J. Walter Vera has over twenty-five years of technical, managerial and consulting experience, applying information and communications technologies to the modernization and transformation of government agencies. For the past fifteen years, Vera has been technically leading the development of blueprints for legacy system modernization at several government agencies. He supported federal information systems modernization programs, including those for the Internal Revenue Service, US Postal Service, General Service Administration, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Veterans Administration, and U. S. Patent and Trademark Office.

As Expertech Solutions’ Chief Technologist, his experience with the IRS includes support to the Center for Enterprise Modernization in business processes analyses and re-engineering activities, specifically in the Submission and Settlement Harvesting Project (SSHP). Mr Vera cooperated with a team of professionals from the IRS and other contractors in the analysis of the current business processes, determining the conceptual architecture for the future submission and settlement of individual tax returns characterized by service oriented architecture, and developing a transition strategy and recommendations for migrating from the current to the future SSHP pipeline. He contributed in the design of six major application services that make up the SSHP future pipeline state architecture, these are, (1) Input Validation, (2) Entity Management, (3) Posting & Settlement, (4) Issue/Case Management, (5) Balance and Control, and (6) Notices Management.

He had full responsibility for designing the Tax Return Issue/Case Management and the Notices Management application services. For these tasks, Mr. Vera analyzed the tax filing intake pipeline for manual and automated functions, and mapping functions to application programs. He reviewed the documentation of over twenty-five IRS legacy and modernized applications, including GMF, GUF, SCCF, ERS, DocSpecific, EFDS, IMF, NAP, TRDB, ISRP, EMS, IDRS, CADE, MeF, Notices, and others.

Mr. Vera serves as technical leader in Expertech’s Air Force contract performing IV&V of the Quality Assurance of Test Program Sets (TPS) for the strategic Airborne Warning and Control Systems AWACS (E3)--the most sophisticated US command and control aircraft; Electronic Reconnaissance Aircrafts RC135, Cargo Transport Aircraft C5; Ground Attack Aircraft A10; Tactical Fighter F15, and Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) weapons systems.

As the Department Head in Mitretek’s Networked Systems Division, Mr. Vera managed the technical teams responsible for delivering the Postal Service Enterprise Architecture (EA) tool/service framework and guidelines, for application validation and compliance with agency EA strategies, and for organization-wide system improvements in the areas of business process management, electronic government, and technology assessment. His role included management of technology selections, systems integration, implementation of enterprise tool kits, and development of rule-based systems and enterprise services oriented applications. His Department was responsible for managing the USPS/Mitretek Information Technology Lab and the Distributed Application Research Lab, which were used to help the migration of postal legacy systems to a networked web oriented environment. Sample of work tasks under his responsibility included:

Mr. Vera also managed Mitretek’s technical teams that provided technical support to several Government software and hardware acquisition processes. His most recent experience includes the management of the Mitretek Team that participated as part of GSA Source Selection Evaluation Board in the acquisition process for the development, operations and maintenance of the Federal Business Opportunities system, also referred to as FedBizOpps.gov or FBO.

As technical staff at the MITRE Corporation, Mr. Vera designed a number of advanced information processing systems for federal agencies, including an electronic applications filing system for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and an expert compensation and pension system prototype for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Vera also evaluated the technology for image data transmission, processing and display, and defined the requirements for the operation consoles used in NASA's Space Telescope Ground System. Moreover, Vera designed and implemented major claims processing rule-based systems for the Social Security Disability Program, the Veterans Administration Pension Benefit Program and the Department of Labor Coal Mine Workers Compensation Program.

Mr. Vera also participated in several MITRE IR&D projects, as a Principal Investigator in the development of an Intelligent Case Processing System Workstation that integrated technologies such as Expert System, Voice recognition, and Object Oriented Databases; and as a researcher in the development of an X-ray data pattern recognition system to detect explosives in airport baggage for the Federal Aviation Administration and the implementation of a system to capture and disseminate telemetry satellite data for NASA.

Vera holds a B.S. in Information Systems from the George Mason University, and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics Physics from the University - Lima, Peru.