Haymarket, Virginia, United States
Retired from Government Service on Feb, 28, 2017. Accomplished Executive IT Manager with 30 years of experience. Mission focused and results oriented leader. Proven track record of managing and leading large and complex technical organizations. Extensive resource planning and management skills coupled with excellent interpersonal and communications skills. Demonstrated success in driving large organizational and cultural change initiatives resulting in significant performance improvements while achieving operational and resource efficiency.
Manage and lead CIA's enterprise IT infrastructure organization responsible for full life cycle management of global network services and operations and maintenance of all field IT services
Successfully managed and led CIA's enterprise IT infrastructure organization to include full life cycle management of network, desktop, telephony, and hosting/storage services. Accomplishments include: • Led and managed several thousand employees with an annual budget in the hundreds of millions • Raised CIA's IT system availability through a focused continuous improvement effort • Delivered a new worldwide desktop workgroup environment • Drove organizational change to new service delivery construct
Responsible for engineering, operations, and implementation of enterprise server hosting and data center infrastructure • Led organization stand-up and transition from appropriated funding model to working capital fund • Responsible for the successful stand-up and integration of cloud environment
Directed and managed all aspects of IT and communications support for the foreign field to include tactical requirements in the War Zones • Integrated Headquarters and Field network operations into a single enterprise platform • Achieved efficiencies through centralization of IT services in the foreign field and Headquarters • Led field IT services career panel to include hiring decisions, providing career guidance and performance evaluation for hundreds of officers