2015 Global Identity Summit

Helen Schmitz
Enterprise Architect for Information Sharing Environment and ICAM
US Department of Homeland Security


Helen Schmitz is the Enterprise Architect for the Information Sharing Environment Office (ISEO) at the Department of Homeland Security. The role is to improve information sharing within Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and with the national security and intelligence communities, state, local, tribal, territorial, private sector and international partners. Ms. Schmitz joined DHS in 2012. She keeps the enterprise perspective in mind and works as a bridge-builder between the mission and technology experts, across organizational boundaries, to realize the vision of making the right information available to the right people at the right time. She has led the update of the DHS Information Sharing Segment Architecture and the Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) Conceptual architecture. She is currently leading a cross-DHS team to develop the International Information Sharing Architecture to improve the ability to exchange appropriate information between DHS and our international partners for immigration, travel, national security, public safety, and pre-employment check purposes. She came to the Department from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where she served seven-years as the Enterprise Architect. She participated in development of OMB’s Federal Enterprise Architecture for the Shared Services Strategy and as lead for the development the Application Reference Model. Prior to NIH, she worked at EDS, now HP, for 7 years providing architecture and infrastructure support at various accounts.

Sessions :