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Expert has over 35 years of experience marketing and selling to the government. He is well versed in the US Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs) and Defense FARs (DFARs) and is responsible for creating legal precedents in the procurement of information technology. He also understands the Internation Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) He is intimately familiar with the federal procurement cycle and regularly advises clients (including major government contractors) on capture strategy and proposal development.

For IBM's Security and Privacy consulting practice, he led development of winning solution for phase II of National Security Agency’s High Assurance Platform multi-level security (MLS) for workstations. He also led creation of technology offering to prevent terrorist entry into Federal government buildings and disaster sites. He also managed the transition of a security operations center (SOC) for the Dept. of Homeland Security. After leaving IBM, he developed a framework for trusted identity and currently leads the development of an auditable trust framework for e-commerce as co-chair of the Kantara Initiative Privacy and Public Policy working group. He also assisted in implementing an integrated security solution for the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Expert attained IBM's "expert" certification in process design, optimization, and management. He has leveraged his skills to harmonize service delivery across multiple geographies and address multiple process gaps discovered in a failed security audit for a major client.

Expert developed expertise in strategic sourcing while serving as technical solutions manager at IBM. He designed both generalized offerings and customized IT outsourcing solutoins for several of the world's largest enterprises. As strategic sourcing has moved on, he now advised potential buyers of services that include cloud computing and business process outsourcing. This includes defining requirements, evaluating vendor solutions, as well as providing negoiation assistance.

Devised a winning solution for an aerial traffic reconnaissance system capable of identifying vehicles by type (e.g., car, pickup, SUV, semi), direction and velocity in all weather conditions. Leveraged experience in sensor technology, including pattern recognition, to provide a lightweight, all weather solution that could be mounted on small aircraft to provide continuous monitoring. The solution included a data link to a ground station to allow the surveillance to be immediately used and/or stored for later analysis.Devised strategy and managed the development of a proposal to provide a wide range of information technology services to the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. Strategy included customer contact plan, development of Win themes, proposal design and management of the proposal team for a large federal contractor.Provided insight into potential "Do Not Track" regulations being considered by the Federal Trade Commission. The co-chairman of the global Privacy and Public Policy working group of the Kantara Initiative, Expert is an authority on identity and privacy issues and regularly provides insight on this dynamic area.Described the range of go-to-market strategies used in the IT security outsourcing market for prospective new entrant in the market.
Also provided insight into the strategies used for a wide variety of managed services.Provided guidance on forthcoming compliance area in data security that will require comprehensive destruction of data. Prompted by increasing costs of holding data resulting from impending privacy regulations, the economics of acquiring personally identifiable information will be transformed from "collect everything" to a strategy of selective collection and regular pruning of data that is no longer cost-justified to maintain.