Industry Moves
Cloud Expo Keynoter Undertakes New Role as CIO of NRO
Jill Tummler Singer joins the National Reconnaissance Office
Jan. 27, 2010 08:15 AM
GovIT at Cloud Expo
Jill Tummler Singer has been appointed to serve as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), effective 1 January 2010. Ms. Singer previously served as the Deputy CIO (DCIO) at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in which capacity gave the keynote address at SYS-CON's 1st Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com).
As NRO’s CIO, Ms. Singer will be responsible for ensuring the NRO Information and Information Technology Enterprise is provisioned in an effective and efficient manner. She will also be more engaged in external activities, to include serving on the Intelligence Community (IC) CIO council, fulfilling her duties as an Information Sharing Executive, and serving as the Privacy Officer.
As CIA’s DCIO, Ms. Singer’s primary responsibilities centered on leading Enterprise Information Technology initiatives, implementing strategies through strong IT governance structures, and managing several office and staff organizations. She encouraged significant participation from mission partners to set priorities and make resource allocation decisions using collaborative, accountable, and transparent approaches.
Jill Tummler Singer speaking at 4th Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, CA - November, 2009.
Al Tarasiuk, the CIA’s CIO, has called Jill one of the brightest people he’s ever worked with. “She’s an innovative leader who cares deeply about our National Security mission. Together, we built a strong Enterprise IT program at CIA – one that can serve as an example for other government agencies to model.”
Ms. Singer recently spoke on cloud computing at SYS-CON's 1st Annual GovIT Expo and at the 4th International Cloud Expo, also produced by SYS-CON. She believes that the cloud will provide a “faster, better, cheaper, and safer” Information Technology solution for the IC. There are shared beliefs among those in the cloud computing community that 2010 will be a break-out year for clouds - and for enterprise cloud computing, in particular. The IC is actively piloting an Enterprise cloud that will meet its unique mission and security requirements.
Ms. Singer is looking forward to her new role and the New Year. She plans to stay connected with the cloud community and can be contacted via her Ulitzer.com blog: jillsinger.ulitzer.com/
About Jeremy GeelanJeremy Geelan is President of Cloud Expo, Inc. He is Conference Chair of the worldwide
Cloud Expo series, of the
Virtualization Conference series, and of the upcoming
UlitzerLIVE! event. During his tenure with SYS-CON Media, he launched
Cloud Computing Journal,
Web 2.0 Journal,
AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-technology portals for the firm. From 2006 to 2010, as Sr. VP of Editorial & Events, he had complete responsibility for the content of SYS-CON's events portfolio. He regularly represents SYS-CON Media & Events at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.
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