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Speakers - Technology in Regulatory Development Workshop, August 2008
- Marcia Cash
- Tim Crawford
- Neil R. Eisner
- Sherrette Funn-Coleman
- Terry Grady
- Jeffrey Levy
- Ken Munis
- Cindy Nordlie
- Rick Otis
- Seleda M. Perryman
- Nancy Sternberg
- Minh-Hai Tran-Lam
- Mark Youman
Marcia Cash
Department of Interior: Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
Marcia Cash is responsible for implementing the SGML (XML) tagging project for Federal Register document submissions for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
She also serves as the Administrator for the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) for the FWS.
She is the web technology manager and Internet services coordinator for the Centralized Library functions of the Division of Policy and Directives Management. She provides guidance to the Division of Policy and Directives Management on all eGovernment initiatives.
Prior to her work with the FWS, she was the owner of a computer programming business in Miami, specializing in aviation.
Tim Crawford
Program Analyst, eRulemaking Program Management Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Tim joined U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1989 and has worked in several offices including the Office of Pollution Prevention, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring, Toxic Release Inventory Program (TRI), and Data Standards Branch prior to working in the eRulemaking Program Management Office.
Tim gained a significant amount of experience in developing, writing, and implementing regulations primarily during the time when he worked in the TRI program. He spent nine years in the TRI program that coincided with the Clinton Administration, who pushed a number of major regulatory actions and greatly expanded the Community Right-to-Know regulations.
Tim’s current position with the eRulemaking Program is as the electronic records lead. The eRulemaking Program is one of the eGovernment initiatives under the President’s Management Agenda which provides a federal-wide solution that all federal entities must use to post their regulations on the Internet, accept comments, and expose their electronic dockets to the public. The eRulemaking application operates through a centrally managed architecture with the content controlled by the federal agencies and departments. By centrally managing the application, agencies are able to take advantage of many services at a substantially lower cost than if they had to develop and manage these services themselves.
Tim has a Master of Science in Public Health (Tulane School of Pubic Health and Tropical Medicine ‘89).
Neil R. Eisner
Assistant General Counsel for Regulation and Enforcement, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
Mr. Eisner is currently the Assistant General Counsel for Regulation and Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Prior to this, Mr. Eisner held positions as Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulation and Enforcement and Deputy Assistant Chief Counsel for Litigation in the Federal Aviation Administration. Mr. Eisner received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and an A.B. (with honors in Political Science) from Syracuse University. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the D.C. Bar Association. He is also an active member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and a past Chair of the ABA’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. In addition, Mr. Eisner is an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law. He has testified before Congressional committees on a number of different issues, published six articles, presented numerous speeches in different forums on a variety of subjects, been a guest lecturer at a number of law schools, and made presentations to many foreign government delegations.
Mr. Eisner was a member of the former Administrative Conference of the United States (1982-1995) and Chairman of its Committee on Governmental Processes. He was also a member of the President’s National Performance Review Team on Improving Regulatory Systems (1993). He has been awarded three Presidential Rank Awards as a Meritorious Executive (1987, 1994, and 2002), sixteen Senior Executive Service Performance Awards (1980 – 2006), and the Secretary of Transportation’s Silver Medal for Meritorious Achievement (1979). He is also the recipient of the American Bar Association’s Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division Nelson Award for Exemplary Service to the ABA (1997) and the ABA’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Mary C. Lawton Award for Outstanding Government Service (1997).
Sherrette Funn-Coleman
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Sherrette Funn-Coleman is the Assistant Reports Clearance Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Secretary, as well as the Desk Officer for the Indian Health Service and Grants.gov. Since 1999, she has been active in department-wide “information collection” functions under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) utilizing the web-database system called Information Collection Review and Approval System (ICRAS). ICRAS is utilized for effective departmental review and submission of information collection requests. Ms. Funn-Coleman was also a member of the Federal Information Collection System Interagency Taskforce (FICSIT), whose goal was to correlate an agreement between the OMB system (ROCIS) and the HHS system (ICRAS).
Terry Grady
Office of Environmental Information, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Terry Grady earned his B.S. in Chemistry and his M.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Nevada. During his 26 years with the Office of Research and Development (ORD), he managed scientific programs, led the IT and IM programs of the National Exposure Research Laboratory, and developed the prototype U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Portal, now known as the Environmental Science Connector. In 2005, he joined the Office of Environmental Information at the National Computer Center in Research Triangle Park, NC where he has managed the technical implementation and operation of the EPA Portal and its integration with the other tools in the Enterprise Portfolio. Mr. Grady has been active on the Research and Science Architecture (RSA) Core and Working Groups where he has contributed to development of the target architectures and implementation plans.
Jeffrey Levy
Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Jeffrey Levy is the acting Director of Web Communications within EPA's Office of Public Affairs and he is also the National Web Content Manager. He started working on the Web in 1994, launching EPA's first site on ozone depletion. After chairing EPA's Web Workgroup for three years, he moved to his current office to help lead agency-wide Web development.
Ken Munis
Associate Director, Office of Regulatory Policy and Management
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Ken Munis has spent the past 20 years developing regulations, policies and guidance at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Currently, Ken is the Associate Director, Office of Regulatory Policy and Management (ORPM). ORPM manages the EPA’s internal regulatory and policy development process, contributes policy analysis and advice to senior managers, and leads implementation of EPAStat -- EPA’s integrated performance management program. Prior to joining EPA, Ken was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines and a management consultant in San Francisco. Ken is a graduate of Stanford University (Economics, AB) and holds a Master of Public and Private Management (MPPM) from Yale University.
Cindy Nordlie
Transportation Industry Analyst, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Cindy Nordlie is a senior Transportation Industry Analyst with the Office of Rulemaking at the Federal Aviation Administration. She has been with the Office of Rulemaking since February 1991. She has a Bachelor’s degree from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA and a Master’s of Science degree from Marymount University in Arlington, VA. As a senior Transportation Industry Analyst, Cindy works on cross-functional rulemaking teams concerning airmen and airspace and serves as a writer, editor, facilitator, and project manager for rulemaking teams.
Rick Otis
Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
As Deputy Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Rick is part of the senior management team responsible for the agency’s policy, rulemaking, and innovations activities. He began his career in Washington, D.C. in 1980 as a Presidential Management Intern at EPA. He has worked for the Office of Management and Budget, Congressman Fred Upton, a government affairs consulting firm, an industry trade association, and his own consulting firm. Over this twenty-five year period, Rick has developed an extensive understanding of the mechanisms used by federal agencies, Congress, the Executive Office of the President, and interest groups to establish and implement national environmental policy. His experience with these mechanisms, existing environmental laws, the federal regulatory process, and the transformational value of information technology has fostered his interest in the logical evolution of federal environmental programs. This includes a sound grasp of the political, institutional, procedural, public opinion, and communications challenges associated with successfully achieving innovative change. He received an MBA from Cornell University in 1980 and a BA from Ithaca College in 1976.
Seleda M. Perryman
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Seleda M. Perryman is the Reports Clearance Officer (RCO) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as well as the RCO for the HHS Office of the Secretary. Ms. Perryman is responsible for the efficient management of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) for the department. Prior to her current position, she served as the Lead PRA Officer at the Centers for Disease Control for more than 10 years. Seleda has a wealth of knowledge and experience of the PRA both at the departmental and operating levels.
Nancy Sternberg
Business Gateway Program Manager, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
About Business Gateway
Business.gov, the official business link to the U.S. Government, is managed by the U.S. Small Business Administration in partnership with 21 other federal agencies. This partnership, known as the Business Gateway Initiative, provides a single access point to government services and information to help the nation's businesses comply with federal, state and local laws and regulations.
About Nancy Sternberg
Nancy Sternberg was selected as the Business Gateway Program Manager in May 2006. In this role, Nancy is responsible for working with representatives from the 22 partner agencies to improve the delivery of information and services to businesses by providing a single access point for small and medium sized business to easily find government information, including forms and compliance assistance resources and tools. Before joining the Small Business Administration, she worked at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a Program Manager in the Office of the Chief Information Officer leading a variety of business transformation and E-Government initiatives.
Before joining the federal government, Nancy was a senior consultant in several consulting firms defining system requirements and facilitating business process reengineering efforts. She brings years of experience in using information technology to provide better customer service. Nancy has a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from George Mason University. She lives in Vienna, Virginia with her husband, a small business owner, and three children.
Minh-Hai Tran-Lam
Program Analyst, Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Ms. Tran-Lam is a program analyst in the Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She leads the Regulatory Matters project that fosters collaboration between federal government agencies, through a series of workshops, in order to enhance the regulatory development profession and community. Additionally, Ms. Tran-Lam serves as a regulatory desk officer; she provides guidance and support for various EPA program offices on the Agency's rule making process. She also provides user support for EPA's electronic regulatory tracking system, RAPIDS.
During her initial years at the EPA, she was part of the EPA Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) transition team. This award-winning team was responsible for the Agency's transition from EDOCKET, EPA's first electronic docket system, to FDMS. Ms. Tran-Lam served as the lead for communications and training. As the communications lead, she created and implemented new strategies and tools to increase effective communication. Under her leadership, over twenty-seven marketing and communications tools were designed and distributed. As the training lead, she oversaw over eighty FDMS training sessions for approximately six-hundred fifty EPA employees.
She received her undergraduate degree in environmental science from the University of Virginia in 2003. She received her master's degree from the George Mason University School of Public Policy in 2005 with a concentration in science and technology.
Mark Youman
ICF International
Mr. Youman is a Principal at ICF International and leads ICF’s Collaboration Practice. He has more than 15 years experience in collaboration, knowledge management and IT consulting, focusing on supporting knowledge-sharing within organizations as well as collaboration across agencies and among agency stakeholders and partners. He has developed strategy, methodology, business cases, and performance measures for collaboration initiatives in Federal, insurance, and non-profit organizations. His current focus areas the include application of Web 2.0 technologies to Federal agency missions. Mr. Youman is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and is certified in Federal Enterprise Architecture. His client projects have been recognized with awards from IAC, the E-Gov Institute, and the APQC. He received a BA from Vanderbilt University and earned an MBA and a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Youman is a frequent speaker on the topics of communities of practice and Web 2.0 and has been quoted in CIO Magazine, Government Executive, and Infoworld.