Guy Cavallo Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

As SBA's Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) shares responsibility with Chief Information Officer (CIO) Maria Roat in providing leadership and direction in the formulation, development, and execution of the Agency’s information technology management program in accordance with the mandates of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996, the President's Management Agenda, and Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act. Key focus areas include:* Leading the cloud and IT transformation initiatives* Supporting the CIO in developing the SBA's Technology Strategy and funding priorities* Formulating short- and long-range goals and overseeing project metrics* Leading IT strategic improvement efforts* Personnel management

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Responsible for a multi-hundred million dollar budget and oversees budget reviews for all TSA IT major capital investments for large hardware, telecommunications services, and other applications. Ensures that the delivery of IT services aligns with the TSA mission, vision and goals. Identifies opportunities and/or risks for delivering IT services, such as leveraging emerging technologies in partnership with stakeholders and headquarters offices.

Amsterdam, Nl

Established the Federal Government practice for industry leading BI vendor Pyramid Analytics in Washington, DC. This included creating the marketing and sales strategies; providing subject matter oversight to the development of a federal government budget demonstration; and representing Pyramid at industry events such as the Azure Government Cloud launch. Pyramid Analytics was recently recognized as a Big Data 100 winner from CIO Review, Pyramid Analytics BI Office software platform is a Governed Data Discovery solution that government users love and IT approves anywhere, anytime. Its enterprise capabilities include data discovery, dashboard and publishing components accessible on any device. Available either in the Cloud or on premise, government customers using BI Office can meet and exceed all federal data transparency reporting requirements with extensive visualizations and data exploration capabilities.

Redmond, Washington, Us

With extensive enterprise wide executive leadership experience across federal and state and local governments represented Microsoft externally with government entities, associations, and other external organizations. Provided subject matter expertise in the areas of: data management and transparency; strategic planning; business intelligence; and government organizational performance metrics. Closely monitored industry treads and future directions by working with organizations such as Gartner, the Center for Digital Government, and American City and County Government and presented numerous national technology webcasts with these organizations. At Microsoft had access to emerging and future technologies years before their commercial availability assisting customers to incorporate such trends as they develop long term strategic planning and guidance. Assisted select Microsoft State and Local Government customers in developing their enterprise wide strategic and operational plans particularly in the areas of: database consolidation; external data availability; virtualized database platforms; cloud computing; government transparency; performance management; IT Governance; enterprise policy development and implementation; and business intelligence, and hybrid IT – combining physical data center services with cloud services. Was a key leader in driving complex and innovative government solutions using both on premise and Cloud based platforms by working internally within Microsoft across multiple organizations including the US Government Innovations and Solutions and the Worldwide Public Sector Solutions teams and externally with major government customers and partners. For each of these solutions assisted select government customers in developing short and long term implementation plans.

Tallahassee, Fl, Us

As Chief Technology Strategist Provided enterprise level strategic planning consulting for Advanced Systems Design, Inc. (ASD) largest government customers. Areas of specialization included developing: government wide strategic plans and technology vision statements; short and long term technology strategies and operations plans; IT governance best practices; enterprise security policies; outsourcing strategies; technology project portfolio selection methodologies; and database and application consolidation. An example of a complex government enterprise scale project that I served in a leadership role was being Executive Project Leader of a $1+ million technology renewal project for the City of Birmingham, AL. Provided the overall strategic direction and IT executive leadership to the City as it looked to rebuild its enterprise vision, technology infrastructure, staffing and IT service delivery systems. This Technology Renewal project’s main components were upgrading and/or replacing the existing infrastructure and select information systems. From the infrastructure stand point that meant a side by side coexistence as the City was migrated from the old to the new with minimal downtime. On the client side a new desktop operating system, Microsoft Office, and email were all migrated and replaced with state of the art technologies – allowing the City staff to continue to work throughout the migration process. To help build internal political support and gain consensus across all City departments reported directly to the Mayor and the City’s Chief Operating Officer and briefed and defended the project’s vision, scope, and operations to the department executives and City Council. A key accomplishment during this engagement was authoring a long term information technology strategic plan for the City - the first such plan to be developed in over 15 years.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Served as the highest ranking full time Information Technology Executive for the City of Charlotte, a $1.4 billion organization. Provided leadership, vision, and direction for the City of Charlotte’s technology department, including its staffing, data and communications networks, mainframe and client-server based information systems, and personal computers. Created long and short-range information technology plans tied to the strategic mission of the City. Evaluated resource use to maximize the performance of the internal staff while selectively outsourcing specific operations. Managed an annual budget of over $9 million and 60+ full time staff/contractors on an annual basis and over $35 million and 110+ full time staff/contractors during Y2K operations.Developed the business case and successfully obtained funding for a $12 million project to completely rebuild and update the City’s network infrastructure - from the desktop PC through a new Data Center. This project included standardizing network wiring, switches, routers, and file servers. It also established a desktop common operating system standard for over 1,700 computers in the City as a major Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) initiative. This project also introduced leading edge technology (at the time), such as Gigabit Ethernet, clustered servers, virtual private networking, and remote control computing as key components of the City’s infrastructure. The main objective of the project was to reduce employee downtime due to network system failures. Once completed, over $1.2 million per year of downtime was eliminated. In addition to successfully meeting stated objectives this project was completed $1 million under budget.Successfully led the City through its massive Y2K remediation program for all information systems. Developed the business case for outsourcing the remediation effort and obtained over $15 million funding. The remediation efforts were completed on time and within budget.

Washington, Dc, Us

Recipient of the Federal 100 award by Federal Computer Week an annual award that is given to the top innovators in government computing. Selected for the award for two major accomplishments: leading the merger of three separate government agencies, with unrelated computer systems, into a unified infrastructure in a very short period of time; and moving two mainframe applications to client server systems at an estimated annual operations savings of over $250,000.As the first OIT Director of this new consolidated Federal agency, led the implementation of a nationwide technology infrastructure and the development of new enterprise information systems and the consolidation of information systems inherited from the component agencies. Successfully united offices from three different organizations into a new headquarters building with only one business day of down time. Implemented a completely new network in-frastructure during the building move with over 99% of the personal computers able to access the network and all remote communication services the first day.Successfully led efforts to focus and strengthen the IT staff by outsourcing the Help Desk, network operations, and Oracle database development. Responsible for an annual budget of over $4 million and 42 full time staff and contractors.Developed strategic plans, obtained funding, and managed the implementation of major Corporation initiatives such as: developing client server databases; creating Internet and Intranet web sites; implementing a secure remote access system; and creating a Microsoft Windows based Data Center. Also led the migration of applications from an IBM System 36 to client server systems.

Ba, Political Science

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