USCIS Day 2019

Kristina Tanasichuk — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:27:25 +0000

USCIS Day 2019: Continuous Improvement of the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Process
October 28, 2019 | 8:00 am – 3:00 pm | Arlington, VA

Join GTSC for a deep-dive into the missions and challenges faced by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. USCIS’s Strategic Plan focuses on four strategic goals that emphasize the efficiency and effectiveness of core operational priorities and the continuous improvements the agency needs to achieve quality organizational performance. The goals are supported by 14 supporting strategic objectives. These objectives focus on championing the workforce at all levels, continuing to enhance rigorous anti-fraud and risk mitigation measures to protect national security, operating as efficiently as possible as they examine and fairly decide the outcome of applications and petitions, and improving their digital environment.

USCIS’s four objectives include:

Strengthen our investment in an empowered workforce to better accomplish the agency’s mission
Safeguard the homeland by deterring, detecting, and addressing vulnerabilities in the immigration system
Ensure fair and efficient adjudication of benefits and delivery of information
Continuously improve key processes, programs, and systems

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GTSC Launches “GTSC Days”

Kristina Tanasichuk — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:55:22 +0000

GTSC is very excited to unveil our “GTSC Days” web presence! Given our CBP, TSA, USCIS Days are some of our member favorites, we thought we’d give our esteemed members even more PR and thanks. Special thanks to Andrea Stone Sara Kindsfater-Yerkes Diane Ashley Kristin Cooke Alan Carpenter Dennis Brad Cole Kris McMenamin Leslie Hubbard-Darr and a few others for Chairing and supporting our GTSC days! www.GTSCdays.com

USCIS Day 2016: Mission, Operations & Transformation November 4

Kristina Tanasichuk — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 12:35:59 +0000

GTSC is so proud to welcome members to our inaugural U.S. Customs & Immigration Services “deep dive” to examine the mission, operations and transformation of this critical agency.

Each year, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services processes millions of applications for persons seeking to study, work, visit, or live in the United States, and for persons seeking to become a U.S. citizen. In 2006, USCIS began the Transformation Program to enable electronic adjudication and case management tools that would allow users to apply and track their applications online. In 2012 USCIS changed its acquisition strategy to improve system development.

Join us to explore USCIS’s successes and challenges with transformation and how they have used Agile software development, systems integration and testing, and strong leadership to forward their ambitious program.

THIS IS A CLOSED SESSION OPEN TO THE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS AND GOVERNMENT ONLY – NO PRESS. Questions? See our policies at www.gtscoalition.eventbrite.com

AGENDA (Subject to change)

Government Technology & Services Coalition
USCIS Day 2016: Mission, Operations, & Transformation
November 4, 2016 | 8:00 am – 3:15 pm | Arlingon, VA

8:00 am Welcome & Opening Remarks

Kristina Tanasichuk, CEO, Government Technology & Services Coalition
Sara Kindsfater-Yerkes, Managing Principal, Alethix
Kris McMenamin, McMenamin Consulting Group

8:20 am Keynote: USCIS IT Transformation Business Perspective

Introduction: Sara Kindsfater-Yerkes, Managing Principal, Alethix
Mark Schwartz, Chief Information Officer, Office of Information Technology, USCIS

9:00 am Panel Transformation: Line of Business Perspectives

Amy Wheelock, Senior Advisor, Field Operations Directorate, USCIS impact of rollouts
Leslie Hope, Associate Center Director, Service Center Operations, USCIS
Armad Kitrell, Deputy Division Chief, Fraud Detection & National Security, USCIS

10:00 am BREAK

10:15 am Panel: Enabling Transformation

David Blair, Chief, Capability Delivery Division, Office of Transformation Coordination, USCIS
Rowena Furce, Chief, Customer Service, Office of Customer Engagement, USCIS
Lee Bowes, Chief, Biometrics Division, USCIS
Ken Moser, Branch Chief, Delivery Assurance Branch / Applied Technology Division, USCIS
Yemi Oshinnaiye, Associate Chief, Software Engineering Division, USCIS

11:15 am LUNCH

11:45 am KEYNOTE: Mariela Melero
Associate Director, Customer Service And Public Engagement Directorate, USCIS

KEYNOTE PANEL

Mary Hermann, Acting Chief of the Public Engagement Division and Chief of the Content and Quality Division – Customer Service and Public Engagement Directorate, USCIS
David Simeon, Jr., Division Chief – Customer Service and Public Engagement Directorate, USCIS
Robert Genesoni, Infrastructure Chief, Customer Service Division, Customer Service & Public Engagement, USCIS

1:00 pm Panel: Mission Driven Value Delivery
Moderator: Kristin Cooke, Director, Acuity
Lucy Patterson, Chief, Data and Business Intelligence Services Program, USCIS
Sarah Fahden, Chief Verification Program, Software Development Division, USCIS
Matt Dosberg, Chief, Digital Innovation & Development, USCIS

2:00 BREAK

2:15 pm Operation Ready: Moving to an Agile DevOps Framework
Moderator: Kristina Tanasichuk, CEO, Government Technology & Services Coalition
Keith Jones, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Management Directorate, OIT, USCIS
Larry DeNayer, PMP, CISSP-ISSEP, Deputy CIO for Operations, Management Directorate, OIT, USCIS
Joshua Seckel, Chief, Applied Technology Division, Management Directorate, OIT, USCIS
Rafaa Abdalla, Chief, Transformation Engineering Services, USCIS

3:15 Adjourn

Special thanks to our supporters!

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