Chief Information Officer, National Science Foundation
Ms. Aronson serves as the Chief Information Officer for the National Science Foundation. As an innovative and gifted creative thinker, strategist, and artist, Ms. Aronson is highly skilled at linking mission and strategy to IT tools, which enables the Foundation to manage the full lifecycle of proposals and awards. In addition to her role as CIO, Ms. Aronson also serves as the Foundation's Chief Data Officer where she acts as the executive thought leader defining NSF's data strategy and roadmap. In addition, Ms. Aronson also serves as NSF's Senior Agency Official for Privacy, the senior executive with agency-wide responsibility and accountability for the Foundation's privacy program. Ms. Aronson has a strong interest in innovating for the workforce of the future through technology and serves as a Chair of the CIO Council's Workforce Committee. In this vein, she came up with the idea for the NSF Career Compass Challenge, a two-part challenge open to the public to develop a workforce reskilling technology solution. The challenge was publicized across federal news media for its innovative approach and acknowledged by both the CIO Council and in the President's Management Agenda as a success. Ms. Aronson was recognized as one of FedScoop's Top Women in Technology for 2018, and, was recognized in 2013 as one of the FCW Fed 100 for her mastery of innovation and for her ability to effectively engage her staff around a common vision for cutting-edge IT in support of NSF-funded cutting-edge research. Prior to her time at NSF, Ms. Aronson served as the Director for the Office of Management Operations for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. She holds a Business degree from Duke University and is committed to lifelong learning.