John Reel

Chief Technology Officer for Supply Chain Defense at BlueVoyant

Marion, Texas, United States

About John Reel

John Reel is Chief Technology Officer for Supply Chain Defense at BlueVoyant. Location: Marion, Texas, United States.

I took a new Computer Science degree to the NSA where I traveled all over the world designing, building and troubleshooting technologies to help our international partners more effectively support our national objectives. Mostly, I solved problems spanning cultures, technologies, oceans, languages, and vastly different perceptions of trust. I left NSA eight years later with confidence, accomplishments, and an emerging career identity. I continued the career adventure as a contractor to the DoD and Intelligence Community. My responsibilities grew as did the variety of challenges. I ran a business operation, a research lab, served as the company’s technical expert in cyber warfare/security, and won new business while leading work to manage change through at least five ownership changes. I left contracting to work in private sector IT services to learn about cloud and networking technologies from a different perspective. My contributions were key to many wins/successes, and I came to appreciate my own unique value proposition. I can work effectively at the executive level to define high level, long term strategies for technology and businesses, I can then effectively work down in the organization to define the critical actions or projects needed to enact the strategy, and finally I can manage those projects through the inevitable crises and changes that alter the recipes for delivering on the strategies. Some of my wins / successes include: - A key contributor to over half a billion dollars in real government contract wins (and additional IDIQ vehicle wins) - Led the turnaround of a $23 million business unit reducing turnover by 50% and increasing revenue by 8% - A patent for a telecommunication security technology - Successfully executing two litigation cases - Winning our first contract with a foreign Government and our first DARPA research project - Deploying the company’s first Enterprise PKI and Software Defined Perimeter (SDP)

Skills

  • Information Security
  • Program Management
  • Project Management

Additional experience

  • Sr Cybersecurity Engineer

    BlueVoyant

    December 2018 – April 2022

Education

  • PhD, Century University
  • Bachelor of Science (BS), University of Texas at Tyler