Scott W. Jones
Fredericksburg
Summary
Visionary Chief Information Officer (CIO) with over 15 years of executive-level experience in recruiting, leading, and mentoring large and small teams to transformational outcomes. Credentials are unsurpassed as a technical expert in the public, private and defense sectors. Consummate compilation of engineering experience, technical project management, financial planning/execution, cyber security/compliance, and Amazon Certified Cloud Practitioner (CCP) expertise. Career federal executive leader of enterprise IT services for national and international operations and have directed strategic operations and enterprise architectures for global infrastructures, cyber assurance of complex cloud systems, and parameter defense in depth. Retired Air Force Colonel (Sr. Pentagon Official and Cyber Security Officer) expert in cyber security compliance, policy, strategic governance in Global DoD Operations, Technology and National Security strategies.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Information Security Architect (Contractor)
GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Hanscom AFB
04.2025 - Current
- Serving as an Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) performing all procedures necessary to ensure the safety of information systems assets and to protect systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction.
- Monitors, evaluates, and maintains systems and procedures to safeguard internal information systems, network, databases, and Web-based security.
- Monitors and analyzes Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to identify security issues for remediation.
- Actively manages operational risks by monitoring the Special Access Programs (SAP) enterprise for potential, intrusion attempts and compromises thorough analyses of relevant event detail and summary information.
- Evaluates firewall change requests and assesses organizational risks while communicating alerts to agencies regarding intrusions and compromises to their network infrastructure, applications, and operating systems.
- Designs, integrates, and implements information systems security infrastructure, and analyzes the information systems to ensure that appropriate security functions have been included in the systems design and architecture.
- Continuously evaluates operational cyber risks and recommends and implements changes to enhance systems security and prevent unauthorized access.
- Research's security trends and employs new and innovative methods, and techniques used in unauthorized access of data to preemptively eliminate the possibility of system breach.
- Provides guidance and direction on best practices for the protection of information while safeguarding the network against unauthorized infiltration, modification, destruction or disclosure.
- Develops, tests, and operates firewalls, intrusion detection systems, enterprise anti-virus systems and software deployment tools.
- Implements, enforces, communicates, and develops security policies or plans for data, software applications, hardware, and telecommunications.
- Provides expert security recommendations to clients on information assurance engineering standards, implementation dependencies, and changing information assurance related technologies while developing policies and procedures to prevent unauthorized access to Classified and Special Programs enclaves.
- Performs periodic and on-demand system audits and vulnerability assessments, including user accounts, application access, file system and external web integrity scans to assess, evaluate and ensure security policy and procedural compliance.
- Provides critical information to senior management regarding the potential negative impact on the sensitive mission-areas caused by the risk of theft, destruction, alteration, or denial of access to information and data.
- Provides information assurance project management, technical security staff oversight, and development of mission-critical technical documents.
- Develops and improves processes, techniques, and industry best practices for the effective and efficient management of technical projects.
- Performs preliminary forensic evaluations of internal systems and leads the development and implementation of the information systems security programs for Air Force Special Access Programs.
- Provides expert guidance for the creation and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures to ensure compliance with regulations and privacy laws.
- Accomplishments:
- Within days of arrival, partnered with the Hanscom CIO to implement a Security Information Event Manager (SIEM) to analyze vulnerabilities and threats throughout the enterprise. SolarWinds was implemented saving countless labor hours to monitor performance and network security events.
- Collaborated with the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) to host a Systems Modeling (SySMOD) training course for the AFLCMC System/Solutions Engineers/Architects Community.
- Leveraged decades of Sr. Cyber Leadership, Project Management, Contracting, and Financial subject matter expertise to capture requirements and develop a proposal for an expedited acquisition and implementation of mission critical fiber optic transport capacity for the AFLCMC mission. The $34K Fiber Optic infrastructure project was awarded to a Small 8(a) Native American Corporation.
Chief Information Officer (CIO), GS-2210-15
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
Arlington
10.2016 - 04.2025
- Agency Deputy Director, (acting) for the Selective Service System (SSS). Agency Chief Information Officer (CIO) responsible for all Information Technology (IT) Capabilities, Services, Security, and Financial Capital Investment compliance requirements for the Agency.
- Deputy Associate Director of all Agency IT Operations at National Headquarters (NHQ) in Arlington, VA., the agency's Data Management Center in Chicago, Illinois, and three regional headquarters throughout the United States.
- Also served as the Agency Deputy Director, Chief of Staff, and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) over one of the largest databases of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in the Federal Government.
- Responsible for strategic direction of IT/Operations and Enterprise Architecture while ensuring compliance with Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) security policies, controls, Binding Operational Directives (BODs), and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) capital planning and IT modernization directives.
- Supervises lead programmers over custom MS.NET and AWS Java Full stack Spring Boot application development, IT operations and maintenance (O&M), client services, network and security management and operations.
- Responsible for managing Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) related efforts to ensure data integrity and security compliance.
- Directs Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Chief Data Officer (CDO) on the continuous review of IT Security standards to ensure all data is secure and encrypted to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) protocols, while in transit and at rest.
- Overarching Agency responsibility to ensure all suspense's are identified and met for Federal IT Security Policy, Programs, and Protocols in support of SSS' MSSA mission.
- Accomplishments:
- CIO/CISO defending 3rd largest Personally Identifiable Information Government database.
- SSS' Responsible Artificial Intelligence Official (RAIO) implementing safe and ethical AI.
- Conceived $12M project to refactor and rehost nation's military draft app. in AWS Cloud.
Individual Mobilization Augmentee (IMA) to the Deputy Director, Technical Integration
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE - Col USAF (Retired)
05.2020 - 01.2022
- Supports the Deputy Director of Technology Integration in providing leadership and support for Special Programs and Technology Integration in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
- Directs policy efforts for developmental defense systems while serving as rapid reaction officer on critical policy security issues necessary to support near and far term objectives as determined by the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
- Leads and supports all efforts of broad-spectrum research and development from fundamental science to advanced engineering programs, often coordinating with offices in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.
- Accomplishments:
- Led project for collaboration platforms to our nation's FVEY global security partners.
- Collaboration lead for Special Access Programs (SAP) Coalition Information Sharing.
- Project with DoD SAP OCIOs and Intelligence Community (IC) partners.
Deputy Director/CIO
USTRANSCOM/J6 - Col. USAF
Scott AFB
04.2018 - 04.2020
- Served as the Deputy CIO for U.S. Transportation Command (USTC) J6 Cyber Directorate.
- Assists and advises TCJ6 Director/ Chief Information Officer (CIO) to the Commander (CDR) USTC and senior leadership for all cyber issues.
- Aids with Component Command and Control Applications and the protection of on premise and cloud-based computer systems and applications from theft and damage to hardware, software or information, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.
- Executive oversight for mitigation of vulnerabilities in hardware, firmware, software and applications of USTC and Component systems.
- Strategic leader for the increase cyber security levels of private industry transportation providers partnered with USTRANSCOM.
- Led portfolio of new technologies for integration to evolve the command's mission at the speed of war and big data effort.
- Drove advancement toward machine learning, artificial intelligence, and autonomy, to streamline disparate information into holistic and meaningful decision-making tools.
- Orchestrated long-range planning, policy guidance, program management, and direction for projects involving the development and implementation of major Command, Control, Communications, and Cyber (C4) systems supporting transportation management JDDE (Joint Deployment Distribution Enterprise)-wide requirements and systems concepts, integration, interoperability, architecture/master plan development, technical engineering, and acquisition of C4 systems responsibilities.
- Accomplishments:
- J6/Cyber Military Deputy delivering Senior-level Strategic Leadership upon day-1 arrival.
- Governance and Compliance expert delivering Federal CIO expertise to USTC Mission.
- CISSP expertise delivered successful CCRI Cyber Inspection for NIPR and SIPR enclaves.
Supervisory, Chief Information Services Division, GS-0301-14
AIR FORCE OFFICE of SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
02.2012 - 10.2016
- Director of Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Information Services.
- Responsible for day-to-day supervision of subordinate branch chiefs, including Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) branch, Agency Release branch, and all Command physical and electronic records.
- Director over all FOIA releases, preparation of responses to Congressional and senior Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) inquiries, and coordination with Headquarters Air Force elements.
- Extensive academic and operational knowledge of the FOIA and experience in managing Federal, DoD Headquarters and Air Force base-level Privacy Act and information release programs.
- Direct supervision of 11 Federal employees and directs and manages all Information Services Division operations, communication services, publishing, and records management.
- Accomplishments:
- Developed and executed strategy to reduce DoD largest FOIA backlog in history by 70%.
- Collaborated with OPM to strategically cut background investigations case load by 87%.
- Lead transformational Digital AFOSI Investigatory Case Management system project.
Supervisory IT Specialist (Policy and Planning) GS-2210-13
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
11.2006 - 12.2012
- Served the Executive Office of the President (EOP) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as IT Supervisory Information Technology Specialist for Policy and Planning.
- Lead manager for wide range of planning, analytical, technical, acquisition, management, consultative, and coordinating duties associated with the operation, maintenance, and ongoing development of the OMB government-wide and internal budget 'MAX' information systems.
- Responsible for the MAX Exhibit 300 for eGov compliance.
- Experience with IT data collection solutions and Business Intelligence Analytics, Data Mining and Reporting.
- Instituted and ran the OMB Budget Systems Division Configuration Control Board (CCB) reviewing, tracking and monitoring all requests for Systems Configuration Changes.
- Served as a member of the OMB Architecture Team ensuring all Branch Software Development was created on systems that are consistent with existing engineering platforms and follow sound architectural practices.
- Office of Management and Budget
- Accomplishments:
- Contracting Officer Representative (COR) over four technology contracts totaling $40M.
- Lead Project Manager for the MAX.gov Systems Certification and Accreditation project.
- Strategic Planning and development of procurement and long-term acquisition strategies.
Chief Watch Officer
DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY (DISA)
MacDill Air Force Base
11.2010 - 05.2011
- Air Force Reserve Officer deployed to MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa Fl.
- Served as the Chief Watch Officer for DISA's Theater Network Control (TNC) Operations Center.
- Duties included: Operational Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) of DISA service delivery to the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR), Operational control of Tier 0-3 Network, Data Services delivery, Satellite communications and Network Defense capabilities.
- Lead a team of three military cyber-communications officers providing oversight and comprehensive near real-time C4ISR situational awareness of CENTCOM Network Operations.
Education
Master of Business Administration -
University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, OK05-1999
B.S. - Computer Science/Business Management
University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, OK05-1994
Chief Information Officer (CIO) Certificate -
National Defense University
Skills
- Leadership and mentoring
- Communication skills
- Technical proficiency
- Team development
- Career coaching
- Professional demeanor
- Management discipline
- Emotional intelligence
- Security clearance
- Human capital management
- Technical recruitment
- Conflict resolution
- Cybersecurity expertise
- Project management
- Cloud computing knowledge
- Strategic planning for federal/DoD
- Budget management
Affiliations
- Amazon Web Services, Certified Cloud Practitioner (CCP), Certification
- ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Project Management Institute, Project Mgt. Professional (PMP) Certification
- Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
Competencies
Natural Leader, active listening, and communication skills, Technically gifted translator of complex issues into practical terms, Accomplished Team builder, experienced mentor, career coach, Comfortable professional style, but disciplined manager, Emotionally Intelligent, Top Secret/SCI Clearance, Expert Human Capital Manager/Tech Recruiter/Conflict Mitigator, Cybersecurity Expert, (ISC2 Certified), Project Management Expert (PMP), Cloud Expertise in Microsoft and Amazon ('Cloud Practitioner'), Federal/DoD Strategic Planning and Budget Authority, Organized/Disciplined/Fair, Task Manager. Outcome based management style that delivers strategic outcomes through win-win alliances with personnel/peers/partners to drive quantifiable results to achieve executive intent/vision., Always Leading from the front, continually available, and highly engaged while setting the example for my executive peer teammates and subordinates., Change agent and strategic leader for technology modernization, cyber security, policy compliance, driving measurable success on every pillar of any mission while serving as a mentor and influencer of a career oriented and successful team members.
Timeline
Information Security Architect (Contractor)
GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
04.2025 - Current
Individual Mobilization Augmentee (IMA) to the Deputy Director, Technical Integration
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE - Col USAF (Retired)
05.2020 - 01.2022
Deputy Director/CIO
USTRANSCOM/J6 - Col. USAF
04.2018 - 04.2020
Chief Information Officer (CIO), GS-2210-15
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
10.2016 - 04.2025
Supervisory, Chief Information Services Division, GS-0301-14
AIR FORCE OFFICE of SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
02.2012 - 10.2016
Chief Watch Officer
DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY (DISA)
11.2010 - 05.2011
Supervisory IT Specialist (Policy and Planning) GS-2210-13
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
11.2006 - 12.2012
Master of Business Administration -
University of Central Oklahoma
B.S. - Computer Science/Business Management
University of Central Oklahoma
Chief Information Officer (CIO) Certificate -
National Defense University