In September 2021 Nikolaos Ipiotis was appointed as the Acting Chief Data Officer (CDO) for
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this role, Nikolaos oversees the
HHS data governance, works to increase workforce data skills, develops and publishes the HHS
Open Data strategy, implements systems and processes to improve data sharing across the
department and federal government by developing data inventories and expedited data sharing
agreements. In addition, Nikolaos oversees compliance with Records Management (RM), the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), and management of Controlled Unclassified Information
(CUI). Nikolaos is a member of the Federal CDO Council where he co-chairs the Data Sharing
Working Group (DSWG).
Nikolaos concurrently serves as the HHS IPv6 Integrated Project Team (IPT) Lead in response to
the OMB mandate M-21-07, since the IPT was formed in January of 2021. In this role, he led
the development of the HHS IPv6 Policy and later the HHS IPv6 Implementation Plan.
Prior to joining the HHS Office of the CIO, Nikolaos served the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), Center of Information Technology (CIT) as a service area manager for Hosting and
Storage Services, managing multiple systems for various HHS business units and other
government agencies. Nikolaos also served as the Infrastructure lead for the National Science
Foundation where he managed the entire Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and the
modernization initiative to deliver IT services effectively and cost efficiently.
Nikolaos has more than 25 years of IT experience, managing various sizes of delivery teams and
various types of key projects and initiatives. He is seasoned in managing resources to produce
optimal results that include building capabilities, cost savings and optimization, systems
integration, service delivery, data management, and infrastructure operations. He has experience
and provided direction in the full lifecycle of IT systems development, from concept and
requirements to analysis and design, to implementation and testing and the finally the transition
to production and operations and maintenance support. Prior to joining the federal government,
Nikolaos worked as a management consultant working in a variety of federal government and
private sector organizations such as the Presidential Transition Team for the General Services
Administration (GSA), Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), and the Department of Treasury and Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
Nikolaos holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer
Science and Electrical Engineering, all from George Mason University.