Chad Poland

About Chad Poland

I build cybersecurity products and programs that operate at national scale.Over the past 20+ years I’ve worked at the intersection of cloud security, product development, and enterprise governance, helping organizations translate complex security requirements into tools and systems teams actually adopt.At the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), I led development of the SCuBA open-source security platform, used to assess and secure Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments supporting millions of users.My experience includes leading technical response efforts during the SolarWinds supply chain attack, modernizing governance across a $1B+ federal IT portfolio, and accelerating adoption of emerging cybersecurity technologies through partnerships with the Defense Innovation Unit.I’m particularly interested in work at the intersection of cloud security, identity, and security automation.

Experience

1. Senior Technical Program Manager Cybersecurity Division

   Cybersecurity And Infrastructure Security Agency

   Jun 2022 — Present · Arlington, VA, US

   Led development and launch of the SCuBA open-source cloud security platform, used to assess and secure Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments supporting ~5M users• Achieved 175K+ downloads across federal and enterprise environments, enabling automated cloud security configuration assessments• Built ScubaConnect, a national-scale data integration platform aggregating security signals from Microsoft Graph, Google Workspace APIs, CyberScope, and CDM systems• Reduced cloud security baseline review cycles from weeks to hours through automated assessment tooling• Coordinated cross-functional engineering, security, and policy teams to deliver cloud security capabilities used across federal agencies

Education

• George Mason University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Government and International Politics

  2002 — 2007

Skills

• Program Management
• Dod
• Government
• Security Clearance
• Government Contracting
• Proposal Writing
• Sharepoint
• Policy
• Integration
• Security
• Budgets
• Requirements Analysis
• Homeland Security
• Military
• Defense
• Systems Engineering
• Information Assurance
• Leadership
• Management
• Federal Government
• Enterprise Architecture
• Intelligence
• Training
• National Security
• Business Process
• Federal Law Enforcement
• U.s. Department of Defense
• Strategic Planning
• Information Security
• Information Technology
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Computer Security
• Consulting
• Project Management Office (Pmo)
• Business Process Improvement
• Enterprise Software
• Information Security Management
• IT Strategy
• IT Security Policies
• IT Governance