Bureau of Indian Affairs
Allen Canfield has extensive experience in technology management, currently serving as Field Support Manager at the Bureau of Indian Affairs since September 2006, following a role as Zone Manager in the same organization. Prior experience includes holding the position of Supervisory Information Technology Specialist at the US Army Corps of Engineers from November 1999 to September 2006. Allen Canfield's educational background includes training at the Fort Gordon School of Telecommunications from 1982 to 1983.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ mission is to enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes and Alaska Natives. HISTORY OF BIA Since its inception in 1824, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has been both a witness to and a principal player in the relationship between the Federal Government and Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages. The BIA has changed dramatically over the past 185 years, evolving as Federal policies designed to subjugate and assimilate American Indians and Alaska Natives have changed to policies that promote Indian self-determination... read more at http://www.bia.gov/bia.html