Dennis Monroe

About

Recently worked for Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (DHS/CBP) as Environment Owner of the world-wide ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) Cargo Production hardware and software environments (Truck, Sea, Rail cargo). ACE is the data source and accounting of Trade industry activities and one of the federal government’s largest business environments.

First half of ten-year CBP project was Lead Enterprise Architect, creating procedures & change management controls for development of ACE business environment. Second half was ACE Production Environment Owner.

Extracurricular activities included contributing author to book, Data Breach and Encryption Handbook, published by American Bar Association, Science & Technology group. Cyber-security risks pose serious economic and security challenges. http://apps.americanbar.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=54 50059

Career started with computer programming training at University Computer Corporation (UCC of SMU (Southern Methodist University)) in 1969 and worked as developer & designer of financial and hospital applications for Parkland Hospital culminating as a Financial Information Consultant with EDS (Electronic Data Systems) for Federal Credit Unions.

The next twelve years involved being commercial software developer and technical product representative at Applied Data Research (ADR) for DATACOM Relational Database product and related products, and becoming Director of International Support.

Careers followed in process improvement, information architecture, database marketing, and product manager with GE Operations and Marketing, Verizon, Burlington Northern Railroad, Maryland Bank of North America, Credit Card Clearing House, TXU, and recently for IBM Federal Division’s Modernization program for US Customs (ACE).