Director
Enterprise Geospatial Management Office (EGMO)
Stephen Lowe is the U.S. Department of Agriculture Geospatial Information Officer (GIO). As the senior executive leader for enterprise-wide geospatial data and geographic information systems strategy, policy, portfolio investment, governance, and solution lifecycle optimization, he is responsible for extending the power of geospatial solutions to mission stakeholders across 29 unique mission and administration areas.
He is the Department Senior Agency Official for Geospatial Information (SAOGI), and executive liaison to the Federal Geographic Data Committee as an Executive Committee member. In this capacity, he offers customer services in the following areas:
- Enterprise-wide geospatial strategic thinking and decision-making
- Tactical GIS programs and process innovations
- Use of limited geospatial resources and assets
- Operational best practices collection and redeployment
- Creation of pilots and prototypes to demonstrate the value of GIS in solving entrenched, complex, and emerging public policy and administration challenges.
His primary goal is to enhance the quality of USDA products and services for the benefit of American citizens.
Mr. Lowe has 24 years of federal government business and technology change management experience with the Department of the Navy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Library of Congress.
He also completed two details supporting the White House Executive Office of the President, the Office of Management and Budget, designing and deploying the federal government enterprise architecture, and served as Senior Solutions Architect for Enterprise Innovation and Strategy with SRA International.
Mr. Lowe holds graduate degrees in the Management of Information Technology from University of Virginia, and in Public Administration from Virginia Tech, as well as the bachelor of Political Science from James Madison University. He is a doctoral candidate at University of Glasgow, Scotland UK, conducting research in the field of organizational strategy.