Ms. Jill Tummler Singer was
appointed as the Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the
Central Intelligence Agency in November 2006. She is responsible
for ensuring CIA has the information, technology, and
infrastructure necessary to effectively execute its missions.
Prior to her appointment as Deputy CIO, Ms. Singer served as the
Director of the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service (DTS),
United States Department of State, and was responsible for
global network services to US foreign missions.
Ms. Singer has served in several
senior leadership positions within the Federal Government. She
was the head of Systems Engineering, Architecture, and Planning
for CIA's global infrastructure organization. She served as the
Director of Architecture and Implementation for the Intelligence
Community CIO and pioneered the technology and management
concepts that are the basis for multi-agency secure
collaboration. Ms. Singer also served within CIA's Directorate
of Science and Technology, in which she led several programs to
successfully improve collaboration, including implementation of
instant messaging across CIA and highly secure communities of
interest across the IC.
Ms.
Singer has held positions within private industry as a direct
employee and as a federal government intern. She was a Vice
President for Project Management at Science Applications
International Corporation, Inc. (SAIC), responsible for
providing advanced information technology solutions to federal
government clients. She completed a government sponsored
internship with GE Aerospace and was employed with IBM. She
received her Master of Science in Systems Analysis and her
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of
West Florida. She is a graduate of several leadership programs
including the Federal Executive Leadership Program and the
University of Virginia's Executive Leaders Program.