PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, Washington, DC                                                                                               2003 to Present

Chief Information Officer/Co-Chief Privacy Officer

The FEC is an independent regulatory agency that tracks and discloses campaign finance contributions and enforces the provisions of the law.

Provided executive leadership as a member of the Senior Executive team with direct reports including two Deputy CIO.

¨         Championed change management for implementing comprehensive Presidential and Legislative directives and weaving them into supporting overall agency business practices.

¨          Implemented virtualization technology as part of the production and disaster recovery environment that reduced expenses by five million dollars.

¨         Utilized Open Source Code alternatives that supported the enterprise architecture; as a result saved over a million dollars a year over previous contracting costs.

¨         Outsourced non-critical development functions in a manner that kept expenses within operational constraints.

¨         Envisioned and directed the implementation of innovative search technology incorporating advanced cross-referential capability; including the new “shepardizing” functionality displaying results for final Commission opinions and rulemakings.

¨         Led a critical implementation of a web-based geographical application with real-time complex comparison searches on campaign contribution data exceeding over a billion dollars in campaign contributions. 

¨         Speaker at international conferences demonstrating data visualization technology of how government agency's can involve citizens with powerful and easy to use geographic visualization technology.

¨         As the Co-Chief Privacy Officer developed and implemented privacy policies and procedures and successfully lead the agency through their first 522 Privacy Audit.

¨         Established an IT project review board comprised of senior managers to ensure proper oversight of IT project portfolios.

¨         Implemented legislative directives to protect personally identifiable information (PII) and agency sensitive data.

¨         Improved operational readiness by enhancing customer support and availability of systems for internal customers and citizens accessing the Campaign Finance Disclosure system.

 ¨        Developed strategic plans to align technology initiatives and budget dollars to  support mission critical needs of the agency. 

¨         Directed an agency wide initiative that delivered data mining solutions merging data from the top 101 media markets with the FEC disclosure database; concluding results were published for all House, Senate and Presidential candidates. 

¨         Worked closely with the Office of Counsel General in the interpretation of regulations; subsequently engineered the integration of new eFiling capabilities to support commission rulemakings. 

¨         Established a data quality team to identify data integrity issues and implemented procedural improvements.

¨         Significantly enhanced the searchable imaging system hosting millions of electronically filed campaign finance forms. 

¨         Established a vision to implement an agency wide enterprise content management strategy.

¨         Spearheaded the transition of 15 legacy systems into an integrated web-based multi-tier J2EE architecture supported by an enterprise integration framework with consolidated reporting tools.  

¨         Launched a Cyber Security division and implemented security policies & procedures that focused on upgrading firewall, network, virus/spam protection tools, messaging systems and protection of agency sensitive information.