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June 29 2015 – Gettysburg PA - The Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA) announced the public and private sector award winners for the June 2015 ConVurge Technology Awards. The awards were presented at the ConVurge Honorary Awards dinner which celebrated and recognized government and industry IT leaders whose vision innovation and remarkable accomplishments have improved efficiency the delivery of government services citizen engagement information sharing and national security. Nominees from Civilian Defense and Intelligence agencies along with leading solution providers were evaluated and selected by GTRA Council Members and community public voting.
“GTRA is pleased to honor these leaders for their accomplishments and innovative contributions to the government IT community” said Kelly Yocum Co-Founder and Executive Director GTRA.
GOVERNMENT AWARD WINNERS:
Emery Csulak CISO Senior Privacy Official CMS – Excellence in Privacy
Maria Roat CTO Department of Transportation (DOT) – Leadership Visionary
Darryl Peek Information Technology Leader and Cyber Security Strategist Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – Innovator to Watch
Carolyn Sanders CIO National Endowment for the Arts – Women in Tech for Data Analytics
Arlette Hart CISO FBI – Excellence in Identity & Access Management Strategies
Evette Maynard-Noel Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) and Director of Information Technology Accessibility Information Collection and Knowledge Management programs for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – Excellence in Federal Data Collaboration
Gregory Capella Deputy Executive Director Enterprise System Development Office of the Office of the CIO Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – Excellence Mobile Security
Benjamin Bergersen Cloud Security Program Manager MAX.gov Shared Services Department of Education – Excellence in Cloud Security
Michael Echols Director Joint Program Management Office National Protection and Program Directorate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – Excellence Information Sharing
Michaela Iorga Senior Security Technical Lead for Cloud Computing and Co-chair of NIST Cloud Computing Security and Cloud Computing Forensic Science Working Group NIST – Leadership in Innovation for Cloud Security
Steve Cooper – Excellence in Federal Open Data
Ann Dunkin CIO Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Excellence in Federal Leadership
Michael Valivullah CTO Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics – Excellence in Cloud
Michael Johnson Energy – Excellence in National Intelligence & Information Sharing
SOLUTION PROVIDER AWARD WINNERS:
AvePoint – Excellence in Government SaaS – for Citizen Connect Platform
Skyhigh Networks – Excellence in Government Cloud Security
FireMon – Excellence in Government Risk Management for Security Intelligence Platform
Vormetric – Excellence in Government Data Security & Encryption for Unified Data Security Platform
Norse Corporation – Excellence in Government Security Intelligence & Breach Prevention
SanDisk – Excellence in Government Storage for Fusion IO
Cloudera – Excellence in Government Open Data
Ciena – Government Innovator to Watch for OneControl
IronKey – Excellence in Mobile Government
About GTRA: GTRA is a leading nationally recognized nonprofit 501(c)3 organization of CIO’s/CISO’s/CTO’s dedicated to bridging the gap between Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley creating a public-private sector technology collaboration fostering thought leadership executive knowledge exchange and to drive government technology ideas forward. Our core focus lies in the areas of Security Big Data Cloud Mobile Infrastructure and IT Services. GTRA has over 120 Council members Ambassadors Technology Advisors and Speakers who are senior government officials dedicated to improving their IT community through trends research executive briefings roundtables boardroom meetings thought leadership think-tanks strategic knowledge exchange panels networking receptions and dinners recognition awards and bi-annual summits. By becoming a GTRA Contributor executives are able to take action with their peers and utilize GTRA as a platform for improving outcome access to a vast body of knowledge innovative thinking sharing best practices and lessons-learned and enjoy opportunities to collaborate with like-minded executives.
MEDIA CONTACT
Deborah Kay
GTRA
312-399-7341
SOURCE: Government Technology Research Alliance
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