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 Barry
C. West is
FEMA's Chief Information Officer and is Director of their
Information Technology Services Division.
He was appointed FEMA’s Chief
Information Officer (CIO) and Director of the IT Services
Division in October 2003. In this position, Mr. West manages
and directs FEMA’s information technology and telecommunications
systems, and provides enterprise-wide IT coordination for
FEMA’s 10 geographical regions. He has overall responsibility
for IT disaster-wide support in addition to IT policy and
guidance, computer security, enterprise architecture, strategic
planning, engineering and e-Government initiatives for FEMA,
the Department of Homeland Security, and other federal, state
and local agencies. Prior to joining FEMA, Mr. West was the
CIO of the National Weather Service. As the CIO, he had overall
responsibility for information technology systems, services,
policies and operations. He was also responsible for managing,
coordinating and integrating all aspects of Information Technology
for the National Weather Service.
Previously, Mr. West served as the Deputy Director for the
Office of Electronic Government at the U.S. General Services
Administration, where he was the technical lead on the FirstGov.gov
web portal. He was also chairperson of the Federal Public
Key Infrastructure (PKI) Business Working Group and spearheaded
the first annual government-wide PKI conference for government
and industry. Earlier in his career, Mr. West served as Associate
Director for Production Services at the National Technical
Information Service and as a systems manager at the U.S.
Bureau of the Census, where he was a key player in the 1990
Decennial Census. Mr. West also served as a weather specialist
in the U.S. Air Force, where he was named Weather Specialist
of the Year. Early in his career Barry worked for Tab Books,
Inc., where he led an effort to convert the company from
a manual-based operation to a completely automated system
solution.
A native of Smithsburg, Md., Mr. West has a Bachelor of
Science degree in Information Systems from Northern Michigan
University, a Master of Science Administration degree from
Central Michigan University and an Executive Master of Science
in Information Technology degree from the University of Maryland.
Mr. West has completed the Chief Information Officers Executive
program at the University of Maryland and is president of
the American Council for Technology (the largest IT government
association in the United States). Barry lectures throughout
the country and teaches as an adjunct assistant professor
in the graduate school at the University of Maryland, University
College.
Mr. West also serves on the State of California Information
Technology Council, on the advisory board for the University
of Maryland, University College and as the U.S. Country representative
for the yearly International Council for Information Technology
in Government Administration (ICA) conference.
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