The Washington Chapter
Mini-PDI
March 25, 2003
Speakers Biographies
(for bio info not available elsewhere)
Douglas
B. Hansen
Director,
Installations Requirements and Management Office of the
Secretary of Defense
Doug Hansen is the Director
for Installations Requirements and Management within the
Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
(Installations and Environment). He is responsible for
stewardship, funding and management of the Department of
Defense’s worldwide military base structure. His
office is focused on achieving three objectives: (1)
supporting military readiness and quality of life with
sufficient, high-quality facilities; (2) appropriately
sizing DoD’s facilities infrastructure for current and
future missions; and, (3) improving installation management
in the face of changing requirements, including designing
and implementing enterprise wide business process
reengineering and systems modernization across the real
property business area.
Previously, Doug was the
Principal Director for Installations under the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations) before
assuming his current position in November of 1996.
Prior to that service, Doug was Director, Base Closure and
Utilization, within the Office of the Secretary of Defense
from 1989 to 1995; and he was Executive Secretary and
Director of Research for the 1988 Defense Secretary’s
Commission on Base Realignment and Closure.
Doug’s other government
service includes four years as Director for Installation
Services in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he
was responsible for quality service contracting and for the
Department of Defense’s implementation of OMB Circular
A-76 (The Commercial Activities Program). Before
joining the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Doug was the
Marine Corp’s Commercial Activities Program Manager for
over three years. Doug began his government service as
a statistician with the Navy’s Military Sealift Command.
Doug has a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Statistics from Montana State University,
Bozeman, Montana, and a Masters Degree from the American
University, Washington, D.C., in Public Financial
Management. Doug has also completed the Senior
Managers in Government Program at Harvard University.
Doug is a member of the
American Society of Military Comptrollers and the Federal
Executive Institute Alumni Association.
Gary
W. Jones
Office of the Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics Systems
Modernization
Mr. Jones is a graduate of
the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science
degree in mechanical engineering. After graduating in
1971, Mr. Jones joined the Naval Ship Engineering Center and
continued his graduate studies at George Washington
University, MIT and the University of Maryland. In
1972, Mr. Jones was instrumental in establishing the first
computer aided design system for ship development. In
1973, he played a key role in the development of the first
computer generated drawings for naval combatants. This
prototype system established the benchmark for the Navy’s
future engineering capability in computer-aided ship design.
In 1975, Mr. Jones was
instrumental in the establishment of a computer generated
ship specification program that became the forerunner for
current word processing systems. He was pivotal in
design studies that became the center of the SSNX and
Advanced Technology Concepts, setting the standard for
submarine research through the 1980's.
In 1982 Mr. Jones was
promoted to Technical Director of the Navy's Submarine Drag
Reduction Program and was appointed to the Naval Research
Advisory Committee on Advanced Hydrodynamic Techniques.
In 1984, Mr. Jones became the
Design Manager and Project Technical Director for the
development of Retractable Bow Planes for the Los Angeles
Class submarine. From 1986 to April 1988, Mr. Jones
was project lead and responsible for oversight and design of
submarine external hydrodynamic features, and a member of
the NAVSEA Submarine Intelligence Working Group.
From April 1988 to January
1992, Mr. Jones was the Program Manager for DARPA's
Submarine Technology Program in Hydrodynamics and
Hydroacoustics. From 1992 to February 1998, Mr. Jones
created and managed DARPA's revolutionary Simulation Based
Design program.
Mr. Jones is currently
detailed from DARPA to support the Office of the Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics in Logistics
Systems Modernization.
Rob
Fitzgerald
Executive
Director, Defense Programs, Northrop Grumman Information
Technology
Mr.
Fitzgerald is Executive Director, Defense Programs, Defense
Enterprise Solutions, Northrop Grumman Information
Technology. He is leading the identification of
strategic opportunities and development of innovative
solutions for large-scale integrated strategic enterprise
initiatives for complex Net Centric Business and Technology
problems in the DoD marketplace. Mr. Fitzgerald was
formerly the Director, Navy and Marine Corps and Army
Enterprise Solutions with Oracle Corporation; Consulting
Practice Director for Integrated Logistics/Supply Chain
Management Solutions, Electronic Data Corporation (EDS), and
Managing Consultant with Booz-Allen & Hamilton.
Mr. Fitzgerald has extensive domestic and international
management, leadership, and consulting experience in
improving enterprise performance and providing technology
solutions for government, private industry, and
international, multi-cultural organizations throughout North
America, Europe, the Mid-East, and Asia.
Thomas
Spurr
Partner, Accenture
Tom Spurr is a partner in
Accenture’s Federal Government practice. His
experience includes 14 years of Business Transformation and
Enterprise systems in the commercial sector with Fortune 100
companies. In recent years, Tom has focused on
Business Transformation and Enterprise Solutions in the
Defense industry with a focus on Commercial and Business
Best Practices. At the Defense Logistics Agency, Tom
was the Program Functional Architect and is leading the
Finance and Performance Management team. There
he helped lead the Business Systems Modernization program in
business transformation and enterprise systems delivery.
Norwood
J. Jackson, Jr. (Woody)
Partner, KPMG, LLP
Mr. Jackson is a Partner in
the Health Care and Public Services sector of KPMG LLP, the
international accounting and assurances services firm.
He is currently the Partner in charge of much of KPMG’s
work at the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation
Administration, the U.S. Forest Service, Department of
State, and other Federal agencies. Prior to joining
KPMG in 1999 Mr. Jackson was the Deputy Controller of the
Office of Federal Financial Management in the Office of
Management and Budget. Prior to joining the Federal
Government in 1992, Mr. Jackson was Deputy Auditor of Public
Accounts for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Mr. Jackson
recently completed terms on the Federal Accounting Standards
Advisory Board, which issues Federal accounting standards;
the U.S. Comptroller General’s Advisory Council on
Government Auditing Standards, which recommends changes to
the Government Auditing Standards (Yellow Book); and the
Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants, which issues generally
accepted auditing standards for all Certified Public
Accountants in the United States. In 1998, Mr. Jackson
received the Outstanding CPA in government award from the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Debra
Del Mar
Vice President,
AMS Public Sector, DoD Financial Solutions
Debra Del Mar is a Vice
President with AMS’s Public Sector Defense &
Intelligence Group, responsible for AMS’s Financial
Solutions and consulting engagements with the Department of
Defense (@$50M annually), including all military services,
defense agencies and joint commands, as well as AMS’s
support of the DoD FMEA program for the OSD
Comptroller. She is the AMS executive in charge of the
DFAS e-Biz Program to improve business operations through
the implementation of an integrated financial, resource, and
procurement solution. She has over 20 years of
experience supporting the DoD in management and business
reform.
Harry
Richardson
Director,
Technical Marketing, Northrop Grumman Information Technology
Mr. Richardson is the
Director of Technical Marketing, Defense Enterprise
Solutions, Northrop Grumman Information Technology. In
this capacity, he is applying his extensive technical and
senior management expertise to developing innovative
solutions in support of the Legacy Modernization challenges
facing the Department of Defense. He has a computer
technology background, having spent 16 years with Tandem
Computers developing high-availability applications,
real-time user interfaces, extensive distributed data bases,
and message-based OLTP integration with trading partner
systems. Mr. Richardson has a degree in mathematics
and has positions of increasing responsibility in the
information technology industry for over 35 years.
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