Chief Technology Officer
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tom Soderstrom serves as the IT Chief Technology Officer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where his mission is to identify and infuse new IT into JPL’s environment. Lately, he has sponsored an effort to bring cloud technologies to JPL and JPL to the cloud.
Tom has led remote teams and large-scale IT best-practices development and change efforts in small start-ups, large commercial companies, international venues, and the US government arena. Some of the companies he has worked for include Telos, enterWorks, User Technology Associates, Digital Island, Exodus, Cable & Wireless and Raytheon.
Tom has been both a frequent producer and consumer of advanced collaboration and engineering tools and practices, as his ventures have always included a highly distributed workforce that requires advanced collaboration practices. Cloud technologies promise to make this easier, but will they?