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XAVIER SOOSAI
Director, Office of IT Services Management, Center for Information Technology

As the Director of the Office of Information Technology Services Management at the Center for Information Technology (CIT), Xavier Soosai oversees ten service areas and the delivery of scientific research and business operations across the institutes and centers (ICs) at NIH. This includes maintaining the [Http://HPC.nih.gov high-performance computing] environment used by NIH intramural scientists; maintaining NIH’s secure, [Http://cit.nih.gov/services high-speed network]; ensuring the viability and availability of collaboration services, compute hosting and storage services, identity and access management services, service desk support, and more for the NIH community.

Before joining CIT, Soosai worked at the Department of Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) where he served in a variety of roles, most recently as the Director of Strategic Planning and Technology Direction. In this role, he set the technology direction and developed and implemented strategies and plans for IRS’s large, complex enterprise technology infrastructure and architecture. As a principal advisor to the IRS Chief Information Officer, he led efforts to set technology-related policies, developed strategic plans, managed key aspects of enterprise architecture/engineering, and established internal technical standards. As the Executive Director of Enterprise IT Operations and the Director of Data Management, Soosai was responsible for building, operating, and providing operational support for infrastructure storage and database services supporting IRS’s tax processing applications. He also led enterprise-wide projects in the areas of data storage and back-up, distributed database management, and big data analytics.

Prior to the IRS, Soosai served as the Senior Vice President of IT Infrastructure at the Bank of America and held various leadership roles in Farmers Insurance Group and Zurich Financial Services where he was responsible for IT strategy, management, and optimization of local and global IT operating environments.

Soosai received his Master of Computer Applications degree from St. Joseph’s College and his Master of Business Administration degree from Texas A&M University.