Keynote
Speaker
Dawn Meyerriecks is Vice President, Strategic Development,
in the products organization at AOL
Her' current duties include
managing the development of an integrated product strategy.
She works closely with marketing and technology groups on
new product ideas and oversees strategic development, technology
evangelism, partner integration and product launches and
releases.
Prior to AOL, Meyerriecks worked for nearly ten years at
the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), where she
was the chief technology officer and technical director for
the Joint Interoperability and Engineering Organization (JIEO).
Her last assignment was to charter and lead a new Global
Information Grid (GIG) Enterprise Services organization.
Meyerriecks worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a
senior engineer and product manager before her tenure at
DISA.
In addition to being named the Government Computer News
Department of Defense Person of the Year for 2004, Meyerriecks
has been honored with numerous other awards, including InfoWorld
2002 CTO of the year; Federal Computer Week 2000 Top 100;
InfoWorld 2001 CTO of the year for the government sector;
the Presidential
Distinguished Service Award, November 2001; the Senior Executive
Service Exceptional Achievement Awards in 1998, 1999, 2000;
and the National Performance Review in August 1996. In November
2001, she was featured in Fortune magazine as one of the
top 100 intellectual leaders in the world.
Meyerriecks earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical
Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master
of Science in Computer Science from Loyola Marymount University.
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