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For Immediate Release |
Contact: Paul Wormeli
Chairman, NIEM Communications and Outreach Committee
(703) 726-3693
Email: paul.wormeli@ijis.org |
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Ashburn, Virginia, December 28, 2007- NIEM Fellowships Awarded |
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Under the auspices of the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Program Management Office has announced the selection of three staff members to serve the three primary operational committees that comprise the core governance of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). |
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A fellowship has been offered to three selected individuals to provide the senior management support for the NIEM Business Architecture Committee (NBAC), the NIEM Technical Architecture Committee (NTAC), and the NIEM Communications and Outreach Committee (NC&OC). Each fellow will be the lead responsible for providing staff services to the committee, managing and tracking committee action plans, issue resolution, and operational decision-making activities. The responsibilities include staging and reporting on committee meetings, following up on committee decisions, and preparing materials in support of the committee charter for decisions and actions. More information on NIEM can be found at www.niem.gov. |
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The fellows will each serve for 12 months as the chief support manager to the NIEM committees. They will take sabbaticals from their respective organizations and become employees of the IJIS Institute, a non-profit company focused on improving information sharing among communities of interest that support public safety, justice, and homeland security missions. The fellowship program was designed to engage highly qualified and experienced individuals from both industry and government to help improve and expand the usefulness of the NIEM to all levels of government and industry as a tool for facilitating information sharing. |
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The following individuals have been selected as the recipients of the NIEM fellowships: |
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NBAC Fellow - James Pingel |
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Mr. Pingel is currently the Director of Wisconsin Justice Information Sharing for the State of Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance. The WIJIS Program is an initiative to ensure public safety by improving the integration and interoperability of the many disparate information systems in use by police, prosecutors, and courts in Wisconsin’s justice community. |
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Mr. Pingel serves as the Vice Chairman of the Justice Information Sharing Practitioners (JISP) Board of Directors. Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, JISP is the national organization that serves as the “Voice of the Practitioner” to advance justice information sharing and systems integration in the United States. |
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Mr. Pingel has his Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin, La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, and his Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. |
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NTAC Fellow - Pisey Frederick |
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Ms. Frederick is currently a technical manager at SRA International, Inc., in Rosslyn, Virginia. She has 11 years of experience in Information Technology, including seven years experience using SOA/Web Services Specification, such as XML Schema / XSLT / SOAP / WS-Addressing / WSDL, in the implementation of Web/SOA-based services. She has experience with various and related data model standards such as GJXDM, ANSI/NIST ITL, EFTS/EBTS, and NIEM. |
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Ms Frederick authored and implemented a biometric interface messaging format standard using XML/SOAP technology, the US-VISIT (IDENT) Exchange Messages (IXM) Specification, an SOA-based standards application profile / GJXDM IEPD-based messaging structure. This standard is used by DHS/US-VISIT, Border Patrol, DHS/CBP, /TSA, /CIS, /USCG, and external partnering agencies such as DOJ, DOD, and DoS. Also serves as the technical point of contact on Electronic Fingerprint/Biometric Transmission Specification (EFTS/EBTS) and IXM for DHS/US-VISIT and FBI/IAFIS interoperability. |
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Ms. Frederick has served as a project lead for the EPA/ENERGY STAR and the DoD/DMDC/DEERS ADR/ADW projects where she directed Java/J2EE/XML and Oracle development teams through the development effort from design to deployment of Web services for multiple clients. |
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Ms. Frederick has her M.S. in Software Engineering from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and her B.S. in Management Information Systems from the School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. |
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NC&OC Fellow – Russell Moody |
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Mr. Moody has over 30 years of experience in the areas of project management including CMMI, systems and information engineering, intelligence analysis, and electronic warfare modeling and simulation. His recent experience includes cross-domain information access and exchange standards development, information modeling, and XML development. In his current position as the Senior Information Systems Engineer, Science Applications International Corporation, he is focused on homeland security and defense information interoperability standards including development and application of the National Information Exchange Model. |
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Mr. Moody is a Retired Air Force Officer (1968 -1988) and has past experience in metadata modeling and data exchange developments for the Air Force and the U.S. Department of Defense including the DoD XML Registry and ANSI/GEIA-836, Configuration Management - Data Exchange and Interoperability. |
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