13th SOA for E-Government Conference April 3 2012

Gabe Galvan

Department Head, Enterprise Business Transformation, MITRE

Gabriel Galvan is a senior principal in the Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM) at MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit entity of over seventy-five hundred employees, which operates as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC).  Gabe leads the Enterprise Business Transformation department at  MITRE’s Center for Connected Government (CCG).   In his role he engages with federal government agencies and leaders at all levels by advising and contributing to the support of activities and projects that furthers the public’s interest.  With over twenty years of experience in information technology and the management consulting, he works with federal executives and staff to help them address challenges affecting their strategy, improve operations and overall mission effectiveness in a variety of areas.

Prior to joining MITRE in 2007, Gabe has enjoyed a wide set of experiences in working to service both the public sector and private industry.  His roles have encompassed both field and corporate functions in the United States and abroad.   His experiences have included working with IBM, BMC Software, HP and Fannie Mae in a variety of roles including responsibilities for leading industry-specific, geographic and national programs.

As a practitioner, his experience in business operations, management consulting, sales, services and public policy have led to his diverse set of skills and learning.   He often contributes to helping launch large initiatives in organizations through developing strategy and implementing business transformation disciplines as well as planning and executing for steady state operations.

Ajay Budhraja

Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Department of Justice, IR

Ajay Budhrajahas over 23 years in Information Technology with experience in areas such as Executive leadership, management, strategic planning, enterprise architecture, system architecture, software engineering, training, methodologies, networks, databases etc. Ajay has provided Senior Executive leadership for nationwide and global programs and has implemented integrated Enterprise Information Technology solutions. He has a Masters in Engineering (Computer Science), Masters in Management and Bachelors in Engineering. He is a Project Management Professional certified by the PMI and is also CICM, CSM, ECM (AIIM) Master, SOA, RUP, SEI-CMMI, ITIL-F, Security + certified. Ajay is currently the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), US Department of Justice component led large scale projects for big organizations and has extensive IT experience related to telecom, business, manufacturing, airlines, finance and government. He has delivered internet based technology solutions and strategies for e-business platforms, portals, mobile e-business, collaboration and content management. He has worked extensively in the areas of application development, infrastructure development, networks, security and has contributed significantly in the areas of Enterprise and Business Transformation, Strategic Planning, Change Management, Technology innovation, Performance management, Agile management and development, Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud. He is the Co-Chair for the Federal SOA COP and has served as President DOL-APAC, AEA-DC, Co-Chair Executive Forum Federal Executive Institute SES Program. As Adjunct Faculty, he has taught courses for several universities. He has received many awards, authored articles and presented papers at worldwide conferences.

Patrick Place

Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Carnegie-Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute

Pat Place is a senior member of the technical staff in the Research, Technology, and Systems Solutions Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).  Recently he has participated in developing practices for engineering in a system of systems context and software implications of net-centric operations. As part of this work he has worked with the Service Migration And Reuse Technique (SMART) applying it to both Army and Air Force system migrations. He has considered the acquisition implications of adopting an SOA development strategy. He has also participated in a number of independent technical assessments related to adoption of SOA practices.

Prior work at the SEI has included the development of the COTS Usage Risk Evaluation method (CURE), investigations into test and evaluation of COTS products, communications in distributed real-time systems, architectures for flight simulators, and system specification, modeling, and analysis using formal techniques.

Before joining the SEI, he worked at various companies either creating software development tools or formal specifications, sometimes tools to support formalism.  He has also been an adjunct lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, South Bank University and Imperial College teaching various courses on the use of formal specification techniques.

Anne Drissel

Chief Business Architect, Department of Homeland Security, National Protection and Programs Directorate

Anne Drissel is the Business Architect for the US Department of Homeland Security’s US-VISIT Program.  She is responsible for supporting development and alignment of US-VISIT’s business services in biometric identity analysis and verification with the demands of its governmental partner and customer agencies and the priorities and policies of the Department.  Ms. Drissel initiated development of an enhanced requirements management methodology and installation of a consolidated requirements repository at US-VISIT.  She recently managed a major effort to elicit and document long-term needs from US-VISIT’s customers.  She is leading development of a business services methodology, guiding service definition and emergent analytic processes.  She is a member of the US-VISIT Enterprise Architecture Steering Committee and a business architecture advisor to the DHS Service-Oriented Architecture Working Group.

Ms. Drissel brings to this work more than 30 years in design and implementation of services and programs in government and the private sector.  While at the US Department of Health and Human Services she led a team that completed a major Congressionally mandated study for the White House that proposed a complete restructuring of the mental health delivery system in the US.

For DC Government, Ms. Drissel spearheaded an award-winning SOA-oriented modernization initiative to bring together data from health, mental health, welfare and justice-related information systems to enable case workers to view an integrated case information record on children and families at risk.  She led the Oracle team that developed one of the first Internet-based emergency room capacity notification systems for DARPA.  Ms. Drissel has a BS from the University of Maryland in Family and Community Development and completed graduate studies in Organizational Transformation at John F. Kennedy University in California.  She is a certified Project Management Professional and a Certified Executive Coach. 

Rose Marie Davis

Business Planning Section Chief, Department of Homeland Security, National Protection and Programs Directorate

Rose Marie Davis serves as a Section Chief for the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) Program, a component of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), since July 2009. In this role, Ms. Davis leads the Business Planning section of the Business Policy & Planning Branch of the Program Integration and Mission Services Division.  Ms. Davis is responsible for leading the development of new capabilities in an effort to achieve mission and goals.  Before serving as Section Chief of Business Planning, Ms. Davis served as a Management and Program Analyst since September 2008.  In this role, Ms. Davis supported the requirements development for the Comprehensive Exit investment.   

Ms. Davis has supported the US-VISIT program since it was established in March 2003, as one of the initial programs within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  US-VISIT was established to accurately record the entry and exit of travelers to the United States by collecting biographic and biometric information—digital fingerprints and photographs.  Today, US-VISIT’s identity management services—the collection, analysis and storage of biometric data—provide critical information to decision makers throughout federal, state, and local agencies when and where they need it.  Ms. Davis is leading the planning team which is responsible for developing the requirements to enhance US-VISIT services with multimodal biometric capabilities such as iris and facial recognition identification and verification services.  

Prior to joining US-VISIT, Ms. Davis was a Lead Information Technology Specialist and served as Project Manager for the Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Information Technology, Passenger Systems Program Office, in support of US-VISIT Programs.  Ms. Davis also served as the Acting Branch Chief for the Inspections Systems Branch.

Prior to joining DHS in federal service in 2005, Ms. Davis was a senior developer for CIBER.  In that role, she supported the development of many information technology systems for CBP and the legacy U.S. Customs Service to enhance security and facilitate legitimate trade and travel.

Ms. Davis earned a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with a concentration in computer science from Pennsylvania State University.  Ms. Davis is a certified secondary instruction for Mathematics.  In addition, Ms. Davis holds a master’s certificate in Project Management from the George Washington School of Business and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). 

Paul Medina

Senior Business Analyst, Department of Homeland Security, National Protection and Programs Directorate

Paul A. Medina serves as a Management and Program Analyst for the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) Program, a component of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), since May 2011. In this role, Mr. Medina is a member of the Business Planning section of the Business Policy & Planning (BPP) Branch of the Program Integration and Mission Services Division.  Prior to joining DHS in federal service, Mr. Medina was a consultant providing support for system requirements to US-VISIT’s Information Technology Management (ITM) organization starting in early 2006, and later for business functional requirements to US-VISIT’s BPP Branch.

With his deep knowledge of the workings of US-VISIT systems, Mr. Medina is working with the lead Business Architect in BPP to formulate and document available and planned Business Services at US-VISIT in conjunction with on-going requirements efforts, as part of broader Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) capabilities definition, refinement and publication within DHS. He also supported the Customer Engagement activities in interviewing almost all external and internal customers of US-VISIT, leading the discussions on current missions and needed capabilities, and eliciting future needs as part of the planning for new capabilities to be targeted for US-VISIT.

Prior to working at US-VISIT, Mr. Medina provided requirements analysis services to the telecom industry. With over 25 years of experience in landline wholesale provisioning and trouble administration, Mr. Medina has employed queuing and modeling analysis for capacity management and performance tuning of large-scale systems deployed by Bell Laboratories, managed the environments for multi-phased application development systems at Bellcore, consulted on and designed large inventory and telecom circuit-design databases at Bell Labs and AT&T, performed data center surveys on behalf of BellSouth, and provided requirements analysis, training and support in the use of and interaction with telecom-specific application systems for Cap Gemini and Accenture.

Amy Wohl

President, Wohl Associates

Amy D. Wohl is an analyst and consultant.  She has been observing, consulting to, and writing about new technology for more than 35 years.  Wohl has worked for hundreds of vendors, large and small, especially in the area of new business concepts and business software.  She is the president of Wohl Associates, a founder of TMT Strategies.  She blogs at both Amy Wohl’s Opinions and TMT Strategies.

Wohl currently focuses on cloud computing, which she has been covering since 1998.  She also covers enterprise software and strategies.  She continues to work with clients on new and emerging technologies, building models for new markets.

Andrew J. Ide

SOA Capability Leader, MITRE

Mr. Ide has more than 18 years of industry experience assisting senior managers with designing and executing strategies to improve mission performance. His experience includes supporting programs in enterprise architecture, performance planning, applications development, and business process reengineering. He has led successful programs in the private sector and at multiple agencies including the Executive Office of the President, the Office of Management and Budget, the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Census Bureau, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Ide is a recognized thought-leader specializing in techniques that ensure operationally sound enterprise architecture concepts, strategies, and implementations. He is currently the Group Leader for the Services Architecture functional group within CCG's Enterprise Architecture Department.

Dave Mayo

President, Everware-CBDI

Dave Mayo – An IT practitioner for 25 years and an enterprise architect for over 15 years, Mr. Mayo is the President of Everware-CBDI, a firm dedicated to enabling and implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) for federal and commercial organizations. He is a senior advisor to the Department of Homeland Security EA program and led several tasks for the development of the original enterprise architecture for the Department. Mr. Mayo has been Vice Chair of the IAC/EA SIG and Chairs the Services Committee. He led the industry team and is a member of the Editorial Board for the Practical Guide to Federal Service Oriented Architecture for the Federal CIO Council. For his steadfast efforts to improve government effectiveness and efficiency through service-based EA, he received a Federal 100 award from Federal Computer Week in 2009. His background includes economics, strategic planning, information engineering, and business process reengineering.   He holds a MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia.

Mel Greer

Chief Architect, SOA Cloud Computing and Director, SOA Competency Center, Lockheed Martin

Melvin Greer is SOA Cloud Computing Chief Architect, and the Director SOA Competency Center, Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technologies Office. With over 20 years of systems and software engineering experience, he is a recognized expert in Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing. He functions as a principal investigator in advanced research studies. He significantly advances the body of knowledge in basic research and critical, highly advanced engineering and scientific disciplines. Mr. Greer is on the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), Cloud Computing working group and a member of the Government Cloud Computing Community of Interest.

In addition to his professional and investment roles, Mr. Greer is a Certified Enterprise Architect, Fellow and Adjunct Faculty at the FEAC Institute. He is also a member of the International Monetary Fund / World Bank, Bretton Woods Committee. Mr. Greer is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities and is an accomplished author, "The Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture" and "Software as a Service Inflection Point, Using Cloud Computing to Achieve Business Agility" are his most recently published books. Greer received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems and Technology and his Master of Science in Information Systems from American University, Wash.

D.C. He also obtained his Post Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership, Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School.

Recent Publication:  Software as a Service Inflection Point, Using Cloud Computing to Achieve Business Agility, Melvin Greer, iUniverse (2009). ISBN: 978-1-4401-4195-9.

Brand Niemann

Director and Senior Data Scientist, Semantic Community and Former Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist, US EPA

Brand recently completed 30 years of Federal service. He worked on assignment for the Federal CIO Council during 2002-2007 on a series of assignments: Founding Chair of the Web Services Working Group, Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice, and Federal SOA Community of Practice, and as Executive Secretariat of the Best Practices Committee. He has written an online book "A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. EPA and the Federal Government", published a paper entitled “Put My EPA Desktop in the Cloud to Support the Open Government Directive” and Data.gov/semantic (in response to Vivek Kundra's call), and implemented A Gov 2.0 Platform for Open Government in a Data Science Library (in response to Aneesh Chopra's call). Recently he has used two tools in the Amazon Cloud (Mindtouch and Spotfire) to extract, transform, and load a number of EPA and Federal databases to produce more transparent, open, and collaborative business analytics applications.  See http://semanticommunity.info/.

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