I recently accepted a position to serve as the Chief Operating Officer at Powertek Corporation (www.powertekcorporation.com). Powertek is an 8(a) woman-owned small business involved with all aspects of information technology, including business engineering and program management. Nancy Scott, President and CEO, and Samar Ghadry, Executive Vice-President, are both talented and delightful leaders I look forward [...]
Entries from February 22nd, 2010
Ch-ch-ch Changes, or Why I Decided to Join Powertek Corporation
February 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · government business
Tags: 8a·csc·powertek corporation·small business·us department of transportation·woman-owned
Superman Doomsday
February 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Entertainment, Firefly
I finished Superman Doomsday, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/superman_doomsday/, this morning. This was an animated cartoon based on the series where DC killed off Superman in the early 1990′s. At the time, it cause quite a reaction, getting coverage in the national and even international press. Millions of readers who had never read comics, bought copies. While I had [...]
Tags: adam baldwin·dc comics·doomsday·Firefly·nicolas cage·superman·tim burton
Social Media and Open Government – My Presentation
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · cyber-security, government 2.0, presentations
I was honored to be invited to speak at the Potomac Forum’s conference held February 3-4 at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, “Planning and Implementing Social Media and Open Government Strategy and Efforts: What Executives and Managers Need to Know”, http://www.potomacforum.org/. I discussed two topics under the topic of Bringing Governance, Performance Management, and [...]
Tags: dashboards·department of transportation·open government·performance measurement·potomac forum·social media·transparency·willard hotel
The Big Bang Theory Hearts Firefly
February 9th, 2010 · No Comments · 2009 china solar eclipse, Entertainment, Firefly, Serenity, government business, movies, travel
For those who knew me when I was the CIO at the US Department of Transportation, you will know that I held a monthly lunch with a small band of fans of both the TV show Firefly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series), and the movie Serenity, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/serenity/. For references to this, see the end of the interview I gave [...]
Tags: big bang theory·cio·Firefly·geneva·large hadron collider·Serenity·us department of transportation