Edward Vaccaro

Biography

Ed Vaccaro is a partner, Homeland Security, Unisys Federal Systems.  In this capacity, he is responsible for all Unisys services delivered to the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.  In addition, Ed is responsible for managing service operations on a Unisys engagement with the Transportation Security Administration, a multi-year task order to build an advanced information technology infrastructure for the nation’s 429 commercial airports.

Ed joined Unisys from BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting, Inc.), where he was a managing director and partner of the operations support systems practice for the telecommunications market. Ed designed and managed the solutions offerings for order management, service provisioning and service assurance.  He was responsible for developing solutions strategy, building a global experts team, client delivery, managing vendor alliances and business development.

Before joining BearingPoint, Ed was the chief information officer with General Electric Medical Systems, where he was responsible for transforming the information technology organization to support both manufacturing and service operations.  He directed the information systems organization of the leading supplier of medical imaging equipment and services.  In addition, he managed the technology selection, integration, implementation, support and operation of the internal enterprise systems utilized by business operations worldwide.

Prior to his work at General Electric Medical Systems, Ed served as vice president, IT consulting and chief information officer of Booz Allen & Hamilton.  Here, he directed the information systems organization of the global consulting firm.  Ed restructured the internal IT organization, stabilizing the systems operations and applications that provided optimal 24-hour support to the global consulting practices.

Areas of Expertise

• Homeland security
• Telecommunications

Education

• A degree in chemistry from LaSalle University.