James A. Bryant, Ph.D.

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Professional Summary

Chief Information Officer (CIO), Cyber Security Fellow, Change Manager and Scientist offering over 35 years of leadership experience within complex organizations including Federal, State and local Governments and Commercial Industries within the following domains - Air Force and Joint Supply Chain Management Officer, Contracting Officer Representative, Cyber Security, Software Engineering and Development, Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Information Technology Infrastructure (ITIL) Change, Service and Configuration Management.

Education

●Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, The Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995

●MA, National Security and Strategic Studies, United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 1995

●MS, Computer Information Systems, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, 1988

●Air Force Institute of Technology, Petroleum Engineering Internship, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1986

●MBA, Management, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California, 1985

●BS, Business Administration, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, 1980

●Graduate: Air Command and Staff College (1985); Marine Corps Command and Staff College (1985); Naval Command and Staff College (1995); Naval War College (1995); and, Armed Forces Staff College (1995).

Training

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation, v.2 (2001), v.3 (2011); R6 Six Sigma Specialist (2002); ISO/IEC 27001:2005 - Information technology -- Security techniques – Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) – Requirements; ISO/IEC 27002: 2005 - Information technology - Security techniques - Code of practice for information security management, (2011); Cloud Computing, Foundation, (2011); Software as a Service and Web Applications (2011); Platform Management and Storage Management, (2011); Cloud Computing Virtualization Specialist, (2011); Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management Practitioner (2014), Software Assurance Practitioner (2014), Information Technology Security Awareness (1978 – 2015); United States Army Petroleum Quality Assurance Representative, (1985); Registered Environmental Manager, (1995); Registered Environmental Property Assessor, (1995); Certified Environmental Auditor, (1995); Contracting Officer Representative, (1995).

Key Memberships

National Association of State Chief Information Officers; National Governors’ Association Task Force on IT Healthcare Policy and Privacy; National Broadband Advisory Council; Department of Homeland Security Software Assurance Engineering; American Council on Education; American Federation of Teachers (AFT); Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Robotics; Wounded Warriors; Raytheon American Indian Network; and the International Council on Systems Engineering.

Security Clearance: Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (June 2015).

Professional Experience

2014 – Present: Technical Advisor, United States Air Force Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO)

Provides technical leadership and education across the doctrine, organization, materiel, personnel and facilities for the USAF DCMO, Chief Information and Technology Officers (CIO, CTO).

Educates Senior Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) leadership on information technology.

Helps shape the current and future technology direction for the United States Air Force with the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and corresponding Chief Information and Technology Officers.

USAF Cyber Task Force Technical Advisor and Research Analyst developing studies and materials for the purpose of modernizing the Air Force with cyber security processes and procedures across all domains.

Professor at the University of Maryland University College teaching Purchasing, Materials Management, Procurement and Supply Chain Management to students through distance learning on the Desire to Learn LMS.

oServes on the Acquisition and Supply Chain Management (ASCM) Redesign Committee to structure the ASCM Curriculum for expansion and inclusion of more subjects in Supply Chain Management.

Professor at Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) teaching Information Technology (PMP), Information Security (CISSP, Security+) and Supply Chain Management to students through distance learning on the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS).

oDesigned and published “Supply Chain Risk Management” Webinar for global student audience.

oDeveloped and produced educational videos with Bisk Education on Information Security, Computer Networks and Internets, Supply Chain Management, Global Logistics and Business Communications.

Professor and Fellow at National Institute of Cybersecurity for Excelsior College.

Academic Course Auditor at the American Council on Education (ACE) evaluating transcripts, education, training and experience for military personnel attending Colleges and Universities in the United States.

Mentor on 9 Doctoral Committees at Nova Southeastern, Walden and Capella Universities.

2008 – 2014: IT Director, Fellow and University Professor

oIT Director-level leadership and management of Enterprise-wide information technology (IT) systems for a large, complex organization to include: information system security and assurance, network/voice/data infrastructure, storage area networks, wireless network systems, web design and application development, network and systems operation and maintenance, and IT investment management.

Chief Engineer, LM Fellow and Scientist on the $189M Lockheed Martin Joint Medical Information System (JMIS) Program that designed and built information assurance and cyber security infrastructure for Navy Medicine with Security Event Information Management Systems.

Responsible for staffing, business development, and proposals with 220+ subcontractors representing over 60 companies for the JMIS Program.

Served on the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Strategic and Technical Engineering Committees, and the National Association of State CIO’s Enterprise Architecture and Cyber Security Committees.

Led the JMIS Program in attaining the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 - Information technology -- Security techniques – Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) – Requirements Certification.

Lockheed Martin certified as the only Information Security Systems Integrator in the world.

oIn-depth working knowledge of DoD and Navy operations, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Information

Operations (IO), Information Assurance (IA) and Cyber Warfare.

Senior Science Advisor and Education Committee Chair for the Advanced Security and Training Alliance (ASTRA) that promotes Cyber Security and Information Assurance in the Berkley, Charleston, Dorchester Region of South Carolina; Board Director of Palmetto Partners (Robotics) in the annual worldwide FIRST competition; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Cyber Challenge Coach for high school and elementary school students.

oTechnology Innovation: Designed and developed Cyber Security Process and Procedure Framework (Patent U.S. 61/773,589) that supports the National Institutes of Standards and the 2013 President’s Executive Order to build a National Cyber Security Framework in order to deter cyber-attacks.

Designed certification training and testing for the Cyber Security Process and Procedure Framework (CSPaPF) and an ISO model for standardization and assurance of cyber security processes.

oProfessor at the American Public University System (APUS) teaching Evaluation of Security Programs, School and Campus Security, Industrial Espionage, Chief Security Officer Fundamentals and International Security Management to students through distance learning on the Sakai LMS.

Wrote and published article entitled, “Security Management to Address Today’s Security Concerns”, for the APUS monthly blog on security management topics.

2005 – 2008: State Chief Information Officer and University Professor

●Provided award-winning leadership as the State Chief Information Officer (CIO) while overseeing $70M information technology (IT) and $1B Procurement budgets as well as lead a full-time staff of 345 people in disparate locations (Charleston, Greenville, and Columbia, South Carolina) across the State Enterprise.

Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award recognizing State CIO as the top State Agency.

Gartner Recognition as “Best in Class” IT Business Solutions Provider.

Two Awards from Government Management Information Sciences for Innovation and Creativity in Information Technology.

●Chief Information Officer for New Carolina to improve and uplift education and economic prosperity across the State of South Carolina through a Regionally-focused education approach.

Designed and grew Regional Virtual Education Centers centered-on Higher Education, Workforce Development, Business Incubators and Continuing Education through Human Capital Development.

Procured State-wide LMS to develop Human Capital and develop workforces through the Regional Virtual Education Centers and State Government serving 50,000 – 60,000 employees.

Collaborated with the State Legislature, Higher Education CIOs and Vice-Presidents, and LMS Companies to provide LMS choices (Banner, WebCT, Blackboard and Desire to Learn) to Higher Education Institutions throughout South Carolina off of State Contracts.

Funded Internet2 and Lambda Rail Optical Carrier telecommunications to provide high-speed, scalable bandwidth for the Public Research Universities in South Carolina.

State Director, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), that annually provided State and Regional competitions at Public Higher Education to 15,000 – 20,000 students.

●Served as a Member and Director of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Executive Committee and the National Governors Association on Healthcare IT Privacy and Protection for learning communities in support of the State CIO’s mission of empowering their employees to improve their lives; enriching the life of the Community; and for being accountable for organizational results.

●Provided necessary measures to ensure intrusion detection and network security, including operating and maintaining a security operations center, as well as disaster recovery measures and systems.

Led Computer Event Response Center (CERT) and embraced 46 Counties to build consensus on information sharing, incident-reporting and escalation procedures to protect their Citizens.

Worked side-by-side with the State Emergency Management and Response Center to exercise disaster recovery and business continuity plans for natural (hurricanes, tornadoes, fires and floods) and man-made (terrorist, accidents, gas-line explosions and fires) events.

●Researched and applied new technologies to meet functional technology requirements of South Carolina.

Technology Innovation: Designed and contracted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telephony and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) – Saved State $5 million annually.

Implemented Enterprise Resource Planning (South Carolina Enterprise Information System) at 74 Agencies with Systems Analysis Planning (SAP) – Saved State $25 million annually

●Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) teaching Information Technology, Information Security and Supply Chain Management to students through distance learning on the Blackboard LMS.

●Professor at Troy University teaching Business Information Technology, Emergency Management, Procurement and Information Security to students through distance learning on the WebCT LMS.

oDesigned and wrote “One Campus” Information Systems Strategy for Dr. Susan Aldridge, Vice-Chancellor at Troy University, to integrate and combine all global, disparate educational locations.

1997 – 2005: IT Director and University Professor

●Treasury Communications Enterprise Program Director responsible for the $1.1 billion IT engineering (infrastructure engineering and networking) stand-up and implementation at 966 Treasury Department locations across the United States.

●Virginia Beach Director overseeing information services in a complex business environment with multiple networks and information technologies.

Program Manager on Iraq reconstruction contracts concerning telecommunication networks and microwave enclaves throughout the Green Zone in Iraq for the Department of State.

●Business Operations Director on $6.9 billion Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) that designed the ITIL process architecture and supply chain management to shore-side Naval bases on a global basis.

Responsible for product baselines, business processes and integration of teams on office automation infrastructure and applications, end-user platforms, networks (LAN, BAN, WAN), applications platforms, security infrastructure (Physical and Information), support services, and financial analysis and planning.

●Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) teaching Information Technology, Information Security and Supply Chain Management to students through distance learning on the Blackboard LMS.

●Professor at Troy University teaching Business Information Technology, Emergency Management, Procurement and Information Security to students through distance learning on the WebCT LMS.

●Professor at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University teaching Business Information Technology, Emergency Management, Management Information Systems and Information Security to students in the classroom and on-line through Blackboard and WebCT LMS’.

1980 - 1997: United States Air Force and Joint Logistics Officer and University Professor

●Director, Information Technology (Supply Chain and Logistics) for all information-based technology, area of responsibility (AOR) emergency management activities, and computer operations including technical support, applications development, training, budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning as a Joint Specialty Officer (JSO) at the United States Atlantic Command (USACOM).

●Provided outstanding leadership and technological innovations with a $1 billion budget and 1,000-member staff from logistics units in the Marine Forces Command, Atlantic, Commander in Chief, Atlantic Division-Navy, United States Army Forces Command and the Air Force’s Air Combat Command that resulted in:

Joint Logistics Electronic Battlebook that inserted water, food, and shelter into disaster missions, security and environmental assessments within the USACOM Caribbean AOR (Haiti and Cuba).

Joint Total Asset Visibility that provided worldwide, real-time visibility to assets and logistics for the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System and Time Phased Force Deployment Data Lists.

Global Transportation Network that visualized and leveraged all modes of transportation (rail, air, pipeline, highway, barge, ocean-gong vessels, and truck) to deliver assets and logistics worldwide.

Global Command and Control System and Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DII/COE) converted over six month period to replace the Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) that processed high classification information.

Global Combat Support System that provided the domain within the Global Command and Control System for each Service to manage assets, logistics and emergency personnel for disaster missions.

22 Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations (ACTDs) that sped technology to the Warfighter in military, humanitarian and emergency operations with knowhow such as the Predator aircraft and littoral countermine protection.

●Program Manager over several multi-million dollar information technology logistics services and supply chain management activities for Air Force logistics at Wing and Major Command locations.

Led $195 million information technology agency with 421 people operating a Unisys 2200 mainframe and 64 PCs to provide financial services to over 300 global clients.

Led $125 million information technology agency with 330 people managing a UNIVAC 1050-II mainframe for 700 customers in the United States and Asia.

●Program Manager over $750 million Air Force Chief of Staff Initiative named Aviation Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants (AVPOL) Decentralization for 28 CONUS and OCONUS Air Force Bases.

Evaluated Supply Chain Management Computer Operations (Unisys 2200 mainframes) warehouses, inventories and petroleum, oil and lubricants at Fuels Management activities.

Technology Innovation: Architect and engineer that evolved Integrated Combat Turns (ICTs) with hot pit refueling into revolutionary combat turns for F-15 aircraft during the first Iraq War. Result - Operational tempo transformed the battle intensity and rapidly defeated the enemy with a swift American Coalition victory and minimal loss of life.

●Professor and Program Director at Chapman University teaching Business Information Technology, Database Management, Finance and Management Information Systems to students in the classroom.

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