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PERSPECTIVES
Participants
Alexis Bonnell
Division Chief of Applied Innovation and Acceleration, U.S. Global Development Lab, U.S. Agency for International Development
Mark Busby
CTO, National Archives and Records Administration
Evan Davis
Vice President, Strategy and Lean Management, General Dynamics InformationTechnology
Larry Gillick
Deputy Director of Digital Strategy, Department of the Interior
Laura Larrimore
Senior Digital Strategist, U.S. Patent and Trademark Organization
Justin Marsico
Bureau of the Fiscal Service,Treasury Department
Julie Meloni
Director, Product Management and Strategy/Operations Community of Practice, U.S. Digital Service
Anahita Reilly
Chief Customer Experience Of cer, General Services Administration
Corry Robb
Services Product Design Lead, Of ce of GEOINT Services, National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency
Benjamin Scribner
Director of Outreach for the Cybersecurity Education and Awareness Branch, Department of Homeland Security
Zach Whitman
Chief Data Of cer, Census Bureau
Dave Zvenyach
Assistant Commissioner, Of ce
of Systems Management, Federal Acquisition Service, General Services Administration
Note: FCW Editor-in-ChiefTroy K. Schneider led the roundtable discussion. The Feb. 28 gathering was underwritten by General Dynamics IT, but both
the substance of the discussion and
the recap on these pages are strictly editorial products. Neither General Dynamics IT nor any of the roundtable participants had input beyond their Feb. 28 comments.
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and programming structure, then we add our relevance to it.’”
Then the procurement and legal teams got involved, “and now they function as a family, which is really critical because they validate that this is legal, this is safe, and you should do it.”
“You do good work, and good work then leads to more good work, and success builds on success,” one exec- utive said. “We have to do a lot of carrots because we don’t really have sticks. And if you can’t hire a village of people, you can always empower the people you have.”
Another participant agreed, say- ing, “There are people in the trenches who are hungry to do the right thing. For any of it to work, you fundamen- tally have to have empowered people and have them pointed in the right direction.” n