Speaker Biographies
Keynote Speaker - Richard Young, CIO, USDA
Richard V. Young is the Chief Information Officer for the United States Department of Agriculture/Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). FAS links U.S. agriculture to the world to enhance export opportunities and global food security. In addition to its Washington, D.C. staff, the Office of the Chief Information Officer supports a global network of 96 offices covering 167 countries. Prior to USDA, Mr. Young served as the Director of Information Technology Policy & Compliance within the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In that capacity, he was responsible for IT policy development and oversight of the Departments $5.6 billion investment in Information Technology. Insuring the IT investments and resources align and comply with OMB policies, federal laws, and DHS’s internal policies and goals. Overseeing the $13.5 million for IT Working Capital Funds initiatives, he led the collaboration of Shared Services with various internal components and external federal agencies. Mr. Young previously served as the CEO & Co-Owner of Physicians Health Solutions, PLLC, a holistic healthcare facility that collocated various healthcare practitioners to provide both invasive and a non-invasive approach to healthcare. He is very passionate about information security and utilizing technology to meet customer’s needs and their demand for rapid & accurate delivery of that information.
Richard V. Young is the Chief Information Officer for the United States Department of Agriculture/Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). FAS links U.S. agriculture to the world to enhance export opportunities and global food security. In addition to its Washington, D.C. staff, the Office of the Chief Information Officer supports a global network of 96 offices covering 167 countries. Prior to USDA, Mr. Young served as the Director of Information Technology Policy & Compliance within the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In that capacity, he was responsible for IT policy development and oversight of the Departments $5.6 billion investment in Information Technology. Insuring the IT investments and resources align and comply with OMB policies, federal laws, and DHS’s internal policies and goals. Overseeing the $13.5 million for IT Working Capital Funds initiatives, he led the collaboration of Shared Services with various internal components and external federal agencies. Mr. Young previously served as the CEO & Co-Owner of Physicians Health Solutions, PLLC, a holistic healthcare facility that collocated various healthcare practitioners to provide both invasive and a non-invasive approach to healthcare. He is very passionate about information security and utilizing technology to meet customer’s needs and their demand for rapid & accurate delivery of that information.
Mr. Young held several Director-level positions within DHS’s Office of the Undersecretary for Management, including overseeing the development of Delegation, Directives and Instructions, and as the Deputy Director of Enterprise System Application Delivery & Quality Assurance. Prior to this, he served as a Deputy Director with U.S. Customs and Border Protection where he managed a portfolio of programs that included Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW), Automated Screening and Targeting (ASAT), Cross Domain Data Sharing (CDDS), and Business Intelligence (BI) Manager’s Dashboard Enterprise Solution. He was enlisted into the U.S. Coast Guard and retired as a Commission Officer.
Mr. Young received a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology from South Carolina State University, a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Central Michigan University, a PMP from PMI, Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance, DHS Acquisition Program Manager Level III Certification, FAC-Contracting Officer’s Representative Level III, and Six Sigma Green Belt Certified.
Albert P. Weisner, Senior Vice President, Information Analysis Incorporated (IAI)
Since 1992, Mr. Weisner has represented the Adobe - (formerly Accelio/JetForm) products and IAI’s related professional services to the Federal Government. Acting in a program manager capacity, he has managed a team of individuals that have brought electronic form technology to over a dozen federal agencies. During this time, he has become a recognized expert in analyzing the requirements of his customers and formulating comprehensive and successful solutions for them. He has personally been involved in preparing and implementing many educational courses that hundreds of clients have successfully completed.
In addition to performing general program manager duties over dozens of projects, he has been instrumental in integrating electronic form technology with both legacy software applications and the latest web-enabled software technologies. He has designed numerous systems that use electronic form technology as a means to gather data over the Internet edit and store the data in legacy databases, and output reports via fax, Internet, and e-mail. He has been especially adept in incorporating new technologies related to Section 508 compliance in recent form development and conversion.
For over 20 years, he has worked closely with virtually all major agencies of Federal Government with over a dozen project involving professional services, electronic forms development, forms installation, application development and deployment, and training. . He is extremely well known in the government forms community and was treasurer of the Washington Business Forms Management Association (BFMA) which was composed primarily federal of government forms managers. He was awarded the BFMA Award of Excellence in 2006 during the BFMA International Symposium for his contribution to the forms industry. Mr. Weisner holds Adobe Certifications in Adobe Acrobat, Form Designer, Adobe Connect, and Adobe LiveCycle Products.
Mr. Weisner’s previous experience includes Director for Business Development for Cincinnati Bell Information System (CBIS), Sprint, Martin Marietta, and 22 years of executive, sales, and technical management responsibilities at UNISYS (Sperry).
In addition to performing general program manager duties over dozens of projects, he has been instrumental in integrating electronic form technology with both legacy software applications and the latest web-enabled software technologies. He has designed numerous systems that use electronic form technology as a means to gather data over the Internet edit and store the data in legacy databases, and output reports via fax, Internet, and e-mail. He has been especially adept in incorporating new technologies related to Section 508 compliance in recent form development and conversion.
For over 20 years, he has worked closely with virtually all major agencies of Federal Government with over a dozen project involving professional services, electronic forms development, forms installation, application development and deployment, and training. . He is extremely well known in the government forms community and was treasurer of the Washington Business Forms Management Association (BFMA) which was composed primarily federal of government forms managers. He was awarded the BFMA Award of Excellence in 2006 during the BFMA International Symposium for his contribution to the forms industry. Mr. Weisner holds Adobe Certifications in Adobe Acrobat, Form Designer, Adobe Connect, and Adobe LiveCycle Products.
Mr. Weisner’s previous experience includes Director for Business Development for Cincinnati Bell Information System (CBIS), Sprint, Martin Marietta, and 22 years of executive, sales, and technical management responsibilities at UNISYS (Sperry).
John Landwehr, Public Sector CTO, Adobe
John Landwehr is Adobe's Public Sector CTO and has been with the company for over a dozen years. John has worked across numerous enterprise product lines and manages a team that has developed solutions for secure collaboration and information security for protecting intellectual property, homeland security, and privacy related information within government, commercial, and education markets. John’s expertise includes product management, product marketing and business development related to application servers, operating systems, enterprise applications, hosted services, mobile applications, PKI, identity management, and encryption technologies. He has provided testimony to Congress, has been issued multiple security related patents, previously held positions at NeXT and Apple, is a Certified Information System Security Professional, and a graduate of Northwestern University.
Brian Paget, Government Solutions Technical Director, Adobe
Brian Paget is a Technical Director on Adobe’s Government Solutions Team. Brian has been with the company for eight years and works on the technical strategy and direction of Adobe solutions in the public sector. In addition to working with the CTO on a daily basis, Brian manages a team of subject matter experts. Brian’s expertise includes project management, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, business development, cloud computing and software integration. Brian has written several articles for the press highlighting the digital landscape of the government and the future of digital services in government. Brian is also graduate of James Madison University.
John Ramsay, Acting Branch Chief of the PRA Branch, USCIS
John Ramsay is currently the Acting Branch Chief of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) Branch in the Regulatory Coordination Division at USCIS. John began at USCIS in 2012 as a Management and Program Analyst responsible for ensuring compliance with the different laws, regulations, Executive Orders and other guidance that impact Federal collections of information. Prior to that, he served as Program Manager for the Forms and PRA activities at ICE. John began his Federal career in 2004 at FEMA, first as a Supervisory Workforce Manager and then as a Management and Program Analyst. With over 9 years of service dedicated to the enhancement of information collection activities through various roles and responsibilities including USCIS’ current Transformation effort to digitize the collection process, John has a vast first-hand knowledge of the Federal requirements governing collection activities and at the same time understands that the goal of the Federal Government must be to reduce the burden it places on the public through better designed forms and through the use of technology.
Debra L. Danisek, Senior Director for Privacy Compliance, DHS
Debra L. Danisek, J.D., CIPP/G, currently serves as the Senior Director for Privacy Compliance at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Privacy Office. She advances the DHS Privacy Office mission by ensuring privacy protections are built into Department systems, initiatives, and programs as they are planned, developed, and modified. Debra leads the DHS Compliance Division, and integrates privacy into Department operations by reviewing and approving all DHS privacy compliance documentation, including Privacy Threshold Analyses (PTAs), Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), and System of Records Notices (SORNs). She has previously served as the Co-Chair of the Identity Management Subcommittee of the Federal CIO Privacy Committee, the Associate Director for Privacy Compliance Reviews within the DHS Privacy Office, as a Senior Privacy Analyst with the U.S. Department of State.
Debra L. Danisek, J.D., CIPP/G, currently serves as the Senior Director for Privacy Compliance at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Privacy Office. She advances the DHS Privacy Office mission by ensuring privacy protections are built into Department systems, initiatives, and programs as they are planned, developed, and modified. Debra leads the DHS Compliance Division, and integrates privacy into Department operations by reviewing and approving all DHS privacy compliance documentation, including Privacy Threshold Analyses (PTAs), Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), and System of Records Notices (SORNs). She has previously served as the Co-Chair of the Identity Management Subcommittee of the Federal CIO Privacy Committee, the Associate Director for Privacy Compliance Reviews within the DHS Privacy Office, as a Senior Privacy Analyst with the U.S. Department of State.
Dr. Raymond Marbury, Program Manager, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, DHS
Dr. Raymond Marbury is a program manager and analyst at U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP), where he conducts research and advises management on challenges and opportunities associated with records information management. Dr. Marbury recently discovered a connection between big data, information management, and Federal agency succession planning that improves the effectiveness and efficiency of operations while significantly reducing overall workforce costs across DHS and the executive branch. Specifically, deploying information management practices in Federal agencies decreases electronic data storage costs while enabling agencies to utilize information captured to transfer institutional knowledge from senior level employees to entry and mid-level employees.
Dr. Raymond Marbury is a program manager and analyst at U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP), where he conducts research and advises management on challenges and opportunities associated with records information management. Dr. Marbury recently discovered a connection between big data, information management, and Federal agency succession planning that improves the effectiveness and efficiency of operations while significantly reducing overall workforce costs across DHS and the executive branch. Specifically, deploying information management practices in Federal agencies decreases electronic data storage costs while enabling agencies to utilize information captured to transfer institutional knowledge from senior level employees to entry and mid-level employees.
D. Fon Muttamara, Attorney Advisor, Information Law Branch, FEMA, DHS
D. Fon Muttamara is an Attorney Advisor for the Information Law Branch (ILB), Mission Support Law Division (MSLD). Fon advises on FOIA, Privacy Act, and Paperwork Reduction Act matters. Fon also has primary responsibility on assigned FOIA litigation matters.
Prior to joining FEMA in November 2012, Fon was an attorney with the D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings where she researched and drafted legal opinions, orders and memoranda for Administrative Law Judges. Fon also served and performed duties as Acting General Counsel. Before public service, Fon was in private practice specializing in corporate, commercial, and intellectual property litigation, and also served as a guardian ad litem.
Fon graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice, where she was a scholar athlete and part of an ACC and NCAA National Championship team. Fon graduated from Duke University School of law with a Juris Doctor and an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law. Fon is licensed to practice law but inactive in Delaware and Maryland, and is licensed and active to practice in the District of Columbia.
Evette Maynard-Noel, Deputy CISO/Deputy CIO, NPPD, DHS
Evette Maynard-Noel is the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)/Deputy Associate Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where she designs planning structures integrating information/cyber security governance, compliance and risk management into the overall enterprise program. Evette is a dynamically skilled, industry recognized, results oriented leader with more than twenty years of proven success in strategic and tactical Information Technology (IT), Information Assurance/Security (IA/IS), Cyber Security (CS), System Administration (SA), Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC&DR) management, in private and public sector organizations.
Evette Maynard-Noel is the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)/Deputy Associate Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where she designs planning structures integrating information/cyber security governance, compliance and risk management into the overall enterprise program. Evette is a dynamically skilled, industry recognized, results oriented leader with more than twenty years of proven success in strategic and tactical Information Technology (IT), Information Assurance/Security (IA/IS), Cyber Security (CS), System Administration (SA), Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC&DR) management, in private and public sector organizations.
Before stepping into her current role, Evette, a Senior IT Manager with the Department, managed NPPD’s Section 508 IT Accessibility Program as well as the Paperwork Reduction Act Compliance Program for information collections, which are now part of her larger portfolio which includes IT Security.
Previously employed with the State of Georgia, Evette is credited with assisting in the development and establishment of an Information Security Program as the Senior Information Security Advisor and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for the Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHR). She has directed agency enterprise security programs and was responsible for providing technical security direction on such large scale projects as the Bio-Terrorism Project; the State Environmental Health Information System Project; the Georgia Multi-Health Network Implementation, which maintains the Georgia Medicaid Information System; and the State Health Benefit Plan System.
The future Dr. Maynard-Noel is a Doctoral Candidate in the College of Engineering and Computing at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she was recently inducted into Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Honor Society, which is the first and only honor society recognizing academic excellence in the computing and information disciplines. She holds a Master of Science degree in Information Assurance from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, and Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Evette has been nominated once for the Mid-Atlantic Information Security Executive (ISE) of the Year award, and the ISC2 Government Information Security Leadership Award (GISLA); nominated twice for the North America Information Security Executive (ISE) of the Year Award; and won the ISC2 Government Information Security Leadership Award (GISLA) in 2011 in the Government Team Category. She is a Senior DHS Fellow, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
