How hybrid cloud is changing the models for security, meeting mission goals

Jay Huie has spent over 15 years guiding the evolution and adoption of technology within federal and enterprise environments. His expertise includes bringing a multi-discipline approach to help Agencies achieve their missions. He currently serves as the Director for the GSA Technology Transformation Service (TTS) Secure Cloud Portfolio, which includes the FedRAMP program. The mission of the Secure Cloud Portfolio is to accelerate cloud adoption, build connections between government and industry, as well as build partnerships between the two in service of ensuring Agencies are more effectively able to achieve their missions. Most recently, Jay has been tasked to lead GSA’s Cloud Adoption Center of Excellence supporting the White House Office of American Innovation. In this role, he will build specific capabilities to assist efforts by Federal Agencies to leverage modern technology and cloud services.

Jay has had experience as a developer, system administrator, policy wonk, architect, and technology executive. He previously worked at 18F where he enjoyed “balancing traditional and the modern techniques for realizing the results we all hope to have for our nation.” Prior to GSA, Jay was a Chief Technology Officer, working with Agencies such as the Federal Reserve Board, Department of Energy, and Department of State to establish and manage initiatives including data management services, cloud computing infrastructure, and strategic governance through the practical application of enterprise architecture and capital planning and management activities.

“I have always felt the desire to integrate capabilities across Government, and promote a collaborative approach to our collective mission to provide services and opportunities for the public,” Jay said. “I am driven by a desire for ‘infinite ROI’ where one Agency problem can be solved by another Agency’s existing program - if only the dots are connected and the bridges built.”

Automation Lead, CIO-T for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Todd Myers is currently leading the deployment of multi datacenter and cloud processing clusters for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. His most recent distributed analytical capabilities are focused on advanced Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) analytics to support the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) mission partners through what NGA calls the NSG Data Analytical Architecture Service (NDAAS).

The NDAAS framework brings a Data Center operating System (DCOS) to NGA using the appropriate balance of open source and vendor capabilities. The DCOS abstraction is a required component to begin unifying disparate infrastructure and normalizing its present and future consumption by both large and small NGA Programs.

Foundation will be laid that enables its Developers to begin programming GEOINT applications and analytics against the entirety of NGA compute resources reaching a processing scale and automation never before attainable.

Benjamin Bergersen is an IT executive and cloud security expert. He is the first full-time CIO and Senior Agency Official for Cyber Risk Management (SAO-RM) for the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). Mr. Bergersen transforms IT services for the Agency to utilize a hybrid strategy of shared services and cloud services with increased savings and efficiencies. Using IT accelerators and analytic IT systems, Mr. Bergersen supports the Agency’s important mission of helping companies create U.S. jobs through the export of U.S. goods and services for priority development projects in emerging economies.

Before joining USTDA Mr. Bergersen, served as the Information Security Officer for MAX.gov providing cloud shared services to 180 CIO’s and their federal agencies across government at the Office of Management and Budget, White House. In this role, he oversaw the transformation of continuous monitoring and enterprise risk management across software development through to operations. This work led to Mr. Bergersen receiving the Government Information Security Leadership Award (GISLA) from (ISC)2 for best information security business process improvement.

As the Chief Information Officer for the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Commerce, Mr. Bergersen provided collaborative nationwide services for mission security and assurance. This included developing technology services to accelerate and enhance the capabilities of special agents, auditors, and attorneys to perform investigations and audits across five operating locations. Mr. Bergersen received a Commerce Bronze medal and a GovTek Executive Collaboration award for his accomplishments in this role.

As the Information Security Program Manager in the U.S. Antarctic Program he provided shared services to 51 universities, the U.S. Navy, and the National Science Foundation. Mr. Bergersen earned A+ FISMA grades two years in a row for information security as rated by U.S. Congress.

Benjamin created the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) executive education program at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds multiple cyber security and governance certifications including CISSP, ISSAP, and ISSMP from (ISC)2; CGEIT, CISA, and CISM from ISACA; as well as being an ITIL Service Manager. His education includes an MBA from George Mason University, a Bachelor’s of Science in Criminal Justice from SUNY Brockport, and a CIO certification from the U.S. Federal CIO Council / CIO University.

Bill Rowan is Vice President of Federal Sales for VMware's U.S. Public Sector organization. He leads a team of more than 175 sales, engineering, advisory and implementation services professionals who help Federal organizations meet their unique requirements with the application of virtualization, mobility and cloud technology.

Prior to this role, Bill was the Vice President of Sales for VMware's U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community teams. Mr. Rowan has more than 30 years of experience serving as a trusted advisor to the Federal government customers, Federal Valued Added Resellers and Systems Integrator organizations. Prior to VMware, he was the Department of Defense Area Manager at EMC, and held senior management positions at Storage Technology Corporation, MicroStrategy and IBM.

In 2017, Bill was named to both the Fed100 and WASH100

Bill has served as speaker at various government industry forums and panels. He holds an MBA from Averett University and a BS in Finance from Fairfield University. He and his wife Kristin reside in Kensington, Maryland with their two daughters.

Jason Miller is an executive editor and reporter with Federal News Radio. As executive editor, Jason helps direct the news coverage of the station and works with reporters to ensure a broad range of coverage of federal technology, procurement, finance and human resource news.As a reporter, Jason focuses mainly on technology and procurement issues, including cybersecurity, e-government and acquisition policies and programs.