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William Vass
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William Vass President and COO, Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. & CTO, Global Accounts and Industries |
Bill Vass is the president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. and the chief technology officer of Sun's Global Accounts and Industry organization. Vass focuses on providing the U.S. government and elite global accounts with open, secure and efficient solutions to solve unique IT challenges for large scale organizations. Vass has more than 29 years of U.S. government and private sector IT leadership experience. Previously, he served as chief information officer of Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for all aspects of Sun's global IT infrastructure and line-of-business application development. In addition, Vass worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of the CIO and was responsible for all acquisition and development, research and development, and consolidated software development and commercial off-the-shelf integration standards for more than 6,800 IT systems with a $35.5B budget, as well as the Pentagon's IT environment, managing networks, servers and applications that supply voice, video and data across the defense networks. Vass has won numerous awards for his work in the private and public sectors to include Computer World as a Premier 100 Leader, and Federal Top 100 CIO. |
