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Alan Harbitter is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Nortel Government Solutions. In 1985, he co-founded PEC Solutions, Inc. (PEC) and was jointly responsible for its growth to a publicly traded company with over 1700 employees. In 2005, PEC merged with Nortel Federal to form Nortel Government Solutions. As the CTO of this Nortel subsidiary, he is the senior technology executive and participates in key client programs. He has led many high-level strategy, analysis, and implementation projects for major Government IT programs. His areas of technical specialization, research, and publication are information security, computer performance, data communications, information-sharing, and architectural analysis.
Dr. Harbitter has over 28 years of diversified experience in information technology (IT) analysis, and implementation. Recently, he has been active in homeland security-motivated initiatives to improve information-sharing among state, local, regional, and Federal justice organizations. To that end, he has played a leading role on the Department of Justice "Global" committee that is working to develop a security architecture to support sharing of enforcement, investigative, and intelligence information on a nationwide basis.
Other activities and memberships include:
Co-founder of the Washington Area Chief Technology Officers' Roundtable Founding chairman of the Board of Visitors for the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Member of the George Mason University School of Information Technology and Engineering Executive Advisory Committee
Chairman of the Arc Foundation of Northern Virginia (an advocacy organization for the mentally and physically handicapped).
Dr. Harbitter received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Maryland, and his doctorate in computer science from George Mason University (GMU). At GMU, his research concerned information security and, specifically, authentication in large and wireless networks. He is well published in the area. | 