ATARC Government Advisory Board
Amber Chaudhry
Customer Experience Lead, Bureau of Fiscal Service
Bill Hunt
Assistant Director, Cloud COE with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Brian Whittaker
Director of Design and Development, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Chakib Chraibi, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Chief Data Scientist/Acting Associate Director, Office of Data Services, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Department of Commerce
Christopher Crist
Chief of Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps), US Transportation Command
Edward Dowgiallo
Chief Enterprise Architect, Federal Transit Administration
Gary Washington
Chief Information Officer, USDA
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)
Ian Anderson
Lead DevSecOps Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
John Sprague
NASA Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign Support, Data Control Officer, Co-Lead Cybersecurity, NASA
Lon Gowen
Chief Data Officer and Senior Data Scientist Excellence in Government Senior Fellow Dale Carnegie Senior Fellow, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
LT Kenneth Miltenberger
Cyber Red & Blue Team Branch Chief, USCG
Melvin Brown II
Associate Chief Information Officer for Strategy & Policy at U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Mitchell Winans
Senior Advisor, Enterprise Digitalization at Internal Revenue Service
Mittal Desai
Chief Information Officer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Rayvn Manuel
Sr. Application Developer/Architect | DevOps Engineer, Smithsonian Institution | National Museum of African American History & Culture
Renata Spinks
Assistant Director/DeputyCIO and Senior Information Security Officer, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command
Robyn Rees
Senior Advisor, Office of Human Capital, U.S. Department of the Interior
Ron Thompson
Chief Data Officer (CDO) and Deputy Digital Transformation Officer, NASA
Rona Bunn
Chief Information Officer, ITA
Spence Spencer
Director, System Configuration & Delivery Automation Division, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Stacie Alboum
Deputy Director, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health
Theresa Kinney
Deputy Program Manager/Director for Operations and Communications, NASA SEWP
Todd Simpson
Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
ATARC Industry Advisory Board
Anil Karmel
Co-founder and CEO, C2 Labs, Inc.
Bill Rucker
President, Trustwave
Bryan Ware
CEO, Founder, Next5
Carrie-Anne Mosley
Area Vice President, Federal, DocuSign
Chad Sheridan
Chief Innovation Officer, NetImpact Strategies Inc.
Chris Townsend
Vice President, Federal, UiPath
Darryl Peek
Head of Federal Strategic Partnerships, Google
David Yang
Vice President, ICF
Dean Scontras
Vice President SLED, Okta
Frank Lancaster
Director, Federal Sales & Development, Virsec Systems
Gail Azaroff
Regional Sales Director, Pluralsight
Gary Williams
Senior Growth Executive, Booz Allen Hamilton
Ivette Granier-Smith
Vice President, ASRC Federal
Jackie Everett
Chief Growth Officer, DLH Corporation
Jim Richberg
Public Sector Field CISO and VP of Information Security, Fortinet
John Zangardi
President, Redhorse
Jonathan Alboum
Federal Chief Technology Officer and Principal Digital Strategist, ServiceNow
Keith Nakasone
Senior Strategist Strategy and Innovation, Government, Education, and Healthcare, VMware
Kevin E. Greene
Director of Security Solutions, Parasoft
Mark Guthrie
SVP & Chief Growth Officer, Mutualink
Matt Mandrgoc
Head of U.S. Public Sector, Zoom
Michael Maiorana
Senior Vice President, Persado
Monica McEwen
Managing Director, Deloitte
Natalie Carey
Senior Director- Federal Civilian Practice- Appian
Sanjay Sardar
Senior Vice President, Digital Transformation and IT Modernization, SAIC
Simon Szykman
Senior Vice President for Client Growth, Maximus
Stephen Hoffman
President, Fortinet Federal Inc
Steve Vetter
Senior Vice President for Client Growth, Cisco
Tristen Yancey
Vice President, Public Sector, Keeper Security, Inc.
ATARC Emeritus Advisory Board
Adriane Burton
Chief Information Officer, HRSA
Denise Hill
Deputy Chief Information Officer, DOE
John Sullivan
Senior Technology Advisor to the Deputy Associate Administrator for Government-Wide Policy, GSA
Kimberly Hancher
Principal Consultant, Deep Water Point
Luwanda Jones
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of Strategic Sourcing, VA
Mike Vande Woude
Founder and President, MVW Consultants
Walter Bigelow
Director, Federal Systems, SAIC
ATARC Academic Board
Adam Wood
Collaborator, Harvard University/Adjunct Instructor – Economics and Emerging Technologies, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Gene Anderson
Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus and the University of California San Diego
Hasan Yasar
Technical Director of Continuous Deployment of Capability group, SSD Division of the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Jacqueline Manger
Managing Director, Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Joe Glover
Provost and Senior Vice President, University of Florida
ATARC Influencers
Amy Fadida
President & CEO, A.M. Fadida Consulting
Barry West
Founder & CEO, West Wing Advisory Services
Bill James
President,
FedSmarts LLC
Charlie Moskowitz
Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs, SecurityScorecard
Craig Chapman
CEO, Gap Strategies Group LLC
Daniel Haney
Founder, Director, Secure By Design LLC, and Director, Cyber Sportsmen- Federal IT Leadership Group
Graham Plaster
Founder and CEO, The Intelligence Community Inc.
Harold Youra
President, Alliance Solutions, LLC
Joel Horwitz
President and CEO, JAH Strategic Consulting, LLC
Jon Johnson
Principal, ConningtonSnow
Jona Blocker
AI SME, HTLC
Jorge Alcazar
Chief Executive Officer and Founder at The Unmanned Advantage LLC
Ken Farber
Solutions Architect - AI/ML, TekSynap
Dr. Malio West
CEO, Global Accounting
Mary Beth Borgwing
President, Co-Founder at The Cyber Guild/Digital Transformation & CyberSecurity Leadership
Pete Tseronis
Founder & CEO, Dots & Bridges
Randy Siegel
Founder & CEO, Center Circle Consultants
Robert Merriner
Partner, The Emery Group LLC
Simon Hartley
Senior Vice President for Client Growth, CIS Mobile
Steve Cooper
Owner, Strategic Information Concepts
Stoney Trent
Founder, The Bulls Run Group, LLC and Principal Advisor, Research and Innovation, Virginia Tech
Suro Sen
President, SENTECH Corporation
Henry Sienkiewicz
Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University
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.
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