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Maria Roat
CIO
Small Business Administration
UPPING THE TEMPO AT DOT.
Prior to her role at SBA, Roat served as the Transportation Department’s first full-time CTO in four years. The former director of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Pro- gram helped create a cloud sandbox for DOT to test ideas before putting them into production. By establish- ing a 10-week schedule with two- week delivery sprints, her office built a dashboard that provides a visual- ization of DOT’s safety data that can be combined with information on time of day, ZIP codes and weather patterns to reveal when accidents are more likely to occur and thereby help shape safety regulations.
Bill J. Rowan
Vice President, Federal Sales
VMware
THE CLOUD COACH. Hybrid cloud is a compelling concept that can get quite messy in practice. Rowan and his team went to great lengths in 2016 to make that complex combination of commercial serv- ices, private clouds and agency data centers succeed for several major agencies. He personally worked with federal executives to understand the gains they could realize while mak- ing sure the potential pitfalls were clearly mapped and planned for. That “holistic and visionary approach [and] on-point analysis of potential efficiency gains have earned the respect and attention of federal IT
decision-makers,” a Defense Depart- ment customer said.
Tom W. Ruff
Vice President, Public Sector
Akamai Technologies
ADVOCATING THE HACK. It’s Akamai’s job to defend govern-
ment systems, and it does so for all branches of the military and most Cabinet-level agencies. Ruff, how- ever, brought a new tool to the table: the crowdsourced vulnerability- testing approach that evolved into “Hack the Pentagon.” The Defense Department’s bug bounty experiment identified scores of vulnerabilities for a fraction of what traditional penetration testing would have cost. Akamai’s experience with its own program helped shape the effort, and DOD has since awarded contracts to conduct similar initiatives across the military services.
John Scalia Jr.
Statistician and Chief of Forecasting and Analysis, Prisoner Operations Division, U.S. Marshals Service
Department of Justice
MAKING MONEY-SAVING MODELS. The U.S. Marshals Ser- vice pays a per diem for every bed occupied by a prisoner, which has resulted in a significant strain on
its budget and its ability to deliver cost-effective services. Scalia used advanced analytics and modeling to help the Federal Prisoner Detention program make strategic decisions that are delivering significant results
— to the tune of $211 million in historical cost savings and an annual anticipated avoidance of $46 mil- lion. His analyses also established a framework for reducing detention spending by consolidating prisoners into lower-cost facilities, increasing capacity and streamlining transfers.
Lisa Schlosser
Former Acting CIO
Office of Personnel Management
and Former Deputy Federal CIO
Office of Management and Budget
INTO THE BREACH. Schlosser, who retired in November 2016 after three decades in government, was the glue for OMB’s ambitious IT agenda — work that earned her a Federal 100 award last year. For most of 2016, however, she stepped away from that central post to tackle a job with far more risk than reward: acting CIO at OPM. In the wake
of a devastating data breach, the agency needed an IT rescue mission. Schlosser stabilized the situation, mapped out reforms and helped recruit a permanent successor to put OPM back on track.
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