What Happened?
Arlington, VA-based Catapult Consultants has Appointed John Kimmins as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Catapult Consultants is a global, professional services and management consulting company specializing in advanced business analytics and information systems solutions. We support mission-critical programs in the Defense, Civilian and Intelligence Community sectors. Our firm provides innovative and award winning solutions to nationally recognized clients. Catapult Consultants utilizes our proven development and work flow methodology to support our customer base of government and non-profit clients. Our innovative solutions are designed to achieve results that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Our management team has extensive experience in all aspects of technology consulting.
About the Person
John Kimmins is Catapult’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In his 41 years of experience, John has served clients in Intelligence, Defense, Energy, Telecommunications, and Financial Services. His professional focus is in developing cyber security solutions and services and the evolution towards next generation networks. Prior to Catapult, John was Executive Director of a global cyber security consulting practice at Applied Communication Sciences (formerly Telcordia Technologies). He worked with governments, global service providers, international suppliers, utilities, financial services organizations and enterprises to identify vulnerabilities and implement tactical and strategic risk management approaches. He has pioneered security risk assessment methodologies for Smart Grid, Supply Chain Integrity, broadband networking, 3G/4G mobile technology and IPTV. He managed classified projects across multiple Agencies in the areas of and technology standards analysis. John has published on the vulnerabilities of different aspects of the global telecommunications network, and multi-media services. John has participated in standards and industry working groups to establish industry best practices. He received the prestigious Fellow Award for contributions to the security of the public telecommunications infrastructure. John holds a bachelors degree in operations research and an MBA degree in systems engineering. He is also a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP). John is a frequent speaker at global conferences discussing cyber security, protecting critical infrastructure and the overall impact of security on business and government.
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