IT Director, USDA-Risk Management Agency
Chad Sheridan is the IT Director for the USDA Farm Production and Conservation Mission Area's Business Center. He is responsible for all information systems that support the FPAC mission area. Sheridan most recently served as the Chief Information Officer of the Risk Management Agency from June 2011 to March 2018. In that role, he was responsible for all information systems that support the Federal crop insurance program, a program that covers commodities and livestock with a total annual liability of over $113 billion. At RMA, Chad has transformed the agency's IT program to embrace agile development and DevOps while leading the effort to establish an action-oriented and collaborative CIO Council within USDA. Chad received his Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Virginia and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.