Most recently working as the Strategist & Evangelist for Cybersecurity & the Defense Industry WW for HPE’s CTO Office. Previously the Innovation & Engagement Lead for IBM Global Business Services - Cybersecurity & Biometrics service line, before that, CTO for Belcan’s Government Services segment. Before joining Belcan, Jas. was the Director of Industry Engagement for Global Military and National Governments at Riverbed Technologies. He was also an Artifex of Next Generation Solutions with the Lockheed Martin NexGen Team. Jas. has worked throughout the Department of Defense, specifically with the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Foreign Affairs community as an architect, innovator, and defense contractor veteran.

An IT Innovation specialist with Twenty years of experience in the creation, design, and deployment of cutting-edge solutions: Reducing TCO for large-scale environments and a multitude of civilian and defense customer environments. Demonstrated capability in implementing innovative solutions & processes, accelerating the pace of technology adoption & digital transformation, and enabling new capabilities that provide competitive advantage using detailed knowledge of platforms, security principles, technologies & frameworks, including evolving best practices.

My legal first name is James, though I’ve never really gone by James. Where I grew up, Jas. was the short-form of James (instead of Jim) and children mostly only went by their family names at school. When I moved back to the United States at thirteen years-old, I’d sign my name “Jas. Powell” and a number of people had difficulty with my cursive writing of the letter S, so it stuck as “Jaz” or “Jas”, which is the formal diminutive form of James. I’ve kept it and adopted Jas. as my first name ever since. Not a very interesting story, but there you go.