Joseph A. Eddy, Chief Strategy Officer
Joseph Eddy serves as Chief Strategy Officer for the U.S. Secret Service. Mr. Eddy leads the Office of Strategy, Planning, and Innovation (OSP), the organization’s internal strategic and analytical think tank. In that role he oversees activities including strategic planning, data governance, emerging capabilities assessment, acquisition planning, enterprise analytics, performance measurement, enterprise governance and evaluation, and records and knowledge management.
Before assuming his current position, Mr. Eddy served as the Deputy Chief Strategy Officer for Policy, Records, Analytics, and Evaluations within OSP. In addition to overseeing those functions, he served as the chair of the Enterprise Governance Council, a board consisting of senior executives from across the Secret Service tasked with identifying and assessing agency-wide initiatives and developing recommendations for consideration by agency leadership.
His federal career includes serving as a Supervisory Program Manager in the Secret Service’s Office of Protective Operations; Business and Finance Manager for the Office of Science and Engineering at the Department of Homeland Security – Science and Technology Directorate; and as Special Advisor Program Manager at the Secret Service.
Mr. Eddy has served in numerous other leadership roles throughout his 15-year career, including in the private sector as Science and Technology Program Manager. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and served as an active-duty Nuclear Surface Warfare Officer.
Mr. Eddy holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. He is also certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute.