Frank Konieczny, a Senior Level executive, is the Chief Technology Officer, Office of Information Dominance and Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. Mr. Konieczny has completed advanced degrees in computer science engineering and administrative science. He has extensive experience as a systems analyst and chief programmer, working with a variety of firms including Teledyne Brown Engineering, SAIC and General Research Corporation. He has supported the programming and analytical analysis for a wide spectrum of government projects including ballistic missile defense, network design, missile test analysis, radar systems analysis and simulation, and operations research and statistical analysis. Mr. Konieczny would go on to serve as a project manager, business unit manager, Chief Scientist and Chief Technology Officer. He has managed more than 20 significant government sector programs involving multiple large and small business subcontractors and academic institutions in areas of Army and Navy manpower, logistics, force structure, undersea warfare, real time statistical analysis, biometric authentication, enterprise architecture, work flow management, and simulation and modeling. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Konieczny was employed for 10 years with AT&T Government Solutions professional services business unit. He served as the CIO, CTO and Executive Director for Operations where he managed internal research and development efforts; multi-location infrastructure management and upgrade; process improvement and standardization; support organization coordination; and development of technical solutions for a wide spectrum of projects within the government sector.
Michael Fucci serves as an Associate General Counsel in the Department of Defense Office of Litigation Counsel. His office is responsible for the overall management of the department’s litigation, both internal and in liaison with the Department of Justice. He oversees and provides department-wide advice on criminal and civil litigation and special projects. In this capacity, he is responsible for sensitive litigation with departmental and government-wide implications pertaining to civilian and military personnel, including “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” litigation. Immediately prior to this appointment, he served as the General Counsel for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and the Defense Media Activity where he was responsible for providing legal advice and support regarding all legal matters and services performed -- primary practice areas were intellectual property law (trademarks and copyright), standards of conduct, acquisition and contract law, fiscal law, personnel law, litigation, legislation, intelligence and international law. Prior to this appointment he served as the Director and Deputy Director of the Department of Defense Office of Legislative Counsel, where he was responsible for developing, coordinating, and submitting annually the largest and most complex piece of legislation in the Federal Government -- the National Defense Authorization Act. He often represented the department and the Office of the General Counsel in frequent dealings with high-level officials from the White House, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Mark Brenneman is Deputy CIO and Executive Sponsor for FDIC's Information Management and Compliance (IMAC) program. The IMAC program is intended to ensure that the FDIC is fully able to store, track, and retrieve all information to meet its corporate records needs as well as its obligations to respond to e-discovery and other legal demands for paper and electronic information. Previously at the FDIC. he was responsible for the development, maintenance and operation of the Corporations business applications portfolio. Prior to joining the FDIC, Mark served as a Senior Manager at Price Waterhouse.
Walter Bigelow is the Deputy Chief for the Information Technology Systems Management Division (ITSMD) for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, & Explosives (ATF&E). Bigelow has full operational responsibility for all facets of ATF&E information technology (IT) projects, specifically all IT operations around data centers, networks, desktops/laptops, printers, phones, cell phones, tactical radios, help desk, end-user services, visual information services, and all major IT outsourcing contracts. Bigelow has more than 20 years of IT industry experience across the private sector, higher education, state, local, and Federal governments. He led the consolidation and virtualization initiative of more than 50 percent of ATF&E's server infrastructure and a highly successful hardware refresh. Bigelow is leading a joint effort with the U.S. Marshalls Service for a new $500 million primary IT support contract for both organizations, from inception to development through contract award and execution. Bigelow holds a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University in Business Administration and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University in Information Technology Management.
Leslie Wharton is Senior E-Discovery Counsel in the Office of General Counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission.* Prior to joining the SEC, she was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Arnold & Porter LLP. Ms. Wharton has counseled and represented clients on the a variety of e-discovery issues including best practices for satisfying the duty to preserve and the management and protection of privilege claims and has lectured and published numerous articles on these subjects. Ms. Wharton holds a B.A from Boston University, Ph.D. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. *The Securities and Exchange Commission, as a matter of policy, disclaims responsibility for any private publication or statement by any of its employees. The views expressed herein are those of Leslie Wharton and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission or of other staff of the Commission.
Rachel Spector is a Senior Attorney in the Division of General Law of the Office of the Solicitor at the United States Department of the Interior, where she counsels the Office of the Secretary and component bureaus of the Department on legal issues related to information technology and electronic discovery. In that capacity, she spearheaded the development and implementation of a strategy to meet the requirements imposed by the e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that were adopted in December of 2006. Currently, she is leading a large-scale document discovery effort for the Solicitor’s Office for the BP oil spill litigation, including preservation, collection, and review of documents from the Bureau of Ocean Energy (formerly known as the Minerals Management Service) and other bureaus at Interior affected by the spill. Rachel also provides legal services to the Department in the areas of administrative, appropriations, and debt collection law, as well as matters arising under the Federal Records Act, Privacy Act, and Freedom of Information Act. She joined the Office of the Solicitor in 2003, after practicing law in the private sector for approximately ten years. Prior to assuming her current position in the Division of General Law, Rachel was the Assistant Solicitor for the Branch of Trust Reform and Litigation in the Division of Indian Affairs, where she served as lead agency counsel in the Cobell Indian trust litigation and supervised a team of attorneys representing the Department in multiple tribal trust cases.
Richard Sutton has over sixteen years experience managing litigation support and discovery. He has been the Director of the Office of Litigation at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment & Natural Resources Division since 2005. Mr. Sutton is a regular participant in numerous federal agency e-discovery working groups and has provided training on e-discovery to hundreds of government agency personnel. Mr. Sutton is a graduate of George Mason University with a degree in Information Technology Administration.
KATHY STEWART is the Chief Information Office Acting Litigation and E-Discovery Liaison with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Kathy has been working the last several years on standing up an E-Discovery Program within the agency, researching technology, reviewing and developing policy and procedures for Litigation and Discovery issues, and producing data for discovery orders. As liaison she represents the Chief Information Office and works with legal counsel on issues regarding preservation or production of ESI (Electronically Stored Information).
Ms. Stewart has a BS in Business with a major in Organizational Management from Ohio Valley University. Her Forest Service career information technology related positions include System Administrator, Information Technology Specialist, Customer Relations Specialist, Program Specialist, and Special Assistant to the Chief Information Officer. Prior to USDA, Forest Service she worked with the Army Corps of Engineers.
Jonathan Cantor is Chief Privacy Officer at the Department of Commerce. He is responsible for privacy and data protection policy for the entire Department and advises on issues relating privacy laws and mandates. Previously, he was the Executive Director for Privacy and Disclosure at the Social Security Administration. While there, he revamped SSA’s privacy regulations and led its transition to a modern privacy program. He received his J.D. with honors from George Washington University Law School, and his bachelor’s cum laude from Duke University.
Mr. Goldsmith was appointed by the Deputy Attorney General in January 2010 as the Department’s first National Criminal Discovery Coordinator. In this role, he oversees a wide range of national initiatives designed to provide federal prosecutors with training and resources relating to criminal discovery. He is also the primary liaison to all United States Attorneys’ Offices and Department components on discovery-related matters, including electronic discovery issues in criminal cases. Most recently, Mr. Goldsmith served as the First Assistant Chief of the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Section.
In 2005-06, he successfully prosecuted the Atlantic States case in New Jersey, an eight-month trial that is the longest environmental crimes-related prosecution in United States history. For his efforts in this case, Mr. Goldsmith received the Attorney Generals John Marshall Award, having received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service the prior year.
Since 2004, Mr. Goldsmith has regularly conducted training on electronic discovery, and his article entitled “Investigations and Prosecutions Involving Electronically Stored Information” appeared in the May 2008 “Electronic Discovery” edition of the United States Attorneys’ Bulletin. In April 2009, he was selected as Chair of the Electronic Evidence Subcommittee of the Justice Department’s Criminal Case Management Working Group.
In 2010, Mr. Goldsmith earned his third Attorney General’s Award when he received the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in Information Technology in recognition of his work in the area of e-discovery. The May 2011 edition of the United States Attorneys’ Bulletin features his article “Trends – Or Lack Thereof – in Criminal E-Discovery: A Pragmatic Survey of Recent Case Law.”
Mr. Goldsmith previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. He also served from 1983 to 1988 as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan D.A.'s Office. Mr. Goldsmith graduated cum laude in 1983 from Albany Law School, which presented to him in 2008 its Distinguished Alumni in Government Award. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Cornell University in 1979.
Catherine has 30+ years of experience developing and directing information management programs and systems, bringing together and building upon the disciplines of public information, reference and library services, records and information management, and traditional and electronic content management. At GAO, Catherine has provided leadership for agency-wide initiatives to leverage organizational knowledge retention and sharing by maximizing the way GAO collects, uses, disseminates, protects, and preserves its institutional information assets. These initiatives have included the implementation of an agency-wide electronic records management system, the development of a corporate taxonomy to provide a stronger foundation for the classification and reuse of organizational knowledge collections, and the implementation of GAO’s privacy program. Prior to her tenure at GAO, Catherine directed information management and public disclosure programs at three federal agencies and a government corporation. In addition, she managed major systems design and analysis projects for two private sector consulting firms. Catherine has served on federal working groups charged with reviewing policies and practices for the effective capture and retention of electronic information assets, co-chaired the Electronic Records Management Working Group, an inter-agency working group for practitioners in the disciplines of records management, telecommunications, and information systems and technology and served as an advisory member of the Federal Information and Records Managers Council (FIRM). She is a member of AIIM and ARMA.
Ms. Campo is the Special Counsel for Employment Litigation at the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office (USPTO). She has extensive knowledge of employment and personnel laws in both the Federal and private sectors. She has direct experience in the coordination of the USPTO Office of General Law litigation program. She serves as the Office’s expert on a wide range of employment and personnel law matters, including eDiscovery issues.
Mr. Oettinger is an Associate Counsel at the USPTO. He is an eDiscovery coordinator for the Office of the General Counsel, and has recently helped implement new litigation hold and electronic record retention policies for the Office. Prior to joining the USPTO, Mr. Oettinger was a litigation attorney at a national firm, counseling clients in the health care and aviation industries on a variety of issues, including eDiscovery procedures.
Ms. Waddell serves as the Associate General Counsel for General Law for the Social Security Administration (SSA). In that role, she leads an attorney staff in providing legal advice and representation to SSA on a wide range of business and administrative matters, including those involving equal employment opportunity, merit systems protection, ethics, disclosure, and fiscal law. She has managed agency-wide employment law and Rehabilitation Act class action litigation. Ms. Waddell has been a member of the Senior Executive Service since 1998 and, in addition to her current position, has served as SSA’s Regional Chief Counsel for its Southwest Region. Ms. Waddell earned her law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law and is admitted to the Maryland Bar. She holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Duke University. As part of her extensive executive and speaking experience, Ms. Waddell has provided numerous SSA, bar association, national, and international presentations and training, including sessions on employment law copyright law, management, leadership, diversity, and various case law updates.
Tony Irish is a Management and Program Analyst in the Office of the Solicitor at the United States Department of the Interior. Currently, he is the project manager of the Department’s large-scale document discovery effort for the Solicitor’s Office for the BP oil spill litigation, including preservation, collection, and review of documents from the Bureau of Ocean Energy (formerly known as the Minerals Management Service) and other bureaus at Interior affected by the spill. In that capacity he is directing the technical, financial, and contracting aspects of this multi-million dollar effort. Tony joined the Office of the Solicitor in 2007. Prior to managing discovery, he was the Acting Budget Officer and Acting Assistant Director for Information Management for the Office of the Solicitor. Tony is also completing his final year at the Georgetown University Law Center.
David Gaston is an Attorney Advisor at the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC. Mr. Gaston serves the Department in the development and execution of e-discovery strategy and information policy. His practice areas primarily relate to e-discovery, information security, information privacy, and the Freedom of Information Act. Prior to joining the USDA, David was the Director of Waters Edge Consulting, a consulting firm focused on Information Governance and Security. David received his B.A. degrees (both, magna cum laude) from the University of Georgia. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
I have worked for the Federal Government for 7 years. In my Government career I have worked four years with the Department of Treasury, one month with the Coast Guard and three years with United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Prior to becoming a Civil Servant I spent 15 years in full time ministry and taught Pre Ged for the Community College of Baltimore Extension Education Program. My training and educational background is in education and ministry. I receive an AA Degree from Community College of Baltimore, BA Degree in Theology from Christian Bible College, and MA Christian Education from International Bible College and Seminary. I currently manage the Electronic Records Management Program at the United States Agency for International Development. My major priorities are my Lord and my family. I consider it a privilege to work for the Federal Government and I take very seriously the responsibility and accountability I have to the citizens of our great country The United States of America.
Robert Snow is counsel in the Litigation Information Technology Unit, the e-discovery arm of the FDIC’s Legal Division. Robb has more than 24 years of legal experience in large complex litigation, litigation technology, and electronic discovery. During the course of his career, Robb has taken a strong interest in the role technology plays in litigation and has an extensive background in building databases, managing electronically stored information, negotiating contracts with e-discovery vendors, managing teams of attorneys and legal assistants on e-discovery matters, and counseling clients on their e-discovery obligations under State and Federal rules. He received his JD from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois.
Ian Campbell is Chief Business Development Officer for iCONECT Development LLC, a world leader in litigation support and collaboration software. He is responsible for sales operations and business development, product lifecycle development, legal service provider (LSP) and partner relations. A key priority is cross-marketing the company’s products and services to the legal, medical, government, corporate, and insurance industries.
With more than 16 years of strategic product development in the litigation support field, Campbell has consulted on major international legal projects to help firms achieve their long-range business goals. He is a frequent industry spokesperson, sharing his experiences and expert commentary with audiences for the American Bar Association, LegalTech, ILTA, AIIM, IQPC, Marcus-Evans, and other legal and management groups around the world.
Prior to iCONECT, Campbell founded his own company, Interlaw Technology, which provided network and document management for law firms. While designing a front-end interface to enable what would ultimately become multi-district litigation support software, he met Cynthia Williams, iCONECT CEO.
Campbell received a Degree in Industrial Design from Fanshawe College in London, Canada.
Tom Kennedy oversees the federal market for Clearwell Systems, including all DOD, Civilian and Intelligence federal customers. He reports directly to Trevor Eddy, the VP of worldwide sales. Mr. Kennedy joined Clearwell in January of 2011. He has spent over 17 years in the federal contracting community, most recently with GTSI as their Vice President and General Manager of their Civilian business unit. He was a leader in that company’s transformation to a premier enterprise-level IT solutions and services provider. He holds a master’s degree from George Mason University and a bachelor’s degree from the Pennsylvania State University. Additionally, he is a graduate of The Executive Program at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. An active member of the Industry Advisory Council (IAC), he is a 2003 Graduate of IAC’s prestigious Partners program. Mr. Kennedy is also active in GEIA, AFCEA and AFFIRM, three organizations that bring government and industry IT leaders together.
Daniel Lim is a Senior Director and AGC with Guidance Software, Inc. He consults with corporate and government clients on e-discovery, privacy, and digital investigations. He speaks regularly on legal issues pertaining e-discovery, privacy, and security. Prior to joining Guidance Software, Lim was an attorney at Jones Day. As a member of the firm’s eDiscovery committee, he oversaw the collection, review and production of ESI. Lim practice included complex commercial litigation for large organizations and assisting major energy companies with government investigations. Lim is a graduate of Columbia Law School and has clerked for the Honorable Vanessa Gilmore, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston Division.