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Eddie Pool

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Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary | Acting Assistant Secretary & Chief Information Officer at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

As Acting CIO for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Eddie Pool leads a $7B+ technology program supporting over ten million veterans. He is spearheading a major IT overhaul focused on retiring legacy systems and achieving "cyber dominance. " He has studied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning through MIT Professional Education.

A decorated Army Ranger veteran with combat deployments to Somalia and Haiti, Eddie is deeply committed to the veteran community. He actively volunteers with organizations like Team Rubicon and the Three Rangers Foundation, driven by a personal mission to improve access to VA services.

Before his extensive career in government IT, he was the General Manager for Virgin Islands Ecotours.

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Experience
27 Years
Current Role
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary | Acting Assistant Secretary & Chief Information Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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IT Modernization
He is actively retiring legacy systems at the VA, advocating a "buy versus build" approach to adopt modern, enterprise-standard commercial tools.
Cyber Dominance
He champions moving beyond compliance checklists to a dynamic, threat-informed defense posture to actively harden the VA's infrastructure against evolving threats.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary | Acting Assistant Secretary & Chief Information Officer
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
10-2020 - 2-2025
Deputy Chief Information Officer
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
11-2014 - 2-2025
Executive Director - Infrastructure Operations, Office of Information and Technology
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
4-2014 - 11-2014
Senior Disaster Program Manager
American Red Cross
3-2013 - 3-2014
General Manager
Virgin Islands Ecotours
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Media appearances

Eddie Pool - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - VA.gov. Featured in VA.gov
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Education
Senior Executive Fellows Program
Harvard Kennedy School
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
MIT Professional Education
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