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July 23, 2009
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Inside Montgomery County
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| Welcome to new sponsor INPUT, which reminds you to register for its next Executive Breakfast. Hear GSA's Ed O’Hare and learn the latest on major tech investments within GSA and opportunities for vendors. July 28 at the Tysons Ritz. Sign-up here! |
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| MoCo CIO Steve Emanuel likes to say he’s not political – he just wants to get the job done: “My main goal here is simply for technology to work with as few glitches as possible, so we try to use common applications that everyone knows how to use.” |
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Steve just finished up the county’s enterprise strategic plan, a “phonebook” of the county’s technology roadmap (although he only printed 15 to cut down on paper). It includes a number of best practices with emphasis put on virtualization, along with increased use of VoIP, focusing more on web applications, and three enterprise solutions: ERP, CRM and time sheet automation. He’s also working on modernizing the county’s public safety management technologies and supporting the efforts of the Department of Health and Human Services to leverage health information technology.
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Steve served as the CIO at Amtrak before taking this job, which oddly enough, he got from submitting a resume to a national search ad. He grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Eastern University in St. Davids, Pa. He got his flair for programming and building computer networks while working at General Public Utilities. Steve volunteers as an EMT in Howard County, when he’s not chasing after his kids or dabbling in photography and remote control aircraft.
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Northrop’s Peach of a Doctor
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Healthcare is hot. Oh, you’ve heard? Well, that’s why we tracked down Dr. George Peach Taylor, Jr., former surgeon general of the Air Force and now Northrop Grumman Information Systems’ chief medical officer. George, who’s focused on corporate strategy, says Northrop has a broad series of efforts underway, ranging from the more classic health IT areas of clinical systems and benefits management to biosurveillance and the creation of climate knowledge integration centers to connect policymakers with scientists to keep on top of advanced climate models.
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 Would you believe we snapped this during a classified meeting of the Joint Chiefs? (Good, because we didn’t.) George retired from the Air Force in 2006 and, after a brief stint at PwC, joined Northrop Grumman as a GM for healthcare services, overseeing a $500 million healthcare IT practice. (That sounds massive, but as Air Force SG, he ran a $6 billion, 75-facility military organization.) He was named to his new position two months ago and says he’s eagerly taking on a broader role for the company. Peach has two college-aged daughters, the youngest of which is taking up golf. He’s also involved with his church and on the board for the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
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Getting’ Bizzy!
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We were out at TiE DC’s Crawl/Walk/Run Series event earlier this week at the Waterview Conference Center in Arlington where Chris Schroder of BizzyTime, a startup that helps families organize their lives using tools found in the workplace, talked about life as an entrepreneur. Here he is with RXFL Analytics Jonathan George, SpeakerBox Communications’ Elizabeth Shea, and Windward’s Sean McDormott.
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TiE booked some of the heaviest hitting entrepreneurs for the event. Trust Strategy Group founder Phil Garfinkle, Uniloc advisor Michael Broderick, Mita Group’s Jim Hunt, Proskauer Rose’s Trevor Chaplick, moderator DP Venkatesh (of MPortal), and McLean Capital’s Dendy Young.
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LONDON BRIDGE
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We snapped London Ink marketing guru Bob London this week overlooking trees in DC. Tomorrow he’ll be overlooking water at National Harbor when he speaks to the National Association of Federal Credit Unions on whether social marketing strategies are ready for prime time: “Just because you can set up a Facebook page,” he explains by way of example, “should you?” Then on August 5, at Johns Hopkins’ MoCo campus, Bob will be speaking at Network Solutions' "Unintentional Entrepreneur" series. (That’s a great title; we think it means either people who underestimated how involved it is to start a business, or were laid off and didn’t originally plan to start one but are now excited to learn.)
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