Journal Home >> DoDAF Version 2.0 Plenary 5 JAN 12 Speaker Bios
Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OMG
Brian G. Wilczynski, SES
Director
Office of the Department of Defense
Chief Information Officer
Architecture & Infrastructure Directorate
Chris Gedo
Chief, Architecture Branch
Enterprise Engineering
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Matthew Hause
Chief Consulting Engineer
Atego
Con Kenney
Senior Research Fellow
National Defense University i-College
Shelton Lee
DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) V 2.0 Technical Lead
Enterprise Architecture & Infrastructure Directorate
Office of the DoD Chief Information Officer
Contractor Support Team
Alphonso Mazyck
Senior IT Systems Architect
Lockheed Martin
David McDaniel
President, Silver Bullet Solutions, Inc.
DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) Team
Walt Okon
Senior Architecture Engineer
Architecture & Infrastructure Directorate
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer
Office of Secretary of Defense
Larry Singer
Enterprise Architect
Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer
Technology Innovation and Engineering
Jim P. Withington, PhD
Partner and Chief Technology Officer, Sage Management
Kendall Young
Chief Architect, Enterprise Architecture
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Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OMG
Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OMG. As Chairman and CEO of OMG, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of the world's largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the nascent OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling, leading first to the Unified Modeling Language TM (UML®) and later the Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®). He also led the effort to establish the SOA Consortium in January 2007, leading to the launch of the Business Ecology Initiative (BEI) in 2009. The Initiative focuses on the management imperative to make business more responsive, effective, sustainable and secure in a complex, networked world, through practice areas including Business Design, Business Process Excellence, Intelligent Business, Sustainable Business and Secure Business. In addition, Dr. Soley is the Executive Director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, helping end-users transition to cloud computing and direct requirements and priorities for cloud standards throughout the industry.
Dr. Soley also serves on numerous industrial, technical and academic conference program committees, and speaks all over the world on issues relevant to standards, the adoption of new technology and creating successful companies. He is an active angel investor, and was involved in the creation of both the Eclipse Foundation and Open Health Tools. Previously, Dr. Soley was a cofounder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, Inc., maker of the 386 HummingBoard and other PC and workstation hardware and software. Prior to that, he consulted for various technology companies and venture firms on matters pertaining to software investment opportunities. Dr. Soley has also consulted for IBM, Motorola, PictureTel, Texas Instruments, Gold Hill Computer and others. He began his professional life at Honeywell Computer Systems working on the Multics operating system.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Brian G. Wilczynski, SES
Director
Office of the Department of Defense
Chief Information Officer
Architecture & Infrastructure Directorate
Mr. Wilczynski has held a broad range of information technology positions within the Department of Defense (DoD) at the agency, Military Department, and Office of the Secretary of Defense levels in his 25 years of service. He currently serves as Director of Architecture & Infrastructure (A&I) within the Office of the DoD Chief Information Officer. In this capacity, he reports directly to the Deputy Chief Information Officer. The A&I Directorate is responsible for enterprise architecture policy and guidance, the development of enterprise-wide architectures for the Department’s information technology (IT) infrastructure, and the oversight of initiatives to optimize investments in IT infrastructure.
Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Wilczynski served as Deputy Director of the Architecture & Interoperability Directorate. In that capacity he was responsible for daily operations and projects in support of the Director. Prior to his positions in the Office of the DoD CIO, he held the position of Chief Technical Architect in the Transformation Support Office, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics and served for seven years on the staff of the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO). While on the DON CIO staff, he led architecture and data management efforts in collaboration with the Navy and Marine Corps staffs. He was part of a leadership team that successfully implemented a structured approach to software application management across the DON that resulted in significant reductions in legacy applications. He led the development of the DoD IT Portfolio Repository (DITPR), which became the DoD’s authoritative IT systems registry. He was awarded the Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award in November 2002.
Mr. Wilczynski began his civilian service with the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) working in the area of digital cartography. In addition to his production mapping positions, he served at DMA as a production engineer and computer specialist supporting the deployment of management information systems and the development of standards for the geospatial community. He was selected for the DMA Outstanding Employee of the Year Award in 1993.
Mr. Wilczynski was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in April 2010. He is a Detroit, Michigan native and holds a Bachelor of Science from Michigan Technological University and a Master of Science from The George Washington University. He is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute and has earned a Certificate in Federal Executive Competencies from the Federal CIO Council. He resides in Ashburn, Virginia with his wife Maureen and son Neil.
Chris Gedo
Chief, Architecture Branch
Enterprise Engineering
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Chris Gedo leads the Architecture Branch, which is part of the Enterprise Engineering Directorate at the Defense Information Systems Agency. The Architecture Branch focuses on technical architectures associated with the Global Information Grid (GIG) and produces the GIG Convergence Master Plan, which documents DISA’s technical strategy, a target technical architecture, and the set of approved architectures that comprise the technical baseline.
During his six year tenure at DISA, Chris served in a number of important roles, which include Deputy Director for Enterprise User, Chief Engineer for the Commercial Satellite Communications Program Office, and Technical Director for GIG Operations. Prior to his position at DISA, Chris held several significant industry positions including Network Architecture Group Manager for Northrop Grumman, Director of Network Engineering for Verizon, and Senior Network Engineer for International Business Machines. He is a retired Navy Engineering Duty Officer with 13 years of active duty experience and 10 years of service in the reserves. His education includes a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Mr. Matthew Hause
Chief Consulting Engineer
Atego
Matthew Hause is Atego’s Chief Consulting Engineer, the co-chair of the UPDM group and a member of the OMG SysML specification team. He has been developing systems for over 35 years. He started out working in the Power Systems Industry, and has been involved in Military Systems, Rail and Transportation, Process Control, Communications, SCADA, Distributed Control, and many other areas of systems development. His roles have varied from project manager to developer. His role at Artisan includes mentoring, sales presentations, standards development and training courses. He has written a series of white papers on Systems Engineering, Enterprise Architecture Modeling, Project Management, Model-based Engineering, Human Factors, Safety Critical Systems development, Virtual Team Management, and Systems and Software Development with UML, SysML and Architectural Frameworks such as DoDAF. He has been a regular presenter at INCOSE, IEEE, BCS, IET, OMG, the DoD Architecture and many other conferences. Matthew studied Electrical Engineering at the University of New Mexico and Computer Science at the University of Houston. In his spare time he is a church organist, choir director, and composer.
Con Kenney
Senior Research Fellow
National Defense University i-College
Con Kenney is currently serving as Senior Research Fellow at the National Defense University iCollege. His teaching and research interests include: enterprise architecture, portfolio management, systems and software architecture, IT economics, process improvement, and organizational change leadership. He also acts as co-chair of the Federal CIO Council Chief Architects' Forum, chairman of the EA Competency Framework Committee of the Industry Advisory Council EA Academic Coalition, and chairman of the Penn State 1ST Enterprise Architecture Research Committee.
From 2003 to 2009 he was the Chief Enterprise Architect at the Federal Aviation Administration where he helped deliver a comprehensive architecture for the agency. He worked closely with the FAA's lines of business to strengthen IT governance and to create programs that comply with OMB guidelines and the FAA's enterprise architecture.
Before joining the FAA, Mr. Kenney was the Chief Technology Officer of Zerotime Labs, an early stage company incubator and software vendor. He defined the product direction and made technology decisions for the company, which offered high end simulation tools for modeling cash flows and business processes.
Prior to joining Zerotime Labs, he was Senior Director for Reengineering and Technology Integration in Fannie Mae's Operations Division. Fannie Mae provides access to capital markets for the mortgage finance industry and owns almost $ I trillion in mortgage-backed securities. He led strategic planning, product development, and organizational development projects. Earlier, as Senior Director for Advanced Technology, he defined Fannie Mae's technology strategy and IT architecture.
Before joining Fannie Mae, Mr. Kenney founded the Strategic Client Practice at Sybase, the relational data base management systems vendor. This practice delivered business and technology strategy and IT architecture services to Fortune 100 clients including JP Morgan, Martin Marietta, and State Street Bank.
At the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, he led business and technology strategy and implementation assignments for financial services clients and designed and implemented large-scale transaction processing applications for civilian Federal agencies.
He holds a bachelors degree in economics from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and a masters degree in interdisciplinary studies from George Mason University.
Shelton Lee
DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) V 2.0 Technical Lead
Enterprise Architecture & Infrastructure Directorate
Office of the DoD Chief Information Officer
Contractor Support Team
Shelton Lee is an Operations Research Principal for Lockheed Martin IS&GS –Defense. In this capacity, Mr. Lee is a Senior Enterprise Architect and Task Lead for the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) development and sustainment under the DoD Enterprise Architecture Program. He works directly with the senior leadership of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense/DoD CIO. The DoDAF serves as the overarching, comprehensive framework and conceptual model enabling development of architectures for key DOD business decisions. Mr. Lee oversaw the completion of the DoDAF v2.0 Search and Rescue model exemplar.
Prior to supporting the DoD Enterprise Architecture Program, Mr. Lee provided Systems Integration support to the Intelligence Community (IC), specifically in support of architecture development, both at an Agency and Community level. He also led Lockheed Martin’s high visibility effort to improve horizontal integration across the Corporation by providing leadership and hands-on oversight for the Lockheed Martin Pre-Acquisition Systems Engineering (PASE) Engineering Procedure which was created using DoDAF v1.5 to assist the transformation of the DoD’s approach to acquisition, as promulgated by the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS 3170) and the DoD 5000 Acquisition Process. PASE promotes the development of enterprise systems requirements base-lines, integrated architecture development, value model determination, program cost analysis, enterprise schedule development, and end-to-end performance analysis/simulation across multiple programs.
Over the past thirty years, Mr. Lee a retired Marine Corps Officer has experienced multiple facets of advanced IT enterprise architecture design, policy, planning, support, management, evaluation, implementation of complex integrated IT systems and mission-critical solutions. Mr. Lee has held positions as a Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Marketing and Delivery Manager, Plans Interoperability Officer, Acquisition Action Officer, Acquisition Program Manager, Contracts Officer’s Representative (COR), Systems Program Element Manager, Senior Enterprise Architect, Project Manager and Contract Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR).
While attending graduate school Mr. Lee wrote and presented a paper titled; “Application and Expansion of the Modular Command & Control Evaluation Structure (MCES) as a Framework for Improving Interoperability Management.” This paper introduces the Modular Command and Control Evaluation Structure (MCES) as a method for command and control (C2) planners to use when addressing interoperability management. The framework of MCES is used to identify the short falls of the Marine Corps Technical Interface Concept (TIC) document as an interoperability management tool and provides insight into how to better define interoperability requirements in terms of message exchange occurrences (MEO). MEOs are the building blocks of interoperability, and they can be stored along with their elements of decomposition in an integrated interoperability database (IIDB) for use by C2 planners. He presented a second paper titled, “What is an Information System Architecture?” This paper discusses the main components of an organization’s information systems architecture to include non-technical aspects. An organization’s information system architecture is similar to a building architecture whereas the business operational processes and environment are critical to defining an organization’s information system architecture.
Mr. Lee holds a variety of credentials including: ITIL v3 Foundation Certified, Certified Enterprise Architect Black Belt from FEAC Institute; Certified Program Management, Level III – DAWIA; Science & Research, Development and Engineering, Level III – DAWIA; Acquisition Management Officer, U.S. Marine Corps; Telecommunications Officer, U.S. Marine Corps; Command, Control and Communications (C3) Systems Officer, U.S. Marine Corps; Graduate Certificate in Six Sigma Green Belt-Information Technology from Villanova University; Graduate Certificate in Lean Sigma from Villanova University; Graduate Certificate in Program Management from Defense Acquisition University; M.S. in Command, Control and Communications (C3)/Systems Technology from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; Gradate Certificate in Telecommunications Management from National University; B.S. in Operations Analysis from U.S. Naval Academy.
Mr. Alphonso Mazyck
Senior IT Systems Architect
Lockheed Martin
Mr. Alphonso Mazyck (Al) has worked with Lockheed Martin for nine years as a Program Manager and Senior IT Systems Architect for the Enterprise Architecture (EA) Program. He supports the DoD CIO, Architecture and Infrastructure Directorate as the contractor lead for Enterprise-level architecture development, assessment, and general support. Mr. Mazyck leads a team of architects that have developed the Net-Centric Operations and Warfare Reference Model (NCOW RM), DoD Information Enterprise Architecture (IEA) v1.1 and v1.2, Reference Architecture (RA) Description, and Enterprise-wide Access to Network, and Collaboration Services (EANCS) RA; assessed several architectures for compliance with the NCOW RM and DoD IEA; and supported the development of numerous architectures throughout DoD. Mr. Mazyck and his team are currently developing the DoD IEA v2.0 scheduled for release in April 2012.
Mr. Mazyck served 20 years in various leadership and staff positions as a Field Artillery Officer in the United States Army. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, received a Master of Science in Management from Troy State University, and is a German Linguist graduate of the Defense Language Institute (DLI) in Monterey, California.
David McDaniel
President, Silver Bullet Solutions, Inc.
DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) Team
Mr. McDaniel has been a developer of defense weapons, command and control, and ISR systems for over 30 years. On the DoDAF Team, he provides DoDAF outreach and adoption support and coordinates the DoDAF-DM2 working group.
He began work on architectures was in the mid-1980’s, supporting development of the Navy Battle Force Architecture. In the mid 1990’s Mr. McDaniel assisted the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) development of the Systems Views for C4ISR Framework and was also the Navy representative for the C4ISR Framework’s meta model, the Core Architecture Data Model (CADM). In the latter 1990’s, he was part of the multi-disciplinary SPAWAR team developing the Naval C4ISR Architecture. As part of the effort, Mr. McDaniel coordinated the development of architecture “picklists’, what are now called controlled vocabularies, and led the development of an architecture data repository called the Naval Architecture Database (NAD). His team went on to enlarge the NAD Navy-wide in the Department of the Navy (DoN) Integrated Architecture Database (DIAD), an early implementation of CADM. In parallel, Mr. McDaniel was the DoN lead for the extension of C4ISR Framework to non-C4ISR domains called DoDAF 1.0. As the limitations of CADM became apparent, the DoD CIO began looking for new approaches and Mr. McDaniel was selected to work on the International Defence Enterprise Architecture Specification (IDEAS). IDEAS took data modeling beyond the state of the art in entity-relationship and class modeling while also introducing a formal foundation based on set theory and 4-dimensional mereotopology. This formalism, along with the model compactness it allowed made it an ideal foundation for the DoDAF 2.0 Meta Model (DM2) and Mr. McDaniel introduced the DM2 technical working group to IDEAS and it was adopted in DM2.
Mr. McDaniel started as an assembly language real-time programmer for Navy cruiser and destroyer weapons direction systems. He then worked on sensor data fusion algorithms for aircraft carrier combat direction systems and began research into inference nets and knowledge-assisted fusion. Mr. McDaniel continues to conduct research into the use of formal ontologies as a foundation for sensor and data fusion for Command and Control and Battlespace Awareness.
His degrees are B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from the College of William and Mary and an M.S. in Computer Systems Applications from American University.
Walt Okon
Senior Architecture Engineer
Architecture & Infrastructure Directorate
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer
Office of Secretary of Defense
Mr. Okon, at the Office of Secretary of Defense in the Architecture & Infrastructure Directorate, is a Senior Architecture Engineer who leads the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF), DoD Architecture Registry System (DARS), DoD Standards Program, Information Sharing Environment, Enterprise Architecture development, and GIG Technical Direction by leading the adoption of enterprise architecture and net-centric services engineering initiatives. In addition, he is the DoD Lead Engineer for DoD Information Sharing.
Colonel Okon was born on 21 May 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was commissioned a second Lieutenant in September 1966. He has a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in English from La Salle University in Philadelphia. In 1974, he earned a Master of Science in Telecommunications Management from the University of Southern Mississippi. Colonel Okon completed the Air War College, the National Defense Security Management Seminar, the Air Command and Staff College, and the Squadron Officers School. He completed a Masters Certification in Systems Engineering from George Mason University.
Colonel Okon's Air Force career assignments included Tactical Air Command; Director of Operations Communications in Ankara, Turkey; Division Chief in the Strategic Air Command; AUTOVON System Manager for the Defense Communications Agency; Division Chief and IG Team Chief for the Air Force Communications Command; Commander for Communications and Air Traffic Control in Spain; Strategic Objectives Division Chief for the Air Force Communications Command; Communications Division Chief for the United States Transportation Command; and Special Assistant to the Director for Total Quality Management at the Defense Information Systems Agency. Colonel Okon retired from active duty in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
In December 1993, Mr. Okon was selected for civil service appointment at the Defense Information Systems Agency where he served as Quality Management Principal; DISA WebMaster; Division Chief for Information Resource Division; Deputy Chief for Applications Division; Chief Engineer of the Electronic Commerce Engineering; and Chief of Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Systems Engineering. Mr. Okon graduated from the Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) and the Federal Executive Institute. In June 2006, Mr. Okon was selected to join the OSD, Architecture & Infrastructure team by the DoD Chief Architect.
Larry Singer
Enterprise Architect
Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer
Technology Innovation and Engineering
Mr. Singer is an enterprise architect with the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO) with responsibility for a wide range of business transformation and Enterprise Architecture (EA) efforts. One of his current initiatives is a DCMO – CIO sponsored architecture federation pilot that leverages semantic technology and the DoDAF Meta Model (DM2). He has primary responsibility for the BEA compliance process, collaborates with BEA stakeholders, programs, Components, and the Investment Review Board staff on BEA content and BEA compliance matters. Mr. Singer has been with the DoD’s business transformation effort from the inception of the Financial Management Modernization Program (FMMP) through the evolution to the DCMO.
Mr. Singer served in the United States Air Force developing human resources and medical applications. After leaving the Air Force, he served in private industry supporting DoD information technology and defense business system and transformation programs. Mr. Singer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Missouri Western State University, and a Master of Arts degree from Central Michigan University.
Jim P. Withington, PhD
Partner and Chief Technology Officer, Sage Management
Dr. Withington has over twenty years’ experience in developing and managing advanced technology initiatives. He has served as NASA research scientist, university professor and administrator, and lead engineer on multiple commercial and government programs. He has spent the past 10 years involved in the development and use of federal government Enterprise Architectures including civilian and DoD agencies.
Before joining Sage Management, Dr. Withington accumulated over 15 years of experience in Engineering and Management including Senior Positions as Business Manager, Program Director, Lead Architect, Researcher and University Administrator. Dr Withington's experience includes work in Government, Aerospace, Education and Scientific Research sectors. Most recently, Dr. Withington was employed with L3 Communications - Titan Group as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. Dr. Withington has also held positions with IBM, NASA and as Dean, School of Engineering and Professor of Engineering and Airway Sciences Inter American University in Puerto Rico. Dr. Withington earned his B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University, a M.S. in Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, and his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.
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Chief Architect, Enterprise Architecture
Mr. Kendall Young is Chief Architect, Enterprise Architecture (EA) of the Advanced Programs & Technology Division for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. He has 28 years of experience in aerospace, including 12 years of DoDAF-compliant enterprise architecture development on over two dozen capture campaigns and programs of record. Mr. Young’s responsibilities include leading a nation-wide enterprise architecture team, championing the sector EA strategy, building EA capabilities, and providing EA services and DoDAF-compliant architectures to pursuits/programs across NGAS.