Peter Nash has 25 years of experience in systems engineering, project management, enterprise architecture, and information security. His background includes IV&V, system planning and risk mitigation, business process management, system design and development, mission assurance and privacy protection, software development life cycle process, and technology assessment and technology infusion.

Nash is a Chief Science Advisor in Expertech’s Strategic Consulting Center. His responsibilities include serving as technical and project management advisor to the IRS in the governance of the e-Services Branch.

Recently, Nash led Expertech’s effort in the development of a data privacy strategy and infrastructure for a Fortune 500 IT firm, including the development of a data privacy implementation plan, operational guidelines including a framework for privacy compliance project plans; and the data, information, metadata and functional requirements; and CONOPS for a privacy repository.

Before coming to Expertech, Nash served as Chief Scientist for Information Assurance Applications in the Center for Information and Telecommunications Technologies at Mitretek, where he provided technical and programmatic support to various DoD agencies, developing information assurance architecture models, as well as defining the relation of those architectures to the DoD acquisition process. Nash served as lead for a project to model various system architectures in relation to the DoD family of Joint Future Concepts. He has developed training materials for both system and enterprise architectures and enterprise information assurance. In addition, he instituted a set of formal systems engineering processes.

Previously, for I S Associates, Nash provided direct support to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency providing guidance and advice on information systems that support treaty verification. He supported development of a standards-based acquisition program that used SEI’s CMM and IEEE software standards (12207 for development, 1012 for Validation &Verification, etc.) as the basis for contractor selection and ongoing evaluation of development of a set of arms control applications. In addition, he was the chief architect for a bio defense application. Nash also was a lead systems engineer for an aircraft modernization program with the US Navy. He was responsible for defining and implementing a structured engineering approach for the program. He also provided direct support to a major aircraft manufacturer for several engineering initiatives. In addition, Nash provided guidance on life cycle methodology and development standards for internal and external applications.

While at the IIT Research Institute, Nash supported the IRS FFRDC as a technical lead and project manager for multiple technology assessment tasks, including assessments of Internet technologies, client/server technology, operating systems, and security systems. He was responsible for performing technology assessments and feasibility studies and participating in research, systems design, and network design and implementation of data communications systems in support of IRS tax system modernization initiatives. Nash participated in the formulation of strategic and tactical plans for network modernization, network management, and network security in support of the IRS mission and objectives. He led the design and implementation of security test plans for the security accreditation of the IRS geographically distributed intelligent call router system.

Moreover, Nash served as technical lead and/or project manager in the planning, development, and documentation of test plans regarding the year 2000 problem for all IRS-wide telecommunications systems, and in the approach to achieving a Telecommunications Strategy in support of IRS tax system modernization initiatives. He supported many other areas including the Information Technology Research Laboratory, several acquisition and strategic planning tasks, and an open systems standards effort. He was responsible for development and deployment of an interoperability test bed prototype—a laboratory environment suitable for demonstrating interoperability of various hardware, software, and networking components using Internet technologies and demonstrating multimedia capabilities. He provided both strategic and technical support to a group responsible for infrastructure definition and deployment and included functional areas of telecommunications, security, and standards.

For AT&T Bell Labs, Nash conducted R&D in the evolution of mainframe, MVS-based, operations to UNIX object-oriented, distributed (client/server), workstation-based environment. He also developed verification plans for the common channel signaling (CCS) signaling network and worked on the 5ESS switch, planning for the Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network (which evolved into FTS2000).

Nash is adjunct professor in the graduate school at the University of Maryland, University College, and former visiting professor at Howard University and Morgan State University. He holds a Doctorate in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master’s in Mathematics from the University of Washington at Seattle, and a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.