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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Kenneth A. Megill</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kenneth A. 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She currently serves as the Records Management Officer for the U.S. Department of the Interior. Prior to that, she held the position of Chief, Branch of Records and Information Security, for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and, in that capacity, served as the Bureau's Records Management Officer, Freedom of Information Act Officer, Privacy Act Officer, and Information Collection Clearance Officer. Being part of federal agencies that include records management as part of the IRM program has given her a somewhat unique perspective of the role and responsibilities of the federal Records Manager as an IRM professional.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Thomas Horan</B> is an official of the General Services Administration and adjunct faculty member in the Information Resources Management program at The Catholic University of America School of Library and Information Science. He is a twenty-year employee of the federal government and has served as an analyst in both the field and the Central Office. In his current position, he developed and administers the "Trail Boss Program," a training program for procurement officers who are responsible for purchasing large mainframe systems for federal agencies. In this position, he has helped implement the concept of IRM as integration information management. Graduates of his program have gone on to implement some of the most successful automation projects in the government.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Sarah Kadec</B> was trained as a librarian and still proudly identifies with the library tradition out of which she comes. She served in the Carter White House when the Paperwork Reduction Act was conceived and implemented. She was the deputy director of IRM at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As a cofounder of the Association of Information Management and officer of AFFIRM (Association of Federal Information Resources Management), she helped create a community of IRM professionals. Although she says she is "retired," she maintains an active interest in IRM and Librarianship. She served as the chair of the IRM Advisory Committee to The Catholic University IRM program and taught courses at the graduate level at The Catholic University.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Marilyn McLennan</B> recently retired from the National Archives and Records Administration, where she served as the Director of the Agency Services Division in the Office of the Records Administration. In that position, she was responsible for developing records management policies, guidance, and training for agencies of the federal government as well as for evaluating the records management programs of federal agencies and recommending changes. Before coming to the Archives, she served twenty years in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Her early career at the Department of Commerce involved managing the department's implementation of federal laws governing public access to information, including the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act, and the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Later, as a division chief in the Office of Information Resources Management, she worked extensively on the development of new policies for the active dissemination of information. The National Trade Data Bank, developed by the Commerce Department's Office of Business Analysis, is a model of how the government serves as an information provider.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Michael McReynolds</B> is the director of the Textual Reference Division at the National Archives and Records Administration, the agency with primary responsibility for preserving the federal government's records. During his twenty-five years as a NARA employee, he has had a special interest in legal and legislative records. He has written articles on access to files of lawyers and directed a project to provide guidebooks for the House and Senate. Prior to becoming director of the Textual Reference Division in 1988, he served as the director of the Legislative Archives Division. As an archivist he has worked with records of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Supreme Court, and the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. His undergraduate education is from the University of Michigan, and he has a masters degree of history from the University of Chicago.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Kenneth A. Megill</B> is the first director of IRM in the School of Information and Resources Management at The Catholic University of America. He joined the faculty full-time in 1992. From 1987 to 1992, he was the Records Manager at the Comptroller of the Currency, the Administrator of National Banks. He started his academic career with a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1966. He taught philosophy at the University of Florida and wrote The New Democratic Theory (Macmillan, Free Press, 1970). From 1972 to 1982, he was the chief organizer and, later president, of the United Faculty of Florida, a trade union representing more than 8,000 faculty and professional employees in the State of Florida. He came to Washington in 1982 and worked with a number of different organizations, including the National Education Association (where he founded Thought and Action, the academic journal with the largest circulation in the United States) and the Virginia Association of Towing and Recovery Operators (where he was named the Outstanding Towing Executive in the Country by Tow Times magazine). In 1987 he received his Master of Science degree in Library Science from The Catholic University of America. In 1993 he became a Certified Records Manager, one of 450 active CRM's in the United States.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Robert Woods</B> is the manager of the federal government's long-distance telecommunications program and has the title of Associate Administrator in the General Services Administration. The program, known as the Federal Telecommunications System 2000 (FTS2000), is currently a $550 million per annum operation. FTS2000 is the government's information infrastructure, which offers integrated voice, data, and video telecommunications services to agencies. Prior to assuming his current position in 1994, he held several senior positions in the federal government IRM community. He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for IRM for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from 1991 to 1994, and from 1987 to 1991 he was the Director for IRM for the Department of Transportation. An industrial engineering graduate from Virginia Tech, he also has two masters degrees, one in public administration from Harvard University and another in data processing management from The George Washington University. He is currently an adjunct faculty member in The Catholic University of America School of Library and Information Science. He is a member of the Government Information Technology Services (GITS) work group overseeing the implementation of the information technology portion of Vice President Gore's Reinventing Government effort.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>