John Butler
Everware-CBDI, Co-chair, Government Domain Task Force

Mr. Butler is Chief Architect for Everware-CBDI providing consulting services in the areas of Service Engineering and Architecture (SAE), Model Driven Architecture and Development (MDA and MDD), Enterprise Architecture, and Legacy Modernization. He is co-inventor of patented technology for model-based frameworks in the Integrated Justice domain and has developed numerous solutions and frameworks for clients in the public sector and a wide variety of private sector industries including manufacturing, insurance, mortgage, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, defense, automotive, and power generation. Mr. Butler Co-Chairs the Government Domain Task Force within the Object Management Group (OMG) and has 20 years of broad information systems and business modeling experience.
  

Bob Daniel is the CTO, Government Sector, for Troux Technologies. In that role he leads the specification of product offerings and practices supporting the government sector and has been active in the deployment of large-scale enterprise architecture-based strategic IT planning solutions for both government and commercial organizations. As Troux's representative to the Object Management Group (OMG), he participates in the Government Domain Task Force and Business Architecture Working Group. He participated in the development of the Metamodel for Federal Transition Framework specification and chairs the team developing the Metamodel for Federal Segment Architecture specification.
  

Melvin Greer is Senior Research Engineer, SOA Chief Architect, and the Director SOA Competency Center, Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technologies Office. With over 20 years of systems and software engineering experience, 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 Strategist on the Information Technology Association of America, Cloud Computing Committee and a member of the Government Cloud Computing Community of Interest. 

In addition to his professional and investment roles, Mr. Greer is a Certified Enterprise Architect, Fellow and Adjunct Facility at the Federal Enterprise Architects Institute, and member of International Monetary Fund / World Bank, Bretton Woods Committee. Mr. Greer is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities and is an accomplished author. “The Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture Revolution” is his most recently published book. 

Greer received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems and Technology and his Master of Science in Information Systems from American University, Washington, D.C. He has also completed the Executive Leadership Program at Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School.
  

Mr. Harrison leads CSC's public sector Distinguished Engineering Group, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group, and is also a member of the Advisory Board of the SOA Consortium. In these capacities he provides leadership to CSC's engineering community, CSC's customers, and to the industry as a whole. During his 35+ year career he has provided technical director, chief architect, or chief engineer services to nearly one hundred different organizations ranging from commercial enterprises, public sector agencies, Department of Defense departments, Intelligence Community members, and software vendors.

Some highlights of Mr. Harrison's career include Chief Architect of multiple enterprise-wide transformational programs; creation of the STORM executable SOA reference implementation used on a number of SOA engagements; design and specification of the advanced version of DISA's SOA Foundation services, design and delivery of a custom supply chain system; technical director for a software company; and the development of agile and service-oriented methodologies in use for specific DoD and IC members. Mr. Harrison has been published in numerous magazines, has spoken at numerous conferences, holds a patent (pending) for a System and Method for Architecting Pattern Based Models Within a Governmental Framework, and is an acknowledged SOA expert within the industry. He has been invited by a number of agencies and organizations to provide guidance and assessment on topics ranging from SOA design and governance to the portability and reusability of software and hardware designs. His current professional interests include modeled correctness of service oriented architecture design characteristics, event-driven SOA, concurrent engineering, feature-based delivery, and dynamic ontologies.
  

TethersEnd Consulting is the individual consultancy of Larry L. Johnson, providing services focusing on Systems Architecture and the management of the Collaborative Environment needed to develop and support it. TethersEnd is built on an extensive background of experience in large Enterprise Systems supporting Government, Engineering and Manufacturing environments in both commercial and defense sectors. Mr. Johnson has been a member of the Object Management Group since 1993 and currently is Co-chair of the OMG's Government Domain Task Force, and serves on its Board of Directors. He led the team that produced the recently adopted OMG standard in Records Management Services. He has been guiding firms in the Collaborative Development of Enterprise Systems Architecture and Product Architecture in large corporate and multi-corporate settings for over 25 years. Prior to establishing TethersEnd he was Implementation Architect, and then Chief Architect at MSC Software for 6 years, and was Member, Group Technical Staff at Texas Instruments serving as CAD/CAM/CIM Architect for 15 years.
  

Dr. Kurtz joined NARA in 1974 and has worked in a variety of archival and management positions. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies, where he teaches a course on the management of cultural institutions. Dr. Kurtz received his B.A. degree (1972) in history from The Catholic University of America, and his M.A. (1974) and Ph.D. (1982) in modern European history from Georgetown University. Dr. Kurtz has published articles and monographs in the areas of archival management and American history, with an emphasis on the Civil War, World War II and the post-war era, and religious and cultural history.
  

Bill is Director, Records Management Practice at CA, Inc, the provider of CA Records Manager, formerly MDY FileSurf, a full featured electronic records management system. Prior to joining CA and MDY, Bill was employed at the US Department of Defense (US Army and Defense Information Systems Agency's Joint Interoperability Test Command) for 21 years, where he co-authored DoD5015.2-STD, the "Design Criteria Standard for Records Management Applications" and established the JITC's Records Management Certification Test Facility. Bill currently oversees the functional development of the CA Records Management system and provides records management best practices consulting services to leading government, legal, and corporate organizations. Bill is a leading authority on electronic records management standards.
  

Kshemendra Paul is Chief Architect, Office of Management & Budget, Executive Office of the President. In this role, Kshemendra is responsible for leading efforts around the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA). In this role, Kshemendra defines policy, guidance, and processes for agency enterprise architecture (EA); mentors and coaches agencies in their efforts; conducts oversight and assessment of agency completion, use, and results from their EA; works closely with the Federal CIO Council and in particular its Architecture and Infrastructure Committee; and provides the bridge at OMB between the FEA and information technology management and oversight, overall mission performance management, policy, and resource allocation. The scope of this role is the entire Federal Government with an annual IT spend plan of approximately seventy billion dollars. The purpose of the FEA is to ensure that our Federal IT investments are as transformative as possible in terms of being the critical enabler of a result-oriented, citizen-centered, and market-based Federal government.

Previously, Kshemendra served as Chief Architect for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and was also the Program Executive for the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). In this role he led efforts around data standards and inter-operability across Federal, State and Local stakeholders. In particular, Kshemendra took a leadership role with the counter-terrorism, law enforcement, and homeland security Information Sharing Environment (ISE) and the development of its architectural framework and profile. This resulted in the adoption of NIEM as the basis for ISE information sharing.

Kshemendra also served as the Co-Chair of the Services Subcommittee of the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee, where he was part of the team leading the development of the Practical Guide to Federal Service Oriented Architecture.

Kshemendra was honored with the Federal 100 award for his leadership with NIEM. This award recognizes the top executives from government, industry and academia having the greatest impact on the government information systems community. He and the other Federal members of the NIEM management team were also recognized with the Collaboration Award by the DOJ Justice Management Division.

Mr. Paul has over 23 years of experience in strategic planning, enterprise architecture, organizational management and systems development. Before joining the civil service in 2005, Mr. Paul was Group Architect and Product Manager with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (previously NASD). Prior to that, he was an active entrepreneur, co-founding LocalEyes (sold to AOL) and founding Andelina (sold to FoundryOne). He has participated as a member of senior management for a variety of other technology product and service companies.

He holds both Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Electrical Engineering, and an additional Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, from the University of Maryland, College Park.
  

Mr. Prescott hold a graduate degree in computer systems and has held several prestigious positions including faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has worked for many agencies over his thirty years of service in the government and was one of the three original authors who published a technical specification that was adopted by the Department of Defense and would become the DoD 5015.2 Electronic Records Management Software Applications Design Criteria Standard, now in its third version.
  

As Chairman and CEO, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of the world's largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the nascent OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling, leading first to the Unified Modeling Language (UML®) and later the Model Driven Architecture (MDA®).

Previously, Dr. Soley was a cofounder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, Inc., maker of the 386 HummingBoard and other PC and workstation hardware and software. Prior to that, he consulted for various technology companies and venture firms on matters pertaining to software investment opportunities.
Dr. Soley has also consulted for IBM, Motorola, PictureTel, Texas Instruments, Gold Hill Computer and others. He began his professional life at Honeywell Computer Systems working on the Multics operating system.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  

John Teeter is the Deputy Chief Information Officer and former Chief Enterprise Architect for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of information resources management including several enterprise programs which include information technology strategic planning and performance management, information technology capital planning and investment control, enterprise security and the development, maintenance and use of the HHS enterprise architecture. John has served HHS for over 26 years in various capacities.
  

Dr. Kenneth Thibodeau is Director of the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) Program at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), U.S. Dr. Thibodeau has over 30 years experience in archives and records management, and is an internationally recognized expert in electronic records. He has served as Chief of the Records Management Branch of the National Institutes of Health, Director of the Center for Electronic Records at NARA, and Director of the Department of Defense Records Management Task Force, where he led development of the DoD standard for records management applications. He earned a Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania, and held several post doctoral fellowships in computer science. He has contributed to several national and international collaborations, including the Digital Curation Curriculum project, the InterPARES project, and the ISO Open Archival Information System standard and Records Management standard. In 2008, Dr. Thibodeau received the Emmett Leahy Award for outstanding contributions to the information and records management profession and was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Archivist of the United States for pioneering contributions moving the National Archives to the forefront of e-government. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer at universities in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Scotland. A Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, he has published over 30 papers and spoken at more than 100 conferences around the world.