AFCEA Washington, DC Internet of Things Summit
 
Shawn Ahmed
Senior Director, Analytics and IoT
Splunk Inc.

Shawn has been in the business analytics space for nearly 17 years. Most recently he joins Splunk from NarrativeWave, where he was co-Founder and CEO. Prior to NarrativeWave he served as an executive overseeing the Enterprise Information Management business at SAP which consisted of numerous data and business analytics technologies sold to IT and business users. His focus at Splunk will be to build and run the IoT and Business Analytics market groups globally.
 
Neal Andrew
Senior Solutions Architect
U.S. Navy

Mr. Andrew currently serves as the Enterprise Solutions Champion, Logistics IT Programs, Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Readiness and Logistics (OPNAV N4). In this capacity he serves as the functional advocate on state-of-the-art technologies and is responsible for establishing plans for technology insertion, with the goal of improving the efficiency of the Navy’s logistics IT portfolio.

Prior to joining OPNAV N4, Mr. Andrew served Headquarters Marine Corps, Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4) in several key billets Nov 2006 – Sept 2014. As a Senior IT Advisor, he represented Marine Corps’ interests at executive level steering groups in defining emerging requirements for the Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Information Environment (JIE). As the Deputy, CIO Division, Mr. Andrew managed the Marine Corps’ efforts on Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) and Enterprise Licenses. As the Future Plans Chief, he was responsible for requirements definition and acquisition actions for the Marine Corps portion of the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) contract.

Mr. Andrew began his federal career in the Marine Corps as a Ground Radio Repairman at Camp Pendleton, CA in 1991 where he deployed to Operation Restore Hope in Somali. After being accepted to the Marine Corps Enlisted Commissioning Program (MECEP), he was commissioned as a Communications Officer within 1st Marine Division in 2001. He completed 3 combat tours in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and earned a Purple Heart. Mr. Andrew has a Masters Certificate of Public Leadership from the Brookings Institute. He is Defense Acquisition University certified in both Program Management and Information Technology. He also has a bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Arizona.
 
Maj Scott Cuomo
Marine Air-Ground Task Force Planner and Ground Element Integration Officer, Marine Corps Aviation
U.S. Marine Corps

Major Scott Cuomo has had the privilege to serve Marines and the American people for 15 years. Prior to assuming duties as a MAGTF Operational Planner and Ground Combat Element (GCE) Integration Officer in HQMC Aviation, Major Cuomo served in the following billets:
  • Director, Infantry Officer Course
  • Operations Officer, Battalion Landing Team 2/2
  • Company Commander, Fox Company, Second Battalion, Second Marines
  • Instructor, Infantry Officer Course
  • Instructor, The Basic School
  • Platoon Commander, Combined Anti-Armor Team B, Battalion Landing Team 1/4
  • Executive Officer, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines
  • Platoon Commander, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines
Major Cuomo has had the privilege to serve and lead Marines in Iraq, Afghanistan, and on Marine Expeditionary Unit deployments. Major Cuomo is a graduate of The Basic School, the Infantry Officer Course, Expeditionary Warfare School, and Command and Staff College.
 
Josh Dixon
Senior Solutions Architect
Samsung Electronics

Mr. Josh Dixon started his career in the U.S. Marine Corps as an infantry rifleman. After completing college and officer training course, he received a commission as an Air Defense Control Officer. He served a tour in Iraq as a Provisional Riffle Platoon Commander under the Provost Marshal Office. After returning from his time overseas, he transitioned into a research position at the Naval Postgraduate School. Following the research and education tour, he joined the acquisition community at the Marine Corps System Command. After a career in the military, he joined Samsung Electronics out of South Korea in support of mobility solution development for government customers around the world. This past summer, he moved back to the US and now focuses on mobility solution development for US Government organizations. He holds two Master’s degrees from the Naval Postgraduate School in Computer Science and an MBA in Information Systems Management. He’s still working on a Ph.D. in Software Engineering.
 
Bill Fisher
Information Security Engineer, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, National Institutes of Standards and Technology
Department of Commerce

Bill Fisher is a security engineer at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE). In this role, he is responsible for leading a team of engineers that work collaboratively with industry partners to address cybersecurity business challenges facing the nation. He leads the center’s Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) project and focuses on all topics related to identity and access management.

The NCCoE is a collaborative hub where businesses, government agencies, and academia work together to address broad cybersecurity problems of national importance. As part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the NCCoE uses standards, best practices, and commercially available secure technologies to demonstrate how cybersecurity can be applied in the real world. Ultimately, the NCCoE helps promote widespread adoption of cybersecurity technologies by developing example solutions to cybersecurity problems that affect whole sectors of industry, or even multiple sectors.

Prior to his work at the NCCoE, Mr. Fisher was a program security advisor for the System High Corporation in support of the Network Security Deployment division at the Department of Homeland Security. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from American University and a master’s degree in cybersecurity from Johns Hopkins University.
 
Nyla Beth Gawel
Senior Associate, Leading IoT Initiative
Booz Allen Hamilton

Nyla Beth Gawel is a Principal in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategic Innovation Group. She drives increasingly complex and strategic initiatives for Booz Allen. She has 15 years of experience leading consulting and technical teams in the design, stand up, and management of large-scale technology initiatives focused on digital infrastructure modernization to better economic development, public safety, and other public policy priorities. Her client experience spans Federal civilian agencies, with significant focus on standing up new programs in which clients are investing in or regulating leading-edge technology endeavors. She is the manager for the company’s Internet of Things (IoT) programs, leading a multidisciplinary team to collaborate across industry to build and field real solutions solving tough client challenges.

After standing up the IoT firm-wide effort, partnerships, and pipeline, Ms. Gawel continues to manage and grow Booz Allen’s IoT investment across a connected architecture of products, services, and activities to become a premier IoT solution and services provider. She led the firm’s planning of its Washington, D.C. based Innovation Center, which focuses the firm’s broad array of innovation platforms in one physical location. The Center is home to the IoT lab where engineers are developing new solutions and tools. Ms. Gawel’s expertise is rooted in telecommunications planning, strategy, and policy. She represented clients on national and international standards efforts including 3G/4G wireless for public applications, and has established multiple research and development funding programs to incentivize broadband deployment and adoption.
 
Todd Gurela
Senior Director, IoT
Cisco

Todd has 20 years of global experience delivering technology solutions to Industrial and Energy customers. Todd is an executive level expert in the Internet of Things(IoT) with significant industry background helping customers manage the evolution/convergence between IT and Operational/Automation technologies across Utility, O&G/Petrochemical, Transportation, and Manufacturing industries.

Within Cisco he is leading a diverse team of industrial and energy subject matter experts and directing the strategic industrial market opportunity development for Cisco’s IoT products, services and solutions. Before joining Cisco, Todd was Vice President of Transmission and Distribution(T&D) at Siemens Energy. Earlier, he held roles of increasing responsibility at GE, including General Manager of global sales for GE Energy’s T&D business and General Manager of GE Energy Services Canada. Prior to GE, Todd was Senior Project Manager with Schlumberger’s Measurement Division that provided automated electric, water, and gas metering solutions.

As a frequent industry speaker, Todd is a global thought leader in the utility/smart grid industry and on how the Internet of Things is evolving Industrial technologies and business operations. He was a founding member of the board of directors for the Technology Association of Georgia Smart Grid Society, an active member of IEEE. Todd holds as Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering Degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario and currently lives in the San Francisco East Bay area with his wife Dana & family.
 
0Andrew Jacobs
Strategy and Planning Branch Chief, Defense Health Agency
Department of Defense

A problem‐solver with a passion for technology, Mr. Jacobs is the Strategy and Planning Branch Chief for the Health IT Innovation and Advanced Technology Development Division under the DHA. Mr. Jacobs has more than 20 years of experience leading IT operations and initiatives across large-scale complex organizations, including 10 years as a Navy Corpsman. Prior to his current role, Jacobs was a key leader within the MHS’ infrastructure office, where he rose through the ranks as a network engineer, then director of design and deployment, before serving as chief engineer and liaison to the MHS CTO. There Jacobs built a reputation for delivering results while ensuring technology initiatives aligned with business goals.

Today, Jacobs continues to provide guidance on all facets of emerging technologies, industry trends, and IT planning for military health. In his current role, Jacobs is responsible for orchestrating a strategic approach to monitoring, forecasting, and researching health technologies. Jacobs is leveraging his 20 years of federal, industry, and military experience to help improve the DHA’s ability to capture and exchange patient healthcare data.
 
Frank Konieczny
Chief Technology Officer, Office of Information Dominance and Chief Information Officer
U.S. Air Force

Frank Konieczny, a Senior Level executive, is the Chief Technology Officer, Office of Information Dominance and Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. He has primary responsibility to advance the technology landscape of the Air Force.  His current focus areas include the developing the technical target baseline, mobile enterprise solutions, data management, IdAM access/claims management, cyber and technology innovation pathfinders and advancing the Joint Information Environment.

Mr. Konieczny has completed advanced degrees in computer science engineering and administrative science, and in 1987 he completed all coursework for a doctorate in computer science. He has extensive experience as a systems analyst and chief programmer, working with a variety of firms including Teledyne Brown Engineering, SAIC and General Research Corporation. He has supported the programming and analytical analysis for a wide spectrum of government projects including ballistic missile defense, network design, missile test analysis, radar systems analysis and simulation, and operations research and statistical analysis. Mr. Konieczny would go on to serve as a project manager, business unit manager, Chief Scientist and Chief Technology Officer. He has managed more than 20 significant government sector programs involving multiple large and small business subcontractors and academic institutions in areas of Army and Navy manpower, logistics, force structure, undersea warfare, real time statistical analysis, biometric authentication, enterprise architecture, work flow management, and simulation and modeling.

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Konieczny was employed for 10 years with AT&T Government Solutions professional services business unit. He served as the CIO, CTO and Executive Director for Operations where he managed internal research and development efforts; multi-location infrastructure management and upgrade; process improvement and standardization; support organization coordination; and development of technical solutions for a wide spectrum of projects within the government sector.
 
Kenneth Morgan
A4, Enterprise Mobile Services, Civil Engineering and Force Protection
U.S. Air Force

Ken is currently the IT Integration Branch Chief and is charged with the development of near-mid-far Logistics, Civil Engineering and Force Protection IT Integration and Interoperability Strategy by implementing “…as a service capabilities” and technologies to meet and enhance mission generation. He supports development of a cohesive joint enterprise approach for requirements definition and advocacy impacting 250,000 Air Force active, guard and reserve personnel. His logistics, analytics and technology expertise stemmed from a distinguished active duty career in the US Air Force where he achieved the rank of Chief Master Sergeant in the Production Maintenance Management career field, retiring after 26 years. He is recognized as a leader in logistics, policy and technology innovation. He has held mangement and leadership positions at the squadron, wing and major command levels. He holds a Masters of Aeronautical Science Degree, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Bachelor of Science Degree, Occupational Education, Majored in Business Administration, with Minors in both Management Information Systems and Accounting from Wayland Baptist University, Hawaii Campus.
 
Philip O'Reilly
Vice President and CTO, Americas and U.S. Federal
Brocade

Philip O'Reilly is Brocade’s Vice President and CTO for United States Federal. He is responsible for developing and articulating Brocade’s technology strategies and architectures in the rapidly evolving data center market. These architectures span the entire Brocade portfolio of platforms, technologies and services including Data Center Core, Storage and Network Fabrics, NFV, SDN, Orchestration and Network Edge—all of which are built to help customers smoothly and safely transition to the Virtualized Data Center in their future.

A sales leader in his seventh year at Brocade, Mr. O'Reilly joined from Juniper Networks, where he served as the Senior Vice President for Sales for the Americas, which included the Federal practice. Prior to the role at Juniper, Mr. O’Reilly was the CEO of Solunet, Inc., a top-ten value added infrastructure solutions provider which had broad public sector presence in the US, LATAM and Canada. He has over thirty years of experience in executive leadership roles in Fortune 1000 technology and manufacturing companies.

Mr. O'Reilly holds a B.A. from St. Joseph’s College, a J.D. from Western New England College School of Law and an MBA from Penn State University. Mr. O’Reilly is also an experienced military aviator and continues to fly as a commercial pilot and flight instructor in both airplanes and gliders. He is from Charleston, South Carolina.
 
0Robert Palmer
Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Office of the Chief Technology Office/Office of the Chief Information Office
Department of Homeland Security
 
John Pellegrino
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Strategic Integration)
U.S. Army

Dr. John M. Pellegrino was selected for the Senior Executive Service in September 1998. He leads the strategy development, resource requirements, and overall business transformation processes within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy, and Environment.

From January 2011 to May 2015, Dr. Pellegrino served as the Director of the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). In that role he is responsible for fundamental research and its transition in the areas of Network and Information Sciences, Cyber Defense, High Performance Computing, and Battlefield Environments. This includes research program development and coordination, technology transition, and support to current forces, as well as responsibility for laboratory network operations. He also had technical oversight of the state-of-the-art high performance computing assets, computational capabilities, and wide area networking methodologies for ARL, Army, and DoD.

From July 2012 until March 2013, Dr. Pellegrino served as the Acting Director of ARL, the Army's premier laboratory for fundamental research and analysis. ARL conducts research and analysis in weapons and materials, sensors and electron devices, computational and information sciences, human research and engineering, vehicle technology, and survivability and lethality analysis. ARL's Army Research Office executes the Army extramural basic research program in scientific and engineering disciplines. The laboratory consists of approximately 2,000 military and civilian employees with annual revenue of over $1 billion.

From September 1998 to January 2011, he served as the Director of the Sensors & Electron Devices Directorate of the Army Research Laboratory, with responsibility for fundamental research and its transition in the areas of sensors, electronics, and signal processing.
 
David Post
Technology Area Champion – Internet of Things, Information Assurance Directorate
National Security Agency

David Post has been an employee at the NSA since 2010 where he’s worked in the Information Assurance and Technology Directorates.In October 2015, he assumed the position of the Technology Area Champion for the Internet of Things, in the Fusion, Analysis and Mitigations Deputy Directorate.The remaining balance of his time at NSA has focused on providing technical leadership with the development of secure mobility solutions for use on National Security Systems.Prior to joining NSA he spent 7 years supporting the agency as a contractor developing and implementing Wide Area and Local Area Network Solutions.He spent 15 years working in the commercial telecommunications market in a variety of network and sales engineering roles for original equipment manufacturers.David got his start in communications in the U.S. Air Force where he served 5 ½ years as a Technical Controller.On a personal note, he is married with two adult children and he enjoys hiking, cycling, kayaking and listening to blues music.
 
Gregory Rudy
Director, Business Development, INTEGRITY Security Services
Green Hills Software

Gregory Rudy is the Director of Business Development at INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS), a Green Hills Software Company, delivering end-to-end embedded security solutions. He works with client in all industries to understand security requirements and develop secure systems, addressing all lifecycle phases, with ISS security products. At SafeNet Mykotronx, Greg was the system architect and project engineer of several COMSEC programs, including development and certification of the first Type 1 tactical handheld and tablet computers. Greg holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and MBA from Johns Hopkins University.
 
Ravi Subramaniam
Technical Director, IEEE Conformity Assessment Program
IEEE Standards Association

Ravi Subramaniam is currently serving in the role of Technical Director, IEEE-SA Conformity Assessment Program. In this role Ravi works closely with working groups on post standards implementation which encompasses test plan development and interoperability. Currently he is focused on developing programs in nuclear, telecommunications, power & energy, imaging and sensor technologies. He is a member and holds leadership roles within numerous committees, including the IEEE Sensors Council Industry Committee and MEMS & Sensors Industry Group (MSIG) Standards Committee.

Prior to taking on this role, Ravi has served in various technology management roles across the globe. He has previously worked for MET Laboratories, Inc., Honeywell and Ericsson. Ravi studied Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University and Johns Hopkins University.
 
Wolf Tombe
Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Department of Homeland Security

Wolf Tombe has more than 25 years of IT management experience in the Federal government serving in a variety of Agencies on both the West and East coast. Mr. Tombe has served as the Chief Technology Officer of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the country’s largest law enforcement agency since 2005. He is leading the formation of cross-cutting integrated technology strategies and architectures, the establishment of CBP’s Strategic Technology Direction and its associated Information Technology Transformation initiatives.

Mr. Tombe provides leadership on technology planning, architecture, standards, and the adoption of industry best practices for technology management. In December of 2008, he founded the first U.S. Government “Federal CTO Forum” in recognition of the tremendous benefits to be gained by reusing technology best practices and innovations among federal agencies.

Mr. Tombe is the recipient of numerous high profile awards and honors. In 2013, he was named a Fed 100 Executive of the year and in 2012, he was named a Federal Executive of the Year by FedScoop. Mr. Tombe is a widely recognized public speaker on topics of innovation in government, open standards, agile methodologies, and strategies that reduce the cost of government.

Mr. Tombe earned a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. He is also a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute.