Linda Riess, Tech. Adviser to Director, ECC, Internal Revenue Service
Linda works for the Department Of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service. She is a Technical Advisor to the Director, Enterprise Computing Center (ECC) – Martinsburg/Memphis/Detroit. Linda has been with the Federal Government for 28 years. During the first 2 of those years Linda worked in various clerical positions. In 1982 Linda was accepted into a test program for the Department of the Army in which clerical non-ADP type employees were given the opportunity to apply for Data Processing Intern positions. Since this time Linda has been in the IT arena working in several IT disciplines to include Systems Programming, Computer Programming, Computer Systems Analyst, Telecommunications Specialist, Unix Systems Administrator, and Service Delivery Manager. Linda came to work for the IRS in October of 1998 after a Base Realignment & Closure exercise forced her into a Reduction In Force situation. Coming from a career mostly within the Department of Defense to the Internal Revenue Service Linda will jokingly tell you she went from Tanks to Taxes.

Linda is ITIL certified.

Linda was recognized as one of the ECC-Martinsburg 2006 Making A Difference quarterly and subsequent yearly award recipients.

Linda lives in Pennsylvania with her husband. She is the proud mother of 6 exceptional daughters, 2 grandsons, two granddaughters and grandchild number 5 on the way.