Henry Sienkiewicz
Henry Sienkiewicz, Technical Program Director, Computing Services Directorate, Defense Information Systems Agency
Mr. Sienkiewicz was born in Charleston, South Carolina and was raised in Connecticut. He graduated in 1985 from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Government and International Studies. He spent his sophomore year as an exchange student at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Mr. Sienkiewicz was awarded a Masters of Science degree in Business (Information Technology Systems) from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland in 1996.
Upon graduating from Notre Dame, he was commissioned an infantry second lieutenant in the United States Army. As a lieutenant he served at Camp Greaves, Republic of Korea and at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He served as a company commander during this period. Upon promotion to captain, Mr. Sienkiewicz branch transferred into the Signal Corps. As a Signal officer, he served at as a Camps Greaves and Casey, Republic of Korea and at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. He served 11 years of active service.
In 1996, he left active duty and joined OAO Corporation, Greenbelt, Maryland, as its Director for Corporate Information Services. He focused on corporate metrics, technology standardization and business development. Mr. Sienkiewicz was one of the architects of the winning outsourcing proposal for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s DNS contract. In 1998, Mr. Sienkiewicz joined User Technology Associates, Arlington, Virginia, as its Director, Corporate Information. He focused on corporate metrics and developing a commercial outsourcing business unit. In 1999, he left government contracting to enter the travel industry as the Vice-president for Computing Service for the Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO), Dulles, Virginia. At ATPCO, he was directly responsible for the daily distribution of over 97% of the pricing information for the global airline carrier community. He formulated and instituted numerous initiatives to include corporate governance metrics using the Balanced Scorecard framework, comprehensive short and long term capacity management, and the web delivery of all business critical services. In all three positions, he was a direct report to the company’s President/Chief Executive Officer or President/Chief Operating Officer. During this period he remained a member of the United States Army Reserve, initially serving a Signal Observer Controller with the 78th Regiment, Baltimore, Maryland, and subsequently with the Defense Information Systems Agency.
In 2004, he was mobilized and returned to active duty. During his mobilization tour, Mr. Sienkiewicz served with US Central Command J6 as the Chief, Business Management Branch. He returned to DISA as a reservist in 2005. Mr. Sienkiewicz retired from the United States Army Reserve in July 2008, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
In 2005, Mr. Sienkiewicz left ATPCO to start and run Open Travel Software, an open source, open standards software company. He had been the company’s Chief Executive Officer until assuming his current position. Open Travel Software provides web-based enterprise resource planning solutions for small and medium hotels and car rental agencies throughout the world The company has won multiple awards for innovation within the travel industry. As of April 2009, the company has delivered over 6000 instances of its applications, in 14 languages, to every region of the world. Mr. Sienkiewicz actively supported open standards for the travel industry as a member of the Open Travel Alliance’s architecture committee. The Open Travel Alliance is the standards body for the travel industry. He is a founding member of George Washington University’s technology transfer council and had been Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the University. In 2006, he completed and published his first book, Centerlined. Mr. Sienkiewicz retains professional memberships in numerous organizations to include the National Association of Corporate Directors, AFCEA, and MindShareDC.