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Category 4:

Using Innovative Technologies to Deliver Simple, Seamless, and Secure Services

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U.S. Department of Agriculture

Farm Production and Conservation

Leadership

 Richard Fordyce

Under Secretary of FPAC


Jared Hagert

Deputy Administrator, Farm Service Agency

 Steve Peterson

Senior Advisor to USEC, FPAC
 

Bill Beam

Administrator, FSA

Key Employees / Team Members

 Jamie White
Acting Assistant Deputy Administrator

for Farm Programs


Mike Walter

Director, SND


Mary Catherine Cromley

Kim Graham

Acting Assistant Administrator


Caleb Gilead


Brenda Carlson


Cassie Neusch

Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs Front Office

Evelyn Whitesides

Program Delivery Division Team

Brandon Soldner
Amanda Brosch
Lani Martin
Lenior Simmons
Julie Pena
John Blankenship
Aren Dameron
Erin Gallahan
John Ingle
Alison Lenz
Jeremy Nalder

Tina Nemec
Todd Pfeifer
Sylvia Redd
Jeanne Schmidt
Kerry Sefton
Tracey Smith
Steve Stark
Barry TerHark
Gordon Washburn
Lisa Berry
Andrea Naughton Insley

Safety Net Division Team

Michael Walter
Jennifer Fiser
Jamie Garriott
Tyler Gilkey

Additional Groups

Entire FSA Safety Net Division and Program Delivery Division
FPAC Business Center (Information Solutions Division, Economic and Policy Analysis Division)

U.S. Department of Commerce

Bureau of Industry and Security

Office of the Chief Information Officer

Erin Fitzgibbons

Acting Division Director, Technology Solutions

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National Weather Service

Marine and Decision Support Decision

Mark Willis

Weather Information Applications Division Chief

Monica Youngman

Chief Scientist

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Jason Lawrence

Patent Product Delivery Division Director

Vitoon Harusadangkul

Senior Architect

U.S. Department of Education

Federal Student Aid (FSA)

Office of the Chief Information Officer

Abraham Marinez

Branch Chief, Product Management Division and Artificial Intelligence

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Patrick Newbold

Chief Information Officer

Wade Zarriello

Acting Director, Infrastructure and User Services Group, Office of Information Technology

Gerald A. Brozyna

U.S. Public Health Service, Senior Health Insurance Specialist

Kathryn Wetherby

Acting Director

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Ethan Chen

Director,

Division of Data Management Services and Solutions

Jeremy Walsh 

Chief AI Officer

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Coast Guard

Maria Harr

Chief, Information Technology,

Cybersecurity and Digital Workplace

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

Office of Information and Technology (OIT)

Adina Pantella

Executive Director of Passenger Systems Program Directorate​

Office of Information Technology Targeting and Analysis Systems Program Directorate

Nael Samha

Executive Director


Bradley Birch

Deputy Executive Director


Mario Medina

Deputy Executive Director


Han Yi

Director


Chris Havrilla

Director


Matt Kim

Director


Jon Dostal

Director


Cole Thompson

Director


Jessica Kopel

Director

U.S. Postal Service

Chris Karpenko

Product Management Senior Director 

U.S. Department of the Treasury

Internal Revenue Service​​​

Andrea Cannon

Supervisory Tax Analyst


Ishmael P. Alejo

Director, Taxpayer Services


Samantha R. Cairns Management and Program Analyst, Information Technology


Benjamin D. Crosby

Information Technology Specialist (Policy & Planning), Information Technology


Shaneak T. Dazza

Information Technology Specialist (INFOSEC), Information Technology


Mark W. Dearing

Program Manager, Taxpayer Services


Mark A. Gautreaux Supervisory Program Analyst (Project Manager), SB/SE Deputy Commissioner Examination


William S. (Scott) Hargis

Management and Program Analyst, Privacy, Governmental Liaison & Disclosure


Curtis P. Hohn
Supervisory Contact Representative, Enterprise Case Management Office


Daniel W. Horan III Management and Program Analyst, Taxpayer Services

John J. Mackus Jr.

 Management and Program Analyst, Information Technology


Edwin A. Patten

Supervisory Tax Analyst, Taxpayer Services


Elizabeth Ortiz

Tax Analyst, Taxpayer Services


Sunil K. Pala

Information Technology Specialist (Policy & Planning), Information Technology


Joseph A. Rodgers

Project Manager, Large Business and International (LB&I)


Titus E. Thomas

IT Specialist (Systems Analysis and Applications Software), Information Technology


Nicholas R. Udy

Management & Program Analyst, Taxpayer Experience Office


Sindhu Vengattery Information Technology Specialist (Systems Analysis), Information Technology


Scott R. Willoughby

Senior Tax Analyst, Taxpayer Services

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

 

Jay Hawkins

Director, Data Center and Cloud Engineering

Veterans Health Administration

Manuj Kapur

Staff Ophthalmologist, VISN 7 Clinical Resource Hub, Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center; VHA Innovation Ecosystem Senior Innovation Fellow

Veterans Health Administration Central Office
Office of Geriatrics & Extended Care

Tanisha Williams

Chief, National State Home Per Diem Program (SHPD)

Veterans Benefits Administration

Derek Herbert

Office of Mission Support

Kaitlyn Hanmore

Project Manager and COR

John Clark

Supervisor

Simon Caines

Business Requirements and Privacy Act Policy SME
 

Mission Daybreak Suicide Prevention Innovation Initiative

David Oslin

Center for Healthcare Evaluation, Research, and Promotion (CHERP) Core Investigator; Chief, Behavioral Health, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center; Director, VISN 4 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC)

U.S. Department of War

United States Coast Guard

Lindsay Abbott

Office Chief

Technical Readiness Transformation

U.S. Department of Navy

Justin Fanelli

Chief Technology Officer

State Government

Colorado Digital Service

Sarah Tuneberg

Chief Information Officer & Executive Director

Governor's Office of Information Technology

North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA)

James "JJ" Eden

Executive Director

Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, KS

Crystal Sprague

Director of Innovation and Performance

Industry

Chicago Transit Authority

Kevin Ryan

Vice President, Security

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.

Veteran Affairs Program

Shelly Butler

Program Director

Microsoft

Heidi Kobylski

Vice President of Federal Civilian

Socure

Jordan Burris

Head of Public Sector

WINTrio LLC

Musharaf U. Rashid

President

Douglas Honeycutt

Solutions Architect

Nicholas Carpenter

Sr. Developer

Srinivasan Titte

Sr. Developer

Thy Dong

Sr. Developer

Raghu Gadiraju

Solutions Architect (Contractor)

Kudira Emuh

Technical Analyst and SME (Contractor)

Ken Jacobi

Sr. Developer (Contractor)

Tuan Dao

Sr. Developer (Contractor)

Cliff Gobble

Sr. Developer (Contractor)

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