Mr. Pitts is a seasoned executive, author and public speaker. His career includes 30+ years technology and operations experience with over 16 years total management experience including more than 10 in a senior role. Mr. Pitts has experience planning, developing, and implementing large distributed environments, cloud and private cloud computing platforms, utilizing resources, and managing projects and staff in such areas as government, manufacturing, healthcare, higher education, and wireless communications. He is adept at crisis management, trouble shooting, problem solving, and systems architecture. He is a trained educator, published author and an experienced public speaker. The following is a summary of what he can do for you: • Implement complex mission-critical information technology systems across geographically diverse locations on either private or public cloud computing platforms providing high availability and high reliability, utilizing multiple hardware and software platforms working in large environments with multiple business units and field locations while maintaining a culture of innovation and success; • Affect the bottom line through profitability improvement, budgeting, cost control, contract negotiations, vendor and supplier management; • Lead others through training, mentoring, team building, communication, and documentation and positively influencing change for the betterment of the organization; • Apply a well-rounded background in IT-business strategy, applications development, and systems architecture ensuring projects are successfully completed as anticipated; • Communicate effectively with technical and business teams, end users, clients, partners and vendors applying a range of experience from hands-on technical work to operational and divisional management; • Provide standards in information technology practices as evidenced through certifications, such as ITIL Foundation V.3, CISSP, and GSNA; • Reach high levels of security and system assurance (Confidentiality, Availability, Integrity) through experience with audits and cyber security meeting or exceeding the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), PCI-DSS, FISMA, and other regulatory requirements;

1. David Pitts
3412 Cohasset Avenue, Annapolis, Maryland, 21403 708-374-8872 career@dpitts.com
Senior Executive
Qualifications
Mr. Pitts is a seasoned executive, author and public speaker. His career includes 30+ years technology and operations
experience with over 16 years total management experience including more than 10 in a senior role. Mr. Pitts has
experience planning, developing, and implementing large distributed environments, cloud and private cloud computing
platforms, utilizing resources, and managing projects and staff in such areas as government, manufacturing, healthcare,
higher education, and wireless communications. He is adept at crisis management, trouble shooting, problem solving,
and systems architecture. He is a trained educator, published author and an experienced public speaker. The following is
a summary of what he can do for you:
 Implement complex mission-critical information technology systems across geographically diverse
locations on either private or public cloud computing platforms providing high availability and high
reliability, utilizing multiple hardware and software platforms working in large environments with
multiple business units and field locations while maintaining a culture of innovation and success;
 Affect the bottom line through profitability improvement, budgeting, cost control, contract negotiations,
vendor and supplier management;
 Lead others through training, mentoring, team building, communication, and documentation and
positively influencing change for the betterment of the organization;
 Apply a well-rounded background in IT-business strategy, applications development, and systems
architecture ensuring projects are successfully completed as anticipated;
 Communicate effectively with technical and business teams, end users, clients, partners and vendors
applying a range of experience from hands-on technical work to operational and divisional
management;
 Provide standards in information technology practices as evidenced through certifications, such as
ITIL Foundation V.3, CISSP, and GSNA;
 Reach high levels of security and system assurance (Confidentiality, Availability, Integrity) through
experience with audits and cyber security meeting or exceeding the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley
(SOX), PCI-DSS, FISMA, and other regulatory requirements;
WorkExperience
Indiana Interactive, Indianapolis, IN January, 2016 – Present
Information System Security Manager
The ISSM conductsdetailedanalysisof the securityrelatedcontrolsthatexistinthe portal andcreatesroadmapsof
whatstepsthe portal will needtotake toreach FISMA compliance. Responsibilitiesinclude
 Identify key risks and necessary controls in existing systems
 Perform operations audits to determine compliance with policies and procedures and effectiveness of
internal control systems
 Perform operational and compliance (SOX, PCI, others) reviews according to internal audit risk
assessment plan
 Prepare and deliver risk analysis reports based on findings.
 Identify security risks and provide improvement suggestions.
 Assess vulnerability of information systems through usage of various software security tools.
 Conduct interviews to gain customer information and maintain customer relationships.
 Reviews and approves security plans, implementations, and results
 Monitors compliance
 Manages security team

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Author and Public Speaker 1996 - Present
 Pitts, David, A Layman’s Guide to Heartbleed, www.dpitts.com, April 18, 2014
 Pitts, David, Management Philosophy: Behavioral Versus Training Issues, www.dpitts.com, September
10, 2012
 Pitts, David, Two Questions I Keep Asking, www.dpitts.com, August 24, 2012
 Pitts, David & O'Brien, Dennis, Korn Shell Programming by Example, Que Publishing, 2001 (ISBN 0-
78972-465-0)
 Pitts, David & Ball, William, Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed (5th edition), Sams Publishing, 2000 (ISBN 0-
67231-985-3)
 Pitts, David; Ball, William; & Goerzen, John, Linux Unleashed (4th edition), Sams Publishing, 1999 (ISBN
0-67231-688-9)
 Pitts, David & Ball, William, Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed (4th edition), Sams Publishing, 1999 (ISBN 0-
67231-689-7)
 Pitts, David & Ball, William, Red Hat Linux (v. 5.2) Unleashed (3rd edition), Sams Publishing, 1998 (ISBN
0-672-31410-X)
 Ball, William, (Pitts, David, inside cover credit), Using Linux, Que Publishing, 1998 (ISBN 0-78971-623-2)
 Moritsugu, Steve (Pitts, David, inside cover credit), Using Unix (2nd edition), Que Publishing, 1998 (ISBN
0-78971-632-1)
 Pitts, David et.al., Red Hat Linux Unleashed (2nd edition), Sams Publishing, 1997 (ISBN 0-672-31173-9)
 Bowen, Richard; O'Brien, Keven; Haddad, Christopher D.; Westguard, Mark; & Pitts, David, CGI
Programming with Perl, Visual Basic & C, Sams Publishing, 1997 (ISBN 1-57521-241-2)
NIC Maryland, Annapolis, MD January, 2012 – Dec, 2015
Director of Technology
Senior-most locally based, dedicated technical executive. Provide strategic planning and consultation for all
technical aspects of the contract including infrastructure (private and public cloud), payment processing
solutions, and development of new applications producing millions of dollars of transactional revenue.
Ensures strategic direction of the organization is consistent with the current and future technology of the State.
Transferred to Maryland to assume executive technical position of the start-up. Responsibilities include:
 Calculated cost savings and avoidance to agencies have totaled over $37.9M through end of 2014.
 Processed over $7.5M in payments on behalf of the state through 2014 without taxpayer appropriations.
 In 2012 completed eleven eGovernment services for five different state agencies; in 2013 completed nine
eGovernment products and services for five different state agencies; in 2014 completed 27 eGovernment
products and services for 22 unique agencies all at no cost to the state of Maryland and their stakeholder
agencies. Five of these products have been mobile applications. These products and services have
garnered 18 international and national awards for their visual creativity and web innovation.
 Architect, plan, and implement services and systems (PaaS, SaaS) in multiple geographically diverse data
centers hosting SharePoint and custom .net/C# applications communicating with multiple data stores
including MS SQL, Oracle, and DB2;
 Develop and implement a technical strategic plan to align IT resources with the mission and goals of the
organization and the state partner ensuring the computer capabilities and capacities are responsive and
meets or exceeds the needs of the partners serving millions of web requests per year;
 Provide overall technology planning and consultation to appropriate governance bodies and individual
agencies producing a dozen or more strategic applications per year producing millions of dollars in
transactional revenue per year;
 Serve as chief technology liaison to Department of Information Technology (DoIT) and Agency technology
leadership maintaining communication and open dialog concerning the portal infrastructure and steering
technology decisions;
 Recruit, evaluate, and develop talent and direct the efforts of local, regional, and vendor staff;

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 Built out multiple offices including networks, phone systems (analog and VoIP), local servers and
workstations;
 Establish, document, and implement short- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and
operating procedures business plans and budgets;
 Oversee and provide guidance, direction and approval of all technology practices including technical
training, software development, systems architecture, backups, disaster recovery, hardware upgrades,
migrations, systems and network improvements, modifications, project management and operations;
 Direct and manage all computing infrastructure and resources; setting standards; determining
architectures; prioritize competing goals; leading internal and external developers; selecting vendors;
enforcing security, and ensuring system, communication line and network availability.
Mississippi Interactive, LLC, Jackson, MS December, 2010 – January, 2012
Director of Technology
Senior-most locally based, dedicated technical executive brought in to start up the contract and get the operations off
the ground and stable. Provide strategic planning and consultation for all technical aspects of the contract including
infrastructure (private and public cloud), payment processing, and development of new applications. Ensure strategic
direction of the portal is consistent with the current and future technology of the State. Transferred to Mississippi
during the sales process beginning with orals and was tasked with setting up two offices and hiring and training staff
including training a permanent technical executive for Mississippi.
Responsibilities include:
 Architect, plan, and implement a $1.3 Million technology server and network solution housed in the State Data
Center;
 Develop and implement a technical strategic plan to align IT resources with the mission and goals of the State
ensuring the computer capabilities and capacities are responsive to the needs of the State in a secure and robust
manner;
 Provide overall technology planning and consultation to Mississippi’s Information Technology group (ITS) as well
as other governance bodies and individual agencies;
 Serve as chief technology liaison to ITS and agency technology leadership helping to steer technology decisions
resulting in, among other things, receiving 5th place in the Best of the Web, State portal category from the Center
for Digital Government for http://www.mississippi.gov;
 Apply management skills to recruiting, evaluating, and developing the talent and directing the efforts of the
application development and creative services staff including training and mentoring a permanent technical
executive for the NIC Mississippi organization;
 Built out multiple offices including network, VoIP phone system, and technology equipment;
 Establish, document, and implement short- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating
procedures including budgets and business plans;
 Oversee and provide guidance, direction and approval of all technology practices including technical training,
software development, systems architecture, backups, disaster recovery, hardware upgrades, migrations,
systems and network improvements, modifications, project management and operations;
 Direct and manage all computing resources; setting standards; determining architectures; prioritize competing
goals; leading internal and external developers; selecting vendors; enforcing security, and ensuring system,
communication line and network availability.
Indiana Interactive, Indianapolis, IN May, 2009– December 2010
Technology Manager
Technical manager brought in to assess, evaluate, and improve technical situation while supporting the day -to-day
operational needs of contract. Provide strategic planning and consultation for all system and service aspects of the
contract. Ensures strategic direction of the portal is consistent with the current and future technology of the State.
Responsibilities include:
 Manage data center and data center team for supporting state contract;

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 Evaluated and updated data center services resulting in 100% uptime for State of Indiana’s income tax season
 Develop and implement a technical strategic plan to align IT resources with the mission and goals of the
organization to ensure the computer capabilities and capacities are responsive to the needs of the organization in
a secure and robust manner;
 Analyze systems, document, and implement short- and long-term technology plans;
 Establish, document, and implement short- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating
procedures including risk analysis, performance analysis, troubleshooting and process improvement;
 Oversee and provide guidance, direction and approval of all technology practices of the organization, including
technical training, backups, disaster recovery plans, hardware upgrades, migrations and operations, systems and
network improvements, modifications, project management and operations;
 Direct and manage all computing infrastructure and resources; setting standards; determining architectures;
prioritize competing goals; selecting vendors; enforcing security, and ensuring system, communication lines and
network availability.
IMG Interactive, Lexington, KY February2003 - August 2008
Director of Operations
Senior operational executive responsible for day-to-day operations of 16 person team supporting college sports
athletics web sites. Provide strategic planning and consultation for all technical aspects, including infrastructure,
payment processing solution, and development of new applications. Ensures strategic direction of the division is
consistent with the current and future needs of the organization and clients. Left organization due to layoff after
purchase and successful transfer of assets to CBSSports.com.
Responsibilities include:
 Managed technical staff of 16 performing formal and informal training and mentoring, and project management in
a dynamic, fast-paced environment including development, systems administration, content, multi-media, project
and business management;
 Controlled budget emphasizing cost reduction while improving and expanding services;
 Set overall direction, policies, standards, and guidelines for the technology environment emphasizing
standardization and security;
 Developed and maintained the "big picture" vision of architecture strategy including software, systems, networks,
and security in a highly customized environment;
 Managed environment where network transmissions regularly exceed 400 Mbps with peaks above 1.8 Gbps;
 Developed and implemented security, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans and processes;
 Ensured continuous delivery and operations of high traffic highly visible college sports athletics web sites
including www.ukathletics.com, www.secsports.com, www.texassports.com, www.utsports.com,
www.utladyvols.com, www.ncaafootball.com, www.mgoblue.com, www.arizonaathletics.com,
www.texasfootball.com, and www.ihigh.com;
Bluegrass Regional MH/MRB, Lexington, KY 2002 - 2003
System Analyst
TEK Systems, Nashville, TN 2001 - 2001
Programmer / Analyst; Client: Vanderbilt University
PTRI and Above and Beyond Programming, Inc., Lexington, KY 1999 - 2001
CEO
ICC Corp, Sacramento, CA 1999 - 1999
Team Lead; Client: Sutter Health
Best Consulting, Everett, WA 1996 - 1999
Senior Consultant; Client: The Boeing Company

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Various Organizations, Kentucky 1982 - 1996
Consultant; Clients included IBM, Ashland Oil, ISSC
Education andTraining
University of Phoenix, Lexington, KY July, 2007 - June 2008
Masters of Information Systems
Asbury University, Wilmore, KY September, 1987 – December, 1992
Bachelors of Science, Secondary Education/English
SANS AUDIT 507 December 14-19, 2015
Auditing & Monitoring Networks, Perimeters, and Systems, David Hoelzer, Instructor
CISSP Bootcamp November 16-21, 2015
CISSP Bootcamp, Mark Williams, Instructor
HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH DIPLOMACY AND TACT April 16, 2013
Dale Carnegie Training
Network assurance exam (AWR-138-W) February18, 2013
Texas A&M University System in Cooperation with DHS & FEMA
ITIL foundation, V3 September, 2011
Mark Thomas, Instructor
SANS Security 553 November, 2009
CuttingEdge HackingTechniques
SANS Security 517 November, 2009
Metasploit for Penetration Testers
Additional training provided through employer include Anti-Harassment – Management, Code of Business Conduct and
Ethics, Security Awareness, PCI Awareness Training, Management Foundations, DISC Personality Workshop