Blair T. Miller

Work History

Booz Allen Hamilton

Chief Technologist (05/2011 – 08/2024)

Accountable for delivering meaningful technical solutions within the federal marketplace.  Blair routinely led capture and proposal delivery including opportunity shaping, capture planning, pre-proposal preparation work, pricing, color team reviews, and other activities aimed at raising win probability.

Under contract to the Department of Health & Human Services, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Blair was accountable for day-to-day oversight of the operations and maintenance of physical, virtual, and cloud-based infrastructure for some of HHS’ most important mission applications.  In this role he oversaw contract deliverables and provided technical leadership and direction in the areas of network, compute, storage, and identity & access management. Blair ensured 24x7x360 uptime and availability, drove delivery of critical project milestones, and ensured timely remediation of identified vulnerabilities and threats across a broad spectrum of hardware and software technologies.  He implemented DevSecOps delivery models to streamline workload delivery and foster greater collaboration between developers, security specialists, and operations teams.

At the Department of Labor, Blair served as a Senior Advisor to the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). In this role he changed the way OCIO thinks and talks about how information technology influences DOL’s mission and business success.  He fostered the creation of new business processes and technical approaches, so DOL executives had greater visibility into project performance and health, enabling the right choices when prioritizing investments and furthering OCIO’s ability to keep promises and deliver meaningful outcomes. In this role Blair also served as the principal thought leader as DOL reimagined its IT governance model and led an overhaul of the IT Service Catalog supporting OCIO’s entry into a shared services delivery model.  A cloud and low code/no code evangelist, Blair mentored teams on rapid delivery using CI/CD principles empowering them to deliver software faster, more efficiently, and with higher quality.

Within the Department of Energy (DOE) Blair directed a multidisciplinary team of model-based system engineers and Agile coaches as a program manager at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This team worked collaboratively across eight national laboratories with client stakeholders and engineers to define and establish an integrated technical baseline, which continues to serve as the foundation for realizing a fully integrated system of systems. This ambitious effort to develop a new model-based simulation capability for monitoring the long-term resilience of the Northern American electric grid provides real-time situational awareness to enhance security and resilience.

Also at DOE, where Booz Allen joined several leading companies to merge, transform, and reduce the enduring operating cost of two national security sites, Blair personally drove all IT cost cutting and transformation activities.  He directed major work streams including workforce shaping, creation of new IT governance models, adoption of IT service management and technology business management, data center consolidation planning with extension into the cloud, cyber security operations efficiency, and cybersecurity RMF consolidation.

Earlier in his career at Booz Allen, Blair served as one of the senior leaders charged with creating a new Strategic Alliances Program which established key partnerships with top-tier technology vendors.  In this role Blair facilitated investment from partners to build and sustain core capabilities within the Firm and gain deeper insights and earlier access to key vendor products. Blair built and directed corporate processes that forged new relationships with vendors, shortened sales cycles, provided insights into how competing vendors solve problems, and expanded Booz Allen's sales proficiency through an alliance network. This program directs investment from partners to build and expand repeatable solutions which in turn resulted in Booz Allen being selected as partner of the year by Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Red Hat.

As a member of the Booz Allen's Strategic Innovation Group, Blair led a team responsible for the evolution the firm’s public and hybrid cloud capability. In addition to market shaping and capture, this role provided technical leadership in cloud strategy and planning, enterprise architecture and design, DoD-grade cybersecurity and compliance, provisioning and de-provisioning (cloud brokering), and ongoing operations and maintenance. While in this role Blair managed the firm’s strategic relationship with AWS.

When Blair first joined Booz Allen he served for several years as head of corporate IT strategy with responsibility for the formulation of IT strategies and architectures across the corporate enterprise. Acting as the bridge between the business and information systems, he focused on how IT can most effectively help the firm achieve its current and future goals during a pivotal period in the firm’s 100-year history that includes going public, standing up a new commercial division, increased M&A activity, expanding international operations, and responding to the financial challenges of sequestration and the government shutdown. In this role Blair led the enterprise architecture team, chaired the architecture review board, and drove creation and adoption of new models for supporting emerging mobile technologies. He authored the firm’s realization of a “cloud first” strategy – a model still in use today.