ITS / en George Mason hires CIA’s Charmaine Madison as Vice President of Information Services and Chief Information Officer /news/2024-07/george-mason-hires-cias-charmaine-madison-vice-president-information-services-and <span>George Mason hires CIA’s Charmaine Madison as Vice President of Information Services and Chief Information Officer</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/231" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Colleen Rich</span></span> <span>Mon, 07/01/2024 - 09:06</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--70-30"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:body" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasebody"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Body</div> <div class="field__item"><p><span class="intro-text">Charmaine Madison, deputy chief of the IT Enterprise Group at the Central Intelligence Agency, has been named Vice President of Information Services and Chief Information Officer at AV, Deb Dickenson, executive vice president for finance and administration, announced Monday. Madison will report to Jackie Ferree, senior vice president of operations and business services.</span></p> <figure role="group" class="align-right"><div> <div class="field field--name-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/styles/small_content_image/public/2024-07/charmainemadison_provided.jpg?itok=TMrcnUfl" width="285" height="350" alt="Charmaine Madison portrait" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> </div> <figcaption>Charmaine Madison. Photo provided</figcaption></figure><p><span><span><span>“Charmaine joins George Mason at a critical moment in the evolution of our institution,” Dickenson said. “Her experience implementing transformational change through strategic roadmaps is well-suited for the opportunities and challenges our university faces as we modernize and streamline our infrastructure to serve the diverse needs of our community.”</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>In more than a decade with the CIA, Madison has executed the strategic design of modernization roadmaps, managed  daily operations, and served as the senior IT leader covering the intelligence community’s most extensive research and development directorate.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>Madison is a retired cyber operations officer with the Air Force. She holds a doctorate in strategic leadership from Regent University and master’s degrees in business administration, information technology and national security studies. She is currently pursuing a master’s in clinical mental health counseling.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>Dickenson also thanked Charlie Spann for his interim leadership for the past 18 months, during which he ensured the continuity of ITS services and systems, delivered significant progress on major university initiatives and built a robust ITS leadership team. Spann will resume his role as deputy CIO and assistant vice president of enterprise service delivery. “His leadership and experience will be instrumental to this transition and to George Mason’s future,” Dickenson said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>Madison begins her new role on Aug. 1.</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="inline_block:call_to_action" data-inline-block-uuid="bb63afc5-daf2-4319-b26d-1cea875629b5"> <div class="cta"> <a class="cta__link" href="https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/2000558/1749368/"> <h4 class="cta__title">Sign up for more updates from The George <i class="fas fa-arrow-circle-right"></i> </h4> <span class="cta__icon"></span> </a> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="inline_block:text" data-inline-block-uuid="bae77d6f-70d7-4c4e-b4eb-56f9f07d34d9" class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blocktext"> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="inline_block:news_list" data-inline-block-uuid="ecf5efdc-16c2-487f-9b73-8ad2279265b6" class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blocknews-list"> <h2>Related News</h2> <div class="views-element-container"><div class="view view-news view-id-news view-display-id-block_1 js-view-dom-id-ac31927e38d9713528c268d4796fec54cac61c9da1354ed4f6f4c0d5c79835c1"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="news-list-wrapper"> <ul class="news-list"><li class="news-item"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/news/2024-07/george-mason-hires-cias-charmaine-madison-vice-president-information-services-and" hreflang="en">George Mason hires CIA’s Charmaine Madison as Vice President of Information Services and Chief Information Officer</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-publish-date"><div class="field-content">July 1, 2024</div></div></li> <li class="news-item"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/news/2023-09/all-mason-employees-required-complete-it-security-awareness-training-october-31" hreflang="en">All Mason employees required to complete IT security awareness training by October 31</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-publish-date"><div class="field-content">September 19, 2023</div></div></li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_content_topics" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-content-topics"> <h2>Topics</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-content-topics field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Topics</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/116" hreflang="en">Campus News</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/206" hreflang="en">Faculty and Staff News</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/11476" hreflang="en">ITS</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:06:55 +0000 Colleen Rich 112711 at All Mason employees required to complete IT security awareness training by October 31 /news/2023-09/all-mason-employees-required-complete-it-security-awareness-training-october-31 <span>All Mason employees required to complete IT security awareness training by October 31</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/1226" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Pam Shepherd</span></span> <span>Tue, 09/19/2023 - 10:46</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:body" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasebody"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Body</div> <div class="field__item"><p><span><span><span><span>All Mason employees are reminded to complete their mandatory 2023 IT Security Awareness Training assigned to them in MasonLEAPS by Tuesday, October 31. 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