Removing the Barriers to Organizational Agility

TL;DR: Recording of a GW Tech Alumni panel on Removing the Barriers to Organizational Agility

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Recorded at the The George Washington University Tech Alumni Group Federal Executive Round Table, November 4, 2010.

Panelists Steven Bucci, William Kirkendale, Brian Moran, Mark Rosenfeld, and Mariano Tan / Photo: GW Tech Alumni Group

(The audio files are no longer available here)

Round Table Participants

• Hamid Ouyachi, Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Department of Labor
• Steven Bucci, Cyber Security Lead, Global Leadership Initiative, at IBM & former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense & Defense Support of Civil Authorities
• William Kirkendale, Chief Information Officer, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency
• Mark Bryan Rosenfeld, Associate Partner, Public Sector CRM Call Center Optimization, IBM Global Business Services
• Mariano Tan, President, TeleTech Government Solutions

Moderator

• Brian Moran, President, GW Tech Alumni Group; CEO, Nester Consulting; & former Director of IT Services, U.S. International Trade Commission

Originally published November 6, 2010 | View revision history

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Ben Balter is the Director of Engineering Operations and Culture at GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform. Previously, as Chief of Staff for Security, he managed the office of the Chief Security Officer, improving overall business effectiveness of the Security organization through portfolio management, strategy, planning, culture, and values. As a Staff Technical Program manager for Enterprise and Compliance, Ben managed GitHub’s on-premises and SaaS enterprise offerings, and as the Senior Product Manager overseeing the platform’s Trust and Safety efforts, Ben shipped more than 500 features in support of community management, privacy, compliance, content moderation, product security, platform health, and open source workflows to ensure the GitHub community and platform remained safe, secure, and welcoming for all software developers. Before joining GitHub’s Product team, Ben served as GitHub’s Government Evangelist, leading the efforts to encourage more than 2,000 government organizations across 75 countries to adopt open source philosophies for code, data, and policy development. More about the author →

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