Welcome to GTRA

About Me

Agency/Company/Association:

Department of Homeland Security

Department:

Enterprise Data Management Office

Title:

Director

Sector:

Public Sector

Presentations:

Secure Information Sharing: How to Share Information that is Close to Government

About Me:

Ms. Roy has acted in the capacity of the Director of the Enterprise Data Management Office at the Department of Homeland Security since December 2006.  As the EDMO Director, she is responsible for the develop a DHS strategy for the management for all data collected, created, used, managed, maintained, shared and stored by DHS and sponsors the implementation of initiatives set forth in the strategy.  She is engaged in helping DHS lay the foundation and building blocks for an information sharing environment.  She serves as the Executive Director for the National Information Exchange Model, a DOJ, DHS and Global Justice information sharing initiative.  In 2007, Donna Roy, as part of the NIEM management team was recognized with a Team Collaboration Award by the DOJ Justice Management Division.  In 2008, Donna received the DHS Secretary’s award for Leadership Excellence for exemplary dedication and leadership in advancing the data management practices in order to institutionalize information sharing.  She has been selected for 2009’s Federal Computer Week’s Federal 100 award recipient for advancing data management and information sharing.Prior to joining DHS, she consulted with the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Program of the US Geological Survey.  Ms. Roy was the Geospatial Program Manager and IT Project Manager for NBII, a distributed, Internet-based architecture for sharing the biological resources for management of biodiversity within the US and abroad.  In addition her team worked with DoD, EPA, FDA USDA, DHS, NIH, DoS and several non-governmental and international organizations in developing the Geospatial Segment Architecture, a Geospatial SOA framework for interoperability and standards-based toolkits allowing rapid application development and significantly reduce IT costs. Prior to her work at the NBII, Ms. Roy served as the VP of Product Development for a Fortune 200 company as well as serving as the VP for a data operations division.  She has over 25 years of IT centric experience, culminating her data-oriented, enterprise-wide view for the implementation of standards to increase operational efficiency. She has represented the U.S. Government on national and international technical forums, presented numerous papers, has published in scientific journals and periodicals, and continues to act as a keynote speaker on these and other topics.