FiXs Executive Bio

Dr. Michael J. Mestrovich ,President of FiXs Michael J. Mestrovich, PhD, is President and CEO of Unlimited New Dimensions, LLC. (www.undllc.com). His company provides consulting services to commercial and government entities that are developing their enterprise and operational strategies for the ever changing environments of the 21st century. These services are focused on the areas of: acquisition and acquisition life cycle processes; web based applications and e-Business processes; internet/intranet based solutions; enterprise level services; interface and enterprise architectures; information assurance; public key infrastructure; critical infrastructure protection; network-centric solutions; identity management and credentialing; homeland security and executive education in areas of information management, change management, leveraged teaming, and knowledge management. These services have been provided to a variety of organizations, to include: Altarum; Cisco; CACI; ChoicePoint; DSA, Inc.; G&D CardTech; Inc., Entrust Technologies, Inc.; JMCS; Integic, Inc.; Northrop Grumman Information Technologies; Northrop Grumman Mission Systems; SeeBeyond Technology Corp.; Tenix Holdings, Inc.; Tripwire, Inc.; Tumbleweed, Inc.; 1105 Media Group, Inc.; Virtual CEO, Inc.; the Department of Defense; the Department of Education and the Naval Postgraduate School. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Notre Dame, his Masters from Duquesne University and his Doctorate of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Notre Dame Prior to his present position he served for thirty years in the Department of Defense (DoD) as member of the Senior Executive Service, in information management/technology programs. As the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Health Management Systems, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, he was responsible for the acquisition of health information systems throughout DoD, which included the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS), the Defense Medical Systems Support Center (DMSSC) programs, and the Composite Health Care System (CHCS). As the Information Management Executive for the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, he was responsible for advising the Under Secretary on matters of strategic acquisition direction for electronic commerce initiatives and the Information Management program within the DoD and its interfaces with industry. As the Deputy Director for Enterprise Integration in the Defense Information Systems Agency, he was responsible for the strategic direction, planning, and implementation of the Enterprise Integration acquisition initiatives for DoD information systems. These acquisition systems included those in the areas of personnel, finance, logistics, medical and command and control. As Director, Center for Integration and Interoperability, Corporate Information Management (CIM), Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Command, Control, and Communications, he was responsible for implementing systems migration and modernization initiatives throughout DoD to include “best commercial practices” concepts, and the Government Wide Defense Enterprise Integration Services (DEIS) acquisitions. He is active in many industry forums such as AFCEA and the Federation for Identity and Cross Credentialing Systems (FiXs). He is currently and has been, the Chairman of the Program Advisory Board for E-GOV 2002 thru 2006 Homeland Defense and Information Assurance Conferences; Chairman Emeritus of the AFCEA Technical Committee. He is also President of the Federation for Identity and Cross Credentialing Systems (FiXs).Dr. Mestrovich and his wife Jane, reside in Montclair, Virginia.