Curtis G. Clark, CBRM
President

     Mr. Clark demonstrated leadership while managing enterprise-level information technology (IT) systems and security services for several government agencies, as an executive-level professional. His IT career began as a computer programmer (1988) during the advent of mainframe computing and keypunch machines. He specialized in writing program code in the FORTRAN language. His employment with an electrical engineering firm as a programmer, allowed him to learn robotic and industrial process controllers (Modicon and Allen-Bradley) programming. He further advanced to become a team leader for computer center operations. As technology progressed, Mr. Clark was elevated to a Systems Programmer with the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE). There he planned and installed the first Ethernet network, at the Mobile (AL) District, linking all Harris, AT&T, and Unisys mini-computer systems. His work gained attention from other IT organizations.

     In 1989, he was on loan to the Charleston (SC) ACOE District to assist with recovery effort due to Hurricane Hugo. The loan resulted in a permanent assignment to Charleston in early 1990 as a branch chief in the Information Management Office. While in Charleston, he designed and installed one of the first local area networks in the entire ACOE. After several in Charleston, he moved on to the New England Division ACOE as a network operations chief, managing a Novell Netware server farm and earning a Certified NetWare Engineer status. In early 1998, Mr. Clark moved to Washington (DC) as Director, Information Technology for an agency in the Department of Agriculture. After four years, he moved to the Office of Inspector General, Department of Treasury to manage IT resources and operations nationwide. After a short period, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was former. He and most of his IT staff were transferred to DHS. Together, the award winning IT group became the original IT staff for the Office of Inspector General (OIG).
 
     His position with DHS-OIG allowed him to focus on current technology concerns such as information technology security. He managed a staff of IT specialist and contractor for around the clock operations of an infrastructure that consisted of wide-area and local area networks services, network security, nation-wide call center helpdesk, and data-redundancy for disaster recovery. He also established and managed security services for the agency including personnel background investigations, physical access control, secure communications, industrial (NISPOM), document control (classified and non-classified) and secure facilities (SCIF) management.
 
     As a visionary and a change agent, he led the development of innovative strategic plans and solutions for thirty locations nationwide. He developed diverse high-performance teams with the skills to conceptualize, plan, develop, implement and manage state-of-the-art technology programs to ensure physical, informational, communications, operations, industrial, special access and personnel security. He is a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and served as DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) Director, Security and Asset Management. He has experience in large-scale disaster planning and disaster simulations involving federal agencies. He is a Certified Business Resilience Manager (CBRM).