Background Information

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Experience Summary

An Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, Mr. Sussman is an experienced information technology professional with over 15 years in the industry, to include extensive knowledge of identity management, biometric technologies, and project management. Mr. Sussman works on the Booz Allen Global IT team delivering information assurance and identity management solutions to clients, especially through biometric development strategies, privacy protection and associated policy development.

Mr Sussman has held leadership positions with the following Identity Management projects:

• Reviewing technically challenging biometric requirements of various programs at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to recommend where DHS Science and Technology should focus investment to meet national security needs.

• Supported the efforts of the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) efforts to continually evolve their enterprise identity management capabilities. Mr. Sussman contributes thought leadership to the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) project which will implement overarching Identity Services across VA administrations and Lines of Business (LOB).

• Developed processes for the Department of Defense (DoD) to assure compliance to federal Homeland Security Presidential Directive – 12 (HSPD-12) and Federal Information Processing Standards 201 (FIPS 201) guidelines. This effort included managing an effort to investigate the background investigation completed on all military, civilian and contractor personnel.

• Served as a key architect for the General Services Administration (GSA) Shared Services identity card program which served to produce the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards for GSA’s HSPD-12 project management office.

• Develop the detailed functional design of the Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC) solution. He assisted in the original design of the prototype system, specifically ensuring that best practices associated with privacy were built into the solution, provided ongoing operational support to system and users, developed user training; including specific modules biometric collection and supported the alignment of the solution with FIPS 201.

Mr. Sussman is an experienced leader in improving operations and increasing efficiencies through information technology solutions integration. Mr. Sussman has a technical background tempered with corporate and federal government environments. He is highly skilled in using information systems to innovate, improve and re-engineer government, military, and commercial business processes.


Education

• BS, Computer Science, State University of New York at Binghamton 1994

• Masters Business Administration, State University of New York at Albany 1996

• Executive Leadership, Yale, 2009