Deborah Bryant

Deborah brings the perspective of twenty years management experience in high tech and IT including both private and public sectors. Production of this years fourth annual Government Open Source Conference is a high priority for Deborah in her current role as Public Sector Communities Manager at Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab.

Deborah’s government background started with the Oregon State Legislature during the Year 2000 legislative session and continued at Oregon’s Department of Administrative Services for five years where she served as Manager of Enterprise Strategic Planning and Policy in the Office of the State CIO and also as Deputy State CIO. During the Year 2002 legislative session, she represented the State’s Executive Branch position on proposed Open Source legislation and earned a reputation for an open, constructive approach to working with diverse and sometimes conflicting views.

Prior to entering the pubic sector, Deborah held management positions in several emerging technology areas; parallel and high-speed computing and commercialized internet and web applications in the 80s, commercial wide area networks, advanced telecommunications and data/voice convergence in the 90s.