Jay Olsen has more than 25 years as a technical leader in the federal and commercial consulting markets. He leads the Application Services consulting practice at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). As the Director of Application Services he leads the go-to-market strategy in the areas of Agile, DevOps, Human-centered Design and Cloud-native software development with a focus on developing solutions to solve our customer critical needs.
Jay has extensive experience in the areas program/project management, full lifecycle application development and solution architecture. He previously was the chief technology officer for the Health division and served as program manager at SRA International where he led complex software modernization projects for Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.
Jay has a bachelors in Computer Information Systems from James Madison University and is a Certified Scrum Master, ITIL Certified and has a Computer Graphics Design Certification from the Corcoran School of Art.