The End User Revolt – and How to Improve It

Kurt Steege is the Chief Technology Officer at ThunderCat Technology, is a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business that delivers technology services and solutions to the federal government and Fortune 500 companies. At ThunderCat he is responsible for driving technology value for our clients through evaluation, architecture and outreach. Prior to joining ThunderCat, Kurt was the Chief Information Officer of MacAndrews and Forbes Inc., a diverse global holding company, based in New York City. During his time there he led a complete IT transformation and brought the company a modern standardized infrastructure upon which the business can depend. In the government space, Kurt served as the Chief Enterprise Architect at the FBI. Under Kurt’s leadership at the FBI the EAPO created roadmaps for IT Transformation, strategic direction for Shared Services, Mobility, Storage, and User Experience. Over the rest of his 20+ year career in Information Technology, Kurt has held roles within private industries for technology, financials, and education to help drive value and efficiency into small, medium and large organizations.

Marlin McFate serves as Federal CTO at Riverbed Technology. Prior to his current role, McFate was a Technical Director for the Advanced Technology Group in the Office of The CTO for Riverbed Technology, responsible for being a subject matter and industry expert to Riverbed’s largest and most complex customers.

Prior to Riverbed, McFate worked at Circadece for 7 years ending as the Systems Engineering Manager where he led the WAN optimization systems engineering teams for both commercial and government business units.

Through his career McFate has also worked as a Systems Engineer and Software Engineer for public sector customers ranging across the civilian agencies, the IC and the Department of Defense. Prior to working in the technology field McFate served as a Fire Direction Control Specialist for the United States Army. McFate brings 20 years of engineering and management experience and holds a Bachelors in Software Engineering.

John Gilroy has been a member of the Washington D.C. technology community for over twenty years. In 2007 he began weekly interviews on Federal News Network called “Federal Tech Talk with John Gilroy.” His 428 interviews provides the basis for profitable referral business. In 2009 he created a successful breakfast club of previous radio guests called The Technology Leadership Roundtable. He has been instrumental in two of his guests forming their own radio shows: Derrick Dortch with “Fed Access” and Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm with “Women in Washington.”

In 2011 he began teaching a course in social media marketing at Georgetown University; in March of 2014, John won the Tropaia Award for Outstanding Faculty. John conducts monthly corporate training for large companies on how to leverage social media to generate revenue.