2016 AFCEA TechNet Augusta Conference and Expo

Mr. Shawn Wells
Chief Security Strategist, Public Sector, Office of the CTO
Red Hat, Inc.


Shawn Wells is the Chief Security Strategist for Red Hat’s North American Public Sector organization, where he works on improving the process of adopting, contributing to, and managing open source technologies within the U.S. Government. Prior to this role, Shawn worked internationally, leading Red Hat’s System z team to bring Linux to the mainframe. Formerly an NSA civilian, Shawn worked under the S3 division, developing open source SIGINT collection systems for high-powered cell phones (HPCP). Shawn identifies and manages open source projects to stimulate innovation against U.S. Intelligence and Military challenges. Most recently, Shawn collaborated with the NRO and Lockheed Martin to create a cross domain IaaS environment. This environment, the DoD Centralized Super Computing Facility, securely joins over a dozen TS//SCI and SAP networks into a single infrastructure. Additionally, Shawn maintains Red Hat’s STIGs in collaboration with NSA IAD and DISA FSO, for both operating system and virtualization technologies. Formerly an NSA civilian, Shawn was the senior developer of the Al-Qaeda Senior Leadership SIGINT DB (AQSLDB), which ingested, exploited, and analyzed High Power Cell Phone (HPCP) collections under S3. Academic work includes Data Science at Harvard, technical strategy and innovation at MIT Sloan, nuclear energy at Stanford, and is a graduate from Carnegie Mellon’s CIO University.

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