About Me

Clin­ton Austin is the Unit­ed States Air Force Vet­er­an and has been a col­lab­o­ra­tive Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy (IT) expert for over 22 years. He con­tin­u­al­ly dis­plays pro­fes­sion­al­ism, a high skill lev­el, and the abil­i­ty to adapt and over­come obsta­cles. He has pro­vid­ed con­sult­ing ser­vices to small busi­ness­es, For­tune 500 com­pa­nies, and the Depart­ment of Defense (DoD) through­out his career. He is rec­og­nized as an expert in IT strat­e­gy, Big Data, Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (AI), Machine Learn­ing (ML), and IT processes.

In his cur­rent role, he is a Strate­gic Busi­ness Account Man­ag­er for CDW‑G.  This role allows him to com­bine his years of expe­ri­ence as an Inte­gra­tor, Con­tract Man­age­ment, Spe­cial Oper­a­tions, Space, DevSec­Ops, AI/ML, and Cyber Secu­ri­ty.  This cumu­la­tive expe­ri­ence allows CDW‑G to pro­vide the best solu­tions to its customers. 

Austin’s pre­vi­ous role as the Chief Inno­va­tion Offi­cer and Direc­tor of DevSec­Ops & Cyber for the Jacobs NISSC II Oper­a­tions Group (JNOG), locat­ed in Col­orado Springs, Col­orado.  His respon­si­bil­i­ties includ­ed work­ing with oth­er prin­ci­pals to pro­vide the best solu­tion to the NISSC II con­tract, man­ag­ing the Project Man­age­ment Office, over­see­ing the Mis­sion Assur­ance Cen­ters, and grow­ing Jacobs’ pres­ence in the Col­orado Springs Mar­ket.  While at Jacobs, he also served as a Senior Solu­tions Archi­tect and Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Prin­ci­pal at Jacobs’ Crit­i­cal Mis­sions Divi­sion. He was respon­si­ble for cap­tur­ing and man­ag­ing large DoD, Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty (IC), and Nation­al Aero­nau­tics and Space Admin­is­tra­tion (NASA) oppor­tu­ni­ties that exceed­ed the $1B thresh­old. His respon­si­bil­i­ties includ­ed con­duct­ing bid/no-bid eval­u­a­tion, strat­e­gy devel­op­ment, iden­ti­fy­ing key per­son­nel, orga­ni­za­tion­al design, and nego­ti­at­ing busi­ness team­ing. Due to his exten­sive IT back­ground, he is also one of forty-two Inno­va­tion Facil­i­ta­tors.  As an Inno­va­tion Facil­i­ta­tor, he par­tic­i­pat­ed in con­ver­sa­tions with oth­er lead­ers through­out the com­pa­ny on inno­va­tion, devel­op­ment, and tech­ni­cal research.

His under­stand­ing of Big Data, AI, and ML was devel­oped when Austin was the Data Archi­tect for the Unit­ed States Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Com­mand (USSOCOM). As the Data Archi­tect, he ush­ered efforts to imple­ment a Big Data strat­e­gy by lead­ing in-depth tech­nol­o­gy dis­cus­sions, artic­u­lat­ing the sys­tem design’s busi­ness val­ue, and design­ing data flows. He also addressed data migra­tion issues (val­i­da­tion, clean-up, and map­ping) and defined data dic­tio­nar­ies.  Dur­ing this time, Austin also authored sev­er­al white papers that iden­ti­fied cost-sav­ing mea­sures that a Com­bat­ant Com­mand (COCOM) could imple­ment while improv­ing its dis­as­ter recov­ery pos­ture and ensur­ing the con­ti­nu­ity of oper­a­tions process (COOP), elim­i­nat­ing unex­pect­ed downtimes.

Before becom­ing the data archi­tect, Austin served in dif­fer­ent roles and capac­i­ties through­out the DoD. His pri­or posi­tions include:

With a strong com­mit­ment to keep­ing up to date with tech­nol­o­gy and being involved in the com­mu­ni­ty, Austin is cur­rent­ly a mem­ber of sev­er­al orga­ni­za­tions. He is the for­mer Co-Pres­i­dent of AFCEA Emerg­ing Leader and a senior board mem­ber for AFCEA Inter­na­tion­al, an active Amer­i­can Legion mem­ber, and a mem­ber of Freema­son­ry. In addi­tion, he is always inter­est­ed in men­tor­ing mil­i­tary vet­er­ans tran­si­tion­ing into the com­mer­cial sec­tor, explor­ing Big Data ini­tia­tives, and under­stand­ing new technologies