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What’s the difference in Oregon? Why are some government IT leaders successful at building strong, thriving Open Source environments while others struggle to establish Community Source Frameworks for informed policy decision-making? This presentation will highlight the open source decision making model used by the State of Oregon to examine the state's open source inventory results, OS licensing and procurement aquisition, and inclusion of open source in a comprehensive desktop software evaluation process.
Mr. Ben Berry serves as ODOT’s Chief Information Officer providing overall leadership, planning, development, and delivery of information technology services for ODOT and several other non-transportation organizations. As CIO for one of the largest state agencies and Chair of the State’s CIO Council, Mr. Berry supports Intelligent Transportation Systems, e-Government and major systems change and is responsible for systems supporting highways, bridges, rail service, right-of-way determinations, DMV and Motor Carrier Commercial Trucking inspections and licensing throughout the state. He is the former Chief Technology Officer of Providence Health System Oregon supporting a Service Area of 7 hospitals and 33 clinics. Mr. Berry has held executive and management positions in industries such as State and Local government, healthcare, telecommunications, aerospace/defense and airport transportation. He received his M.B.A. from UCLA and a B.S. in Life Science - Biotechnology from the University of Portland. He has 25+ years in computer software program management and operations, computer applications development and design, and systems development for public and private sectors both in the U.S.A. and the Middle-East. In addition, he has facilitated business process improvement for the automotive, aerospace, healthcare industries and is the Winner of the Public Sector 2007 Oregon IT Executive of the Year, as chosen by the Society of Information Management (SIM).
Bob Devyldere: Bob DeVyldere leads the award winning Information Services group at the Oregon Water Resources Department. During the past 15 years Bob has been responsible for strategically delivering high quality and quantities of information to both internal and external customers. An early adopter of Open Source and Internet tool sets, he has directed an organization that leads all Western States in delivering water resource information to customers. He is active in several statewide groups developing data standards for Geographic Information Systems that encourages data sharing between State, Local and Federal agencies. He has also led other state agencies in developing their long term information management strategies and currently serves as Chair of the Sate CIO Council's Open Source Community of Practice.Mr. DeVyldere received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Willamette University and is a certified Oregon Project Manager.