BACKGROUND Brad Whitehead is a Partner with the international management and technology consulting company of Accenture LLP, where he leads their North American Government Technology Architecture practice. While consistently achieving one of the highest utilization and chargeability rates of any Accenture practice, Brad has also been personally responsible for the development of Accenture's managed Federal HR "software as a service" (SaaS) market offering. Over the past five years, this offering has accounted for over $500 million dollars in revenue.Brad has over 30 years of progressive management experience in government, military, and commercial information management. He combines deep skills in leading technologies such as Services Oriented Architectures and server virtualization, with the proven ability to align enterprise information management efforts with corporate business goals to reduce costs and increase efficiency.In particular, Brad is especially adept in the role of "firefighter", stepping in and directing turn-around efforts with projects and organizations that have run into difficulties. He is equally adept at building new technology departments and organizationsSpecialties: ada, air force, application development, architecture, army, artificial intelligence, business development, call center, concept development, consulting, customer relations, data processing, database administration, ecommerce, ebusiness, government, human resources, information systems, inventory management, knowledge management, management consulting, marketing, mergers, navy, negotiation, network security, systems integration, telecommunications, web site production