I’m Waldo David Landers Jaquith (JAKE-with). I live near Charlottesville, Virginia, with my wife and children.
Very Serious Bio
Waldo Jaquith is a technologist with extensive experience in the government, non-profit, and for-profit sectors. He’s Government Delivery Manager at U.S. Digital Response. During the Biden administration he was a presidential appointee at the U.S. General Services Administration, serving as Senior Advisor to the Administrator, followed by serving as a Special Government Employee at the U.S. Treasury, in the position of Director of IT Procurement for the Inflation Reduction Act. He’s previously served on the Biden-Harris Transition Team, at Georgetown University’s Intergovernmental Software Collaborative, and at 18F, in each case developing and promoting best practices for government procurement of major software projects. Previously, Jaquith ran U.S. Open Data, and worked for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Obama. He’s had fellowships from both the Knight Foundation and the Shuttleworth Foundation. He lives near Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife and children.
Reasonable-Human Bio
I’ve hiked most of the Appalachian Trail. I’ve won two VH1 Music Awards. I saved Al Gore’s life. I received the first-ever e-mailed subpoena. I caught Chris Anderson plagiarizing big chunks of his book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. I successfully fought off a subpoena that tried to unmask anonymous commenters on my blog (“are bloggers journalists?” etc.). I was a roadie for the Rolling Stones for three days. I won the 2011 Knight News Challenge. President Obama named me a “Champion for Change.” I used to work for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. I’ve held fellowships with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Shuttleworth Foundation, and the Beeck Center. I used to be the Director of U.S. Open Data. I worked at 18F for a few years, then Georgetown University, then GSA, and then the U.S. Treasury. I now work at U.S. Digital Response.
I can be emailed at [email protected].
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