Comings and Goings
May 12, 2008
Peter Tseronis moves to new position at Energy Department
Peter Tseronis, chief technology officer at the Education Department,moved to the Energy Department to become the senior technical adviser starting May 12. He will continue in his role as chairman of the Chief Information Officers Council's IPv6 working group.
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March 20, 2008
Former feds to advise Cisco
Cisco Systems’ federal team has formed a new Advisory Fellows program consisting of former senior feds. Fellows’ job is to help the company do better government business and to focus on workforce and citizen service challenges facing federal agencies. Fellows also act as consultants to the Cisco core team.
The first new members of this fellowship are:
- Richard Burk, former chief architect and manager of the federal enterprise architecture Program at the Office of Management and Budget. He will play a lead role in helping define the new government enterprise driven by service-enabled architectures.
- Ira Hobbs, former deputy assistant secretary and chief information officer at the Treasury Department. Hobbs will help Cisco’s citizen service/experience model in Government 2.0.
- Fred Thompson, who has led Council for Excellence in Government programs to improve government management and leadership, been e-government practice director at Unisys Federal, and held federal leadership posts at Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service and the Office of Personnel Management. Thompson will help Cisco’s push to define the 21st-century workforce and workspace.
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March 20, 2008
Telecommunications Industry Association adds board members
The Telecommunications Industry Association announced March 19 the election of new board members: Michael Dumas, vice president of Graybar’s Comm/Data Business, and Fred McDuffee, president and chief operating officer at Sumitomo Electric Lightwave. Charlie Fox, Tyco’s general manager, and Carlos Munoz, chief executive officer of Cam Communications, were confirmed for their second terms as board members.
Dumas has worked at Graybar for 21 years. Before to becoming vice president of the Comm/Data Business in 2005, he had been treasury manager of corporate accounts, vice president of electrical sales for the St. Louis district, and vice president of corporate accounts.
Before becoming President of Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, McDuffee spent six years as senior vice president in charge of manufacturing, product engineering and marketing for the company’s Research Triangle Park and Whiteville, N.C., facilities.
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March 19, 2008
Ex-NASA CIO joins Asynchrony Solutions
Sam Venneri, a former NASA chief technology officer and chief information officer, has joined Asynchrony Solutions as senior vice president.
In this position, Venneri will apply his experience with the company’s agile software development methodology and rapid prototyping to help government agencies and commercial markets improve and expand their product applications.
Venneri’s 20-year career at NASA focused on transforming advanced technology research into practical applications. He assembled interdisciplinary teams of NASA centers, commercial firms and universities to exploit advances in a broad range of research areas including telescope optics, space-based communications, propulsion, robotics and information technology.
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March 19, 2008
Schmidt joins (ISC)2
(ISC)2’s board of directors has named Howard Schmidt, a certified information systems security professional, security strategist. As such, he will provide commentary on current information security issues and represent the nonprofit organization at events and conferences worldwide.
An (ISC)2 board member since 2004, Schmidt has worked in information security for almost 40 years. He has been special adviser for cyberspace security to the White House and vice chairman of President Bush’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, vice president and chief information security officer at eBay, CISO and chief security officer at Microsoft and chief security strategist at the U.S. CERT Partners Program for the Homeland Security Department’s National Cyber Security Division. He is currently the international president of the Information Systems Security Association.
Schmidt will focus on information security workforce issues, educating businesses, governments and the public about the role and nature of the information security profession.
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