Open Meets Closed: Social Software and Regulatory Compliance Collide

As the US Government strives to be more transparent through the use of social software, an unavoidable collision is eminent between the need to be more transparent and the need to adhere to regulatory compliance policies and procedures. The conundrum facing many government IT leaders is how to do both in a framework that is cost effective, secure and prevents data leaks, and enforces compliance. The easy answer for most IT professionals is just to say 'no' to social software, but in doing so is just a short term solution to a problem that is not going away.   In this session, IGLOO Software will discuss "next generation" social software which is both social and compliant.  

Mr. Dodd is providing strategic consulting in the planning, technology selection, architecture, implementation, and management of IT resources at the enterprise level. Mr. Dodd is provides a strong focus on how web technologies can be integrated with existing legacy financial and operational systems and the enterprise extended with Data Warehousing, Knowledge Management, portals, forms management and other package based solutions with a Strategic Enterprise Architecture approach that includes the development of Visual Blueprints and the development of a detailed business case and transition plan for e-government. He has and is supporting the Justice, FAA, USAID, Administration for Children and Families- HHS, NASA, Energy, NRC, Commerce, and other Civil Agencies in the government. He is active in industry support for e-government through both the Government Electronic Industry Alliance and the ITAA. Based on his e-government and enterprise architecture experience CSC has developed a series of service offerings including those focused on GPEA compliance along with the needs of the CFO, CIO and Strategic IT changes due to both technical and policy changes. Mr. Dodd is very active with the Federal XML Working Group and the e-government Enterprise Architecture Industry Advisory Council for FGIPC. He has developed both basic and Advanced e-gov Enterprise Architecture tutorials/workshops for internal training, customer use, and use at conferences such as e-gov 2002 along with leading the development effort for a series of recommendation papers and tutorial papers.

Mr. Dodd has over 32 Years of IT experience with over 30 Years with CSC. He has a B.S in Manufacturing Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science and Information Systems and has been involved in many large-scale integration activities including the Apollo Project, the FAA enroute systems, and large outsource efforts such as DuPont. Mr. Dodd is a member of the adjunct faculties of University of Baltimore and UMBC teaching technology commercial and a series of technology trends seminars on Enterprise Web Integration, Data Warehousing and Data Management, Knowledge Management, Component Based Development with Enterprise Javabeans, Corba, and XML.

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities include system design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, VA., CSC has approximately 92,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.0 billion.