Recognized Enterprise Architect and 30-Year Government Veteran Brings Expertise to Growing EA Practice CHANTILLY, Va., July 2
CHANTILLY, Va., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Citizant, one of the Washington
region's leading providers of government professional technical solutions,
today announced that Beverly Hacker, former Chief Architect at the U.S.
Departments of Treasury and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has joined
the company.
Hacker brings more than 30 years of government service to her position as
Principal Enterprise Architect in Citizant's growing Enterprise Architecture
(EA) group, one of the core areas of the company's expertise. She joins
Citizant following her recent retirement from the Internal Revenue Service
(IRS), where she provided senior technical support in segment architecture
development and EA/capital planning (CPIC) integration.
Hacker transitioned to the IRS after serving as Chief Architect at
Treasury. In this position, she led the EA team in the development of the
segment architecture practice and IT Performance Measures Guide and in
maturing Treasury's practice to align with federal requirements and achieve
business results.
"As I thought through the next step for my career, I concluded that I
needed to transition to a part-time role that would allow me to continue to
contribute to the evolution of federal enterprise architecture," commented
Hacker. "I wanted to continue to work for an organization that shares my focus
on actionable architecture that helps the government improve its service to
the citizen."
At Citizant, Hacker will leverage her expertise to help government
agencies achieve their business missions. Hacker's EA initiatives have been
successful largely because she has been able to facilitate collaboration
between technical teams and business stakeholders. This is an integral part of
Citizant's unique EA approach.
Previously, Hacker succeeded HUD veteran and former Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) Chief Architect Dick Burk. During her tenure as Chief
Architect, HUD was rated as meeting 94 percent of the Enterprise Architecture
Assessment Framework (EAAF) 1.1 requirements for EA practices, making it
second only to the Department of Interior (DOI) in that ranking.
Under her leadership, HUD's EA and Data Quality initiatives were
recognized by OMB and Government Computer News and featured at MIT's
International Conference on Information Quality. Among her other
accomplishments at HUD, Hacker:
-- Spearheaded the development of HUD's data quality assessment practice;
-- Guided the maturity of the EA practice to align with federal
requirements;
-- Architected the foundation for a centralized database for grants
management; and
-- Created the Segment Data Architecture Development Methodology (SDADM)
to ensure that HUD could maintain line-of-sight visibility from business
processes and strategic goals to IT data assets.
Hacker's federal career also includes information management and
technology positions at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National
Archives and Records Administration.
As part of the SDADM, HUD collaborated with DOI to share lessons learned
and best practices. Now as part of the Citizant team, Hacker is supporting
DOI's strategy to promote enterprise-wide data sharing and exchange by
focusing on the areas of data architecture, authoritative data sources (ADS),
and data quality. Citizant's team, including EA Solutions Director Adel
Harris, has been instrumental in extending DOI's Methodology for Business
Transformation (MBT), particularly in the data architecture areas. Hacker is
also collaborating with Citizant and DOI as part of the Federal Segment
Architecture Working Group (FSAWG). FSAWG's goal is to establish a consistent
approach to developing and using segment architecture that is applicable
government-wide.
"We are honored that Beverly Hacker has joined our EA Group," said Alba M.
Aleman, president and co-founder of Citizant. "Citizant has guided some of the
Federal community's most successful EA initiatives and some of our most noted
successes were achieved in support of Beverly's programs. She has a track
record of creating action-oriented data architecture methodologies for IT
modernization that deliver results. Beverly is well-known and respected for
her unique perspective on information management and for leveraging
inter-agency collaboration to learn from and share best practices. We look
forward to continuing our long-standing relationship with Beverly and are
excited that she is now part of the Citizant team."
In addition to collaborating with Hacker on EA initiatives at HUD,
Citizant counts Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Interior
(DOI), and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) among its EA
successes. In fact, Citizant's FEA programs at CBP and HUD were cited as
best-practices by OMB. Most recently, DOI received the Wilshire Award for
Metadata Management Implementation, which cited Citizant as an important
contributor to the agency's EA success.
About Citizant
Citizant partners with government organizations to develop
forward-thinking business and technology solutions that create a better future
for all citizens. Citizant specializes in enterprise architecture, custom
application development and program management support. Citizant is ISO
9001:2000 certified and has been independently appraised at SEI CMMI Maturity
Level 2. Citizant is a fast-growing, woman-owned 8(a) business headquartered
in Chantilly, Va., with an office in Washington, D.C. More information about
the company is available at http://www.citizant.com.
SOURCE Citizant
