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Joe Chaddic is a Senior Consultant with Suss Consulting. He retired from the Department of State in 2001, following 30 years of experience in State Department information technology and telecommunications.
As Deputy Chief Information Officer, Foreign Affairs System Integration, and Chief Knowledge Officer from 2000 - 2001, Mr. Chaddic had lead responsibility for the establishment of an estimated $300 million common foreign affairs IT platform that utilized Internet web enabled technology and knowledge management collaboration tools. As part of his responsibilities, he created and chaired a Working Group that included IT professionals from all of the U.S. Foreign Affairs Agencies. In this role he achieved consensus on the methodology and technical solutions for the new IT platform. This role was established based on a study of how to lessen future impacts of terrorist actions following the bombings of United States facilities in East Africa.
His previous responsibilities with the Department of State included Director of a Regional Information Management Center, Director of an Internet Project Team, Director of NATO's Civil Communications Planning Committee, Operations Officer, State Department Liaison to the National Communication System and the National Coordination Center, and Executive Secretary of the Diplomatic Telecommunications System Policy Board.
His career recognitions include Secretary's Career Achievement Award (2001), Meritorious Honor Award (2001 and 1976) Superior Honor Award (1999 and 1991).
B.A., Business and Economics, University of Kentucky
M.S., Telecommunications, George Washington University
M.P.A., Public Administration, Harvard University | 