FCW Summit:
CDM

Troy K. Schneider is the Editor-in-Chief of both FCW and GCN, two of the oldest and most influential publications in public-sector IT. Both publications (originally known as Federal Computer Week and Government Computer News, respectively) are owned by GovExec. Mr. Schneider also serves GovExec's General Manager for Government Technology Brands.

Mr. Schneider previously served as New America Foundation’s Director of Media & Technology, and before that was Managing Director for Electronic Publishing at the Atlantic Media Company, where he oversaw the online operations of The Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, The Hotline and The Almanac of American Politics, among other publications. The founding editor of NationalJournal.com, Mr. Schneider also helped launch the political site PoliticsNow.com in the mid-1990s, and worked on the earliest online efforts of the Los Angeles Times and Newsday. He began his career in print journalism, and has written for a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, WashingtonPost.com, Slate, Politico, Governing, and many of the other titles listed above.

Mr. Schneider is a graduate of Indiana University, where his emphases were journalism, business and religious studies.

Kevin Cox is the Program Manager for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program within the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this position, Mr. Cox leads the effort working collaboratively with federal agencies and industry to deploy cybersecurity solutions to identify agency networks and assets and protect them and agency data in near real-time against the growing cybersecurity threats.

Prior to joining DHS, Mr. Cox served as the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Department of Justice, where he oversaw the organization’s cybersecurity continuous monitoring capabilities and the security posture dashboard. Mr. Cox holds M.A. degrees from West Virginia University and the University of Chicago.

David Meltzer is a security industry pioneer bringing a unique blend of technical expertise, entrepreneurial skill and market vision to his current position as Tripwire's Chief Technology Officer. David joined Tripwire through its acquisition of nCircle, where he served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering. Immediately prior to joining nCircle, David was Founder and Chief Technology officer at Cambia Security, where he pioneered the industry’s first agentless configuration compliance auditing solution. A respected security researcher who founded the industry’s first security vulnerability research group, the ISS X-Force, David is credited with the discovery of numerous security vulnerabilities. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Robert Peters serves as the Senior Legislative Assistant for Congressman John Ratcliffe (R-TX) who is the former chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection and currently serves on the House Intelligence Committee and House Judiciary Committee, where he is the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. Robert’s legislative portfolio includes an array of issues including cybersecurity, technology, homeland security, telecommunications and appropriations. Robert has helped lead efforts on cybersecurity policy initiatives involving the CDM program, collaborative efforts between the private sector and the federal government on cyber innovation, and other cybersecurity initiatives focusing on domestic and national security policy.

A devout Christian and Cybersecurity Program Manager with over 15 years experience in providing enterprise-wide IT & Cybersecurity solutions to several Federal Civilian Agencies, Defense and Private Industries. Directly engages and supports senior level executives (CIOs, CISOs, COOs, CTOs, etc.) to manage business and IT security risks by planning and implementing strategic cybersecurity solutions that align with the organization’s vision, mission, and goals.

Bernard graduated with a B.S in Computer Science and M.S in Information Security & Assurance from George Mason University (GMU), Fairfax VA. He also holds several IT certifications to include a GMU graduate certificate in Computer Networking, Federal Acquisition Certification in Program and Project Management (FAC P/PM Level 3), Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP), Project Management Professional (PMP), etc.

Currently, Bernard serves as an IT Security Program Manager in the HHS Office of Information Security (OIS) where he oversees the development, implementation, and enhancement of IT security programs, policies, procedures, and technical capabilities across the HHS Enterprise. In this role Bernard develops and manages relationships across the HHS Operating Divisions and other Federal and Defense Agencies. Bernard is also the Agency CDM Program Manager and DHS POC for the Department. He has established the CDM Program at HHS and continues to implement and integrate cybersecurity capabilities at all HHS OpDivs to provide visibility into security posture for efficient risk management.

To unwind, Bernard enjoys playing soccer, watching movies and spending time with his wife Janet, and his children Janelle, Bernard Jr, and Hallie.

Paul Tobia is the Technical Security Manager for the Global Channel Partner network at Sumo Logic. His vast experience enables him to advise and support the Cybersecurity posture for several complex deployments for MSSP and MDR services throughout the globe. Prior to Sumo Logic, Paul was Director of a 24x7 SOC providing monitoring for multiple large US state government agencies as well as commercial organizations in transportation, retail, finance, and manufacturing. Mr Tobia has participated in many high-profile boards and held important positions over his 20 year Cybersecurity career. Paul has been a board member of the San Diego CISO Round Table for over 6 years. He was also Information Security Officer for a large Southern California health care organization and a strategic advisor to CISOs in the southwest USA

Dr. West is a career technologist and business leader with over 30 years in the information technology field with an emphasis on Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing.

He is currently the Founder / CEO of West Wing Advisory Services, LLC. He recently retired in May 2018 as the Senior Advisor and Senior Accountable Official for Risk Management at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This included spearheading the Cybersecurity Executive Order. Prior positions in the private sector have included being President of MicroTech, President of Mason Harriman Group and Executive Vice President of SE Solutions.

He has 28 years of government service to include being Chief Information Officer (CIO) at six different government organizations – Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), Department of Commerce (DOC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during hurricane Katrina and the National Weather Service (NWS). He also was briefly the Acting Deputy CIO at (DHS) prior to his retirement.

His government service also included time in the U.S. Air Force where he was selected as the top individual for his career field by winning the Weather Observer of the Year Award from among 2,000+ competitors.

He is the past President of two of the largest government IT associations in the United States: American Council for Technology (ACT) and the Association for Federal Information Resources Management (AFFIRM). He was presented the AFFIRM President’s Award in Public Sector for 2017-2018.

He has represented the United States Government Information Technology community at four different world-wide gatherings of NATO countries.

Dr. West completed his Executive Doctorate degree in Business from Georgia State University with a focus on Cloud Computing in 2014. He was appointed in 2017 by Georgia State University to be their Executive-In-Residence. He has published in IEEE Computer Society, IT Professional journal and the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) journal article where his research focusing on cloud computing was selected for publication.

Dr. West received an Honorary Doctorate degree in Business from his alma mater Northern Michigan University in May 2015 where he also delivered the Commencement Speech for the Spring 2015 graduates.

He is also an Emeritus member of the Government Business Executive Forum (GBEF) and was recently appointed the co-chair for the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) Government 2020.

Greg brings 22 years in business development, capture management, proposal management, and global program strategy and execution to serving the Federal marketplace. Currently, he focuses on Federal Civilian Agencies as the Director of Business Development and Capture at Juniper Networks. Prior to Juniper, Greg was a Federal Capture Manager at Dell and previous to Dell, he was a Sr. Manager of Business Development at Lucent Technologies in the Latin American/Caribbean region. Greg resides with his wife and son in Reston Virginia. For recreation he enjoys attending the theatre, hiking, skiing, and golf.

Greg is a Member of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals with a Certified Practitioner (CP.APMP) designation. His academic career consists of an MBA/MS International Business from the University of Miami, and a BS in International Economics and BA in Spanish from Texas Tech University.

Mr. Begnell is the Deputy Director of the Enterprise Network Management Office within the Department of State’s Information Resource Management Bureau. In this role, he leads the operational implementation of CDM at the Department while also managing the Department’s global network infrastructure.

Mr. Begnell is career member of the Senior Foreign Service at the rank of Counselor. During his 24 years with the Department, he has served at our Missions in Armenia, Japan, China, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, Afghanistan, and South Korea. Mr. Begnell is also a US Navy veteran.

Mark Steffler co-leads the Federal Government Practice for HID SAFE and is active in the Secure Technology Alliance Identity and Access Councils and is equally active in the Security Industry Association (SIA) government initiatives. Mark graduated with an electrical engineering and computer science degree from the University of Texas and has spent the last 30+ years in both commercial and government enterprise security practices. For the last ten years, Mark has focused on helping government enterprise align with the Federal Identity Credential and Access Management (FICAM) initiative, and more recently achieve logical and physical convergence though the Continuous Diagnostic Mitigation Program (CDM) especially as it relates to physical access and security.

Mr. Ranjeev Mittu leads more than 25 people focused on research in visual analytics and augmented reality, immersive training systems, intelligent decision support algorithms and applications, distributed systems, and enterprise and service oriented architectures.

His own research expertise is in multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition and anomaly detection. He co-authored and co-edited five books about artificial intelligence, written five book chapters, and has more than 70 publications in various journals.

Mr. Mittu has served on NRL’s Invention Evaluation Board and Long Term Training Selection Panel. In addition, he has served as a technology subject matter expert for the Joint IED Defeat Organization and is actively involved with national and international scientific committees and panels.

Mr. Mittu received a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995 from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Brent Hansen is Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies Chief Technology Officer. Brent leads Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies’ sales engineering organization and spends the majority of his time evangelizing and strategizing on data-centric approaches for federal agencies looking to avert being the next victim of a data breach.

Brent brings over 19 years of IT experience in data and enterprise architecture, data warehousing, big data, and business intelligence. He is an industry expert in data encryption and tokenization. He leads teams that architect security strategies to secure and protect sensitive data for both federal government and large commercial enterprises across the globe.

Guy Cavallo has a lifelong passion for leveraging technology to improve the delivery of government services and capabilities to our citizens. He joined SBA as the Deputy CIO in 2017 as the next step in his career, which has been almost evenly split between the private and public sectors. Before rejoining the federal government in 2015, Cavallo spent almost two decades in the private sector implementing innovative technologies in state and local government entities, including nine years as a Senior Government Technology Advisor at the Microsoft Corporation.

In 2018, Cavallo received both the Federal 100 and the fedScoop 50 for Federal Technology Leadership awards for his leadership of SBA’s modernization efforts. He received his first Federal 100 award twenty years earlier for his leadership in standing up the Corporation for National Service. He was recently nominated for the fedScoop Best Bosses in Federal IT award.

Christopher Morales is Head of Security Analytics at Vectra, where he advises and designs incident response and threat management programs for Fortune 500 enterprise clients. He has nearly two decades of information security experience in an array of cybersecurity consulting, sales, and research roles. Christopher is a widely respected expert on cybersecurity issues and technologies and has researched, written and presented numerous information security architecture programs and processes.

Anne Armstrong is Chief Content and Alliance Officer of Public Sector 360.

David is a career information systems professional, with over 30 years experience across a broad cross-section of industries including government, military, space systems, commercial, non-profit and manufacturing. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified ScrumMaster. He is currently working as a lead cyber solutions architect supporting multiple federal agencies in the areas of Cybersecurity and Enterprise Identity and Access Management, including compliance and governance.

Katherine “Katie” Arrington currently is the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, ASD(A), for Cyber. In this position, she serves as the central hub and integrator within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, OUSD(A&S), to align acquisition cyber strategy.

As the cyber lead and programmatic analytic advisor for strategic cyber programs, Ms. Arrington is responsible for conducting analysis within the major defense acquisition program portfolio and across the Department of Defense. This cross functional analysis will ensure transparency within the acquisition strategy, interoperability between enterprise networks, and compliance strategies for cyber initiatives. She also meets with key Cyber personnel (across both DoD and Federal Agencies) as well as legislators to ensure that changes made in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) are supportive in reaching the goals of decreased spending and increased compliance with current and future standards. The final focal point will be on protecting the Department’s intellectual property/data and securing our weapon systems and critical infrastructure.

Before assuming her position in OUSD(A&S), Ms. Arrington had an extensive career as a legislator and senior cyber executive. Ms. Arrington was a candidate for South Carolina US House of Representative 2018 and a South Carolina State Representative for 2 terms. She has substantial experience and capabilities in cyber strategy, policy, enablement and implementation across a wide range of domains, including DoD, Federal, Healthcare and State. She acquired her experience in cyber over the past 15 years with Booz Allen Hamilton, Centuria Corporation and Dispersive Networks. This has given her the unique experience of working at a large business, small business and non-traditional contractor for the government. She attended Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.

Dr. Scott Miserendino leads BluVector’s research and analytics team as the company’s VP Research and Development. His responsibilities are to enhance the analyst's ability to identify, reason over and act on previously unknown threats. In doing so, he oversees the development of BluVector's machine learning-based analytic engines, speculative execution engine and the design of the user experience and workflows around BluVector's analytic approach. He investigates static and dynamic features of software's system and networks with the goal of identifying differentiating composition and behaviors between malicious and benign applications.

Dr. Miserendino has over 10 years of industry experience. This includes five years working on advance network sensors and cyber security analytics for US Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. As a principal investigator in Northrop Grumman’s Information Systems’ Cyber Division he led independent research efforts in studying novel visualizations of cyberspace including large-scale, customizable network maps. In various other roles at Northrop Grumman, he contributed to advance research projects in microfluid heat spreaders, cryogenic thermoelectric coolers, synthetic aperture radar imagery systems, and ballistic missile defense modeling.

Dr. Miserendino earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and mathematical sciences from Johns Hopkins University and a masters and doctorate in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He has published more than ten scholarly papers, one book chapter, and holds three US patents.

Chris Jensen is the Public Sector Business Development Manager at Tenable, where he develops and supports strategic cybersecurity initiatives and programs in federal, state, and local markets. Prior to joining Tenable in 2017, Chris served in a broad range of leadership roles in Public Sector IT contracting, including business operations, contract and program management, business development and capture. Chris began his professional career as an officer in the U.S. Navy. After leaving active service, he continued to serve in the U.S. Navy Reserve until his retirement in 2008. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Chris also holds a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.

Jennifer Clarke oversees multiple federal contracting activities including the DEFEND contracts for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Prior to joining GSA, Ms. Clarke has served as a principal assistant program manager at the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command and a deputy program manager at the Naval Air Systems Command.

With 30 years of federal and private sector industry experience, Egon Rinderer leads Tanium’s technology efforts as global vice president of technology as well chief technology officer of Tanium Federal. Joining Tanium at a time when the company numbered fewer than 20 employees, he has held roles ranging from technical account manager to federal pod lead to global vice president of the global TAM organization. Prior to joining Tanium, Egon was with Intel Corporation and served throughout the U.S. military and intelligence community in the United States and abroad in an operational capacity.

Ms. Goodwine serves as the Chief Information Security Officer for the US Department of Agriculture. She has over 26 years of Information Technology experience spanning private industry, contracting, active and reserve military service, and the federal government. Her experience includes leading large IT organizations, developing agency-wide strategy and policy, establishing governance, overseeing cybersecurity operations, executing IT acquisition, and program management.

Prior to her current position, Ms. Goodwine served as a cyber advisor to the Marine Corps Systems Command leadership responsible for delivering capabilities to the USMC warfighter. Her diverse roles include Commander of an Air Force Cyber Squadron, Lead Cyber Policy Analyst at Headquarters Air Force, Pacific Region Communications Planner, and USMC Program Manager/Regional Contracting Officer Representative.

Ms. Goodwine received numerous awards and decorations for her leadership, innovation, technical expertise and creative problem solving skills.

Ms. Goodwine earned a Masters of Business Administration from William Carey University, Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science from University of Maryland, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from ISC2, Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute (PMI), and DAWIA Level 3 Certification in Information Technology from Defense Acquisition University (DAU).

Ms. Goodwine is married to Air Force Chief Master Sergeant (retired) Rod Goodwine; together they have six children and one grandchild.

Ben Liberty is the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program Manager for the Department of the Interior (DOI). In this position, Mr. Liberty supports DOI's Executive leadership and Bureaus and Offices to implement CDM as an Enterprise Program throughout the Department. Prior to joining DOI as a Federal employee, Mr. Liberty was a contractor who supported the Department's efforts as an early adopter of the CDM Program since 2013.