Biography
Mary J. Mitchell
Ms. Mary Mitchell is the Deputy Associate
Administrator of the Office of Electronic Commerce in GSA's Office of Governmentwide
Policy. Ms. Mitchell is responsible for
supporting, coordinating, and monitoring the U.S. Government's implementation of
electronic commerce (EC). Key focus areas of the office include electronic catalogs, smart
card technology, electronic grants, and EC security. She is also co-chair of the Federal
Electronic Commerce Program Office with the Department of Defense. The program office
provides central leadership and management for the use of EC in the Federal Government.
Prior to joining GSA, Mitchell served as a Program
Manager in the Information Technology and Applications Office of the Advanced Technology
Program at the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST). Mitchell managed an information technology program and worked with industry to
define promising technology investments in areas such as electronic commerce, supply-chain
integration, engineering design, and advance learning technology. She also represented
NIST on the cross-agency Electronic Commerce
Task Force. Prior to this, she led a group that contributed to the development of
international standards for product data representation and part libraries (ISO 10303,
also known as STEP, and ISO 13584). She was one of the principal contributors to the
architecture and testing methodology used with these standards. intelligent
control, and intelligent engineering design. She also managed advance learning technology
projects. Mitchell joined the National Bureau of Standards (the predecessor to NIST) in
1982.
Mitchell has received numerous public and private
sector awards including the Department of Commerce Silver Medal Award in 1994. Mary received a B.S. degree from Michigan State
University in 1975 and is working toward a M.S. in Engineering Management at George
Washington University.
Information about the GSA's Federal Electronic
Commerce Program is on the Internet at http://estrategy.gov/ |