IEM Leadership

Greg Swarts - Director of Software and Systems Integration

Greg Swarts

With 20 years of global technology and leadership experience in Fortune 100 companies and on multi-million dollar government programs, Greg Swarts has proven expertise in emergency and humanitarian response systems, enterprise and multi-enterprise knowledge management, change/process management, and systems integration. He has managed and consulted on the architecture, development, and implementation of large-scale programs for Global 500 companies, state agencies, civilian and defense federal agencies, the State Department, the United Nations, the World Bank, and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Mr. Swarts was the driving force for promoting and implementing several international and national Emergency and Humanitarian peer community networks, including the United Nations’ ReliefWeb and nation-level humanitarian systems in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Azerbaijan. These GIS-based systems enhanced on-site coordination and performance of large-scale relief services and improved the outcome of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable and displaced people reeling from regional conflict and man-made disasters. He has managed several national and international projects specializing in the federated exchange and geospatial representation of information between enterprise-level systems, including Command and Control Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems, Emergency/Crisis Response systems, and Administrative Support systems. These systems have been deployed worldwide, have improved operational performance, and have enhanced the organizational coordination, timeliness, and response by providing real-time, or near real-time, information for mission-critical operations.

Mr. Swarts developed the concept and coordinated the design of an operational prototype system that integrated two million records from disparate intermodal transportation and logistics systems based on Federated Governance, Web Services, and Secure Information Sharing. This capability demonstrated a new systematic way for exchanging trusted information between the nation’s federated supply chain community, while at the same time lowering administration and configuration costs for each organization.
He was the first Data Administrator, acting as the CIO, for Washington state’s judicial branch of government. His unit subsequently produced the nation’s first integrated Judicial Information Systems (JIS) Management Plan for the automation of the appellate, superior, limited jurisdiction and juvenile courts based on common data and process models. This JIS plan was later adopted by the nations’ largest judicial association as the model for all JIS development for state court systems in the United States.

Mr. Swarts has Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Indiana University.