Elwood Coslett is a Director in the Intel IT
Engineering organization. Elwood attended the University of Oregon and
joined Intel in 1984. Prior to his current role, Elwood was responsible
for the architecture and engineering of Intel’s global computing
environment supporting silicon design. Over the past ten years his
strategic programs in this area have resulted in over $1 Billion in cost
savings and/or avoidance in leading the RISC to Intel Architecture
migration of the engineering environment and most recently as the
architect behind the implementation of Intel’s compute grid for Design
enabling virtual access and use of Intel’s 70,000 + server base. His
current responsibilities include strategy, architecture and engineering
of IT’s internal Cloud, High Performance Computing, and overall Data
Center strategy and capability roadmaps.
Chris Hynes is the Senior Director of Worldwide
Operations in the Network and Data Center Services (NDCS) group at Cisco
Systems, Inc. Chris joined Cisco in October, 2007 and oversees the
support teams that deliver technology resources and services, while
maintaining the flow and processing of information across Cisco’s
enterprise globally.
Chris is a member of the NDCS Senior Leadership team
reporting directly to John Manville, Cisco’s Vice President of IT
Network and Data Center Services. Chris’s primary focus is on driving
operational excellence, he leads the cultural change within Cisco to
view the Network and Data Center services as a business with an emphasis
on quality and value. Additionally, Chris is leading the IT
Virtualization initiative at Cisco.
Prior to Cisco, Chris spent most of his career running
IT functions within financial institutions. However just before joining
Cisco he was with BT Global Services where he served as Business
Development Director responsible for European-wide sales of high-value
outsourced IT services.
Chris originally qualified as an Electronics Engineer
before graduating from Southbank University with a Business degree, and
earned his MBA from the London Guildhall University in the UK.
Originally from Newbury, England, Chris now lives in
the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mary Lynne Nielsen
has worked in the standards field for over 20 years, supporting the
creation of consensus documents at the IEEE Standards Association
(IEEE-SA). Currently, she is the Director of Corporate Programs for the
IEEE-SA, overseeing its corporate standards development and outreach
programs as well as its emerging technologies program. Mary Lynne is
responsible for the development of the cloud computing standards
strategy for the IEEE-SA. A graduate of Indiana University, Mary Lynne
is the recipient of an IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation
as well as an Appreciation Award from the IEEE-SA Standards Board.
John Shea, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Director
of Enterprise Services & Integration for the Department of Defense,
Office of the Chief Information Officer. He assists the DoD CIO in
leading the development and implementation of integrated Enterprise
Services and innovative information sharing solutions. Mr. Shea is
responsible for establishing the plans, policies, technical strategies,
and data standards spanning the DoD net-centric environment.
Additionally, he is transforming the culture of DoD information
management to focus on future capabilities in cloud computing, advanced
portals, collaboration, identity & access management, enterprise
piloting, Communities of Interest, and multinational interoperability.
As the co-chair of the Enterprise Services Review Group, Mr. Shea serves
as a senior level visionary and DoD CIO pathfinder for using enterprise
services to deliver an information advantage to our people and mission
partners.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Shea served as the
Technical Director for the Navy’s Program Office for Battlespace
Awareness and Information Operations (PEO C4I PMW120) with technical
oversight of a diverse portfolio that included: Intelligence,
Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting support; Information
Operations; Meteorology and Oceanography; and, Maritime Domain
Awareness. Mr. Shea served as Technical Director and Chief Engineer in
an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment from the University
of New Orleans where he held a faculty position as a Senior Research
Associate in the Computer Science Department.
Mr. Shea held a number of senior executive management
positions within private industry including: Vice President SeaSpace
Corporation; Director of Advance Systems for Pennzoil Products Corp;
President/CEO of DDS, Inc.; President/CEO of COMSOL Corporation; and,
Information Technologies Consultant to a number of leading technology
companies.
Born in Portland, Maine, 1946, he moved with his
family to Southern California in 1950 and located in San Diego in 1958.
Mr. Shea is the proud father of three grown children and an over
indulgent grandfather of two grandchildren. His favorite hobbies
include golf, travel, and a passion for Italy. He holds a Bachelor’s
degree in Business Administration from San Diego State, and a MBA from
the Pepperdine University School of Business and Management.
Daniel Steinberg is a Lead Associate at Booz
Allen Hamilton. He leads legal and regulatory compliance analyses,
develops privacy and security programs, develops and conducts training
and awareness programs, leads research efforts, and provides consulting
expertise related to federal legislation including the Privacy Act of
1974, the privacy provisions of the Federal Information Security
Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, and the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. Since joining Booz Allen in 2002,
Mr. Steinberg has worked with clients from a broad range of
organizations, including the Departments of Justice, Defense, Health and
Human Services, and the Veterans Administration. As a contributing
author on several NIST publications, including Special Publications on
the HIPAA Security Rule (800-66) and the protection of personally
identifiable information (PII) (800-122), he has contributed
significantly to the understanding of the role of privacy professionals
within the federal government.
In the field of health privacy, Mr. Steinberg has held
leadership roles on projects for the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR), National Cancer Institute,
the Veterans Administration, and the National Institutes of Health. His
current projects for HHS OCR include providing subject matter expertise
in developing courses on the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules for state
attorneys general, and recommending audit methodologies for the HIPAA
Privacy and Security Rules. For the NCI, he lead a group of health
policy and research professionals in assessing the privacy implications
of the NCI’s cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG™), a large-scale
data sharing initiative that is critical to the NCI’s goal of “ending
the pain and death due to cancer by 2012.” He holds a certification in
Information Security Fundamentals from the SANS Institute, a Certified
Information Privacy Professional/Government (CIPP/G) certification, a
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, and is a member of
the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the
Massachusetts State Bar.
Dr. Joseph Williams
is the Senior Director for Cloud Connect strategies in Microsoft’s
Unified Communications (UC) product team. In his current role his teams
provide the engineering behind connecting Microsoft’s UC cloud offerings
to those of its cloud partners. In his previous role Joseph was the CTO
for Microsoft’s Worldwide Enterprise Sales organization and was the
leader of the technical sales organization driving $25 billion in
revenue. Dr. Williams has also been an executive member of Microsoft’s
Customer Advocacy Board and has managed a number of customer councils,
including the Deployment Council and the Global Enterprise Architecture
Summit. He has also heavily involved in projects involving innovation
management, collaboration, global identity architectures, regulatory
compliance, open standards architecture, green IT architectures, and the
technology management issues that arise from mergers, acquisitions, and
divestitures.
Prior to Microsoft
Dr. Williams was at Sun Microsystems as a global solutions architect and
eventually as Chief Technology Strategist; he was also at JD Edwards as
a director in its customer service organization. For many years he was
also an associate professor at Colorado State University in the College
of Business teaching technology strategy and a variety of courses in
networking. He has authored 3 books and over 50 articles while also
launching 3 successful start-ups prior to the Dot.Com era. Dr. Williams
is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley in Economics,
from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in Communication Arts, and
from the University of Texas at Austin for his MBA and PhD in Business.
Angela
Yochem is the Business Information Executive for Dell Services, an
$8B segment of business for the multi-national technology company. In
this role, she is accountable for all IT supporting the Dell Services
business. Additionally, Angela is the Corporate Technology Executive
responsible for Dell corporate systems. Prior to holding this role,
Angela was responsible for Enterprise IT Strategy, Architecture and
Shared Application Services at Dell, where she drove strategy across a
portfolio in excess of $1 Billion and delivered large-scale foundational
technologies.
Angela is recognized as an innovative leader with
expertise in profitability and agility in complex environments, and has
a track record of significant cost/risk reductions. She has held senior
roles at Bank of America, IBM, SunTrust and UPS. Prior to her executive
leadership roles, Angela specialized in design and delivery of
large-scale distributed systems and solutions to complex integration and
convergence challenges.
Angela is a published author with Prentice-Hall and
Addison-Wesley, a US Patent holder, and is one of nine Fellows worldwide
of the International Association of Software Architects. She serves on
the board of Dell’s Women in Science and Engineering organization, where
she chairs the Executive Women subgroup, and is the co-chair of the
board of Dell’s GenNext affinity group, where her focus is on technology
innovation. Angela holds a seat on the executive team of Global EXEC
Women Magazine, and speaks at executive forums and events in the
United States and abroad.
Ms. Yochem received her Bachelor of Music in
performance from DePauw University and a Master of Science in computer
science from the University of Tennessee.
