Keynote Speakers

R. Scot Hopkins
Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Senior Partner, Grace and Associates

Captain Hopkins, a native of Fairfax, Virginia, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA 1987) with a B. Sc. in Computer Science and was assigned aboard U.S. Navy Submarines. Early submarine tours include assignments aboard USS Newport News (SSN 750), submarine officer detailer at the Bureau of Naval Personnel (PERS 42), Engineer Officer on Submarine NR-1 (a nuclear powered, 3000 foot depth capable submarine), an assignment in J-3 (Operations) on the Joint Staff, Executive Officer on USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723), legislative fellow for Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) in Washington, DC, the Central Intelligence Agency, and as Intelligence Community Liaison on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV N87).

Captain Hopkins' executive experience began with assignment as Commanding Officer, USS Seawolf (SSN 21) from March 2005 to April 2007. During this period, USS Seawolf completed a Western Pacific deployment and received the Battle 'E' Award from Submarine Squadron Four for 2006. USS Seawolf was awarded the Marjorie Sterrett award for the Atlantic Fleet for 2006.

Captain Hopkins next served as a Pre-Commanding Officer Course Instructor for the Submarine Command Course, taught ashore and at sea, and is a pre-requisite for serving in Command of U.S. Navy Submarines. From March 2008 until September 2009, Captain Hopkins served as Director, Operational Support Division (CNO N23), and managed a sensitive, national technical collection program for the Chief of Naval Operations.

Captain Hopkins final Navy assignment was as the CIO for Navy Manpower (N1) where he was responsible for all Navy IT for Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education supported business processes from September 2009 until September 2012.

Captain Hopkins is now employed as a Senior Partner with Grace and Associates, an IT consulting firm, and is home based in the Washington DC area. Captain Hopkins received a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1994, and a Juris Doctorate Degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2004. Captain Hopkins is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Juliana F. Rosati
Deputy Director, Navy CIO Division

Juliana Rosati serves as the Deputy Director of the Department of Navy Deputy Chief Information Officer (Navy) (DDCIO(N)) Division within OPNAV N2N6. She provides direct support to the Division Director, who is responsible for all Chief Information Officer (CIO) matters related to Navy, and represents the director in her absence. Ms. Rosati manages the military, government civilian, and contractor staff assigned to the division. She coordinates internal and external activities and tasks across the broad range of functional areas within the division's portfolio, including: Governance, Enterprise Architecture, Information Assurance, Information Management/Information Technology and Clinger-Cohen Act Compliance across the Navy enterprise. She has held the Deputy Director position since September 2012.

Ms. Rosati has over 25 years' military and government civilian service. She enlisted in the Navy as a cryptologic technician (Russian linguist) in July 1988. After receiving a direct appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, she graduated with the class of 1994, and completed an additional 20 years as a dual-qualified Surface Warfare Officer and Naval Aviator (helicopter pilot). She retired as a Commander in July 2012 while serving on the OPNAV N2N6 staff as the Information Assurance Policy Branch Head.

Greg Capella
Deputy Executive Director, DHS/OCIO/ESDO

Greg Capella is the Deputy Executive Director of the Enterprise System Development Office (ESDO) within the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Chief Information Officer. He came to DHS from commercial consulting, where he was the Chief Operating Officer for a small consulting firm in the field of information technology.

Previously, Mr. Capella managed the development and support of financial services software. His commercial roles included being a Director of Product Management at the Fair Isaac Corporation, where he managed a series of software and analytical products. He also worked as a Director at AMS, working with financial software products and providing consulting services. He began his career as an Air Force officer, where he filled a variety of acquisition roles. In his most senior Air Force position, he oversaw the efforts of 218 engineers and technicians providing software and hardware updates for space shuttle and satellite command and control.

Mr. Capella is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), as well as a Certified Acquisition Professional in Program Management Level III, and a Test and Evaluation Professional, Level 1. Mr. Capella has a master's degree in business administration from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a bachelor's of science in Management from the U.S. Air Force Academy. In addition to his academic background, Mr. Capella coauthored U.S. Patent 7,356,503 for ASP Business Decision Engine while working for Fair Isaac.

Panel Speakers

Abe Usher - Moderator
Chief Innovation Officer, The HumanGeo Group

Abe has worked in support of intelligence, security, and special operations within the US Government. After serving as a cyber-security expert at the NSA and before joining USSOCOM, Abe was a senior engineer in Google's Enterprise Division. Abe is a recognized expert within the DOD and the Intelligence Community on quantitative methods of data processing and visualization as well as an acknowledged leader in the rapidly-evolving field of decision support through data mining, data visualization, and social network analysis. He possesses over 15 years of combined government, commercial, and research experience in these areas.

Abe's books and articles on data analysis and cyber-defense have been published by the Defense Technical Information Center and Wired Magazine. Abe co-authored the Defense Information Systems Agency's state-of-the-art report on malicious code trends and defenses. He earned a BS from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MS from George Mason University. Abe the holds prestigious CISSP, CCHP, and Google Enterprise Search Engineer certifications.

Brian McHenry
Security Solutions Architect, F5 Networks

Brian McHenry is a Security Solutions Architect with F5 Networks, and has been with F5 for over 5 years. He is based out of NJ, and his primary areas of expertise are web application and network security. In his role at F5, he meets with customers and works closely with product teams by providing a hands-on, real world perspective. Prior to F5, Brian worked as a network engineer for over a decade in various IT organizations, ranging from startups to major financial services firms.

Bill Billings
Federal CISO, HP ESP

Bill Billings serves as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for HPs Federal Enterprise Security line of business. In this role, he is responsible for working with security executives across the Public Sector to ensuring their security investments properly address their organizational policy, compliance and governance requirements. Prior to joining HP, Bill led BlackRidge Technology's Government business as Vice President and was the companywide CISO. Bill's career has included; CISO for Microsoft's U.S. Federal business, and a distinguished career as a U.S. Navy Officer, with experience in senior communications, information security and IT roles. An early pioneer in network security, Bill's focus on ensuring security met both strategic and tactical operations, led him to manage risk by enabling executives to take calculated risks - not blocking them - risk is transferred, mitigated, avoided or accepted - not feared. His areas of expertise include cybersecurity, information assurance, risk management, data systems planning, emergency management, project management, design, deployment, optimization, interoperability, and operations.

Eric Mellott
CTO, Tapestry Technologies
Past Technical Director, DISA Solutions, for General Dynamics Information Technology

Eric Mellott serves as the Chief Technical Officer for tapestry technologies, an emerging small business focused on the Department of Defense. In his role as CTO, Eric is responsible for setting the technical direction of the company and overseeing research and development tasks. Eric has spent 13 years in the DoD technology environment and has been part of transformative initiatives that have changed how the DoD does computing. Major programs that Eric has supported include email consolidation initiatives, large scale Active Directory deployments, and enterprise data center design and management.

Prior to joining tapestry, Eric supported the DoD in network engineering and management positions with NETCONN Solutions and General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). While at GDIT, Eric held a business area CTO role, where he managed the technical direction of the business area and oversaw research and development initiatives.

Eric holds a Master of Science degree in Information Science from Pennsylvania State University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Management of Information Systems from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a CISSP certification.

Breakout Session Speakers

Thom Walker
F5 Field System Engineer

Thomas Walker has 17 years of experience working with new technologies, having supported some of the industry's first proxy-based firewalls and participated in the innovation and development of F5's entire suite of application delivery solutions. Working with F5's federal customers for the past 13 years, Thomas has seen tremendous change and witnessed firsthand the adoption of many cutting edge technologies within the government. His participation in the design and implementation of many large-scale security and application delivery architectures give Thomas a unique view and robust experience dealing with the IT challenges of government organizations.

Kevin Stewart
F5 Field System Engineer

Kevin Stewart is a federal systems engineer with 7+ years of experience working on DoD PK-Enablement requirements, specializing in security and authentication solutions.

Jereme de Leo
F5 Field System Engineer

Jereme de Leo is a Field Systems Engineer with 14 years of information technology experience as both a customer and engineer. He has particular expertise with web applications, having spent over 6 years focused on the security and accessibility of a popular e-commerce site with millions of friendly visitors per day, and a few not-so-friendly ones.

Carl Brothers
F5 Field System Engineer

Carl Brothers joined F5 as a Field Systems Engineer after many years of being an F5 customer. Carl's previous roles have ranged from operations to systems engineering at a top 30 e-tailer and a global manufacturing company. Carl has considerable experience with web-based and virtualization technologies, including Citrix, Microsoft and VMware.

Ryan Johnson
F5 Field System Engineer

Ryan Johnson is a Field Systems Engineer with hands-on experience helping federal organizations achieve their IT goals. Johnson's areas of expertise include server load balancing, global load balancing, web application firewalls, SSL VPN, application access/authentication, IPv6 and scripting.

John Lee
F5 Field System Engineer

John Lee is an F5 Field Systems Engineer with an extensive background in network and information security with an emphasis on large, globally distributed networks. Prior to F5, his experience includes both technical and technical sales roles in hardware and software security solutions, cloud computing, CDN, and DNS while working in both large and start up environments.

Michael Coleman
F5 Field System Engineer

Michael Coleman is a Field System Engineer with over 15 years supporting Department of Defense systems. A veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Coleman held a variety of positions in information technology prior to joining F5, including Director of IT and Senior Solutions Architect. He is a SharePoint Architect and .Net Developer and is proficient in most Microsoft technologies, including OS,AD,SQL, Exchange, Dynamics, ISA/TMG/UAG, & SharePoint.

Tom Leyland
F5 Field System Engineer

Tom Leyland has been a federal field systems engineer for F5 Networks for two and a half years. Tom's primary SME focus at F5 is network security with a secondary focus in virtualization and cloud technologies. Before coming to F5, Tom spent 12 years working in the defense sector as a principle security engineer and architect working with various security technologies and defense contractors. Tom's areas of expertise include server and firewall load balancing, network firewalls, web application firewalls, web proxy caching, WAN optimization, and F5 solutions for VMware View.