Ms. Barnes has been the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for the past 13 years, and is the longest serving CIO in the Federal government. She also serves as OPM's Chief Privacy Officer. In these roles, Ms. Barnes oversees all information technology policies, planning and operations at OPM including network and data center management, IT security and privacy activities, IT legal and regulatory compliance, and applications development. Ms. Barnes also currently serves as the co-chair of the IT Workforce committee of the CIO Council Prior to joining OPM, Ms. Barnes served as the Director of the Office of Information Systems in the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service at the Department of Commerce, CIO, at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and Director of Revenue Management Systems at MCI. Ms. Barnes holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Hofstra University and an MBA from Virginia Tech.