Colleen Coggins is the Chief Architect for the Department of the Interior (DOI) and has overall responsibility Interior’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) Program. Through Ms. Coggins’ leadership, Interior has been recognized as leader in EA as evidenced by Interior winning the ‘Excellence in Enterprise Architecture’ award by the E-Gov Institute in September 2004 and September 2006. DOI’s EA has also received the highest score in the United States Federal Government for its EA maturity by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in June 2005 and again in February 2006. Under her leadership, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) ranked DOI's EA program the highest among the federal government with regards to elements completed (97%) on the GAO EA Maturity Framework. Ms. Coggins has lead the development of modernization blueprints for key Interior lines of businesses which define a roadmap for minimizing redundant systems, enhancing data sharing, and incorporating proven state-of-the-art technologies while reducing costs and improving services to the end citizen and Interior’s business partners. Prior to serving as the Interior Chief Architect, Ms. Coggins was the Chief Architect for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) which was cited as a “Best Practice” in EA across the Department of Interior. Colleen has a B.S. in Engineering and a M.S. in Computer Systems Management. She’s a Certified Enterprise Architect from the FEAC™ Institute.