Chief Information Officer (CIO) at COREONYX Government Solutions, a full-stack digital transformation and cloud services integrator, serving on the senior leadership team and reporting directly to the CEO. As the CIO, I serve as the central driver of our technology innovation strategy, with a sharp focus on advancing areas such as CX, AI, cloud computing, and content transformation. I am responsible for shaping our technological vision, optimizing operational excellence, and driving industry innovation.

The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) is focused on sustaining, accelerating, and deepening the progress being made for the District’s 90,000+ students. OSSE serves as the District’s liaison to the US Department of Education and works closely with the District’s 470+ early childhood facilities, 250+ schools, 60+ local education agencies (including DCPS and charter organizations), and community based organizations.As OSSE’s Chief Information Officer, and Assistant Superintendent, I am charged with providing the full range of technology support needed for the agency to drive outcomes for students and system improvements at all levels. I lead a team of 70+ amazing colleagues and report to the Deputy State Superintendent with responsibility for the following key functions:• Application Development: build, enhance, and maintain over 200 applications in support of OSSE’s mission and operational business processes• Data Management: develop, monitor, and manage the data management program and standards, including managing daily data feeds from 250+ District public and public charter schools• Project Management: lead the IT project management function, including project control gates and the enterprise IT budget and portfolio development, management, and governance processes• Infrastructure & Customer Support: maintain and enhance the agency’s IT infrastructure and provide exceptional customer support to internal and external stakeholdersAs the CIO, I work to build vision, strategy, and execution across the agency by providing strong leadership and subject matter expertise, advancing a project management and data driven culture both inside the agency as well as with external education stakeholders, and identifying and seizing upon the connections across and this portfolio to maximize outcomes for students.

● Served as the acting Assistant Commissioner for an office of ~70 Federal employees and more than 100 contractors, including the government’s contact center and cloud security audit team● Authority for $55-75M budget including completing budget execution, future planning, and Congressional Justification, and eGovernment reporting submissions● Lead the organization, acting in the SES role for over 6 months, successfully leadingthrough significant change, including internal reorganization in line with larger GSA agency reform plan. This required building consensus across members of the Senior Management Team, regular all hands meetings, and individual one-on-one coaching.● rRsponsible for key programs and legislative activities including Data.gov, Challenge.gov, FedRAMP, Search.gov, and USA.gov, 21st Century IDEA, and Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act

● White House Leadership Development Program Fellow for Federal Data Strategy● Coordinated ~50 data fellows across more than 20 agencies, and regularly reportedto the CAP Goal leadership team from SBA, OIRA, OSTP, and OFCIO● Tracked milestones and created Year 1 Action Plan to ensure delivery● Developed policies or additional modernization topics including IPv6, and Automated Technologies, and Shared Quality Services● Participated in various leadership development activities including multiple agency visits

I'm the cloud portfolio manager for GSA's Technology Transformation Service (TTS), which include the FedRAMP PMO

Built in the spirit of America's top tech startups, 18F is a team of top-notch designers, developers, and product specialists inside the General Services Administration, headquartered at 18 and F streets in Washington, D.C. 18F is a civic consultancy for the government, inside the government, enabling agencies to rapidly deploy tools and services that are easy to operate, cost efficient, and reusable.We are transforming government from the inside out, creating cultural change by working with teams inside agencies who want to create great services for the public.https://18f.gsa.gov/

Executive Technologist for IT Support Services Business Unit providing executive support and strategic leadership across functional and delivery domains, including: Network Modernization, Cloud Computing, Unified Communications, and other strategic initiatives including organizational, cultural and shared service alignment.

I am working to design and deploy advanced IT capabilities including cloud computing, mobility, virtual desktop infrastructure and establish a cohesive set of service delivery solutions for the OCIO.In this role I've been responsible for managing the deployment of a multi-site Virtual Desktop (VDI) environment positioned as a managed Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution for a large agency. I have also served as the Deputy PM for a custom built private cloud IaaS implementation. My responsibilities also include building out a cloud computing practice, and advising on IT modernization strategies and policies.

I convert policy into an actionable strategy for managing IT!

Senior Enterprise Architect working at the Department of Energy.Assisting with their Federal Enterprise Architecture, including the IT Infrastructure segment and their Cloud Computing strategy.Supporting the Chair of OMB's Cloud Computing Advisory Council and working on bringing innovation to the Government.

Extensive work with Solution Architecture and System Design, Developing and Documenting Proof of Concepts.Managed ~$3M data center environment for development and test. Heterogeneous platforms, including Mainframe, AIX, Windows and Linux. Operated network services and administered topology. Worked with cutting edge Cell Super Computing Platform, designed HPC clusters, managed production environment to support vendor and industry.Project Manager for IBM Cell presence for the SIFMA Industry Trade show, managed development schedules and teams, technical responsibility for demo infrastructure, worked the both providing demos and technical discussions.Blade Center Product Representative for Retail Industry.

Manage Development of Business Solutions for IBMTeam produced collateral and assets, both documentation (presentations, how-to's, guides, ...) and technical deliverables (scripts, code & architectures)Interfaced with Marketing, Sales and Delivery organizations

Assist in the operations and management of the development and test efforts across all of IBM's systems, z, p, i, x and the LTCThis was intended to be a 6 month assignment, to gain exposure across IBM.I stayed 9 months until the VP took a new assignment. I got to meet with a large number of technical representatives across IBM as well as participate in customer events and learned significant amounts of IBM's business

I started fulltime at IBM in 2000 after a previous 7 month co-op experience with them. I worked on developing TCP/IP Test tools and migrated to the Linux specialist withing the organization. I assisted in development of the zSeries Linux crypto device driver and then worked in the zSeries Benchmark Center. From that position I founded the Linux Test and Integration Center, doing zSeries distro test for RedHat and SuSE. I continued in this capacity until my TA assignment, also adding Team Lead for some eBusiness Test efforts.