Jeffrey L.
McCrady.

Chief Information Security Officer

National Republican Congressional Committee Washington, DC

Lead cybersecurity, enterprise risk, resilience, and emerging-technology adoption for a nationally distributed organization supporting 200+ employees and 222+ congressional campaigns.

• Built and matured the cybersecurity function into a formal executive Office of the CISO, with strategy, governance, multi-year roadmaps, and executive risk reporting.
• Serve as Incident Commander for significant cyber events, coordinating executives, Finance, Legal, technical teams, vendors, and federal partners.
• Built AI capability from secure Microsoft Copilot adoption and governance to pilot applications for Republican National Committee use and Microsoft Foundry reporting dashboards.
• Independently deployed and administer GitHub Enterprise and its organizations, with repository rulesets, protected environments, approval gates, and security validation.
• Personally established hosting and production delivery for live applications using Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare Containers, and Azure App Service.
• Built large language model (LLM) workflows for IT, connecting hands-on AI development with governance, human oversight, and secure deployment.

Cybersecurity Leader

National Republican Congressional Committee Washington, DC

• Developed NIST CSF-aligned cybersecurity strategy during heightened national political and cyber risk.
• Co-authored national cybersecurity guidance for political campaigns with Google and national-security partners.
• Modernized identity, endpoint, network, privileged-access, and threat-prevention capabilities; coordinated investigations with federal law enforcement and legal counsel.
• Recommended creation of a formal executive CISO function and was selected to build and lead it.

Cyber Strategy Corporate Fellow

Verizon Ashburn, Virginia

Selected for a competitive Department of Defense fellowship placing senior military cybersecurity leaders within industry.

• Advised cybersecurity leadership on NIST CSF-aligned strategy, capability gaps, risk reduction, and enterprise modernization.
• Developed proof-of-concept automation for threat detection and incident response, including concepts for adaptive, self-healing security architectures.

DoD Security & Technology Leadership

Defense Media Activity · DISA / Joint Interoperability Test Command Fort Meade, Maryland · Fort Huachuca, Arizona

Led information security and network operations, including classified systems and distributed testing environments.

• Led security, risk, compliance, and continuous monitoring for classified and unclassified networks supporting the DoD’s global media mission.
• Directed system hardening, assessments, upgrades, and remediation aligned with the DoD Risk Management Framework.
• Oversaw an $11.7M IT services contract covering 43 contractors and five locations as sole Contracting Officer’s Representative; led a 10-person IT team supporting 1,300 people.
• At DISA/JITC, supported joint interoperability testing, network restoration, and service-management improvements; developed a service catalog connecting seven laboratories.

Principal IT Project Manager

United States Air Force Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina

• Directed enterprise technology and cybersecurity initiatives across multiple headquarters and globally distributed operations.
• Established secure executive communications standards across 23 global locations.
• Designed a security vulnerability-mitigation program automating updates across 300 systems, saving 200 work hours annually; engineered software to remotely track 236 video-teleconference assets.
• Integrated infrastructure, logistics, cybersecurity, and continuity requirements into mission-critical modernization programs.