Speaker Biographies

Micah Applewhite, Motorola

Micah Applewhite is market development manager for Motorola Solution’s enterprise mobility sector.  Micah is responsible for strategic business development, emerging technology outreach, including Project 25 and LTE, and soliciting the voice of customers for shaping corporate growth and direction.  Micah lives in nearby Washougal, Washington and has direct development responsibility for five Pacific northwest states, northern California, and western Canada.  In addition to local focus, Micah is part of an elite nationwide team which volunteers countless hours speaking and advising national and regional organizations, the FCC and various legislative bodies.

Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown was born in Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain, on June 21, 1960. After spending most of her childhood in Minnesota, Brown earned a B.A. in environmental conservation with a certificate in women’s studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She earned her law degree and certificate in environmental law from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR.

Brown has taught at Portland State University, and practiced family and juvenile law. She was appointed to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1991 and in 1996, after winning election to two more House terms, won election to the Oregon Senate. Two years later, she was elected Senate Democratic leader and in 2004, senators made her the first woman to serve as Oregon’s Senate majority leader.  In 2008, she was elected Oregon’s 24th secretary of state and subsequently was appointed by Governor Kulongoski to chair the Oregon Sustainability Board.

In her legislative career, Brown led successful efforts to make Oregon’s state government open and accessible by taking legislative committee meetings to communities around the state. She also ensured funding for a comprehensive review of Oregon’s ethics laws, spearheaded legislation creating a searchable online database of campaign contributions and expenditures and reformed Oregon’s initiative process to reduce fraud and protect the citizen’s right to petition their government.  In a recent effort to make registering to vote more accessible to Oregonians, Brown oversaw the development and implementation of an on-line voter registration system.

Secretary Brown lives in Portland with her husband Dan.


Dr. Kenneth C. Budka, Alcatel-Lucent

Dr. Kenneth C. Budka is senior director for network performance and reliability at Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs where he leads the research and development of interoperable next-generation public safety wireless communications systems, using open-standard, commercial wireless technologies.  This work led to Alcatel-Lucent’s deployment of the national capital region’s regional wireless broadband network in Washington, D.C., the nation’s first public safety 700 MHz broadband network, and to the planned introduction of 4G wireless networks in the U.S. public safety 700 MHz band based on long term evolution (LTE) wireless technology.

Dr. Budka joined Bell Labs in 1991, working in the research and development of next-generation wireless communications systems.  Throughout his career, Dr. Budka has contributed to a diverse set of technologies and products including LTE, cdma2000, global system for mobile communication (GSM), general packet radio service (GPRS), enhanced general packet radio service (EGPRS), cellular digital packet data (CDPD), SONET and SDH.    

Dr. Budka received his doctorate and master’s of science degrees in engineering science from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the B.S.E.E. summa cum laude from Union College in Schenectady, New York.  He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, holds 19 patents and is the author/co-author of a number of papers on wireless and wireline technology in leading industry journals.

Andy Cannon, State of Alabama, NASTD President

Guy W. Clinch, Avaya Inc.

Guy W. Clinch is a senior manager of the contact center solutions team for Avaya. He is responsible for applying Avaya products, services and third-party alliances in an ecosystem approach to solve customers’ tough problems.

Mr. Clinch has almost 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry during which he has created frameworks of repeatable solutions based on common requirements across vertical and horizontal industry groups.

Mr. Clinch serves as chair of the National Association of State Technology Directors’ Corporate Affiliate Council. He is a member of the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) and the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International (APCO International). He is also the Avaya champion for the Business Continuity and Security and Contact Center Committees of the International Alliance of Avaya Users. Mr. Clinch’s writing is frequently published, he is a prolific blogger on a broad set of topics and he is a spokesperson at various conferences and forums.

Mr. Clinch is a graduate of Harvard University and currently resides in Massachusetts.

Colin Constable, Juniper Networks

Colin Constable joined Juniper Networks in September, 2008, as senior director covering enterprise architecture within the office of the CTO, reporting directly to Pradeep Sindhu, the founder and CTO of Juniper Networks.

Colin joined Juniper from Credit Suisse, where he had spent the previous 12 years, most recently as the chief network architect & EMEA infrastructure CTO.  In this role he created and published the “Credit Suisse Network Vision 2020” focused on seven sub domains of networking.  He built a governance framework leveraging the strategies structure to ensure cross technology tower engagement and decision making, both technical and financial.  He also led numerous programs to increase cross-technology, technical knowledge.  Prior to this role, Colin was the Credit Suisse IT R&D global lead for networks, collaboration, end-user devices and security technology, where he set strategic direction and vision for the convergence of the networks and end-user devices, allowing secure global collaboration with strong security on Credit Suisse data.

Colin has a broad background in telecommunications, computing and engineering, as well as a strong interest in shaping the future of technology.

 

John Curran, American Registry for Internet Numbers

John Curran is the president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its chairman from inception through early 2009.

John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, which provides highly secure, fully managed infrastructure solutions for sensitive federal government and commercial applications. Prior to this, he was CTO for XO Communications, and was integral in leading the organization’s technical initiatives, network architecture and design of leading-edge capabilities built into the company’s nationwide network. Mr. Curran also served as CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking, where he was responsible for the organization’s strategic technology direction. He led BBN’s technical evolution from one of the earliest Internet service providers through its growth and eventual acquisition by GTE.

He has also been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), having both co-chaired the IETF Operations and Network Management Area and served
as a member of the IPng (IPv6) Directorate.

Derrick K. Ellis, State of Kentucky

Derrick is responsible for the Kentucky Information Highway 2 (KIH-2) for the commonwealth of Kentucky, which provides voice, video and data communications networks for every executive and legislative branch office in the commonwealth.  He is also the co-manager of the commonwealth’s disaster recovery and business continuity (DRBC) team. The DRBC team facilitates the development of the commonwealth’s disaster recovery plans for all mission/business critical systems, oversees the semiannual DR training exercises, implements process improvements, as well as the management of all DRBC contracts.  Derrick also serves as the commonwealth’s ITIL problem manager, where he leads a cross disciplinary team of subject matter experts in root cause analysis and resolution of complex problems.  He also serves on the board of directors for the Commonwealth Video Conferencing Network (CVCN).  CVCN is a consortium of twenty discrete video conferencing infrastructure stakeholders from the executive branch, K-12 schools, universities, community colleges and the Center for Rural and Economic Development whose mission is to use video conferencing and unified communications as a means for improving communications, education and cost savings.

Derrick has been employed by the commonwealth of Kentucky since 1998, and worked for the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, as well as the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet prior to joining the COT.  He has served as a network engineer and network operations manager before becoming the assistant division director in 2008.

Before joining state government, he was employed by The Jockey Club Information Systems, Inc. (TJCIS), which is an industry leader in the areas of technology and information services for thoroughbred industry professionals including owners, breeders and trainers.  During his tenure at TJCIS, he helped facilitate the launch and growth of their Web services division, which provided Web site development and hosting options for a number of prominent clients including the Breeders’ Cup, Churchill Downs and Keeneland Association.

Education/Certification

Kentucky State University 1994
Microsoft Certified Professional
ITIL Foundations

J. Stephen Fletcher was appointed by Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. in April, 2005 to serve as the state’s chief information officer and executive director of the Department of Technology Services (DTS).  Under his service, the state has consolidated all IT services into one new department to reduce costs, increase services to taxpayers and more closely align IT with the business needs of the state of Utah.

As executive director of DTS he is responsible for all of the IT activities for the state executive branch agencies.  His efforts have focused on optimizing IT services to the state by eliminating redundancies, enhancing accountability of IT resources and implementing effective performance management strategies.  These efforts have resulted in an overall costs savings and enhancement of IT services to state agencies.  Currently, Mr. Fletcher is serving as president of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. 

Before his position as CIO, he was at the U. S. Department of Education where he served as the deputy assistant secretary for management and later as the CIO/CTO. While at the department, he reengineered all of the business processes in the CIO's office, transforming the office into a performance-based service organization with responsibilities for supporting all activities associated with information technology, information management, information assurance and operations. Mr. Fletcher was also responsible for implementing and directing the department’s enterprise architecture, capital planning and investment, system development lifecycle and strategic planning for all department IT activities.

His career has focused on applying technical solutions to business problems. He founded and managed an IT communications consulting firm, providing communications and management services to federal sector and Fortune 500 companies. He built a start-up firm into a viable engineering firm that provided e-government solutions to federal, state and local governments. He has held senior executive positions at several companies, responsible for daily operations.

Mr. Fletcher graduated from the University of Utah. He also has received an M.B.A. from the University of Dallas with an emphasis in engineering management.

Tom Fletcher has network and disaster recovery responsibility for the state of South Carolina, including overall responsibility for the South Carolina Information Network (SCINET) and recovery of the state data center. SCINET provides voice, data and video network services to state government agencies, including higher education institutions, as well as to a number of county and local governments. The state data center provides data processing services on mainframe, UNIX and Windows servers for state agencies and other governmental customers. He has been employed by the state of South Carolina since 1988 and has held various technology management positions during that time.  Tom is chairman of the state’s K-12 School Technology Initiative Committee and has managed the connection of the state’s approximately 1,450 K-12 public schools and public libraries to SCINET and the Internet.  He also serves as the chairman of the Fairfield County Library Commission.

Prior to joining the South Carolina Budget and Control Board, he worked for the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control and the S. C. Tax Commission.  Before joining state government, he was employed by AT&T and Southern Bell in a number of operations, sales, marketing, personnel and other positions.  He also served as an adjunct faculty member at Midlands Technical College and Webster University for a number of years. 

Tom has a B.S. in business administration from the University of South Carolina an an M.B.A. from Xavier University.

He is a member of the National Association of State Technology Directors and has served in a number of executive board offices.  He is a national past president and life member.  He also participates in the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, South Carolina Government Management Information Sciences and the South Carolina Information Technology Professionals.  He is a member of the South Carolina Library Association and received their 2005 Friends of the Library award.

Most recently, Carmen has been working with leaders from Microsoft, Bluetooth SIG, Travel Oregon, the Federal Judicial Center in Washington D.C., the Oregon Commission for Children and Families, and a variety of credit unions and financial institutions across the country. Carmen’s educational background includes a B.A. from the University of Oregon with honors in political science, and a certified credential in secondary education, community college adult education and education psychology from San Francisco State University. Carmen also attended law school at the University of San Francisco and most recently participated in an M.B.A. program for organizational development with Walden University.

Kathy McGroddy Goetz is the director of corporate technology evaluation at IBM.  In this role, she directs a team that serves as the technical conscience of IBM’s strategy by providing early identification of potentially disruptive technologies and driving integration of technology across IBM’s business units to provide value to their clients.  She also plays a lead role in developing IBM’s cloud computing strategy across multiple industries with a particular focus on healthcare and life sciences.

She joined IBM in Burlington, Vermont in 1992 and held multiple technical and management positions in microprocessor, ASIC and system on chip development until 2002, when she helped launch a new custom design services business within IBM’s hardware unit.  From 2002 to 2006 she worked with clients in the aerospace and defense and medical industries on a variety of chip and system design projects including leveraging gaming processor technology to improve the processing of medical images.  From 2006 until 2008 she held a role as director of technology licensing and systems alliances.  She holds a B.S. in mathematical physics from SUNY Binghamton and a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics from Cornell University.


Jeff Huegel, AT&T

Jeff is executive director of technical security for AT&T's Hosting, Application and Cloud Services Security.  Previously, Jeff held the position of chief security officer at USinternetworking (USi), an application service provider, where he was responsible for logical and physical security, asset protection, privacy, and business continuity for USi's global operations, supporting both internal security operations as well as risk management for USi's enterprise customers. Jeff has been CISO of PG&E's National Energy Group, a C&A auditor and program manager of a PKI program at the NSA. He has been responsible for network engineering at Citicorp, systems engineering at ARINC, and radar engineering at United Technologies.
 
Jeff holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering.  He is a certified information systems security professional (CISSP) and a certified information security manager (CISM).

Anne Neville, National Telecommunications and Information Administration

 

Anne Neville leads the State Broadband Data and Development Program and the effort to build the national broadband map at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) with the U.S. Department of Commerce.  Before taking this position, she was a global leadership fellow at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland and prior to that served as assistant secretary for economic development and technology for the state of California, where she served as the primary staff to California's broadband initiative.  She has additional experience in legislative and regulatory environments, focusing on broadband, digital inclusion and Internet issues.  Prior to this work, Anne managed a grant program to increase NGO capacity through the use of technology programming and founded and directed a community center providing technology training and access to mainly immigrant populations. 

Justin Rattner, Intel

Justin Rattner is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO). He is also an Intel senior fellow and head of Intel Labs. In the latter role, he directs Intel's global research efforts in microprocessors, systems, and communications including the company's disruptive research activity.

In 1989, Rattner was named scientist of the year by R&D Magazine for his leadership in parallel and distributed computer architecture. In December 1996, Rattner was featured as person of the week by ABC World News for his visionary work on the Department of Energy ASCI red system, the first computer to sustain one trillion operations per second (one teraFLOPS) and the fastest computer in the world between 1996 and 2000. In 1997, Rattner was honored as one of the Computing 200, the 200 individuals having the greatest impact on the U.S. computer industry today, and subsequently profiled in the book “Wizards and Their Wonders from ACM Press”.

Rattner has received two Intel achievement awards for his work in high performance computing and advanced cluster communication architecture. He is a member of the executive committee of Intel's research council and serves as the Intel executive sponsor for Cornell University where he is a member of the external advisory board for the school of engineering. Rattner is also a trustee of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

Rattner joined Intel in 1973. He was named its first principal engineer in 1979 and its fourth Intel fellow in 1988. Prior to joining Intel, Rattner held positions with Hewlett-Packard Company and Xerox Corporation. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cornell University in electrical engineering and computer science.

Rock Regan joined Verizon Business Global Services in April, 2009 as a principal consultant for security and information technology solutions for government and education.

Regan will concentrate his efforts at assisting customers to leverage their infrastructure investments around the portfolio of services and solutions including managed security service, virtualization, data center co-location, computing as a service, remote backup and restore, messaging and collaboration, IT service desk, Akamai services, IP application hosting, remote IP application management and cloud computing services.

Prior to joining Verizon Business, Rock worked for VMware serving as their national director of business development for state/local government and education.

In his role at VMware, Rock evangelized the value of virtualization and focused on helping customers architect their virtual infrastructures to optimize costs and services from the desktop through the data center. Mr. Regan assisted customers in all 50 states.

Prior to joining VMware, Regan was the state of Connecticut’s first chief information officer, a position he held from 1997 to 2005.  Regan was instrumental in leading the state's effort in transforming its technology to improve executive branch operations. 

Several accomplishments under Regan’s leadership include the development of the state's first statewide enterprise architecture, implementation of a statewide ERP system, an integrated tax administration system, a statewide criminal justice information system, and a multi-state automated fingerprint identification system.  Regan also oversaw the construction of a new data center and the design and implementation of a statewide fiber optical network for state agencies and K-20 educational institutions.

Regan served as president of the National Association of Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), representing CIOs from the 50 states. As president, Regan played a leading role in NASCIO’s mission of helping to shape national information technology policy with a special focus on IT security and critical infrastructure protection.

Regan was also a member of the Government Accountability Office’s Executive Council on Information Management & Technology, a peer review group on national policies and practices on the federal government’s IT effectiveness. In addition, he was a member of the Kennedy School of Government’s Harvard Policy Group, which published a series of papers on “Eight Imperatives for Leaders in a Networked World”

Rock is widely recognized as an expert in the public sector IT industry and has testified before Congress and has been quoted in hundreds of trade publications including Washington Technology, Federal Computer Week, CIO Magazine, Computerworld, Network World and Information Week.


Kevin Ross, New York State Office of Emergency Management

Kevin Ross is the assistant director for technology and chief information officer at the New York State Office of Emergency Management (NYSOEM) where he is responsible for the development and implementation of the agency’s comprehensive information technology program.  In December 2005, Mr. Ross began development of NY-ALERT, leveraging NYSOEM’s existing network infrastructure in alerting and warning to include dissemination of information across all known existing technology to reach a targeted audience.   He has an excellent technical background and has earned multiple technical certifications through numerous organizations including Microsoft, Cisco, HP and Novell. Mr. Ross has received letters of appreciation and recognition for his work from numerous private and federal agencies including the White House.

Major Schwarten is assigned to the administrative services division with state headquarters of the Nebraska State Patrol in Lincoln, Nebraska.  Major Schwarten is a twenty-three year veteran in law enforcement.  Prior to joining the Nebraska State Patrol, Major Schwarten obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice from Chadron State College, Chadron, Nebraska.

Major Schwarten has been the administrative services major for the Nebraska State Patrol since February 17, 2009.

From January 5, 2004, through March 12, 2004, Major Schwarten successfully completed the 191st class of School of Police Staff and Command at the Center for Public Safety of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.  This course, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, covered eighteen college credit hours.  Major Schwarten held the office of vice president for Class 191.  During May, June and July of 2009, Major Schwarten successfully completed the 120 hour Leadership in Police Organizations course in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sponsored by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Center for Police Leadership.

Major Schwarten has completed all classroom work, written tests and recertification associated with being a drug recognition expert (DRE).  These classes were presented by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in association with the International Association of Chiefs of Police.  Major Schwarten is a drug recognition expert instructor, standardized field sobriety testing instructor, and has been certified as a DWI instructor by the Institute of Police Technology and Management in Jacksonville, Florida.  The Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice certified Major Schwarten as a professional instructor on May 3, 1996.  Major Schwarten has also received instruction in homicide investigations presented by the Southern Police Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, and Saint Louis University School of Medicine, division of forensic and environmental pathology, as well as interaction management, and leadership.  Major Schwarten has participated in the investigative services division and executive protection division of the Nebraska State Patrol, and has served on many special study projects, including an in-car camera recording system, long range planning, job analysis and description study, and mandatory drug testing for all employees of the Nebraska State Patrol.

Jayne Scofield currently serves as the IT administrator over the network services team within the Nebraska Office of the Chief Information Officer. She has held this position since June, 2005. Prior to that time, she held business and IT positions in various other state agencies.

Jayne received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she majored in business administration. In addition to serving as the NASTD midwest region president, she has also served on other committees. Jayne is a member of numerous commissions and councils in Nebraska state government and also holds memberships in numerous professional organizations.

Carmen’s background is in education psychology, adult learning, and organizational development. She specializes in strategic planning, organizational development, leadership training and facilitation. Carmen brings over ten years of experience in developing and facilitating customized high-energy experiential learning programs. Her experience has taught her that the best development solutions are those that provide the necessary challenges, provocation and rewards for individual growth. Carmen is also a gifted professional speaker with over fifteen years of experience.

Before joining the Extreme Arts & Sciences team, Carmen spent three years directing the learning and development department for one of the largest financial institutions in the state of Oregon. There, she won recognition for bringing a fledgling training program with inexperienced staff to a level of performance that won national awards for best industry practices in leadership development, management coaching and employee training.

Her experience as a former educator in some of the Bay Area’s roughest urban high schools served to hone her experience in dealing with difficult learning and coaching challenges and tough audiences. During the years she spent working with at-risk teens, she was recognized as a star educator and learned the art of combining rigorous expectations with compassionate reinforcement to achieve success. This expertise has aided Carmen in the last ten years of her career coaching executives from the smallest nonprofit organizations to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. She brings an edgy, but humorous and professional style to her teachings, and can work with almost any individual or group.

Jimmy Webster, State of Mississippi

Jimmy Webster is the director of the Information Security Division at Information Technology Services (ITS) and has responsibility for the coordination and management of the state of Mississippi’s enterprise security initiatives.

In 1986, Mr. Webster began his career in Mississippi government as a procurement analyst working with state entities on the acquisition of network and distributed systems hardware, software and services.  Other positions he has held since that time include network services manager for the Department of Rehabilitation Services, network administrator/manager for Information Technology Services (ITS), WAN network specialist for ITS,  and telecommunications services network manager for ITS.

In December, 2008, Mr. Webster was selected by the ITS executive director to head a new information security division mandated by the ITS board in November, 2008. His responsibilities include:  creation and maintenance of an enterprise security policy; establishing relationships and security contacts with all state agencies; creating and maintaining communication tools such as a security Web site, security listserv, creation of a security council and coordination of security training and awareness opportunities; creation and maintenance of the enterprise security plan; establishing incident, security plan, security assessment and compliance reporting processes and procedures; establishing close working relationships with the State Auditor’s IS Audit Division, the Attorney General’s Cyber Crime Division, and the local FBI Cyber Crime Division; and maintaining core security operations. 

Mr. Webster is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in computer science and is pursuing certifications in public management and security.

Mr. Webster resides in Clinton, Mississippi with his wife Debbie.  They have three children, Justin, Jessica, and Jon Michael.  In his leisure time he enjoys golf, camping, woodworking and photography.