Keynote Address

Dick Burk Chief Architect, Office of E-Government and Information Technology Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President

Richard "Dick" Burk is Chief Architect within the Office of E-Government and Information Technology, and is responsible for the Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office (FEA PMO). In this role, he leads the FEA PMO support team in developing and evolving a business and technology framework for the President's E-Government Initiatives and the alignment of Federal IT investments to The President's Management Agenda. Prior to OMB, Burk was the Chief Architect for the Department of Housing and Urban Development where he was responsible for the development and delivery of HUD's Enterprise Architecture Practice, Data Management Practice and Strategic Planning Process. Burk's 30-year career at HUD Headquarters spanned the research, demonstration and management of most Federal activities in the fields of community development and housing rehabilitation. Burk earned a Masters in Public Administration degree from The Ohio State University. He worked in the City of Columbus Finance Department before coming to HUD in Washington, DC. Prior to graduate school, he served for two years as a Peace Corps Health Volunteer in Uganda, East Africa.

Bruce Graham Vice President, Worldwide Consulting, BEA Systems

Bruce Graham, BEA's Vice President of Professional Services, most recently served as BEA's Vice President of Strategic Global Accounts, where he lead the sales and development efforts for BEA's top customers. Bruce joined BEA in 2003 from the Feld Group, a premiere IT strategy and technology management firm serving F200-sized corporations, where he was a founding partner in the firm. Bruce brings to BEA a broad understanding of the development and real-world execution of "transformational" IT strategies, as well as extensive hands-on experience in post-merger integration of multi-billion dollar organizations.

Session Speakers

Hon. Mark Forman, KPMG, Former U.S. Administrator for E-Government and IT
Christopher F. Fornecker, Chief Technology Officer, GSA
Steve Fox, Editor-in-Chief, InfoWorld
Brian Husted, Chief Architect, Grants.gov
Eric Knorr, Executive Editor, InfoWorld
Russell Kuehn, Program Manager, Department of Treasury
Gene Leganza, Vice President, Forrester Research
David S. Linthicum, Application Integration and SOA Expert
Stephen Lowe, Chief Enterprise Architect, US Office Housing and Urban Development
Neil McAllister, Senior Editor, InfoWorld

 
Hon. Mark Forman
KPMG, Former U.S. Administrator for E-Government and IT

Mr. Forman recently joined KPMG LLP as the leader of the Federal Civilian Preferred Providers Services organization, where he is responsible for KPMG's Risk Advisory Services work for Civilian agencies of the Federal Government. He recently resigned from Cassatt Corporation (San Jose, California) where he was a co-founder and Executive Vice President, Worldwide Services since joining in August 2003. Cassatt provides enterprise software and services to help clients automate information technology operations and provide on-demand computing.

From June 2001 through August 2003, Mr. Forman was appointed by President George W. Bush to be the Administrator E-Government and Information Technology, the Federal government's first chief information officer. From his position at the White House, Mr. Forman managed over $58 billion of IT investments, led the President's effort to create a more productive, citizen-centric government, and was responsible for the development and implementation of IT policies, including security and privacy. He established and drove the federal government's IT investment decision-making process and Federal Enterprise Architecture, ensuring alignment of IT spending with the country's most pressing needs.

 
Christopher F. Fornecker
Chief Technology Officer, GSA

Chris Fornecker was commissioned as a US Army Signal Officer in 1972 from West Point. During his 26-year Army career, he held tactical signal officer positions in infantry, artillery, and signal battalions located in Alaska and Korea. After receiving a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, he spent the latter half of his career as a program manager and acquisition corps officer, specializing in information technology. Chris spent the last four years on active duty as the Chief of the System Engineering and Architecture Division, in the Army Digitization Office, where he was responsible for defining and developing an overall enterprise architecture supporting the Army's digitization effort. In 1998 he retired and became the Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Advanced Systems and Concepts) and managed information technology related pilot projects supporting Commander in Chiefs of our armed forces. He became the General Services Administration Chief Technology Officer in November 2000 where he is focusing on enterprise architecture, and capital planning. He is married, has two children and resides in Burke, VA.

 
Steve Fox
Editor-in-Chief, InfoWorld

Steve oversees day-to-day editorial operations for InfoWorld Media Group and is responsible for managing strategic development and implementation of editorial initiatives. He brings 25 years of publishing experience to the job, including, most recently, three-plus years as editorial director of CNET, where he directed coverage for both CNET.com and ZDNet.

Steve is no newcomer to IDG. Previously, he held positions of editor-in-chief at pcworld.com, editor at PC World magazine, and editor-in-chief at The Web Magazine. Steve also worked for Omni magazine (where he was Managing Editor for four years), Popular Mechanics, and the IEEE. He graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in English.

 
Brian Husted
Chief Architect, Grants.gov

Brian Husted is the chief architect of Grants.gov. Managed by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Grants.gov is a citizen-centric SOA that provides an electronic portal to streamline over $400B in grants management throughout the federal government. As part of the Northrop Grumman system integration team, Mr. Husted is responsible for defining the future SOA strategy and scalability planning. In 2004, he was instrumental in architecting the Grants.gov web services interface that connects numerous grantee institutions and the 26 federal grant making agencies.

In addition to Grants.gov, Mr. Husted is the co-architect of an emerging enterprise application security framework for the National Cancer Institute-a division of NIH. He is also an active contributor in the open source community and was recently credited for solving SOAP attachment interoperability between the Apache Axis and Microsoft .NET web services frameworks.

 
Eric Knorr
Executive Editor, InfoWorld

Eric Knorr is executive editor at large for InfoWorld. He brings 20 years of technology journalism experience to the planning, development, and execution of feature articles that serve the needs of enterprise IT managers. Knorr is the former editor of PC World magazine, the creator of the best-selling PC Bible, a founding editor of CNET, and a veteran of several dot-com follies. A winner of the Neal and Computer Press awards for journalistic excellence, he has written hundreds of articles on desktop and enterprise technology. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

 
Russell Kuehn
Program Manager, Department of Treasury

Russell Kuehn is the Program Manager for Pay.gov, a Governmentwide transaction portal that offers a suite of electronic financial services to assist federal agencies with online collections. In this capacity, Mr. Kuehn is responsible for program oversight, ensuring that the Pay.gov portal remains an efficient service delivery mechanism. Prior to this position, Mr. Kuehn served as Project Manager for IT systems at the U.S. Mint. Overall, he has worked at the Department of Treasury in various project management roles of increasing responsibility since 1999. Before entering public service, Mr. Kuehn served as a civil engineering consultant for six years. He received his Masters of Business Administration from the University of Buffalo and his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Villanova University.

 
Gene Leganza
Vice President, Forrester Research

Gene leads Forrester's newly formed public sector group, researching best practices in the use of business technology in federal, provincial/state, and local governments. For the past five years, Gene has focused on IT management issues, concentrating on enterprise architecture efforts in both the public and private sectors.

Gene has 25 years of IT experience, including application development, infrastructure support, performance management, capacity planning, product strategy, IT management, and enterprise architecture planning. Gene came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, he was director of capacity planning and infrastructure architecture at John Hancock in Boston. Previously, he held senior IT positions at First Data Corporation and Fidelity Investments, as well as development and marketing management positions at BGS Systems (now BMC Software) and Bachman Information Systems (now Sterling Software).

Gene has published papers on various topics and has spoken at local and national Computer Measurement Group, DB2 Users' Group, and Sybase Users' Group conferences.

Gene earned a B.A. in psychology and music from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.

 
David S. Linthicum
Application Integration and SOA Expert

David S. Linthicum is an internationally known application integration and service oriented architecture expert. In his career, David has formed many of the ideas for modern distributed computing including EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and B2B application integration, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches and technology in wide use today.

Dave is the former CTO of Mercator and has held key technology management roles with a number of organizations including CTO of SAGA Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. In addition, he has authored over 500 articles for major computing publications and has monthly columns in several popular industry magazines.

 
Stephen Lowe
Chief Enterprise Architect, US Office Housing and Urban Development

Mr. Lowe is the Chief Enterprise Architect with the US Office Housing and Urban Development. His federal government experience includes 17 years of public service with the US Postal Service, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as a detail assignment with Office of Management and Budget Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office. His current work focuses on the optimization of organization architecture structure and processes to improve new business model deployment. Mr. Lowe has graduate degrees in Information Technology from the University of Virginia and in Public Administration from Virginia Tech, and the bachelor of Political Science from James Madison University. He is a resident of Northern Virginia located several miles outside Washington, DC. He may be contacted at Stephen_Lowe@hud.gov.

 
Neil McAllister
Senior Editor, InfoWorld

Neil is a senior editor at InfoWorld. Over the last seven years he has written hundreds of articles about computing and information technology, appearing in such diverse publications as The Industry Standard, Mobile magazine, PC World New Zealand, PricewaterhouseCoopers strategic guides, and SFGate.com. Prior to joining InfoWorld he served as senior editor for CMP Media's Web Techniques and New Architect magazines, in addition to acting as technical lead for Web design agency Red Sky Interactive, for such clients as Citibank and Nike. He is also the creator of "The Adventures of Action Item, Professional Superhero.".