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My job is to really understand
the agency's priorities

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and OCIO's priorities
and to help

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ensure that the IT enterprise
activities and initatives are

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in alignment with the
department priority.

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As the associate chief
information officer,

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I am responsible for the
information management

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and technology programs
for the bureau.

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My job is to bring IT together.

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There are several
different directrix

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within the interior
business center,

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and my job is to bring together
all of the different directrix

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in technology to make sure
that we have an enterprise

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focus moving forward.

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One of my biggest tasks while
at the Mitre Corporation

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was working with
the Internal Revenue

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Service on the IRS
Modernization Initiative

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back in the late '90s.

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It was about that time
again that I said,

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you know that's probably where
I want to end up my career.

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I want to be the
guy, I want to be

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the CIO to some organization
in the federal government.

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I started seeking
out opportunities

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that would expose me to
those various functions

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that I had observed--

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those at the IRS think that they
were doing that my mind needed

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to successfully work.

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As new positions opened, they've
always been really good at--

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providing availability to
those positions for others

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to move into.

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If you really show that
you can perform and want

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to have the drive
to move forward,

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then the opportunities
have definitely been there.

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One of the most
amazing things that I

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feel like I've gained
throughout my career

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is understanding
how important it

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is to have those diverse
skilled, diverse opinions,

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diverse backgrounds,
all in the same room

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to come to a really
wonderful solution.

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