Session Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Steven VanRoekel
U.S. Chief Information Officer
Invited Keynote Presenter
Steven VanRoekel is the second Chief Information Officer of the United States, appointed by President Obama on August 5th, 2011. Prior to his position in the White House, Mr. VanRoekel held two positions in the Obama Administration: Executive Director of Citizen and Organizational Engagement at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Managing Director of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). At the FCC, Mr. VanRoekel oversaw all operational, technical, financial, and human resource aspects of the agency. He also led the FCC's efforts to introduce new technology and social media into the agency.
Mr. VanRoekel worked at Microsoft Corporation from 1994 to 2009, most recently as a Senior Director in the Windows Server and Tools Division. He received a B.A. in Management of Information Systems from Iowa State University.
Donna Roy
Executive Director, Information Sharing Environment
Applied Technology, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Department
of Homeland Security
Invited Speaker
Ms. Roy joined DHS in December of 2006 and currently serves as the CIO’s Executive for Information Sharing. She is actively engaged in helping DHS lay the foundation and building blocks for an information sharing environment and drives DHS technical policy development as well as coordinates with the White House National Security Staff and the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment. As the CIO’s executive for information sharing, she is focused on removing technology barriers associated with the delivery of the information sharing environment. Under her leadership are the oversight and operation of the program management offices for the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) and the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM).
Ms. Roy served as the VP of Product Development for a Fortune 200 company as well as serving as the VP for a major data operations division. She has over 27 years of IT experience, culminating her data-oriented, enterprise-wide view for the implementation of standards to increase operational efficiency.
Michael Howell
Deputy Program Manager
Office of the Program Manager
Information Sharing Environment
Invited Speaker
Prior to joining PM-ISE, Mr. Howell served as the Deputy Administrator for Electronic Government and Information Technology at the Office of Management and Budget. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing information technology (IT) policy, management, and budget for the Federal government’s $80 billion a year IT investment portfolio. He supported the 2008 Presidential transition and the implementation of management reforms and new initiatives to improve IT investment management and the efficiency and effectiveness of Federal IT, open the government by enhancing transparency and citizen engagement, and improve cybersecurity.
Mr. Howell was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of the Interior from May 2007 to September 2008 providing leadership to the Department and its bureaus in all areas of information management and technology. Mr. Howell served as the Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 2004 to 2007. Previously, he was the Portfolio Management Division Chief in Interior’s CIO’s Office, where he was responsible for overseeing management of the Department's $900 million a year IT portfolio. He served two years as the acting CIO and deputy CIO for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and five years in BLM's headquarters budget office.
Mr. Howell spent four years in BLM's Oregon State Office as a branch chief, responsible for software development, Geographic Information Systems, and data and records management programs. Mr. Howell spent seven years in BLM's Eugene District on forest inventory, land use planning, and environmental analysis. He worked five years in a variety of forest management jobs in the Medford District in southwest Oregon. His career began in 1978 with the U.S. Forest Service in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest in Idaho and the Olympic National Forest in Washington. A native of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Mr. Howell graduated in 1977 from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor of science degree in Forest Science with a minor in Wildlife Management. In 2005, he completed the Chief Information Officer certification program at the National Defense University IRM College and in 2008 he obtained the Certified Information System Security Professional certificate.
Richard Spires
Chief Information OfficerDepartment of Homeland Security
Invited Keynote Presenter
Richard A. Spires was appointed in September 2009 to serve as the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Chief Information Officer (CIO). In this capacity, Mr. Spires is responsible for the department’s $6.4 billion investment in Information Technology (IT). He leads and facilitates the development, implementation, and maintenance of the department’s IT architecture. Mr. Spires is the chairman of the DHS Chief Information Officer Council and the Enterprise Architecture Board. He strongly supports the Secretary’s goal of unifying and maturing DHS–one DHS, one enterprise, a shared vision, with integrated results-based operations. Mr. Spires also serves as vice chairman of the Federal CIO Council, and co-chairs the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative.
Mr. Spires held a number of positions at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2004 through 2008. He served as the Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support, having overall responsibility for the key support and administrative functions for the IRS, to include IT, Human Capital, Finance, Shared Services, Real Estate, and Security functions. Prior to becoming Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Spires served as the IRS’ CIO, with overall strategic and operational responsibility for a $2 billion budget and a 7,000-person Modernization and Information Technology Services organization. This division is accountable for maintaining over 400 systems that administer more than 200 million taxpayer records and support more than 100,000 IRS employees. Mr. Spires served for two and half years as the Associate CIO for Applications Development and led the IRS’ Business Systems Modernization program, which is one of the largest and most complex IT modernization efforts undertaken to date.
Session Speakers
Horace Blackman
Chief Information Officer
Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO)
Horace Blackman serves as the VA Central Office (VACO) CIO and Director of VACO IT Support Service. He previously served as the Director of the Office of Planning and Programs, Enterprise Operations and Field Development (EOFD) within the Office of Information and Technology.
In his current role, Mr. Blackman manages the delivery of customer facing IT services across the National Capital Region. He also supports the Deputy CIO for Service Delivery and Engineering (SDE) on matters pertaining to capital planning, program management, and infrastructure analysis.Mr. Blackman has over 18 years experience in the Federal government and the private sector. He joined the VA in 2008 after 15 years in IT strategy planning in the private sector. Positions previously held by
Mr. Blackman include serving as a Director of Healthcare
Services for
High Performance Technologies Inc; Management Consultant in the
Communications Media and Technologies Practice at Booz Allen Hamilton;
and Program Manager for Interactive Marketing at America Online (AOL).
Mr. Blackman earned a BA double majoring in American Studies and English from George Mason University and is also a distinguished graduate of the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia where he earned an MBA in Management.
Joseph F. Klimavicz
NOAA CIO
Mr. Joseph F. Klimavicz was named National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director, High Performance Computing and Communications in January 2007. In this position, he is responsible for implementing the Clinger-Cohen Act, Federal Information Security Management Act, and other statutory requirements regarding the acquisition, management, and use of NOAA's information and information technology resources, to include NOAA's high performance computing and communications infrastructure. Mr. Klimavicz is also responsible for NOAA's Homeland Security Program to ensure business continuity in event of a terrorist attack, major disaster, or other emergency, and he serves as the Department of Commerce Senior Agency Official for Geospatial Information (SAOGI). He previously served in the Department of Defense (DOD) as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Deputy CIO, and as the DOD SAOGI.Mr. Klimavicz has served over 20 years in the federal government. He began his career with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an imagery scientist, developing photogrammetric math models in the National Photographic Interpretation Center, and subsequently, served in line management positions within the CIA and the DOD; leading the development of information technology investment plans, and managing information technology acquisitions and operations.
Mr. Klimavicz received a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1983 and a Master of Engineering degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1988. Major areas of study included geodesy, photogrammetry and imaging systems. Mr. Klimavicz lives in Vienna, Va., with his wife, Brenda and their three daughters.
Dr. David Paschane
Organizational Architect
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Dr. Paschane writes and speaks on methods of better government and the application of the Performance Architectural Science Systems (PASS) discipline, has published in several peer-reviewed academic journals, and is the recipient of the Army’s Achievement Medal and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Award of Excellence. He and his wife have three sons.
Daud Santosa
Chief Information Officer
Department of Commerce
Mr. Santosa has over 25 years of experience in IT industry for establishing corporate technology vision and leading all the aspects of the corporate technology deployment and development. These experiences include implementing of NBC virtualization infrastructure, Cloud Computing, shared services strategy & Architecture, optimizing the electronic distribution of organization business information products and services, business and government transformation, maximizing the speed and uptime of our enterprises infrastructure, launching new emerging technologies, establishing IT standard, policy/guidelines and enhancements for existing products and managing of project timelines. These experiences including full life cycle software development (analysis, design, implementation, testing and maintenance), software development and hardware life cycle management, enterprise architecture, system integration, Business and IT strategic planning and transformation. The primary business process areas including Financial, Human Resource (HR), Acquisition, Aviation, Law Enforcement, information technology, telecommunications, research survey, and business applications for government and commercial sectors.
He joined National Business Center (NBC) in August 2007 where he serves as the NBC Chief Technology Officer. He is currently responsible to establish NBC shared services strategy & concept of operations, NBC Enterprise Architecture Program, NBC IT Strategic and Roadmap, SOA Roadmap including its infrastructure, modernization of NBC infrastructure, SOA Governance, and assists in many SOA projects. Prior Joining NBC, Mr. Santosa has served as the DOI Chief Technology Officer. He has created the DOI CTO Council to provide/assist the development of Target Solution Reference Architecture as the reference for Departmental Initiative at DOI such as Financial Business Management System, Incident Management Analysis and Reporting System (IMARS), DOI Portal Strategy and implementation, HSPD-12, PKI, Identity Management, Enterprise Service Network Topology, Technology Standard and Roadmap, Service Oriented Integration Center of Excellence, etc. Before joining DOI, Mr. Santosa has serves as the Chief Technology Officer of the US Patent and Trademark Office. He was responsible for aligning the USPTO Agency Enterprise Architecture with USPTO Business Strategy and the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Reference Model, implemented Service Oriented Architecture. In addition, Mr. Santosa was responsible for developing reuse strategy in which reusable IT assets were developed, implemented, and supported by tools covering all layers of the USPTO EA. He developed the actionable USPTO Reference Model that provided the transformational bridge from the Enterprise Architecture to Solution Architecture by leveraging reusable assets and Service Oriented Architecture. He oversaw and coordinated activities for the implementation of the Target Solution Architecture and EAI strategy with developmental and operational teams including the transformation of the current legacy systems to the Target Solution Architecture at USPTO.
Before joining the USPTO, Mr. Santosa was a certified Sr. consulting IT Architect with IBM Global Services Center of Competency. He joined IBM in the fall of 2000. In this capacity, Mr. Santosa’s primary responsibility was to implement a Patterns for e-Business for strategic reuse of IT resources at USPTO. Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Santosa was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO)/Chief Architect of KBMGroup, Inc. He has helped growing this company for over 3 years. As part of his CTO’s role, he was involved in numerous engagements for both Federal Law Enforcement and Commercial sectors in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Business Transformation, Software Development, IT Strategy and Technology. He was also employed as a teaching assistant and mentor in graduate level Object Oriented Analysis and Design courses at the Johns Hopkins University. His additional work experience includes Hughes Network System as the Member of technical staff and Westat, Inc. as a programmer analyst and system analyst. Mr. Santosa holds bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from West Virginia University and a Masters degree in Computer Science from John Hopkins University. He is distinguished Chief/Lead IT Architect of IT Open Group, and he is a board member of the IT open group certification level 3.
Simon Szykman
Chief Information Officer
Department of Commerce
Simon Szykman was named Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Department of Commerce in May 2010. As the Department’s CIO, Szykman is responsible for providing leadership, establishing policy, and maintaining oversight for the information technology investments that support the diverse portfolio of programs across the Commerce Department’s dozen bureaus. Szykman most recently served over three years as the CIO of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he began his professional career as part of the agency’s technical staff.
Prior to his work at Commerce, Szykman served as the Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), where he was responsible for the coordination of planning, budget, and assessment activities for the Federal NITRD Program. In this role, Szykman reported directly to the National Science and Technology Council and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) – where he also worked temporarily as a Senior Policy Analyst, focusing on technology-related issues including cyber security and high-end computing.
Szykman has also worked at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the Department’s first Director of Cyber Security R&D. There he led the development of cyber security R&D plans, programs, and budgets in support of the Department's mission, as well as the development of the Government's first interagency Federal Plan for Cyber Security R&D.
Szykman received Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master of Engineering Management degree from George Washington University, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Rochester.