George Thomas is an Enterprise Architect at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Thomas also participates in a number of Federal technology councils, cross-agency working groups, and standards development organizations, serving as: Semantic Web and Linked Data lead on the Data.gov Program Management Office, co-chair of the Federal CIO Council Architecture and Infrastructure Committee Services Subcommittee, an invited expert in the World Wide Web Consortium eGovernment Interest Group, and on the steering committee of the Object Management Group Government Domain Task Force. He teaches Service Oriented Architecture as a faculty instructor at the Graduate School. Prior to joining HHS in September 2009, George was the Chief Architect at the U.S. General Services Administration. Prior to joining the Federal government, Thomas held Chief Architect and CTO positions at a number of private companies. Thomas is into all the things you would expect of an Enterprise Architect, including (but not limited to); Web Oriented Architecture, Model Driven Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Social Networking and Social Media, Cloud Computing, the Semantic Web and Linked Data. He prefers to do as much as possible with open source technologies.