Dan Craytor Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Virginia, United States

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Enabling federal partner organizations to assess current mission trends and plan for emerging technologies resulting in maximum investment benefit. Combining people, mission, and business with ideas, technology, and innovations to quickly measure and advance the overall organizational capabilities.

Redmond, Washington, Us

CTO leading cross-functional teams to deliver digital transformation solutions focused on achieving customer mission and goals. Successfully develop opportunities through programs of change to improve business value to federal agencies. Create strategies designed to achieve organizational goals, increase team member satisfaction, and drive positive customer outcomes.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Public Sector Services leading cross-functional teams to deliver products and services generating digital transformation opportunities for public sector organizations. Created the vision and strategy enabling federal, and state governments, DoD, intelligence agencies, and education organizations to achieve their goals in dynamic and competitive environments. Integrated with global governments, partners, and technologists developing digital transformations to address current and future challenges.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Chief Technology Officer and Managing Architect developing the technical strategy, ensuring the technical quality of Microsoft services and developing technical people for the rapidly growing DoD Services team. The DoD team includes over 520 consultants, engineers and managers that design, deploy and maintain the highly complex IT services and networks for DoD communications and operations. Manage a private cloud delivering messaging, collaboration and identity services for millions of users deployed to some of the harshest environments in the world. Grow and lead a team of multi-discipline, senior architects.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Leading a team that is building and maintaining the largest private cloud in the world. Developing strategy and reusable intellectual property to accelerate business growth through the use of current and future repeatable solutions. Identify specific internal efficiencies, customer pain-points and perform competitive analysis determining best approach to add value for service offerings. Evangelizing through public and social engagements; encourage cross-team collaboration for a multifaceted approach to solution development. Guides development teams through full life-cycle solution management.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Chief Technology Officer and business strategist of the Microsoft Department of Defense sales team providing long term business strategy, innovative products, enterprise solutions and professional services to DoD customers. Integrating with senior government officials, corporate and partner executives and technical decision makers to understand and develop innovative solutions for customer challenges. Coordinating manager driving strategic business plans and leading high-performance teams through full-cycle solutions development to meet the need of the most challenging and complex business requirements.

Multifaceted responsibility within senior management role providing critical direction and strategic leadership to fuel expansion through DoD contracts and commercial business. Actively managed numerous, concurrent contracts with the US Army and Air Force. Leveraged expertise in project management, communications, negotiations, business development and team leadership. Active in establishment and negotiation of contracts with academic, local and federal government entities. Line of responsibility managing diverse business development activities, proposals and P&L. Oversaw engineers, developers and administrators who managed commercial networks, educational systems, US Army tactical networks, up to and including Top Secret intelligence systems, messaging servers and voice communications over a multitude of communication media.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

21 year US Army officer serving as an attack helicopter instructor pilot leading tactical operations and training over 500 Army aviators across 3 continents. Additional assignments as an IT manager and test officer for aviation operational research projects. Veteran of Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Assurance And Cybersecurity

Mba, Technology Management

Bs, Information Technology