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Commerce Boosts IT Initiatives Staff
Michelle O'Neill has become the first deputy assistant secretary for information technology in the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration. O'Neill began her new job July 17. She has been with the department since 1987, most recently as chief of staff for former Undersecretary for International Trade David Aaron, who left his post at the end of March. O'Neill is expected to pull together other e-commerce-related offices within ITA in an effort to coordinate and enhance trade and export opportunities related to e-commerce.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Web partnership, ChamberBiz, has a new CEO. The Web-based portal for small companies announced Monday it appointed veteran Web marketer Thomas Dailey to the executive position. In 1988, Dailey founded Spectra Marketing Systems, where he built it into the largest micro-marketing decision support company in the consumer packaged goods industry before selling to VNU/Claritas in 1994. Dailey has 20-plus years of marketing. Just prior to joining ChamberBiz, Dailey serves as CEO to Visual Mining, where he focused on the Enterprise Information Portals sector.
In other agency news, long-time Federal Communications Commission director Damon Ladson will join Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis early next month as its technology policy adviser. Ladson has been with the FCC since 1982, most recently serving as the vice chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the 2000 World Radio Conference and as WRC director. Ladson also has worked in the mass media bureau, international bureau and office of engineering and technology. Harris Wiltshire specializes in communications and information technology law.
Robert Smith, former legislative director for Rep. Wes Wakins, R-OK, joined Sun Microsystems as its newest federal affairs representative, the company announced last week. Smith will handle tax and trade issues in Sun's Washington, DC, public policy office. Prior to working for Wakins, Smith served as senior legislative assistant to Rep. Joel Hetley, R-CO, where he focused on high tech issues as well as taxation, international trade telecommunications and foreign affairs and national security.
The National Association of Counties (NACo) recently held its annual conference where Jane Hague, council member in King County,WA, was named president. She was unanimously elected during the conference last Thursday in St. Louis and has sat on NACo's board since 1995.
Scott Mackey, chief economist for the National Conference of State Legislatures, will leave his post in mid-August to head back home. Mackey has accepted a position as an associate at Kimble, Sherman & Ellis in Montpelier, VT, representing multi-state high tech Internet clients, lobbying on their behalf. As he did at NCSL, Mackey will focus on Internet taxation and telecommunications issues. Both Mackey and his wife are Vermont natives, and they "have been looking for the right opportunity to get back and this seemed like the right one," he said. He did express disappointment that he was leaving NCSL before the streamlined sales tax and telecommunications initiatives were resolved.
Don Marshall, communications director to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, will be leaving a few shorts weeks to transfer his title to washingtonpost.com. Marshall had been with Rockefeller's office for nearly two years.
The Precursor Group broke away from Legg Mason at the end of June to operate as an independent research firm led by Scott Cleland, founder and chief executive officer, and Bill Whyman, president. "As an independent, pure research, employee-owned and controlled company, the group can produce more objective and unbiased research," according to a press release on the new Precursor Group's Web site. The research done by the new company will be more independent because it will not be exposed to the financial conflicts of interest prevalent on Wall Street, the release said.
A former director of TRUSTe, Paula Bruening has joined the Center for Democracy and Technology as staff counsel, National Journal magazine reported. Bruening had served a staff lawyer at Cushman Darby & Cushman with a focus on intellectual property law. She also served stints at the congressional office of technology assessment, the Commerce Department, and in the office of chief counsel at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Eric Wohlschlegel former deputy press secretary at the House Commerce Committee, will be tackling high technology and health care issues at public relations firm Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter and Associates as a managing associate, National Journal magazine reported. Wohlschlegel left his post on the Hill earlier this month. Over the past three years at the Commerce committee, Wohlschlegel, 30, has been developing media strategies on telecommunications, health care, energy, environment, and financial services.
David Filippelli has left his post as legislative director in the office of Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-NJ, to join Appia Group, a public affairs and event management firm that specializes in new media. Filippelli, 27, will become vice president of public affairs, based in the firm's small Washington outpost. In his new job, Filippelli will be Appia's point man for all government-related issues.
Also heading to a new career in public relations, former deputy press secretary to Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-SD, Stephanie Bluma has joined the public relations firm of BSMG Worldwide as a senior associate. In addition to working on non-profit education and health issues, Bluma will head up the Microsoft account. A Nebraska native, Bluma came to Washington in 1996 to obtain a master's degree in public communications at American University. She had worked for Daschle since 1997, although she took a leave of absence earlier this year to work on the Gore 2000 campaign in San Francisco.
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