Speaker Biographies
Michael Martin, PhD
Division Manager, Enterprise Technology Information and Infrastructure
The MITRE Corporation
Michael Martin directs the Enterprise Technology Information & Infrastructure
Division in the Center for Connected Government (CCG), which houses more than
220 systems engineers specializing in Information Assurance, Data Management,
and Infrastructure Engineering Operations. Mr. Martin provides leadership, critical
guidance, and management to build and develop staff with a unique blend of
technical, people and business development skills who apply their extensive
knowledge to identify, prioritize and solve complex enterprise system engineering
problems. The division supports all of the CCG mission areas in achieving strategic
impact and providing value for the government. The division staff is recognized and sought out
internally and by clients for their expertise and are frequently asked to take the lead on high visibility
projects. Selects, mentors, and directs group leaders, department heads and senior experts in the
division. Responsible for budgeting; financial management; personnel management; development of
strategic goals, plans and performance measures; collaborations with other centers within MITRE to
leverage a broader set of capabilities; setting up and managing laboratories to develop and test new
technologies and solutions; and collaborations with universities in joint research programs. Mr. Martin
directs the development and organization of Technology Exchange Meetings, which bring together
experts to discuss new research and solutions to complex problems. Serves on CCG’s Technical Council,
which provides quality control to ensure that all of CCG’s products meet the highest technical
standards and develops guidance on new technologies and issues. Mr. Martin serves as senior advisor
in MITRE’s Homeland Security Center of Excellence. Mr. Martin provides systems engineering guidance
to a range of government agencies, including the Treasury Department, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Commerce, Peace
Corps, Veterans Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Security
Agency, Justice Department, Defense Department and Department of Agriculture. He provides
guidance to the Office of Management and Budget on the effectiveness and impact of information
technology policies and standards developed for government agencies. Serves as senior advisor to the
Chief Information Security Office in the Department of Homeland Security, where his work has been
recognized as having significant impact.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Julie DelVecchio Savage
Chief Engineer, Command and Control Center
The MITRE Corporation
Dr. Julie DelVecchio Savage currently serves as the Innovation Program Chief
Engineer for MITRE’s Center for Command and Control. As such, she is
responsible for developing and executing a technology research and
development strategy that enables and guides development of a joint Command
and Control system. In this role she leads the Composable Capability on Demand
investment portfolio and the Army and Air Force contract Mission Oriented
Investigation and Experimentation programs. She leads efforts to integrate
successful technology products into the Centers’ ongoing programs and
coordinate the Centers’ research contributions to other MITRE centers and their
customers, and serves as a member a corporate team that leads MITRE’s Internal Research and
Development program in its entirety.
During 2006 Julie was Executive Director for AF Battle Management Systems and Director of
Engineering for the ESC 551st Electronic Systems Wing. She provided technical leadership and
direction over a portfolio that includes US and International AWACS/AEW&C, Joint STARS, E-10/Multi-
Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP RTIP), Mission Planning, and Weather Systems.
From 2005-2006 she was Deputy Director of Engineering (DOE) for the ESC Network Centric
Operations/Integration Systems Wing (ESC/NCSW). In partnership with the DOE, she led a broad and
diverse portfolio that included the Global Information Grid Systems, Enterprise Integration, and Global
Air Traffic Systems. Her specific focus areas include NCSW strategic planning, cross-wing integration,
and joint Service collaboration via the PEO Interchange forum.
From 2002 – 2005, Julie served as Director of Project Leadership & Integration in MITRE’s Center for Air
Force C2 Systems. Her focus areas for the directorate included leadership development and C2
Enterprise Integration – driving programs toward integrated solutions and investment strategies – to
support capability-based acquisition.
From 1999 – 2002, she was Chief Engineer for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint
STARS) program. She was technical lead for Joint STARS engineering resources (contractor,
Government, MITRE) across a broad spectrum of engineering disciplines and all phases of the life cycle.
During her tenure work focused on successful delivery of eight Joint STARS aircraft, development of
planned upgrades, and maintaining, sustaining and enhancing the operational fleet. In addition, she
helped shape the future evolution of the mission through joint Service Ground Moving Target Indicator
(GMTI) efforts, and helped flesh out the emerging E-10 and Space Radar concepts and program
strategies.
From 1997 – 1999, she was MITRE’s Project Leader for Theater Missile Defense Battle Management
/Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (TMD BM/C3I) and Chief Engineer, ESC/ACP
(Combat Air Forces Command and Control Advanced Concepts). As such, she was technical lead for a
program geared toward establishing an effective theater missile defense by fielding a highly
interoperable, flexible, and responsive BM/C3I capability.
From 1992 – 1996 Julie served in various leadership roles in Theater and National Missile Defense
programs, in particular the Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) program. This program was
subsequently funded and the UEWR upgrades were implemented and fielded. She joined MITRE in
1989, and until 1991 supported the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Dr. DelVecchio Savage earned a doctorate in Operations Research from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst (1990). She was a recipient of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Regents Fellowship for Doctoral Studies in Engineering (1985-89) and the University of Massachusetts
Distinguished Teaching Award (1987). Julie earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in City and
Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1979 and 1985, respectively,
with focus on quantitative methods and Geographic Information Systems.
More recently, Julie successfully completed the Harvard Business School Women’s Leadership Forum:
Innovation Strategies for a Changing World (April 2009) and a George Institute of Technology
Leadership Development Program conducted by the DuPree College of Management (2001).
She is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), the
Military Operations Research Society (MORS), the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and Women in
Aerospace (WIA).
Dave Mayo
President, Everware-CBDI
Dave Mayo – An IT practitioner for 25 years and an enterprise architect for
over 15 years, Mr. Mayo is the President of Everware-CBDI, a firm dedicated
to enabling and implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) for federal
and commercial organizations. He is a senior advisor to the Department of
Homeland Security EA program and led several tasks for the development of
the original enterprise architecture for the Department. Mr. Mayo has been
Vice Chair of the IAC/EA SIG and Chairs the Services Committee. He led the industry team and is a
member of the Editorial Board for the Practical Guide to Federal Service Oriented Architecture for the
Federal CIO Council. For his steadfast efforts to improve government effectiveness and efficiency
through service-based EA, he received a Federal 100 award from Federal Computer Week in 2009. His
background includes economics, strategic planning, information engineering, and business process
reengineering. He holds a MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia.
Denzil Wasson
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Everware-CBDI
Everware-CBDI CTO and Director of Solution Delivery, Denzil
Wasson is an innovative, professional, pragmatic and hands on IT
solution architect. He leverages his 21 years of diverse business,
technical and methodological experience to drive the realization of
open, standards based IT solutions for Everware-CBDI Customers.
Mr. Wasson’s current focus areas for consulting, development and
providing education include Iterative Development, Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA), Model Driven Development (MDD)
and Application Portfolio Modernization (AM).
Ms. Susan J. Henry
Information Sharing Executive Agent
U.S Coast Guard Headquarters
Susan J. Henry is the U.S. Coast Guard’s Information Sharing Executive Agent, at Coast Guard
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Like all federal agencies, the Coast Guard is required by law to
maximize information sharing with its federal, international, tribal, state, local, public and private
partners, and to provide annual reports on its information sharing performance. Ms. Henry and her
staff coordinate policy and performance assessments across all Coast Guard missions and lines of
business, and stay grounded in field operational information sharing by regularly visiting Coast Guard
field units to interview their partners, collect best practices and hear recommendations for
improvement. She and her staff formulate agency-level information sharing policy and positions in
support of the Commandant’s Information Sharing Executive role.
Ms. Henry has served as a senior advisor to the Coast Guard on inter-agency information sharing policy
and the development of trusted communities since 2005. She serves as senior Coast Guard coordinator
for the Department of Homeland Security’s Under Secretary-level Information Sharing Governance
Board, and represents the Coast Guard on the Department of Homeland Security Information Sharing
Coordinating Council, on the federal International Trade Data System Board of Directors, and in other
executive forums.
Prior to her current Coast Guard role, Ms. Henry served in a variety of civilian Navy senior advisor and
program manager assignments, including for the Commander Pacific Fleet, the Marine Forces Pacific,
U.S. Pacific Command and national intelligence agencies, as well as for the Coast Guard. She has
authored and contributed to many mission requirements analyses, decision support and
interoperability studies, information architectures, and has published articles on information sharing.
She has been honored with the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award and multiple Civilian
Achievement Awards.
Ms. Henry completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in information systems, applied
mathematics and organizational communications at the University of Hawaii. She is a Navy veteran and
retired Naval Reserve Officer. Ms. Henry completed her Senior Executive Service preparatory studies
during a 2009 fellowship assignment at the Treasury Executive Institute, Washington, D.C.
Melvin Greer
Senior Fellow & Chief Strategist Cloud Computing
Lockheed Martin
Melvin Greer is Senior Fellow and Chief Strategist, Cloud Computing
Lockheed Martin. With over 25 years of systems and software engineering
experience, he is a recognized expert and author of two books on Service
Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing. He functions as a principal
investigator in advanced research studies. He significantly advances the body
of knowledge in basic research and critical, highly advanced engineering and
scientific disciplines. Mr. Greer is a Certified Enterprise Architect, the Vice-
chair of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), Cloud
Computing Working Group, an Advisory Council member of the Cloud Security Alliance and the
Steering Committee Chair of the Object Management Group, Cloud Standards Customer Council.
Andrew Ide
Group Leader, Business & Services Architecture
The MITRE Corporation
Mr. Ide is the leader of the Business and Services Architecture functional group
within MITRE’s Enterprise Business Transformation department. He has been with
MITRE almost 5 years supporting enterprise architecture and systems engineering
projects for the Department of Defense, the US Census Bureau and the
Transportation Security Administration.
Mr. Ide's information technology career spans almost 20 years. His experience
includes leading complex full life cycle development projects, designing mission-
critical applications and services, carrying out complex work flow analysis and processing, and
performing technology assessments to align business strategies with information technology
investments. Additional agencies he has supported include the Executive Office of the President, the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the United States Postal
Service (USPS), and the United States Mint.
Prior to coming to MITRE, Mr. Ide worked at Concur Technologies, where he was the Solutions Director
for the Expense Management Group. In that role, he was responsible for the development of the
solution and services architecture for the company’s software on demand service offerings which
supported over 300,000 users across 1400 organizations. Additional career stops include being the
Chief Enterprise Architect at the EOP and holding senior consulting positions with Booz Allen Hamilton,
Commerce One, and American Management Systems/CGI. He received his MBA and MS from the
University of Pittsburgh and his BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ed Ost
Technical Director
Talend Open Integration Solutions
Edward Ost is Technical Director for Application Integration at Talend. Previous
to Talend Mr. Ost worked as a consultant for the Federal Aviation Administration
on the System Wide Information Management (SWIM) program where he helped
develop the service container concept and the FAA’s federated adoption
approach. As part of the SWIM program Mr. Ost chaired the Architecture
Working Group in facilitating adoption of SOA best practices by the SWIM
Implementing Programs (SIP). He has helped support numerous aviation systems
including Traffic Flow Modernization System, ACEP, ERAM, Terminal Data
Distribution System, WMSCR, ITWS, and CIWS. Before joining the FAA team, Mr. Ost worked as a
consultant for Lockheed Martin for eight years on federal IT systems. He is active in the Apache
community where he is an evangelist for open source SOA and Cloud adoption.
Brand Niemann, PhD
Director and Senior Data Scientist, Semantic Community and Former Senior
Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist, US EPA
Brand recently completed 30 years of Federal service. He worked on
assignment for the Federal CIO Council during 2002-2007 on a series of
assignments: Founding Chair of the Web Services Working Group, Semantic
Interoperability Community of Practice, and Federal SOA Community of
Practice, and as Executive Secretariat of the Best Practices Committee. He has
written an online book "A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data
Management Strategy for the U.S. EPA and the Federal Government",
published a paper entitled “Put My EPA Desktop in the Cloud to
Support the Open Government Directive” and Data.gov/semantic (in response
to Vivek Kundra's call), and implemented A Gov 2.0 Platform for Open Government in a Data Science
Library (in response to Aneesh Chopra's call). Recently he has used two tools in the Amazon Cloud
(Mindtouch and Spotfire) to extract, transform, and load a number of EPA and Federal databases to
produce more transparent, open, and collaborative business analytics applications.
See http://semanticommunity.info/.
Mark Heller
Site Operations Director, Center for Air Force C2 Systems
The MITRE Corporation
Mark Heller is the Site Operations Director for the Center for AF C2 Systems. In
this role Mark is responsible for 12 site offices across the US and in Tokyo. Mark’s
responsibilities include strengthening our site work programs, integrating our site
staff and programs across the company, improving workforce vitality, integrating
sites with MITRE’s technology programs, and ensuring efficient operational
practices across the site community. In conjunction with this role, Mark serves as
the Section Leader for D370, Site Integration - comprising staff in key leadership
positions across the AF Center Site locations. Mark is presently located in
Colorado Springs where he is the interim Site Leader. The Colorado Springs site employs
approximately 150 staff supporting key customers including AFSPC, ESC, SMC, NORTHCOM, and MDA.
Previously, Mark was the Section Leader for D540, Interoperability and Site Technology. D540 is a
distributed team of about 40 IT professionals located across MITRE site locations. D540s technical
support was applied across many operational domains including Air Operations, Combat Support,
Space and Strategic C2, and Homeland Security. D540 developed and applied emerging technologies
to enable network-centric interoperability across DoD communities. Key accomplishments from this
organization included the migration of military C2 interoperability standards to XML (e.g., XML-MTF),
the advanced concept development of the Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI), and research toward web
service and semantic web technologies. D540 also innovated and continues to lead the MITRE iLab
initiative, which seeks to implement a distributed virtual experimentation capability across MITRE
locations to support MITRE’s leadership in Net-Centric transition for DoD programs.
Since November 2001, Mark has been part of the management team at our Colorado Springs site
where he is currently the Site Leader and previously led the D540 organization. Prior to moving to
Colorado Springs, Mark was part of MITRE’s Langley Air Force Base site in Hampton VA. In additions to
his duties as D540 Section Leader, he also supported ACC and AC2ISRC programs. Mark was also the
Associate Project Leader for MITRE’s Information Interoperability project, which led the development
of joint and multinational C2 Interoperability standards. Mark was the development lead of several
rapid prototype software efforts for C2 system message processing, including the Joint Message
Analysis and Processing System (JMAPS). JMAPS was a MITRE prototype that was ultimately
transitioned to the government as the official DII-COE standard message processing module. He also
provided frequent technical engineering support to US and NATO interoperability working groups.
Prior to joining MITRE in 1986, Mark worked for the Planning Research Corporation where he was a
Software Engineer developing military Message Processing software for U. S. Navy applications. In this
role Mark was the sole Civilian member of Tactical Air Control Group 2 at Little Creek Amphibious Base
in Norfolk VA. Mark’s activities included software and hardware rapid prototyping and OT&E
deployment on the USS Mt. Whitney during the Joint Solid Shield Exercises.
Mark received a BA in Business Management in 1981 and a BS in Computer Science in 1983 from
Moravian College in Bethlehem PA.