Tonight, Marina Martin, Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, will be giving a talk on building digital services in the world's largest bureaucracy.



Abstract



Hear – and give feedback on! – the ways the Digital Service Team at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DSVA) is building modern digital services to improve the lives of Veterans in an environment where PowerBuilder 6 rules the roost and more than 1,000 different websites and 500 forms have to be consolidated into one digital experience. Marina will give an overview of Roadrunner, the internal DSVA project combining React, Rails, and Jekyll to help the team deliver quickly in a challenging environment.



Bio



Marina Martin is the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Her role includes leading the Digital Service Team at VA, recruiting some of the nation’s top design and technical talent for a tour of duty at the agency to help improve the way VA delivers digital services for our nation’s Veterans. The team’s current focus is on modernizing the appeals process and on replacing VA’s complicated hundreds of websites with a single, modern self-service platform at Vets.gov. Prior to joining VA, Marina served as Senior Advisor to U.S. CTO Todd Park, wrote the book Business Efficiency for Dummies, and ran the business process re-engineering firm The Type-A Way in Seattle, WA.



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