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Richard H. Houtary is a senior member of Synectics’ planning and policy team whose current responsibilities span Information Systems Security, Enterprise Architecture (EA), and Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC). He engineered the innovative restructuring of a federal agency’s Information Security Program, significantly improving compliance with new and demanding statutory, regulatory, and departmental security requirements and, at the same time, significantly reducing implementation costs. His EA efforts have helped to evolve this complex, changing program into an agency success story. His contributions to federal CPIC reflect his resourcefulness in problem-solving and increasing program effectiveness. Overall, Mr. Houtary, with more than 25 years of analytical, technical, and managerial experience, is a key resource in the demanding field of information technology. In recent years he completed a comprehensive Clinger-Cohen Act study of ACF’s Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS). This in-depth assessment included a comprehensive set of recommendations for improvements. He also conducted three security assessments for the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG), using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Automated Security Self Evaluation Tool (ASSET). He earned an MPA from Auburn University in 1976 and completed the Program for Management Development, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1972. | 