Speaker Bios

Steven Bailey, Pierce County Department of Emergency Management End User Q&A Participant

As the Director of the Department of Emergency Management, Steve Bailey manages five divisions of Pierce County Government. This includes the Division of Emergency Management responsible for all county disaster and major public safety incident response planning, preparedness, mitigation, and response activities. The Fire Prevention Bureau, which includes the County Fire Marshal and all five inspection and fire investigation programs. The Division of Public Safety Radio Communications, which handles the emergency telephone system and the County’s Office of Emergency Medical Services, which supervises the County EMS system. After the 9/11 incident, Steve was appointed co-chair of the Pierce County Terrorism Early Warning & Response Task Force by Pierce County Executive John Ladenburg.

Prior to his appointment in Pierce County, Steve served for over 27 years in the Seattle Fire Department, rising to the rank of Assistant Fire Chief in charge of the Operations Division, managing 900 personnel and the response to 65,000 emergency incidents per year. He also served as Deputy Chief of Personnel Division and as the Director of the City of Seattle’s Emergency Management Program. Steve has also worked on a congressionally mandated program with the United States Fire Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, chairing a National Committee that has developed a new guide book for emergency response personnel who respond to hazardous material incidents.

Neville Clarke, Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense Capstone Panel Member

Dr. Clarke is founding director of the Texas A&M University System Institute for Countermeasures Against Agricultural Bioterrorism. Dr. Clarke has been actively involved in agricultural biosecurity since 1996, serving as advisor to the USDA, developing new projects at Texas A&M University, and participating as a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency BioChem 20/20 Group, which is a panel of scientific experts that assesses vulnerabilities to terrorist activities. His area of personal research is the development and application of decision support systems to assess the impact of technology and policy options affecting food and agriculture, recent applications of which have been directed to agricultural biosecurity at state and national levels.

Dr. Clarke is Director Emeritus of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, one of the largest broad-based public research organizations in the U.S. for food and agriculture. As a career Air Force R&D officer, he served as director of the Air Force’s medical research program for five years, where he was responsible for initiating the modern development of aircrew and air base protection against CBW weapons. Dr. Clarke was a member of the USAF Chief of Staff’s Scientific Advisory Board and Chairperson of its Aerospace Medical Panel. He is a fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council’s Board on Agriculture and served as its Vice Chairperson for three years. He is author or co-author of more than 100 scientific publications. As Director for the US Department of Homeland Security National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense, Dr. Clarke provides broad management experience with military and university research, explicit involvement with the agricultural biosecurity agenda, extensive experience dealing with federal and state government and research agencies and industry, and ongoing personal research experience in modeling and impact assessment for food and agriculture.

Pat Deucy, Microsoft Guest Speaker

Career intelligence officer for 27 years following 8 years commissioned service with the United States Navy.

Defense Intelligence Agency service:

Since leaving government service in the fall of 2003:

Awards/Recognition: The Secretary of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the DIA Director’s Award for Meritorious Civilian Service, the Department of the Army Meritorious Civilian Service Medal and the Defense Intelligence Director’s Award. Military: Bronze Star.

David Ebert, Purdue University Research Panel Member

David Ebert is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer and Information Science Department at The Ohio State University in 1991. His research interests are scientific, medical, and information visualization, computer graphics, animation, and procedural techniques. Dr. Ebert performs research in volume rendering, illustrative visualization, realistic rendering, procedural texturing, modeling, and animation, and modeling natural phenomena.

Joseph Garofalo, Department of Homeland Security Regional Panel Member

Joseph Garofalo is a Senior Intelligence Research Specialist and Program Manager with The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Intelligence. He has over twelve years experience in law enforcement and intelligence analysis. He has worked as a United States Border Patrol Agent, Senior Intelligence Agent and an Immigration and Naturalization Service Senior Intelligence Officer. Joe’s specialized experience includes terrorism and immigration, intelligence technologies and analysis. Special details have included the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General and the Department of Homeland Security Geospatial Management Office within the Office of the Chief Information Officer. He is a certified federal law enforcement intelligence and fraudulent document instructor. He has been a guest speaker in the areas of anti-terrorism, immigration, intelligence and technology integration since 1998. Joe is currently assigned collateral duty policy and planning duties related to anti-terrorism intelligence issues, and is managing intelligence technology pilot programs in Visual Perception and Discovery (VPAD), Context situational awareness and risk management within the ICE Office of Intelligence. He is a graduate of the United States Border Patrol Academy, holds a BBA in International Finance from the George Washington University and is currently attending the graduate program at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Defense Intelligence College.

Mark Goodwin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory VAC Consortium Director

Mark Goodwin has broad responsibilities for establishing and implementing commercial strategies and collaborative partnerships with industry for government programs. Mr. Goodwin is also Director of the Visualization and Analytics Center (VAC) Consortium for the Department of Homeland Security. Prior to that, he was responsible for the protection and deployment strategies for intellectual property generated across PNNL in the Information Technology domain. Before moving to the Pacific Northwest in 1999, Mr. Goodwin had been involved in entrepreneurial and new business development activities in Silicon Valley for over 20 years. He founded and ran several companies and created new commercial businesses from traditional government only operations within both small and large corporate organizations. Mr. Goodwin holds numerous patents and is a frequent speaker at conferences on topics ranging from energy to IT and technology transfer. He is a graduate of University of California at Berkeley.

Barbara Graff, Seattle Police Department Keynote Speaker

Ms. Graff was appointed Director of Seattle Office of Emergency Management in June of 2005. Her responsibilities include managing the multi-hazard interdepartmental emergency management program for the City of Seattle and coordinating its relation to other emergency response agencies and community groups. The program encompasses all phases of integrated emergency management including preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery.

Prior to Seattle, Ms. Graff worked for the City of Bellevue for 21 years; seven of those in the City Manager’s Office and fifteen as Emergency Preparedness Manager. In that capacity she managed more than 20 Presidentially declared disasters and full-scale exercises and in 2003, led Bellevue’s emergency management program through a national pilot of the relatively new national Emergency Management Accreditation process. Ms. Graff chairs the national Emergency Management Program Review Committee.

A native of Puget Sound, she holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from the University of Washington.

In 1992, Ms. Graff received the “Educator of the Year” award from the Washington State Public Educators Association and in 2000, she received a “Best of Bellevue” award from the Advance Bellevue community-wide leadership group for her exemplary work in community preparedness. Ms. Graff is a regular speaker at the Washington State Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference.

Ms. Graff chairs the King County Advisory Committee on Emergency Management and Regional Homeland Security Council. She is a member of the Washington State Emergency Management Association and the International Association of Emergency Management.

Since 1998, Ms. Graff has been a contributing author and regional champion of a voluntary effort to coordinate emergency response plans within King County known as the Regional Disaster Plan for Public and Private Organizations.

In 2004, Ms. Graff served on a State of Washington Task Force to review local emergency management programs and recommend improvements to the State’s overall emergency planning and response capability.

Joe Kielman, Department of Homeland Security DHS Representative

Joe Kielman serves as Science Advisor in the office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology for DHS. He is Director of Research Futures for the Command, Control and Interoperability Division and serves as Acting Director for Transition for the Human Factors Division at the Science and Technology Directorate. Prior to joining DHS, Dr. Kielman worked for 20 years at the FBI. Joe has an undergraduate degree in Physics and graduate degrees in Biophysics and did his postdoctoral research in Genetics.

Richard Legault, National Consortium for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland Capstone Panel Member

Richard is Co-Director of the Terrorism and Preparedness Survey Archive (TaPSA) at START, and a DHS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany in 2006 where he was also an Assistant Editor at the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics. Dr. Legault performs research in quantitative analysis of survey data, policy evaluation, data usage, and violence reduction strategies.

Richard May, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Research Panel Chair

Richard’s professional experience has involved scientific and information visualization, virtual and mixed reality research, and, for the past several years, the emerging science of visual analytics. In the early 90’s, Richard switched his research from scientific computer graphics and visualization to the interaction with visualizations. It seemed that the ability to generate content-rich visualizations was outstripping the ability to manipulate and interact with the visualizations to better understand the complex nature of the problems being studied. This led to research in both the logical and physical aspects of interacting with electronic information that has resulted in his current focus on visual analytics. Richard is the research coordinator and education coordinator for the Department of Homeland Security’s Visualization and Analytics Centers (VACs) program. As the research coordinator, Richard integrates research efforts across government and academic partners. As the education coordinator, he develops challenging opportunities for the next generation of researchers and engineers in the area of visual analytics. Richard received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Washington State University and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington.

Bill Pike, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Research Panel Member

Bill Pike is a research scientist at PNNL specializing in knowledge representation and visualization, collaborative tools, and information integration. Bill has designed knowledge-sharing and collaboration support applications for scientific cyber-infrastructure projects, and his group decision making tools are used by clients in emergency medicine, social services, and technology forecasting, among others. He also has research interests in the links between cognitive science and knowledge discovery. Bill holds a Ph.D. in Geography, specializing in Geographic Information Science, from Penn State.

Max Reynolds, Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center Regional Panel Member

Max Reynolds has been in law enforcement for over 31 years. He's been with Indiana University Police at IUPUI in Indianapolis Indiana since January of 1980. He holds an Associate of Science degree in Criminal Justice and a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Affairs both from Indiana University. He has held the rank of Cadet, Cadet Officer, Patrol Officer, Detective, and Sergeant and is currently a Lieutenant assigned to the Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center.

Prior to IU, he served six years with the Security Police in the United States Air Force in the capacity of Installation Entry Controller, Patrol Officer and Desk Sergeant.

Max has been an instructor since 1984 and completed the Master Instructor program from the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy in 1998. He is a guest lecturer at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy and the Institute for Forensic Imaging. He assisted with the implementation of the Workplace Violence Prevention program at IUPUI. He instructs courses for supervisors and line personnel in Workplace Violence, Personal Safety, Crisis Intervention, Stress Management, Crime Scene Management and Evidence Collection.

Bill Ribarsky, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Capstone Panel Member

William Ribarsky is the Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology at UNC Charlotte and the founding director of the Charlotte Visualization Center. He is Principal Investigator for the DHS SouthEast Regional Visualization and Analytics Center. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cincinnati.

His research interests include visual analytics; 3D multimodal interaction; bioinformatics visualization; virtual environments; visual reasoning; and interactive visualization of large-scale information spaces. Dr. Ribarsky is the former Chair and a current Director of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. He is also a member of the Steering Committees for the IEEE Visualization Conference and the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, the leading international conferences in their fields. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and is currently an Editorial Board member for IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications. Dr. Ribarsky co-founded the Eurographics/IEEE visualization conference series (now called EG/IEEE EuroVis) and led the effort to establish the current Virtual Reality Conference series. In 2007, he will be general co-chair of the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium.

Dr. Ribarsky has published over 110 scholarly papers, book chapters, and books. He has received competitive research grants and contracts from NSF, ARL, ARO, DHS, ONR, EPA, AFOSR, DARPA, NASA, NIMA, and several companies.

George Robertson, Microsoft Research Research Panel Member

George G. Robertson is an ACM Fellow and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he manages the visualization research group. Before coming to Microsoft, he was a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC, working on 3D interactive animation interfaces for intelligent information access. He was the architect of the Information Visualizer and invented a number of information visualization techniques. He has been a Senior Scientist at Thinking Machines, a Senior Scientist at Bolt Beranek and Newman, and a faculty member of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie-Mellon University. In the past, he has made significant contributions to machine learning, multimedia message systems, hypertext systems, operating systems, and programming languages.

Alicia Saia, i2 Inc. A ChoicePoint Company Research Panel Member

As Assistant Vice President of Product Marketing for the ChoicePoint Government Services division (CGS), Alicia Saia leads a team that is responsible for market research, requirements analysis and go-to-market planning for all CGS products and solutions, including i2 visual investigative analysis software and technologies, iMapData geospatial data and visualization services, and ChoicePoint Law Enforcement/Government public records data products and services. The Product Marketing group works closely with customers as well as internal teams within CGS such as account management and product development, to ensure that our solutions meet the needs of organizations in homeland security and other markets CGS serves.

Ms. Saia has 16 years experience in product marketing in the software industry, primarily focused on analytical decision-support solutions for a variety of markets including healthcare, law enforcement, military, intelligence, government, and Fortune 500 organizations. She received her B.A. with Distinction from the University of Virginia, and joined i2 Inc. in October of 2001 after earning her M.B.A. at the Johns Hopkins University, where she focused on product development and marketing strategy.

Pam Scanlon, Automated Regional Justice Information System Regional Panel Member

Allison Schletzbaum, Regional Medical Resource Center Regional Panel Member

Allison Schletzbaum is the Project Manager for the King County Regional Medical Resource Center (RMRC), the operational arm of the King County Healthcare Coalition. The RMRC is a resource management and communications coordination hub for the health system during an emergency response. Prior to her current position, she worked in Communicable Disease Investigation and Environmental Health at the Yakima Health District. She has a BA in Public Health and an MS in Organization Development.

Steve Stein, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Regional Panel Chair

Mr. Stein is the Northwest Regional Coordinator for the Homeland Security Market Sector, leading the Laboratories efforts to broaden and strengthen PNNL’s regional contributions in Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Mr. Stein recently completed a large project supporting the Department of Homeland Security that was focused on the assessment of the Seattle Urban areas preparedness to prevent and respond to major disasters whether natural or human induced, and the insertion of new technologies that would improve the regions level of preparedness. The program requires assessment of multiple infrastructures including water systems, transportation and communication systems, power systems, public health and hospitals, Sea Ports, Airports major public venues and national icons. Mr. Stein also coordinates the Science and Technology Action Team, composed of several National Laboratories and five University Centers of Excellence, to enable DHS to rapidly deploy its S&T assets in response to national needs.

Over the course of his 29 year career with PNNL, Mr. Stein has distinguished himself in the public and private sectors through his leadership of large, complex, multidisciplinary projects that focus on evaluation, development, testing, and insertion of new technologies. Mr. Stein managed numerous multi-million dollar programs focused on radioactive waste management and disposal nationally. These programs were focused on advancing new remediation technologies through public and regulatory acceptance to commercial practice. The teams were composed of members from nearly all the major national laboratories, commercial technology providers, and numerous Universities. Mr. Stein has extensive experience working with regional and State Governments, serving as the Hanford Site Liaison to the Offices of the Governors of Washington and Oregon, and the regional and state regulators as well as the regional EPA. Over the last 10 years, Mr. Stein has placed more emphasis on technology acceptance and technology insertion with the explicit objective of creating new commercial ventures in electronics and telecom markets. Mr. Stein also worked extensively with the financial community, including venture capital and banking institutions to finance these new ventures.

Jim Thomas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory NVAC Director; DHS Capstone Panel Moderator

Jim Thomas is director of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Visualization and Analytics Center and a Laboratory Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. With a career spanning 30 years of contributions in information technology, Jim specializes in the research, design and implementation of innovative information and scientific visualization, multimedia and human computer interaction technology. At PNNL, he has established investment directions for information technology, led major technology initiatives, mentored staff and spearheaded several major research programs.

David Waldrop Guest Speaker

Over 25 years experience delivering effective information technology services. Specializing in the integration of business process assessment and design with technical and architectural requirements, emphasizing end-user acceptance and adoptability

Groove/Microsoft Networks (11/03 – Present)

Ernst and Young, LLP (11/95 – 11/03)

Dave Waldrup, Raytheon Research Panel Member

Mr. Waldrup has over 30 years of combined experience working within the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community and Worldwide Commercial Business. During this time he has been involved with flight operations in the USAF, researching, developing and managing technical programs in support of GIS and other initiatives within NGA. He is currently employed as a Senior Principal Business Developer in Knowledge Management where he developed and implemented the concept of Knowledge Management within Geospatial Intelligence Systems which has become a new business area within Raytheon. His development of the Semantic Web-Enabled Capability concept in coordination with Thetus Corporation was demonstrated to numerous high-level NGA, NATO, and other intelligence agency seniors with their enthusiastic acceptance and approval. He was also responsible for overall design and implementation of the Homeland Security (HLS) system deployment under the Geospatial Intelligence Database Integration (GIDI) contract, he coordinated with NGA's customers and internal engineering staff for deployment of integrated system to NGA's locations at the Reston, Virginia, Washington D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and St. Louis, Missouri.

Mr. Waldrup later prepared and presented an overview of the GIDI/HLS for the first annual GeoIntel Show at New Orleans in October 2003 and to Raytheon investors to the overall potential capital of over 1 Trillion dollars. He went on to continue representing Raytheon’s Knowledge Management efforts at GeoINT 2004, 2005, and 2006 and at the Defense Geospatial Intelligence symposium in London in 2005, 2006, and 2007. He has in depth technical knowledge and has designed, developed, marketed, and maintained the Portal Project Framework, the project methodology for all Portal Software Professional Services implementations worldwide by leading numerous interactive web sessions with international groups to teach and manage this project methodology which is the web-based repository for all documents and tools for Portal Projects to be used worldwide by Portal consultants and strategic partners. David received his Bachelors in Advertising and Masters in Systems Management.

Jan Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh Capstone Panel Member

Dr. Wiebe is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Intelligent Systems Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research is in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Her work has been in discourse processing, word-sense disambiguation, pragmatics, and probabilistic classification in NLP. Her most recent work is in sentiment analysis, automatically recognizing opinionated and evaluative language to support applications such as question answering, information extraction, text categorization, and summarization.

Jody Woodcock, Pierce County Department of Emergency Management End User Q&A Participant

Jody Woodcock is the Mitigation, Preparedness and Recovery program manager for the Pierce County Department of Emergency Management and serves as the department’s media spokesperson. She is responsible for all public education, media relations, planning, training, mitigation and recovery efforts. Jody has been in the Emergency Management profession for just over 6 years and has been a Pierce County employee for nearly 17 years. Prior to coming to joining the emergency management team, Jody worked in the Pierce County Executive’s office and held a variety of positions mostly focusing on public information, graphic design and desktop publishing. Prior to her professional career with Pierce County, Jody attended Pacific Lutheran University where she graduated with majors in communications and political science.


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