Mr. Skoch is an Executive Vice President with Suss Consulting, Inc. He has more than 20 years experience in leadership positions developing, managing and implementing communications and information systems for the United States Air Force and the Defense Information Systems Agency.

Prior to joining Suss Consulting, Mr. Skoch served as Director, Communications Operations at the United States Air Force (USAF) Headquarters in The Pentagon. In this role he reported to the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff. He developed policies for global telephone, fiber-optic, video, message, postal, electronic publishing, radio and satellite systems for the entire USAF. He also implemented the first-ever transformational communications initiatives for the Air Force. This resulted in Aligned Air Force capabilities with demands of anytime, anywhere communications and information systems supporting the President’s Global War on Terrorism and current operations.

Before moving to the Pentagon, Mr. Skoch was the Principal Director for Customer Advocacy at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), where he recruited, organized, and led an agile team in implementing first-ever Customer Advocacy activity in a Department of Defense agency. He successfully implemented customer relationship management, transforming 10,000-person agency from a product-centric organization to a customer-centric organization, improving responsiveness and customer satisfaction.

While at DISA he was also the Principal Director for Network Services, providing global ATM, IP, telephony, voice-over-IP, satellite, video teleconferencing, satellite, and terrestrial network services to entire DoD. Through aggressive cost reductions and business practice improvements, turned $50 million per year loss into balanced working capital fund budget. Obtained first ever ISO-9001 registration for global Defense Information System Network.

As the Director of Communications Information, and CIO at Headquarters, Pacific Air Forces he defined requirements and implemented solutions to voice, video and data system needs in support of 40,000 USAF members throughout Hawaii, Alaska, Japan, Korea, and Guam. Implemented first-ever COPE SPARK family of initiatives, reducing acquisition time and costs, and more quickly meeting customer needs.

As Chief, Global Command and Control System Division for the Joint Staff he led the implementation of the Global Command and Control System, a major project replacing a worldwide network of 30+ text-based, batch-processed mainframe computer systems with a modern global standards based, distributed client server and web-based network.

B.S. in Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas

M.A. Central Michigan University

Program for Senior Officials in National Security, Johns Hopkins University and Syracuse University