ATARC Government Advisory Board
Stacie Alboum
Deputy Director, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health**
Ian Anderson
Lead DevSecOps Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
Melvin Brown II
Associate Chief Information Officer for Strategy & Policy at U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Rona Bunn
Chief Information Officer, ITA
Gerald J. Caron III
Chief Information Officer (CIO), Assistant Inspector General for Information Technology (AIG/IT), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Amber Chaudhry
Customer Experience Lead, US Small Business Administration (SBA)
Chakib Chraibi, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Chief Data Scientist/Acting Associate Director, Office of Data Services, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Department of Commerce
Mittal Desai
Chief Information Officer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Edward Dowgiallo
Chief Enterprise Architect, Federal Transit Administration
Lon Gowen
Chief Data Officer and Senior Data Scientist Excellence in Government Senior Fellow Dale Carnegie Senior Fellow, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Bill Hunt
Assistant Director, Cloud COE with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Theresa Kinney
Deputy Program Manager/Director for Operations and Communications, NASA SEWP
Rayvn Manuel
Sr. Application Developer/Architect | DevOps Engineer, Smithsonian Institution | National Museum of African American History & Culture
LT Kenneth Miltenberger
Cyber Red & Blue Team Branch Chief, USCG
Robyn Rees
Senior Advisor, Office of Human Capital, U.S. Department of the Interior
Todd Simpson
Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Spence Spencer
Director, System Configuration & Delivery Automation Division, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Renata Spinks
Cyber Technology Officer, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command
John Sprague
NASA Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign Support, Data Control Officer, Co-Lead Cybersecurity, NASA
Ron Thompson
Chief Data Officer (CDO) and Deputy Digital Transformation Officer, NASA
Gary Washington
Chief Information Officer, USDA
Brian Whittaker
Director of Design and Development, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
ATARC Industry Advisory Board
Jonathan Alboum
Federal Chief Technology Officer and Principal Digital Strategist, ServiceNow
Gail Azaroff
Federal Sales Director, Pluralsight
Natalie Carey
Senior Director- Federal Civilian Practice- Appian
Jackie Everett
Chief Growth Officer, DLH Corporation
Ivette Granier-Smith
Vice President, ASRC Federal
Kevin E. Greene
Director of Security Solutions, Parasoft
Mark Guthrie
Vice President Government, FM:Systems
Anil Karmel
Co-founder and CEO, C2 Labs, Inc.
Frank Lancaster
Federal Systems Integrators, Account Manager, Check Point
Matt Mandrgoc
Head of U.S. Public Sector, Zoom
Michael Maiorana
Senior Vice President, Persado Federal
Monica McEwen
Managing Director, Deloitte
Carrie-Anne Mosley
Area Vice President, Federal, DocuSign
Keith Nakasone
Senior Strategist Strategy and Innovation, Government, Education, and Healthcare, VMware
Darryl Peek
Head of Federal Strategic Partnerships, Google
Jim Richberg
Public Sector Field CISO and VP of Information Security, Fortinet
Bill Rucker
President, Trustwave
Sanjay Sardar
Vice President Modernization and Digital Transformation, SAIC
Dean Scontras
VP SLED, Okta
Chad Sheridan
Chief Innovation Officer, NetImpact Strategies Inc.
Simon Szykman
Senior Vice President, Maximus
Chris Townsend
Vice President, Federal, UiPath
Steve Vetter
Federal Strategist and Senior Strategic Solution Executive, Cisco
Bryan Ware
CEO, Founder, Next5
Gary Williams
Senior Business Development Executive, Booz Allen Hamilton
Tristen Yancey
Vice President, Public Sector, Keeper Security, Inc.
David Yang
Vice President, ICF
John Zangardi
President, Redhorse
ATARC Emeritus Advisory Board
Adriane Burton
Chief Information Officer, HRSA
Walter Bigelow
Director, Federal Systems, SAIC
Kimberly Hancher
Principal Consultant, Deep Water Point
Denise Hill
Deputy Chief Information Officer, DOE
Luwanda Jones
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of Strategic Sourcing, VA
John Sullivan
Director, Information Resources Management Division, GSA
Mike Vande Woude
Founder and President, MVW Consultants
ATARC Academic Board
Gene Anderson
Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus and the University of California San Diego
Joe Glover
Provost and Senior Vice President, University of Florida
Jacqueline Manger
Managing Director, Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Adam Wood
Key Collaborator, Harvard University/Adjunct Instructor – Economics and Emerging Technologies, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Hasan Yasar
Technical Director of Continuous Deployment of Capability group, SSD Division of the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
ATARC Influencers
Jorge Alcazar
Chief Executive Officer and Founder at The Unmanned Advantage LLC
Jona Blocker
AI SME, HTLC
Mary Beth Borgwing
President, Co-Founder at The Cyber Guild/Digital Transformation & CyberSecurity Leadership
Steve Cooper
Owner, Strategic Information Concepts
Craig Chapman
CEO, Gap Strategies Group LLC
Amy Fadida
President & CEO, A.M. Fadida Consulting
Ken Farber
Solutions Architect - AI/ML, TekSynap
Simon Hartley
Strategic Accounts, Startup and Cyber Security Leader
Daniel Haney
Founder, Director, Secure By Design LLC, and Director, Cyber Sportsmen- Federal IT Leadership Group
Joel Horwitz
President and CEO, JAH Strategic Consulting, LLC
Bill James
Independent Consultant,
FedSmarts LLC
Jon Johnson
Principal, ConningtonSnow
Robert Merriner
Partner, The Emery Group LLC
Charlie Moskowitz
Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs, SecurityScorecard
Graham Plaster
CEO, The Intelligence Community Inc.
Stoney Trent
Founder, The Bulls Run Group, LLC and Principal Advisor, Research and Innovation, Virginia Tech
Suro Sen
President, SENTECH Corporation
Randy Siegel
Founder & CEO, Center Circle Consultants
Pete Tseronis
Founder & CEO, Dots & Bridges
Barry West
Founder & CEO, West Wing Advisory Services
Dr. Malio West
CEO, Global Accounting
Harold Youra
President, Alliance Solutions, LLC
The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) and The Government Information Technology Executive Council (GITEC) announced their merger on May 31, 2018.
The merger brought together two non-profits with similar goals that provide professional development and collaborative forums for Federal government, academia and industry to identify, discuss and resolve emerging technology challenges.
GITEC Board Members who voted to merge with ATARC were: Michelle Barr, HUD; Walter Bigelow, ATF; Adriane Burton, HSRC; Rolando Estrada, DHA; Denise Hill, DOE; Luwanda Jones, VA; Robert Lahmann, SEC; Carlo Lucchesi, FBI; Darryl Peek, DHS; Chad Sheridan, USDA RMA; John Sprague, NASA; and Natasha Varlack, USDA AMS.
GITEC was established in response to a June 28, 1966 White House memorandum to provide a forum through which Senior Level Government and Industry Executives could share and collaborate in an open forum on Information Technology (IT) ideas, challenges and successes.
For over 50 years, GITEC organized and structured an impressive array of initiatives to focus on vital and timely issues affecting the direction and future of IT, including executive seminars, workgroups, summits, committees, and for 25 years, GITEC hosted the annual Information Processing Interagency Conference.
Beginning with its 25th anniversary in 2009, GITEC changed its focus to reflect a new era for IT professionals and a new Administration. In March of 2010, GITEC hosted its first GITEC Summit.
Similar to GITEC, ATARC expanded from its original focus.
Created in September of 2012, the Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center (AMARC) was formed in response to the Digital Government Strategy, which was released earlier that year. AMARC founder Tom Suder played a prominent role in the formation of the DGS and created ATARC to continue the dialogue between government, industry and academia.
AMARC hosted a pair of Federal Mobile Computing Summits before being asked by the General Services Administration in 2013 to hold additional events on the topics of Cloud Computing and IT Networks.
As AMARC’s collaborative focus changed from Mobile to Federal IT, so too did its name. In early 2014, Suder renamed AMARC the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center and within the next year, ATARC expanded its portfolio to include Cybersecurity, DevOps, Data & Analytics and Health IT events.
In 2017, ATARC published a 235-page report to the American Technology Council and Federal CIO Council entitled Navigating the Future of Mobile Services. Produced in the spirit of the Digital Government Strategy and in conjunction with the cross-agency Mobile Services Category Team, the report was a collaborative effort between more than 160 people representing 75 agencies, bureaus and companies.
In 2018, ATARC published its 25th White Paper in conjunction with MITRE as outputs from events in the ATARC Federal IT Summit Series.
**This individual serves in his/her personal capacity.