Giovanni G. Leusch-Carnaroli

Biography

I am a Vice President at GovCIO, and was formerly at Deloitte as an executive in the NASA and Transportation Account. I most recently was a Senior Principal with General Dynamics IT. Culminating a career in Federal Government, I was the Associate CIO at the Department of Transportation (DOT), responsible for the most effective management oversight of the Department’s $3.2 billion investment in technology, and all capital planning and investment control, and cybersecurity, activities associated with it, including the safeguarding the Office of the Secretary of Transportation’s interest in NextGen, as well as the Intelligent Transportation System. This has been an involvement that went back to the mid-1990s when, as an Economist in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Aviation Policy and Plans, I worked with the International Civil Aviation Organization on establishing GPS as the standard for satellite-based navigation. At that time, I was also responsible for preparing miscellaneous new policy and economic studies for funding facilities and equipment, maintaining the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and Aviation Data Analysis models used in policy development; creating a new benefit-cost analysis model for the establishment and discontinuance of federal contract towers; and performing benefit-cost analyses of airport improvement program applications, resulting in new runways, taxiways, and aprons at several domestic airports.

Prior to becoming a Senior Executive at DOT, as Director, IT Project and Portfolio Services at the FAA, I was responsible for all aspects of IT capital planning; overseeing the development of the agency's IT business cases and IT portfolio; and implementing Earned Value Management and other program management best practices and processes. I also provided aviation management consulting to clients worldwide during a break in service at the FAA. Clients included individual airports and multi-airport authorities, regional and major airlines, U.S. and foreign governments, industry trade associations, and labor unions.

I am a licensed commercial airplane (single-engine and multi-engine land and sea, instrument) and helicopter pilot, as well as Part 107 UAS pilot. In my spare time, if not flying, I also a volunteer Fire Chief in Montgomery County, MD. My main accomplishments include being voted Fire Chief of the Year by the International Association of Fire Chiefs, and co-leading the Montgomery County Firefighting Task Force deployed to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

I graduated summa cum laude in agricultural economics from North Carolina State University, obtained a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland, and a Master of Arts in security management from The George Washington University. 

Education

• M.B.A. - Master of Business Administration in Business and Management, University of Maryland-College Park
• M.A. - Master of Arts in Criminal Justice: Security Management, George Washington University

Currently Teaching

• SCTY 400: Aviation Security
• SCTY 315: Studies in Intelligence I