![Darren B. Ash](darren-ash.jpg) |
Mr. Darren B. Ash is the Deputy Executive Director for Corporate
Management who provides policy direction, leadership and oversight
for information technology (IT), information management, information
systems security, space planning and facilities management, rulemaking,
acquisition management, and centralized administrative service
activities, in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). He
is also the Agency’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). Mr.
Ash has over 15 years of federal services.
Prior to joining the NRC, Mr. Ash worked as Department of Transportation's
(DOT) Associate Chief Information Officer for IT Investment Management.
For close to two years, he led DOT's information assurance &
security, privacy, enterprise architecture, capital planning, and
information resource management activities. He began working at
DOT in 2003, where he led their capital planning and enterprise
architecture efforts, in response to the Clinger-Cohen Act and the
E-Government Act of 2002.
Mr. Ash began his government career with the Internal Revenue Service
where he supported the agency's modernization program, with a focus
on project management, economic analyses, and capital planning.
In 1998, he joined the Department of Treasury and supported the
Chief Information Officer on all capital planning and IT budget
matters.
Mr. Ash is a native Californian, he grew up in Napa where he graduated
from Vintage High School. In 1990 he received his Bachelor of Arts
International Studies from American University in Washington, D.C.
He holds a Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University
(1991), and a Master of Science in Information Systems Technology
from George Washington University (2004). He graduated from the
American Council for Technology/Industry Advisory Council's Partners
Program (2005). Mr. Ash was named one of the Federal Computer Week's
"Federal 100" in 2000 and received the Federal CIO Council's
"Technology Leadership Certificate" in 2000 and 2001.
He was a leader in the development of a Federal CIO Council-sponsored
publication, A Summary of First Practices and Lessons Learned in
Information Technology Portfolio Management, (2002), and was contributor
to another Federal CIO Council-sponsored publication, Smart Practices
in Capital Planning, (2000).
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