NLIT Summit 2024

April 8 - 11, 2024

Seattle, Washington

Speakers

Phillip Ashcraft
LANL


Nicole Ballard
SNL


Tom Seals
Sandia National Laboratories

Tom Seals has been in the customer service industry for 38 years. He has managed high-performing IT support teams for 18 years within the DOE Complex. He holds certifications with Microsoft, A+, ITIL, and HDI.

Beginning as a desktop computer support tech in 1998 he has moved up through the DOE Lab complex as Tech Lead, Team Manager, Desktop Support Manager, Senior Manager Corporate Computing Help Desk, Senior Manager Technology Services, and currently he is Manager of Infrastructure Operations.

Josh Tredway
LLNL


Randolph Abeyta
SNL


Michael Alexander
Honeywell FM&T

Mike Alexander started at Honeywell FM&T in 2000 as a UNIX System Administrator. He started with authentication technologies with the Entrust CA and the now ESN Authentication project for the SRD network. He has been working with Smart Card technologies since 2004 and has been leading efforts to replace passwords with Certificate Authentication or Kerberos since that time. He is currently the Authentication and Integration Architect at KCNSC.

Mathew Anderson
SNL


Craig Ano
Samsung

Craig Ano is the Mobile Innovations Director for Federal, Samsung Electronics America and is based in the Washington DC metro area. In that role, Craig works with Federal Government and public sector organizations to implement security focused mobile solutions. He has over 25 years experience in information technology with an extensive background in mobility. Prior to joining Samsung, Craig worked in technical leadership roles in the mobile computing industry and in technical roles for Fortune 500 companies and US Federal Government organizations.

Lawrence Arellano
Sandia National Laboratories

My IT career was launched over 37 years ago. I have performed many roles including: Data Sciences Architect, Strategic IT Planner, Architect for the several CIO initiatives, DBA Architect, DBA Manager, Cloud Architect, Project Lead on numerous development projects, and application developer. I currently serve on several CIO level committees. Today, I believe that I would call myself an evangelist, pioneer and architect for realizing and productionizing Data Sciences at Sandia.

Brian Arlington
ORNL

Brian Arlington serves as Group Leader - Service Management for Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in this role, he directs all service management efforts including the management of the Lab's solution center (IT help desk), all desk top support technicians and all core functions including incident, problem and change management and configuration management. In addition, Arlington has direct management of the lab's enterprise-wide service management toolset and platform.
Arlington has a Master's of Business Administration from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, MO.

Phillip Ashcraft
LANL


Richard Ayala
Oracle


Jeremy Baca
SNL

Jeremy Baca works in the Cyber Security Technologies Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He manages and works on various projects in the areas of PKI, encryption, 2-factor, forensics and secure desktop configurations. He teaches host forensics and helps run the DOE Cyber Tracer events held several times a year at Universities and major conferences. He has also worked on the Cyber Forensics Team and Computer Support Server Team. Jeremy has his CISSP form (ISC)2. He has obtained his GSEC, GCIH, GGSC and GCFA security certifications from the SANS Institute and is a SANS Community Instructor. He has also taken advanced and expert courses in computer forensics at Guidance. He has worked in a number of different server-management and security related roles at Sandia for the past 16 years.

Eric Ball
LANL


Rick Barnard
Huddle


Dann Barnes
SNL

Dann Barnes has worked on expertise identification, process automation, and decision support at Sandia National Laboratories and the Idaho National Laboratory.  He has a Master's degree in computer science with a focus in pattern recognition.

Mike Bartock
NIST
IT Specialist
Mike Bartock is an IT specialist in the Computer Security Division in the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He performs applied cybersecurity research specializing in hardware roots of trust to enforce policy-based cloud workload migration, LTE backhaul protection, and derived PIV credentials. His work focuses on collaborating with industry partners to build and implement proof of concept reference architectures. He has experience in managing virtualized environment, cloud computing, software development, cryptography, derived PIV credentials, and LTE security for public safety networks. He received his Bachelor's in Mathematics from the University of Maryland.

Robert Beason
INL


Lisa Belk
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lisa Belk is the Division Leader for the Information Technology Operations division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This 200-person division is home to LLNL's customer-focused IT talent specializing in software support, desktop and mobile computing, and cyber security. She has held various IT management roles and led software development, quality assurance, and verification teams. She gives tours of the world's largest laser and presents LLNL's Fun with Science program for fifth graders. She earned a BA in economics and an MBA in management information systems.

Michael Bencomo
SNL


Elleen Berman
Fermilab


David Bond
ORNL

David Bond is an Applications Manager at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). His team provides development and support for a wide application portfolio (facilities, planning, compliance, and partnerships) supporting the ORNL research mission. As a mobile-first advocate, his group specializes in the development of responsive, web-based applications using Angular. David is currently the Project Lead for RESolution, an application formulated from a researcher's perspective to simply their daily interaction with ORNL's business applications.

Adam Braden
ORNL


Joseph Brenkosh
SNL


Kelvin Brewer
Dell Security


Andrew Brickey
PNNL


Justin Brown
PNNL


Greg Burdett
SNL


Moises Capetillo
Sandia National Laboratories

Moises Capetillo is a Continual Service Improvement, Problem Management, and Innovation Engineer Service Manager at Sandia Corporation a Honeywell International Inc. Moises' accomplishments include strengthening relationships with IT partners and developing a strong focus for revolutionary innovation as well as ways to improve existing services within the organization. He is using his experience to help transform the organization. He hopes that his presentation will bring to the forefront all the different aspects of IT to bring about this change.

Merry Carter
LLNL


Ryan Chappell
CommScope


Sheila Cisko
FNL


Andrew Clark
SNL


David Coder
FNL


Jarrod Collins
SNL


Paul Cortez
SNL


Wendy Cowley
PNNL


Ronald Crotzer
LANL


Matthew Cuellar
SNL


Sue Cummings
LANL


Nathan Del Curto
SNL


Josh DiFino
SNL


Matt Disney
ORNL


Patti Dobrowolski



Mike Dye
NetApp


Brett Ellis
Oak Ridge National Laboratory


Robert Engelhardt
SNL


David Englert
Citrix


Jenna Esparza
SNL


Nathaniel Evans
ANL


Brad Ferree
LANL


Bob Fischer
SNL


Blythe Fogle
LANL


Ron Ford
Kemtah


Lucille Forster
SNL


Christi Forsythe
SNL


Ernest J. Friedman-Hill
SNL


Bruce Gale
SNL


Ramona Gallegos
SNL


Gerry Gebel
Axiomatics


Phil George
PNNL


Lanny Gilbertson
Sandia National Laboratories

Lanny Gilbertson is a solutions architect at SNL. He has been involved with web applications for most of his career and was the project manager for the WordPress Multisite implementation effort.

Jonathan Gutierrez
SNL


Morey Haber
BeyondTrust


Kari Heffner
Jlab


Timothy Hemphill
LANL


John Herzer
SNL


Mary Hester
ESnet


William Hill
ViON


Kent Hodges
WillisSandia National Laboratories


Ron Hooks
SNL


Gary Huang
Sandia National Laboratories

Gary Huang is a technical staff member in Sandia's Data and Software Security group. He has worked on the development and architecture teams in various national security and enterprise software systems, and holds a master's degree in computer science with a focus on machine learning.

Brian Hussey
Trustwave Government Solutions


Krysia Jacobs
FNL


Brian Jenkins
SNL


Albert Jiron
LANL


Michael Johnson
DOE
CIO
Michael Johnson was named the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of Energy (DOE) in March 2015. He has more than 25 years of management and policy experience, with deep expertise in cyber, information sharing and safeguarding, intelligence, and national continuity policy. Accountable to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary, Michael is responsible for leading the Department's enterprise information management and technology, to include strategy, policy and standards; information management and technology budget planning, governance, and oversight; and operations. Michael leads cyber coordination across the extended DOE enterprise, including cyber strategy and implementation. Michael plays a crucial role in advising the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and program offices to help fulfill the Department's mission of advancing the national, economic, and energy security of the United States through scientific and technical innovation and the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex. As CIO, Mr. Johnson also serves as the Department's Senior Agency Official for Privacy, for Records Management, and for Information Sharing and Safeguarding.

Daniel Johnson
PNNL


Dominick Jones
SNL


Dominick Jones
SNL


Jeff Jortner
SNL


Andrew Kail
SRNL


Guy Kent
SNL


Joseph Kieltyka
SNL


Brandon Klein
SNL


Tom Klitsner
SNL


Ekkehard Koch
LANL


Stana Kopczuk
SNL


Phillip Kuhlman
Sandia National Laboratories


Ross Kunz
INL


Ted Lapina
SNL


Greg Lee
LANL


Michael Lee
LANL


Roy Life
Sandia National Laboratories


Al Lilianstrom
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Al Lilianstrom is the Authentication Services Architect in the Core Computing Division at FNAL. He works to provide standards-based authentication solutions using commercial and open source applications to the unique FNAL environment. Al has been involved with providing IT services at every level for over 30 years - at FNAL and in the manufacturing, environmental monitoring, and healthcare industries.

Ramon Lim
SLAC


Bryan Lopez
SNL


Tyson Macaulay
Fortinet


Kathryn Petersen Mace
Lawrence Berkeley Nationial Lab/ESnet


Allan Marcus
LANL


John Marler
SNL

John Marler is a Mobile Systems Engineer at Sandia National Labs specializing in Enterprise iOS Device Management and has a burning passion for all mobile technology. He believes that there is untapped potential despite the huge growth with mobile technology, UX, and functionality. John has years of experience with mobile in Enterprise/Government, Consumer, and Personal use. John's goal is to work on making all current desktop capabilities (plus more, even better capabilities) available on mobile devices.

John Marler
SNL

John Marler is a Mobile Systems Engineer at Sandia National Labs specializing in Enterprise iOS Device Management and has a burning passion for all mobile technology. He believes that there is untapped potential despite the huge growth with mobile technology, UX, and functionality. John has years of experience with mobile in Enterprise/Government, Consumer, and Personal use. John's goal is to work on making all current desktop capabilities (plus more, even better capabilities) available on mobile devices.

David Marra
Microsoft


Kevin McCarty
SNL


John McDermon
LANL


Arthur McDonald
SNL


Neil McMahon
AWE


Don Mendonsa
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Don Mendonsa has been working at LLNL for twenty years. He has 37 years experience in the Information Technology field. Don is a leader in virtual technologies and has designed and implemented computing architectures within LLNL including Active Directory, diskless technologies and diverse virtual environments. Prior to joining LLNL, Don performed architecture design and implementation for the US Army, Navy, Air force and NASA.

Robyn Middleton
LLNL


John Miner
SNL

John G Miner has been with Sandia Labs for three years driving the lab forward on cloud technologies and creating the architectural context for changing where and how information is managed. For 20 years, John led many teams at Intel Corporation across all domains of Information Technology: Networks, Software Development, Solution Architecture, M&A, Cloud infrastructure, Product Development, Data Visualization. Major accomplishments include two internal startups (A medical handheld device and a Visual Search Engine) and several Global Datacenter innovations.

Goldie Mitchell
Sandia National Laboratories

Tracy Ray was previously a Service Manager with Sandia's Enterprise End-User support organization. She was the primary contract delegate for the service-delivery contract and a member of the metrics team. Additionally, she was responsible for managing end-user customer satisfaction. Currently, Tracy is a Solutions Architect in the Office of the CIO and oversees/executes IT Portfolio Management processes.

Robert Mitchell
SNL


Steven Montano
LANL


Frederic Montoya
LANL


Cristina Montoya
SNL


Benny Montoya
LANL


Mark Montoya
SNL


Wesley Moore
Jefferson Lab


John Mulligan
INL


Robert Murray
INL


Jeremy Myers
SNL


Len Napolitano
SNL
Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technologies Services

Christopher Nebergall
SNL

Christopher Nebergall has been a cyber security researcher with the Cyber Security Technologies Department at Sandia National Laboratories for past 10 years. He specializes in behavioral IDS, and authentication and identity management technologies.

Lee Neely
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lee Neely is a Senior Cyber Analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, focused on leading the Entrust PKI team, mobile device security, cloud assessment and new technology security efforts. Lee is also a SANS Analyst and Mentor and member of the SANS NewsBites editorial board. He is a co-host for Paul's Security Weekly podcast. He has worked in computer security since 1989.

Samuel Nehama
Avaya Government Solutions


Keenan Newton
FNL


Roy Nielsen
LANL

Roy Nielsen started investigating, designing and implementing the Mac imaging process at LANL last year. He has been working primarily with Macs for the last few years. Roy is a Systems Programmer, has worked at LANL since 2003 in IT positions and has worked at Intel as a Software Engineer between 1999 and 2003.

Trent Olaveson
INL

Over 20 years of experience working with DOE M&O Contractors, DoD Contractors, and Law Enforcement. Has worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore Ca, Stanislaus County Sherriff's in Modesto Ca, SAIC in La Jolla Ca, and currently working at Idaho National Laboratory providing policy and governance for the Cyber Security Program.
Currently certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Kevin Harold Olson
SNL


James Orlando
SNL


Steve Orrin
Intel


Angelo Ortiz
LANL


Jason Pacini
IBM


Julie Perich
SNL


Nelson Petracek
Tibco


Hector Prado
SLAC

Hector Prado has served at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the Computing Division for over 38 years. For the past six years, Hector has worked as a Business Relationship Manager for the Computing team.

Hemma Prafullchandra
NIST


Laura Price
SNL


John Pringle
AWE


Elliott Quarles
SNL


John Quigley
ORNL


Chris Richards
AWE


Edward Roberts
SNL


Anthony Roscio
SNL


Sonny Rosemond
LANL


Richard Schetnan
SNL


Jack Schmidt
Argonne National Laboratory

Jack is the IT Process Manager within the laboratory's central IT organization. Over the past 6 years, working in the Service Management Department, he has concentrated on helping mature Argonne's ITIL processes and implementation of ServiceNow. Over the last two years his focus has been on creating a central IT asset and configuration management structure. Jack is certified in ITIL Foundations V3.

Roman Selever
SNL


Paul Sery
SNL


Jim Shook
EMC Corporation


David Simsik
Accelera Solutions


David Sirrine
Red Hat


Daniel Sleight
INL


Joe Slowik
LANL


Larry Smith
IBM


Colin Stapleton
SNL


Scott Stephens
SNL


Corbin Stewart
SNL


Sharon Stoffels
SNL


Adam Stone
LBL


Marcia Teckenbrock
FNL


Olga Terlyga
FNL


Robyne Teslich
LLNL


Jeremy Thomas
INL


Craig Thomas
CNS Pantex/Y-12


Jason Thomas



Michael Thompson
ANL


Paul Tomlinson
AWE


Darren Van Booven
INL


James Van Sickle
LANL


Janice Vaughan
SNL


Rob Virden
SNL


Christopher Wallace
SNL


Aashish Warty
AvePoint Client Services


ML Waters
LANL


Lisa Watkins
Adobe


Michael Wells
SNL


Steven Wenrich
SNL


Michael Williams
SNL

Dr. Michael L. Williams is a Technology Services Manager at Sandia National Labs where he has been an employee of the Kemtah Group for just under two years. He spent 20 years as a health care professional both in military and non-military environments before migrating to the IT field in the mid-late 1990s. Since then, he has worked in both technology support and enterprise development roles in technology, scientific, and e-business organizations. In his off time, he leads a local non-profit where he provides counseling and classes for those suffering from difficult life issues and is a published author.

Suzanne Willoughby
ORNL


Bruce Wilson
ORNL


Mark Wingard
LANL


Jimmie Wolf
SNL


Thomas Womack
SNL


Pengchu Zhang
SNL


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