Con Kenney is currently serving as Senior Research Fellow at the National Defense University iCollege. His teaching and research interests include: enterprise architecture, portfolio management, systems and software architecture, IT economics, process improvement, and organizational change leadership. He also acts as co-chair of the Federal CIO Council Chief Architects’ Forum, chairman of the EA Competency Framework Committee of the Industry Advisory Council EA Academic Coalition, and chairman of the Penn State IST Enterprise Architecture Research Committee.
From 2003 to 2009 he was the Chief Enterprise Architect at the Federal Aviation Administration where he helped deliver a comprehensive architecture for the agency. He worked closely with the FAA’s lines of business to strengthen IT governance and to create programs that comply with OMB guidelines and the FAA’s enterprise architecture.
Before joining the FAA, Mr. Kenney was the Chief Technology Officer of Zerotime Labs, an early stage company incubator and software vendor. He defined the product direction and made technology decisions for the company, which offered high-end simulation tools for modeling cash flows and business processes.
Prior to joining Zerotime Labs, he was Senior Director for Reengineering and Technology Integration in Fannie Mae’s Operations Division. Fannie Mae provides access to capital markets for the mortgage finance industry and owns almost $1 trillion in mortgage-backed securities. He led strategic planning, product development, and organizational development projects. Earlier, as Senior Director for Advanced Technology, he defined Fannie Mae’s technology strategy and IT architecture.
Before joining Fannie Mae, Mr. Kenney founded the Strategic Client Practice at Sybase, the relational data base management systems vendor. This practice delivered business and technology strategy and IT architecture services to Fortune 100 clients including JP Morgan, Martin Marietta, and State Street Bank.
At the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, he led business and technology strategy and implementation assignments for financial services clients and designed and implemented large-scale transaction processing applications for civilian Federal agencies.
He holds a bachelors degree in economics from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and a masters degree in interdisciplinary studies from George Mason University.