ATARC Government Advisory Board
Cris Brown
Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, NRC
Rona Bunn
Chief Information Officer, ITA
Mike Cassidy
Chief Technology Officer, Department of Justice, United States Trustees Program
Edward Dowgiallo
Chief Enterprise Architect, Federal Transit Administration
Lon Gowen
Chief Technologist and Special Advisor to the CIO, USAID
Bill Hunt
Chief Enterprise Architect, SBA
Luwanda Jones
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of Strategic Sourcing, VA
LT Kenneth Miltenberger
Mobility and Communications Requirements Manager, USCG
Renata Spinks
Senior Cyber Technology Officer, USMC
John Sprague
Deputy Associate Chief Information Officer for Transformation and Data, Deputy Chief Data Officer, NASA
Ron Thompson
Associate Chief Information Officer, Chief Data Officer, NASA
Gary Washington
Chief Information Officer, USDA
Jack Wayman
Director, Integration Improvement Initiatives, Army
Joanne Woytek
Program Manager, NASA
ATARC Industry Advisory Board
Gail Azaroff
Federal Sales Director, Pluralsight
Walter Bigelow
Director, Federal Systems, SAIC
Brian Bonacci
Senior Director- Federal Partnerships & Channels, Equinix
Natalie Carey
Senior Director- Federal Civilian Practice- Appian
Jackie Everett
Vice President Business Development & Strategy, Leidos
Ivette Granier-Smith
Vice President, ASRC Federal
Karina Homme
Senior Director, Microsoft
Frank Lancaster
Federal Systems Integrators, Account Manager, Check Point
Matt Mandrgoc
Head of U.S. Federal, Zoom
Monica McEwen
Vice President Public Sector, ThoughtSpot
Darryl Peek
Head of Federal Strategic Partnerships, Google
Kim Reinke
Vice President of Enterprise Advisory Services, Redhorse
David Rubin
Principle Director, Azure Government Engineering, Microsoft
Bill Rucker
President, Trustwave
Sanjay Sardar
Vice President Modernization and Digital Transformation, SAIC
Chad Sheridan
Chief Innovation Officer, NetImpact Strategies Inc.
Simon Szykman
Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer, Attain
Chris Townsend
Vice President, Federal, UiPath
Steve Vetter
Federal Strategist and Senior Strategic Solution Executive, Cisco
Gary Williams
Senior Business Development Executive, Booz Allen Hamilton
Tristen Yancey
Vice President of Federal, Flexera
David Yang
Vice President, ICF
John Zangardi
President, Redhorse
ATARC Emeritus Advisory Board
Adriane Burton
Chief Information Officer, HRSA
Mike Vande Woude
Founder and President, MVW Consultants
Kimberly Hancher
Principal Consultant, Deep Water Point
Denise Hill
Deputy Chief Information Officer, DOE
John Sullivan
Director, Information Resources Management Division, GSA
ATARC Influencers
Jona Blocker
AI SME, HTLC
Steve Cooper
Owner, Strategic Information Concepts
Amy Fadida
President & CEO, A.M. Fadida Consulting
Robert Efrus
Founder & CEO, Efrus Federal Advisors
Sarah Fahden
Chief Executive Officer, LightFeather.io
Simon Hartley
Strategic Accounts, Startup and Cyber Security Leader
Bill James
Independent Consultant,
FedSmarts LLC
Robert Merriner
Partner, The Emery Group LLC
Randy Siegel
Founder & CEO, Center Circle Consultants
Pete Tseronis
Founder & CEO, Dots & Bridges
Barry West
Founder & CEO, West Wing Advisory Services
Harold Youra
President, Alliance Solutions, LLC
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.