How to rationalize the hybrid cloud

Mr. Judge serves as the Deputy Director for Operations and Architecture within the Headquarters
Department of the Army, CIO/G-6. In this role, he is the Deputy to Army’s Chief Architect and
Chief Data Officer. In this role he oversees the development and implementation of Army’s
Cloud Computing initiative, centralized IT asset visibility and Army’s Data Strategy
implementation. Mr. Judge previously led the development of a portfolio of Enterprise License
Agreements (ELAs) supporting OMB’s Category Management directives and implementation of
programs and initiatives supporting Financial Audit Readiness, FITARA and multiple NDAA
statutes.

Prior to the CIO/G-6, he was selected as one of 10 Civilians recruited for the inaugural Chief of
Staff of the Army’s Strategic Studies Group to research strategic issues Army would likely face
in a 20-year timeframe. Specifically, he collaborated with Federal Agencies, FFRDCs, academia
and commercial industry on a study of big data analytic and network resiliency concepts to
address a future congested and contested IT operating environment.

Mr. Judge was the Deputy Product Manager Acquisition Business Systems within the Army’s
Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS). He has extensive
experience in information technology architecture, program management, software and hardware
integration, data center consolidation and supply chain management.

Mr. Judge’s professional career includes over 15 years in private industry as an Engineer and
Technical Manager at several companies in California’s Silicon Valley. As a defense contractor
with GTE Systems, he has designed and integrated communications equipment and subsystems
for intelligence community customers. In the commercial realm, Mr. Judge has held engineering,
management and technical marketing roles at leading semiconductor firms, Altera and Actel
corporations, as well product manager at Invox Technology; a venture-backed startup company.
In addition, he spent several years consulting in network architecture, data center operations and
network security at wireless telecommunications and internet service providers Earthlink,
Teligent and SkyOnline.

Mr. Judge’s education includes a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the
National Defense University’s Industrial College of the Armed Forces and Bachelor of Science
in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University. He is currently working on his Master
in Program Management from the Naval Postgraduate School. He holds Level III Acquisition
certifications in Program Management and Information Technology as well as several
professional IT certifications including Certified Information Systems Security Professional
(CISSP), National Security Agency’s Information Assurance Methodology (NSA/IAM), NSA’s
Information Evaluation Methodology (NSA/IEM) and Carnegie Mellon’s Architecture Tradeoff
Analysis Method.

Mr. Judge’s awards include Superior Civilian Service and Commanders’ Award for Civilian
Service.

André Mendes is chief information officer at the Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. Previously, he served in multiple leadership roles at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which oversees U.S. international media initiatives such as the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Radio Free Asia. In most recent role as chief information officer/chief technology officer, he was responsible for all IT and infrastructure support services required by the media networks under the BBG’s purview.

During 2015, Mendes served as the agency’s interim CEO and director. Prior to that, Mendes directed the BBG’s Office of Technology, Services and Innovation, tasked with executive-level decision-making concerning the engineering and technical systems needed to communicate globally across a variety of media platforms.

Troy has over 30 years of experience with Department of Defense (DoD) information technology operations and with the most recent decade with technology solution providers. Troy currently serves as the Director of Enterprise Engagements for Iron Bow Technologies, focusing on the DoD and how to support their mission through advancements in technology. As a result of his concentrated efforts with in the DoD market, Iron Bow recently launched IronTarget™ Reference Architecture, a unique solution providing our federal and commercial clients a simplified path of migrating to a hybrid cloud, while maintaining the security and control of an on premises private cloud.

Troy’s decades of experience includes design, deployment and administration expertise with Microsoft applications. These applications include Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, SMS and many others. Troy has worked with these products on large, medium and small scale environments, to include Federal, State and Local Government and Civilian clients.

Prior to joining Iron Bow in September 2010, Troy spent 10 years as a Systems Engineer and Data Center Architect in both physical and virtual environments. Troy also served twenty one years in the U.S. Air Force as a Computer Systems and Communications Operator.

During his tenure in the U. S Air Force, Troy spent his time focused in IT managing the upgrades of IT infrastructure and migrating hundreds of thousands of users across platforms. He has since moved over to the IT contracting side where he designs, implements and manages migration for both government and commercial organizations.

Brandon has over 25 years of experience with information technology operations and most recently with technology solution providers. Brandon currently serves as the Director of Data Analytics for Iron Bow Technologies, focusing on the supporting our clients missions through advancements in technology.

Brandon’s decades of experience includes design, deployment and administration expertise with Microsoft applications. These applications include Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, System Center and many others. Brandon has worked with these products on large, medium and small scale environments, to include Federal, State and Local Government and Civilian clients.

Additionally Brandon has extensive experience in the datacenter, networking and cyber security realms. Each of these areas individually contribute to Data Analytics and the adoption of the cloud.

Prior to joining Iron Bow in January 2015, Brandon spent 10 years as a Systems Engineer and Data Center Architect in both physical and virtual environments.

During his tenure in the private and public sector, Brandon spent his time focused in IT managing the upgrades of IT infrastructure and migrating hundreds of thousands of users across platforms. He has since moved over to the IT contracting side where he designs, implements and manages migration for both government and commercial organizations.

Tom Temin has been the host of the Federal Drive since 2006. Tom has been reporting on and providing insight to technology markets for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Federal News Radio, Tom was a long-serving editor-in-chief of Government Computer News and Washington Technology magazines. Tom also contributes a regular column on government information technology.