information technology items related to the enterprise architectures of all Intelligence Community components. Mr. Meyerrose directs and manages all information technology-related procurement for the Intelligence Community and ensures that all expenditures for information technology and research and development activities are consistent with the Intelligence Community enterprise architecture. Mr. Meyerrose came to this position after over thirty years of military service, culminating with his retirement from the United States Air Force as a Major General in November 2005.

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he entered the United States Air Force in 1975 after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. His career highlights include service as a director and Chief Information Officer in three Air Force major air commands and three unified combatant commands, a deployed Joint Task Force Director of Communications in Southwest Asia, and a commander of two major Air Force communications units. Mr. Meyerrose, a master parachutist, earned the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legions of Merit, two Defense Meritorious Service Medals, and six Meritorious Service Medals. Mr. Meyerrose received a Master of Business Administration degree, from the University of Utah in 1978. He graduated from the National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington D.C. in 1992. He attended the Senior Information Warfare Applications and Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Courses, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He also attended the Program for National and International Security, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the U.S. Navy Executive Business Course, Haas School of Business, University of California - Berkeley, at the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, California.

Prior to coming to the Department of Justice, Hitch was a Senior Partner with Accenture. He has 28 years of experience in leading government organizations successfully through major change initiatives. His recent projects at Accenture included the development of the IT Strategic Plan for the State of Maryland and a comprehensive re-engineering and automation of the City of Philadelphia's Records Department. Other government organizations that Hitch has worked with include the Department of State, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and multiple state and local governments.

Hitch earned a Masters of Systems Management from George Washington University in 1973 and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Muhlenberg College in 1967. He served in the United States Navy from 1969 -1973, attaining the rank of lieutenant.

Mr. Azmi is responsible for the FBIâ"™s overall information technology efforts, including developing the FBIâ"™s IT strategic plan and operating budget; developing and maintaining the FBIâ"™s technology assets; and providing technical direction for the reengineering of FBI business processes.

Prior to Mr. Azmiâ"™s appointment as Acting CIO in late 2003, he served as the CIO for the Executive Office for the United States Attorneys.

During his tenure at EOUSA, Mr. Azmi created and implemented a multi-year strategic technology plan that included the rollout of integrated business and litigation support application systems; modernization and expansion of information technology infrastructure, including network appliances, video teleconferencing, desktop faxing, secure remote access, virtual private network, laptop encryption software, intrusion detection system, victim notification system, and consolidated debt collection system; and consolidation and evaluation of the United States Attorneyâ"™s wide area networksâ"™ disparate data, audio, and video capabilities.

Mr. Azmi also successfully developed the United States Attorneysâ"™ first enterprise architecture, implemented the United States Attorneysâ"™ IT Investment Management process to increase the oversight support for IT investment in FY2002, developed and implemented a human capital plan, successfully implemented a centralized 24x7x365 helpdesk for all offices, and deployed a knowledge management system as the first line of support for the users. Mr. Azmi also created and integrated the first Information Systems Security Office in the organization.

Prior to his employment with the Department of Justice, Mr. Azmi served at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as the Project Manager for the Examining Toolkit Team within the Search & Information Resources Administration's Office of Search Systems. He was responsible for the development, implementation, and integration of software applications, both GOTS and COTS products, and hardware solutions for use by the Patent Examiners. He managed the development of OACS (Office Action Correspondence System), GPI (Global Patent Information), and Patent Examining Automated Search Tools.

Mr. Azmi holds an Associate Applied Science degree in Systems Analysis and Design from Northern Virginia Community College, a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from The American University, and a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from The George Washington University.

Most recently Dr. Morris served as the Deputy Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection where he helped coordinate all Intelligence Community collection activities.

Dr. Morris received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Hampden-Sydney College in 1966 and a Doctorate in Physics from the University of Virginia in 1970 in the area of experimental solid-state physics.

After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Morris spent two years at the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor of Physics before moving to the faculty of the Physics Department at Florida State University. Dr. Morris spent 11 years as a professor at Florida State teaching and conducting a research program concentrating on exploring the electrical and magnetic properties of materials at low temperatures.

In 1984, Dr. Morris took a leave of absence from the university to work with the Office of Research and Development (ORD) at the CIA and a year later officially joined the Agency. In ORD he held both senior scientist and management positions concentrating on the development of technology to support human and signals intelligence operations. When he left ORD he was chief of the Signals Exploitation Division.

From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Morris served in the DCI's Nonproliferation Center (NPC) as Special Assistant for R&D to the Director of NPC where he headed a group whose responsibility was to coordinate government-wide R&D to support the needs of the nonproliferation program.

In 1995, Dr. Morris joined what became the Clandestine MASINT Operations Center (CMOC) in the Office of Technical Collection as Chief of the Systems Analysis Staff. In 1998, he became Deputy Director of CMOC.

In 2000, Dr. Morris became Deputy Director of the Central MASINT Organization in the Defense Intelligence Agency�where he served until he became the Deputy Assistant DCI for Collection in late 2001.

Dr. Morris lives in Arlington, Virginia, has one daughter and two grandsons, and tries to play golf every chance he gets.

Greg serves as president, Global Public Sector. In this role, he is responsible for the worldwide public sector business, including education, healthcare and the U.S. Federal Government Group. Representing more than a third of Unisys revenues, Global Public Sector serves its clients with a broad range of services and solutions ranging from consulting and systems integration to managed services and outsourcing. Under his leadership, the Global Public Sector team has rapidly transformed itself into one of the global leaders delivering extraordinary value and breakthrough results to public sector entities around the world. In his role, Greg also serves as the client partner for the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration. Greg brings extensive leadership experience in technology and transformation services to public sector entities around the world.

Prior to joining Unisys, Greg spent almost 20 years at KPMG, LLP/KPMG Consulting, where his last position was as senior vice president in KPMG Consultingâ"™s Public Service Practice serving government, education, healthcare and non-profit institutions. In this capacity, he worked with numerous organizations in critical (KPMG) enterprise transformation areas such as enterprise-wide packaged solutions and business process outsourcing. While at KPMG, Greg also launched pioneering solutions such as distributed learning, and he led the Grants Management Services practice as its National Partner. In this role, he directed the deployment of innovative solutions for business process improvement involving the use of integrated process teams, shared services, â"ślocal business centersâ"ť and outsourcing.

Greg is actively engaged in professional associations and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC). He also serves as Chairman of the ITAA IT Services Division and the ITAA Economic Growth and Worldwide Competitiveness Committee.

In addition, Greg contributes his time to charitable organizations such as the National Kidney Foundation, where he serves as chairman of the Kidney Ball Executive Committee. Finally, Greg also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Institutes for Research.

In 2005, Greg was named by Consulting magazine as one of the top 25 most influential consultants, recognizing his accomplishments as an industry leader. In 2004, Greg was named by Federal Computer Week as a Federal 100 winner for leading the Unisys team to develop the Transportation Security Administrationâ"™s (TSA) information technology infrastructure. In 2003, FastCompany magazine also recognized Greg as one of the Fast50, for helping TSA build a new IT infrastructure to improve security at the nationâ"™s 429 commercial airports.

Mr. Kent has worked in the communications field of the Federal market over 17 years. This allows him to utilize his experience to achieve and share best business practices for the Federal marketplace. Mr. Kentâ"™s prior positions include ten years at Nortel Networks as the Director of Federal Engineering and as a senior consulting engineer for Network Solutions, Inc., where he supported several government agencies. In these roles, Mr. Kent participated in the complete life cycle of various communications systems deployed. He is very knowledgeable on various Federal Certification requirements including JITC, TIC, FIPS and Common Criteria while having a proven track record ensuring Commercial products meet these requirements.

Mr. Kent is a graduate of the University of Maine where he received a Bachelorâ"™s Degree and holds a Master's Degree from John Hopkins University.