Mr. Kshemendra Paul was named the Acting Chief Architect at the Office of E-Gov and IT at the Office of Management and Budget on October 1, 2007 and is now the Chief Architect at the Office of E-Gov and IT at the Office of Management and Budget. He formerly served as the Chief Architect for Department of Justice and the Program Executive for the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Program. At Justice he led efforts around data standards and inter-operability with Federal, State and Local stakeholders, resulting in adoption of NIEM as the basis for terrorism information sharing as well as grass roots based adoption and use of NIEM for cross domain, cross level of government information sharing. Mr. Paul has over 20 years of experience in program management, product management, business and architecture. Before joining the civil service in 2005, Mr. Paul was an active entrepreneur, co-founding LocalEyes (sold to AOL) and founding Andelina (sold to FoundryOne). He has participated as a member of senior management for a variety of other technology product and service companies. He holds both Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Electrical Engineering, and an additional Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, from the University of Maryland, College Park. (3QC2)