Ken Weeks
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National Security Strategy
National War College
2010 : 2011
Master of Arts - MA
Organizational Development and Change
Hawaii Pacific University
2005 : 2007
Bachelor of Arts - BA
Mathematics
Hiram College
1985 : 1989
State of New Hampshire
Chief Information Security Officer
Serving the Taxpayers of New Hampshire. State of New Hampshire, Department of Information Technology, Senior Business Relationship Manager for Department of Environmental Services (ITM IV, LG 32)
• Serve as the single point of contact to manage all DoIT relationships with the Department of Environmental Services. Responsible for understanding the business and direction of the agency, assists in the prioritization of projects, ensures that projects align with the technology that best meets the agency’s needs while complying with DoIT standards and policies, and directs IT strategy in support of the overall business strategy.
• Manage all budget related activities pertaining to the IT expenditures, including the creation of the biennial budget and execution of the approved budget.
• Directly supervise the embedded ASD-DES staff as well as providing daily direction and support to other DoIT staff assigned to support DES.
2021 : 2022
State of New Hampshire
Senior Business Relationship Manager
– Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
• Led a cross-functional team of 4 subordinate Client Service Leads to manage a $45M per year Cost-Plus-Award-Fee/Level of Effort Government Contract.
o Effectively staffed more than 200 full time employees across 12 Technical Task Orders to meet contractual requirements.
o Increased revenue by 6% per annum while managing this portfolio.
o Earned 97% of the possible award fee under contract requirements – the third highest
award fee percentage earned during the 10-year period of performance of this contract
and the predecessor.
• Led and managed a $10.5M Cost-Plus-Award-Fee/Level of Effort Government Contract.
o Actively collaborated with clients to define needs, develop profitable solutions that achieved the client’s desired outcomes within a mutually beneficial cost, schedule and performance framework.
o Increasedrevenueby13%intwoyears.
o Earned 98% of the possible award fee across two Technical Task Orders.
• Built, developed, and mentored a diverse workforce to achieve unity of purpose, solve complex
problems and achieve mission outcomes.
o Ensured deserving employees were recognized, received in excess of $500K in annual
bonus awards, and were promoted to positions of increased responsibility.
o Actively worked to maintain an inclusive environment for all employees regardless of
race, religion, gender and sexual orientation to leverage diversity of thought and optimize individual contributions to the teams’ success.
2019 : 2021
Booz Allen Hamilton
Portfolio Business Lead/Client Service Lead - Business Relationship Manager
July 2018 – June 2019 : Director of Operations (J3), Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), United States Cyber Command
• Led the Command and Control of hundreds of military and civilian-sector cyber operations executed by CNMF forces that resulted in classified mission outcomes to support U.S. and Allied National Interests.
• Synchronized logistics and all movement for five “Cyber Defense Forward” missions for U.S. Forces in Lithuania, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Ukraine. These missions redefined support to Allies with state of the art equipment, on-net, at the Partner Nation network operations facilities hunting for and enabling follow on pursuit of Malicious Cyber Actors.
2018 : 2019
Cyber National Mission Force, U.S. Cyber Command
Director Of Operations
May 2015 – June 2018 : Director, Foreign Overseas Operations Site, Pacific Region
• Responsible and accountable for all aspects of leadership and management of the field site to include personnel, budget and finance, security, facilities and operations.
• Responsible for interagency and host-nation relationship management.
• Led an unprecedented strategic change effort. Transformed the site from a military-led
organization of hundreds to a civilian-led organization of 42 while recapitalizing the entire
campus (work spaces, power distribution, cooling, and antenna fields.)
• Led a multi-year and multi-million dollar project to build a state-of-the-art, high-capacity
regional data center to host data, analytics and user services.
• Led an additional multi-million dollar project to modernize all aspects of the regional
intelligence community telecommunications facility.
• Completed multi-year and multi-million dollar renovation projects to modernize “people space”
to ensure facilities were 100% compliant with federal construction, security and regulatory requirements.
2015 : 2018
United States Department of Defense
Executive Director
Skills
Building C-Level Relationships, Business Relationship Management, C-Level Consulting, C-Level Leadership, C-Level Presentations, C-Level Relationships, C Level Management, Collaborative Innovation, Collaborative Leadership, Collaborative Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Cyber Defense, Cyber Operations, Cyber Policy, Cybersecurity, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Cyber Warfare, Defense Sector, Executive-level Communication, executive communications, Executive Management, Government Proposals, Information Assurance, IT Management, IT Strategy, Large Scale Change Management, Leaderhip, Military Affairs, Navy, Organizational Development, Project Management, Relationship Building, Security, SIGINT, Signals Intelligence, Strategic Partnerships, Strategic Planning
About
Ken Weeks is the Chief Information Security Officer for the State of New Hampshire. He spent most of his adult life as a Naval Officer, Special Duty, Cryptology and Information Warfare, and retired as a CAPT (O6). Although most of his time was spent in the Pacific Theater, he also enjoyed several all-inclusive trips to Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. After the Navy, he worked as an Executive Leader of Cyber Operations at the National Security Agency (NSA). Ken spent a couple years in the private sector as a Consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton and then moved to New Hampshire and back into public service. Ken also serves as a Director for The Overwatch Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is improving Cybersecurity and protecting Critical Infrastructure in New Hampshire. Since he always works in rooms with no windows and under artificial lights, he spends the rest of his time as an avid four seasons outdoor sportsman with his spouse, teenagers and two Irish Wolfhounds.
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