Before coming to the Department of Energy as the Deputy Chief Information Officer in October 2006, Carl Staton served for 26 years in the Federal government in various Information Technology (IT) positions in the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

While at NOAA, Carl programmed minicomputers to process environmental satellite data and imagery, lead multi-million dollar IT acquisitions, and managed large IT organizations and contracts.  

In 1998, Carl was selected into the Senior Executive Service as the Director of Central Operations at NOAA's National Weather Service. There he managed the supercomputer and networking for the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.  

In January 2001, Carl was named the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the National Weather Service and subsequently named NOAA’s CIO in May 2002.  As the NOAA CIO, he carried out IT oversight and coordination for all of NOAA's IT systems and functions.  

Carl was also Director of High Performance Computing and Communications for NOAA where he had broad oversight in coordinating NOAA's high performance computing requirements and solutions as well as coordinating NOAA's networking infrastructure.

Carl has been honored with the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal, the General Services Administration (GSA) Interagency Committee on Information Resource Management Technical Excellence Award and other IT-related recognitions.  He is a graduate of the GSA Trail Boss program for IT acquisitions and of the Federal Executive Institute's Leadership for a Democratic Society program.

Carl holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.  He is married to Jane D'Aguanno and enjoys aerobic exercise, golf, opera, bluegrass music, and tending and sharing his roses.