Brief Summary of Current Duties:
Serves as the single point of accountability between DoD and VA for the development and implementation of personnel benefit- and health-related Information Technology projects, data, and information sharing activities, including the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER).
Career Chronology:
2009 – Present, Director, DoD/VA Interagency Program Office
2009 – 2009, Director, Commercial Technologies & Systems and Acting Director, Portfolio Management & Enterprise Infrastructure, ASD NII / DoD CIO
2006 – 2009, Federal Information Sharing Executive, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Network, Information, and Integration (NII )/ DoD CIO
2004 – 2006, Program Director, Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES), Defense Information Systems Agency
1997 – 2004, Deputy Director, C4 and Deputy Chief Information Officer of the Marine Corps
Most Significant Career Accomplishments:
- Led the DoD implementation of Executive Order (EO) 13356/88, ‘Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information to Protect Americans,” an interdepartmental initiative establish an interoperable terrorism information sharing environment.
- Introduced the practice of service oriented capabilities to help revolutionize the way DoD conducts warfighting and business operations.(Net Centric Enterprise Service (NCES))
- Led the Marine Corps in transforming organic network IT to a Managed Service (NMCI)
- Led the USMC to a successful Y2K implementation.
- Established a civilian workforce development program for 20,000 IM/IT Marine Corps civilians
- Oversaw 230 major automated information systems and major defense acquisition programs for Title 40/Clinger-Cohen Act compliance
- Established the technology infrastructure to consolidate all Navy command and control systems that later served as the common operating environment for the Global Command and Control System.
- Managed a $500 million dollar contract to automate the patent application and search process.
Significant Awards/Honors: 2002 Presidential Rank Award
Education:
Master of Science, National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, 1996
Graduate, Program Management course from the Defense Systems Management College, 1985
Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University, 1974