Just Pinched Myself ! Part of a "GovCloud Dream Team" !!

DBT-DATA provides reliable, flexible, and cost-effective data center solutions to federal, enterprise, and internet customers. With premier facilities in Ashburn, Virginia and the Cyber Integration Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia, they acquire, develop, own, and operate facilities that are not only engineered to the highest standards, but are also strategically located in the most reliable, cost-effective and risk-averse geographies.

A critical component of their aggressive pursuit of excellence is their premier Advisory Board. Ideally suited to establish relationships between their clients, commercial data center providers, and the federal integrator community, this "GovCloud Dream Team" is now in place. The DBT Advisory Board consists of:

Rear Admiral Robert C. “Willie” Williamson, USN (Ret) 

Mr. Williamson has vast experience across the industry and has played integral roles with Raytheon and Microsoft, among many others. His experience with Raytheon includes being the Director for Integrated Communication Systems (ICS) and the VP of International Programs. He was responsible for Navy C3I and ForceNet strategies which led to Raytheon’s $1 Billion NMT win. He also created and executed the International and Domestic Business Development strategy for $900 Million of sales by Raytheon Communications.

With Microsoft, he served as the Executive Director of Global Government. Mr. Williamson led the development of Microsoft’s first ever global government strategy. While there, he developed an Executive Partner Engagement Strategy and created the methodology to build key relationships with the Systems Integrator community. He was responsible for sales, business development, and the capture/proposal process for the $1.6 Billion Public Sector Business. He grew the Public Sector business an average of 34% per annum for five consecutive years. He lead the strategic planning for Microsoft’s NMCI proposal, winning over $400 Million in new government sales, and also renegotiated a $25 Million, multi-year license agreement for over 30,000 servers with OSD, NII. Mr. Williamson also serves as the President of The Severn Group, LLC in Annapolis, MD.

Donald H. Foley, PhD

Dr. Foley has over 35 years experience as an executive in the Federal Marketplace.

He is the founder of Martingale Consulting, in Potomac, Md. They provide executive level consulting as well as strategic, managerial and business development services to the federal marketplace, including the defense, intelligence and financial communities. Their clients include Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Government Secure Solutions CGI (GSSC), The Collingwood Group, The Nicholas Companies LLC (TNC), Pierce Capital Partners, DBT DATA and Burdeshaw Associates Ltd. (BAL).

Dr. Foley was the Group President of SAIC’s Research and Intelligence Group from 1991 to 2005. During this period the Research & Intelligence Group, it’s revenue from $70 M to over $2B in annual revenues. The Group had seven Business Unit General Managers, over 10,000 employees and 100 operating locations worldwide. During his tenure with SAIC, Dr.Foley also served as a member of the Board of Directors for SAIC and served on the board of two wholly owned subsidiaries; Telcordia (Bell Core) and SAIC’s Venture Capital Corporation.

Dr. Foley served as the Office Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Special Projects. He also served as the Executive Vice President for PAR Technology Corporation.

Henry Sienkiewicz

Until the end of June 2013, Henry J. Sienkiewicz was a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES) assigned to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), where he served in multiple capacities. Most notably he served as the Agency’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) for two years and as the Designated Approving Authority (DAA) for three years. Mr. Sienkiewicz is currently the COO for an emerging software company. He or his companies have been the recipient of multiple awards for innovations or achievement in the technology industry. He retired as a United States Army Reserve lieutenant colonel in July 2008. Henry holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Notre Dame and a master of science from Johns Hopkins University. In 2011, he was named one of the Top 50 Government CIOs by Information Week. In 2013, Mr. Sienkiewicz was selected by Computer World as Premier 100. He has published two book, Untangled (2013) and Centerlined (2006).

 Dale Meyerrose

The Honorable Dale W. Meyerrose, Major General (Retired) was the first President-appointed, Senate-confirmed Associate Director of National Intelligence/Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Information Sharing Executive for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

Mr. Meyerrose is an internationally respected subject matter expert on leadership, strategic planning, cybersecurity, information technology, intelligence, and military matters. He has more than three and a half decades of business, military, U.S. government, and academic experience. He has been frequently quoted in national, international, and news and trade publications and routinely appeared on nationally and internationally aired programs, including Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg International, MSNBC, and WTOP Federal News Radio. He has been a much sought after speaker and panelist at international and national policy and technical conferences and advisor to leading university presidents and deans.

Mr. Meyerrose is president of the MeyerRose Group, LLC, a company that consults with a wide range of business, government, and academic organizations on strategy, business planning, technology, education, and executive development issues. He is an visiting associate professor at the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. He is a lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer of Science with the Institute for Software Research and director for the Cybersecurity Leadership (CSL) certificate program. Additionally, Mr. Meyerrose is the President and Chairman of the Board for the Air Force Historical Foundation, Trustee for the U.S. Air Force Academy Falcon Foundation and advisor to the U.S. Air Force Heritage Program.

Mr. Meyerrose was recently a vice president and general manager for Harris Corporation, a Global Fortune 500 company. He was responsible for leading all aspects of strategy, business development and program execution for cyber growth initiatives across the corporation—and participated in multiple merger and acquisition activities.

Kevin Jackson

Kevin Jackson is a senior information technologist specializing in information technology solutions that meet critical Federal government operational requirements. Prior positions include VP & General Manager Cloud Services for NJVC, VP Federal Systems at Sirius Computer Solutions, Worldwide Sales Executive at IBM, Vice President Global IT Project Office at JP Morgan Chase, and CTO at SENTEL Corporation. Mr. Jackson has been quoted in many periodicals, authored several articles and has presented at numerous venues on computers, speech technology and wireless networking. During his career with the US Navy, he held specialties in Command & Control and Space Systems Engineering while accumulating over 2500 hours and 230 carrier landing flying the E-2C and C-2A aircraft. He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering, a MA in National Strategic Studies and a MS in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering).

Thank you DBT DATA for giving me the opportunity 

to work with such a distinguished team !!

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EITAGlobal and Cloud Expert Kevin L. Jackson Team To Deliver Business Focused Cloud Computing Training

Today I am announcing my partnership with EITAGlobal to produce and deliver a series of business focused training webinars on cloud computing. 

Headquartered in Fremont, California, EITAGlobal is a continuing professional education provider with a difference. Their strategy delivers effective and relevant training to IT professionals via three delivery options - Live Webinars, Recorded Webinars and In-person Seminars.

Our first joint event is scheduled for Thursday, January 16th at 10a P / 1pm E. "Augmenting Your Enterprise IT with Cloud Services" will provide insight and lessons learned from the thousands of enterprises that have successfully, and unsuccessfully, traversed the bridge to cloud computing. Attendees will learn proven tools and techniques for designing and executing an effective cloud transition strategy. Critical aspects of business process redesign and organizational change management will be covered as well.

 
Cloud computing strategies are completely changing the way entire industries are competing. According to Gartner, fully 75% of all organizations planned to use public cloud services by 2014. Uses include:

• 54% for development and test
• 50% for all or most of production compute
• 54% for all or most of storage
• 57% to use PaaS for developing applications

Is your cloud strategy now two years old? Have you locked yourself into a single cloud service provider? Do you even have a cloud service strategy?

Why should you attend: While using public cloud computing services to deliver business value and reduce cost remains the #1 priority for most enterprises today, doing so safely without exposing the company to legal risk and financial loss remains the #1 concern. Enterprise decision makers and key contributors all must understand the truths and myths about cloud adoption. This session will provide that information along with lessons learned across many industries on how to effectively, efficiently and safely augment your enterprise IT with cloud services. Tools and techniques for designing and executing an effective transition strategy will also be introduced. Critical aspects of business process redesign and organizational change management will be covered as well.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• What cloud computing models are enterprises using to provide agility, cost savings and innovation
• What do viable cloud computing solutions look like
• How can enterprises take advantage of newly available cloud computing solutions and service providers
• What are the elements of a viable, implementable cloud computing model
• Which enterprise applications should be considered for a cloud migration
• How can you future proof your cloud strategy
• What business processes/models have been successfully enhanced using cloud computing
• How do you manage cloud computing transition risk
• How do you build internal support for a cloud transition
• When should you "Just Say No" to cloud

Register now for this first installment of my business focused cloud computing education series.

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NRRC Video Series - Video 6 : Telos Demonstrates Cloud-based Communications System

In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information technology infrastructure support to an unplanned event.

The NCOIC is an international organization for accelerating the global implementation of network centric principles and systems--to improve information sharing among various communities of interest for the betterment of their productivity, interactivity, safety, and security. The NCOIC Rapid Response Capability (NRRC) video series supports that mission by broadly disseminating information about the GCC demonstration for the good of the global community.

In this segment, John Quaderer, project manager at Telos Corporation, shows how three applications -- Telos SE7EN, Automated Message Handling System / T6 Collaboration Tool Set and Secure Directory -- are used in the hybrid-cloud environment. Topics include:

• Cloud-based collaboration and data exchange
• Mission planning for emergency response
• Information sharing with mobile devices
• Identity and access control in federated cloud environment
• Federated cloud-based policy enforcement points

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NRRC Video Series - Video 5 : Boeing Ozone Dashboards for Emergency Management

In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information technology infrastructure support to an unplanned event. The

NCOIC is an international organization for accelerating the global implementation of network centric principles and systems--to improve information sharing among various communities of interest for the betterment of their productivity, interactivity, safety, and security. The NCOIC Rapid Response Capability (NRRC) video series supports that mission by broadly disseminating information about the GCC demonstration for the good of the global community.

In this segment, Roger Bernhardt from the Advanced Concepts Strategic Development unit at Boeing Research & Technology demonstrates two Boeing Ozone Dashboard Prototypes for first responders and disaster response managers.Video topics include:

• Geoserver pooling
• Geospatial interoperability
• Ozone widget framework
• Dynamic Re-planner application
• Operational Impact Assessment application

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Proud To Be Joining Veterans 360 and Cloud for Vets!

Today I'm proud and honored to announce my appointment to the Board of Advisors for Veterans 360. Their mission is to provide young, recently-separated combat veterans with a program of support that will help them develop the professional and interpersonal skills needed to succeed in civilian life. The goal of this worthwhile organization is to use engagement, education, employment, and healing to help our student-veterans utilize what they have learned to manage the resources that are available to them and become better equipped to ensure a successful transition into civilian life.

My pet project will be, of course, Cloud for Vets. This program will educate young veterans about the emerging cloud computing sector so they can get good paying entry level jobs ($50-$60K) and then work toward becoming Cloud Technology leaders. Vets 360 currently provides the support network and healing components and Cloud for Vets will add the important education component! Better yet, Veterans 360 has California state approval to provide these classes free of charge to  veterans.

The average entry salary in cloud technology is $67,000 and estimates indicate that there will be 1.2 million jobs in cloud technology in the next few years. Cloud for Vets will work toward addressing that demand by certifying up to 40 student-veterans each and every month.

I am pumped about this program and look forward to sharing more with you in the near future!

 

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Take Charge, Lead Change, Do Cloud Right!

The theme for next week’s Gartner Data Center conference, “Taking Charge, Leading Change — Your I&O Transformation Can’t Wait”, is a real wake up call for today’s I&O leaders. Gartner’s focus on operational excellence highlights how the line-of-business and information technology (IT) management are being entangled by the fast moving and ever changing technology landscape. It also showcases today’s leadership challenge of how to transform that entanglement into an interweaved value producing process.


As the lead in managing an organization’s information technology platform, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professional have typically been focused on the technical aspects of provisioning, management, governance and security. This represents only 44% of the IT value chain. While excellence in delivering these component is essential, it is not sufficient. In today’s business environment, the true I&O professional also provides crucial support to the other 56%, the so-called front end of the chain. Here in the front-end is where IT management superstars enable corporate agility and flexibility to their business line and acquisition cohorts. This is also why in the cloud computing age, cloud service brokerage (CSB) is so revolutionary. 

CSB capability, either developed internally or acquired through an external partner, has become all the rage because solution integrators and enterprise IT organizations have now recognized the shortcomings of the traditional way of “selling” and “delivering” IT. Today’s I&O Leader must take charge and lead their organization forward into this new way of doing business.

Gravitant recognizes this imperative! That’s why it invested in innovation by delivering an advanced cloud decision engine that normalizes vendor pricing and capabilities, customizes the enterprise cloud service catalog and automates the discovery and synchronization of cloud-based resources. With Gravitant CSB technology, you can now monitor, manage and make evidence based decisions across 100% of your IT value chain.

Be today’s I&O Leader by understanding your environment, understanding your options and understanding your true cloud computing costs before purchase! 

Take Charge. Lead Change. Do Cloud Right!

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NRRC Video Series - Video 4 : Comments by Major General Eric W. Vollmecke, USAF

In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration.  Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information technology infrastructure support to an unplanned event.

The NCOIC is an international organization for accelerating the global implementation of network centric principles and systems--to improve information sharing among various communities of interest for the betterment of their productivity, interactivity, safety, and security. The NCOIC Rapid Response Capability (NRRC) video series supports that mission by broadly disseminating information about the GCC demonstration for the good of the global community.

Major General Eric W. Vollmecke currently serves as the Air National Guard Assistant to the Commander, United States Air Forces in Europe/Africa, Ramstein Air Base and Germany. He leads the deployment and integration of reserve forces to support both wartime planning and direct support to ongoing operations throughout both theaters. General Vollmecke also directs the ANG support to the State Partnership Program and was the program director of the NCOIC Geospatial Community Cloud Concept Demonstration. During the 2010 Haiti operations, he commanded two airlift wings and a manned ISR flying detachment that were in direct support of the operations, and one of his bases served a major staging area for U.S. Government response located just outside of Washington, D.C.

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