Speakers

Josh has more than 20 years in IT experience and has architected identity and privilege access management solutions for over 3 million user accounts. He joined BeyondTrust in 2018 as a Senior Solutions Engineer and was quickly selected to lead the team. Prior to BeyondTrust, he was a senior Solutions architect for Quest Software. He began his career by founding a managed service provider (MSP) at 12.  He held multiple industry certifications by 14, making him the youngest in the nation to do so. That MSP went on to become successful, and ultimately his launching point into Public Sector architecture and support.

Guy Cavallo serves as the Chief Information Officer of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). In this capacity he is the senior executive leading OPM’s enterprise information technology (IT) services, including the development and execution of current state and future IT strategic plans, and the day to day management oversight of the agency’s technology services. He also serves as the executive leading OPM’s all IT modernization efforts

He previously served as the Deputy Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). He was a key leader in SBA’s leveraging the cloud to quickly implement the CARES Act Payroll Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs. Those programs distributed over $450B in a short period of time to America’s small businesses and citizens. For his successful accomplishments at SBA, he received both the Federal 100 award and was twice selected for the FedScoop 50 award for Federal IT Leadership.

With a career split almost evenly between the public and private sectors, prior to returning to the federal government, Mr. Cavallo served as a Senior Government Advisor at the Microsoft Corporation. At Microsoft he assisted government organizations across the US in modernizing their delivery of citizen services. His largest impact project was as the National Co-Lead of Microsoft’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act solution for managing the new grant program.

Mr. Cavallo received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan.

Chandler Grice is the Program Manager for Identity, Credentialing, and Access Management in the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Cyber Security and Analytics Directorate. He is responsible for the life-cycle management for the ICAM program to include activities from development through sustainment. The program delivers identity provider, automated account provisioning and master user record capabilities for the Department of Defense.

Before joining DISA, Grice held key leadership positions in the Joint Command and Control, and the National Background Investigation Services Program Management Offices – driving modernization initiatives for the DoD. In addition, he worked in the Office of the Component Acquisition Executive where he ushered three multi-billion-dollar contracts through the service acquisition lifecycle and obtained approval from the Office of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy.

Grice began working for the DoD in 2008 with the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command as a Logistics Management Specialist. He then transitioned to the Army CommunicationsElectronics Command to work in the foreign military sales mission space, where he deployed to Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan as the liaison assigned to the Combined Transition Security Command – Afghanistan. Upon returning, Grice became the Afghanistan Country Team Lead responsible for the life-cycle management of all foreign military sales requirements. During this time, he earned two Joint Service Achievement Medals for his Civilian Service.

Grice holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Ga. He is also a civilian graduate from the Transportation Basic Officer Leadership Course in Ft. Eustis, Va

Kenneth Harrison is Chief of the Telecommunications Office within the Office of Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Census Bureau. He joined the agency in 2009 as the Security Systems Branch Chief within the Telecommunications Office/Information Technology Directorate.

Harrison has over thirty years of experience in the Information Technology industry, supporting both the private and public sectors, leading teams in Network Security, Identity Management, Unified Communications and Telecommunications service areas.  

A Washington, D.C. native, Harrison received an Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree from American Intercontinental University and holds a CISSP certification. He is also a certified member of the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, Inc. (ISC)2 since October 2011. 

Kenneth Myers is the Director of the Identity Assurance and Trusted Access Division with the General Services Administration Office of Government-wide Policy. He advises and coordinates government-wide cybersecurity policies and collaborates with federal executive branch agencies on implementation guidance. As an identity professional, he has experience working with various public and private organizations on digital identity, PKI, security management, and governance challenges. He is a former active duty Marine and a current doctoral candidate in the Marymount University Doctorate of Science in Cybersecurity program.

Eduardo Takamura is a security researcher and a member of the RMF (FISMA) Team at NIST. Prior to joining NIST, he served NASA and NOAA as (FISMA) Compliance Project Manager, ISSO, ISSE, Control Assessor, System Administrator, and other supervisory and non-supervisory IT-related roles.

While the highlight of his 21+ year professional career in support of the federal government was his service as ISSO for a NASA mission to Mars, the opportunity to serve security professionals and their supporting contractors across the federal government to help them manage risks is what brings him most professional joy and fulfillment.

Eduardo holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University, a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Bowie State University, and is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP #323245).