Charles D. Wisecarver, a member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor, assumed the duties of the Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer of the Department of State on June 5, 2006. Previously he was the Director of the State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset (SMART) Program Office. SMART is the Department’s top information technology priority and will modernize disparate legacy-messaging systems and establish a single centralized system for all types of documents including telegrams, memoranda, e-mails, and Diplomatic Notes.

Approximately half of Mr. Wisecarver’s career has been spent working as an Information Management Specialist in overseas missions. He has served in Ecuador and Mexico managing the Embassy’s computer systems and telecommunications networks. In the Department, Mr. Wisecarver served as the Director of IRM’s Messaging Systems Office for 4 years. In this position he was responsible for enterprise telegram and e-mail delivery. Previously, he oversaw the modernization of all consular computer systems around the world. Before joining the State Department, Mr. Wisecarver served as a computer programmer analyst for Department of Defense and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger.