Kent, Suzette
Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO), the top IT job in the
U.S. Government, Feb 2018 – Jul 2020. Corrupt Enron
financier J.P. Morgan, Aug 2008 – Jul 2015. IT
incompetent Accenture, Jun 1990 – Dec 2004.
No IT education. An
IT education is the most important IT credential and
Louisiana State University says Kent only has a BA in
journalism and Kent's LinkedIn page says she only has a BA in
advertising and marketing. According to my FOIA request
(response of Jun 2020) to the U.S. Office of Management and
Budget, Kent only has a "Bachelor or Arts — School or
Mass Communication-Journalism/Advertising with dual minor in
Latin and Psychology".
$165,300 is Kent's most recent annual salary as of Feb
2019 according to my FOIA request to the U.S. Office of
Personnel Management (OPM). This is outrageous. Many doctors
and lawyers don't make that much and, unlike Kent, they are at
least qualified; by law they have to be.
See my original article about Kent:
You're
Fired! Trump's Worst Hire Ever: IT Incompetent Fed CIO Suzie
Kent.
Later I discovered Kent previously worked for IT incompetent
Accenture, a leading provider of IT services to the
U.S. Government, but went through the business-government
revolving door; see
Principles
of IT Incompetence (IT Hiring: Government, Business, and the
Revolving Door). Accenture used to be part of Arthur
Andersen, a top-five accounting firm that worked for Enron but
was dissolved, just after it spun off Accenture, after it was
found criminally complicit in Enron's massive fraud.
See
Fed
IT Run By Enron's Corrupt Accountant, IT Incompetent
Accenture. Accenture has spawned numerous IT incompetent
government IT officials, like
John Edwards and
Nicole
Dean. Additionally, Kent worked for J.P. Morgan, which
paid out over $2 billion in fines and legal settlements for
financing Enron.
Kent "retired" as Federal CIO in Jul 2020 — she's years
away from real retirement — but was suspiciously vague
about where she was going to work next. This may be because
she is violating federal law — Title 18 (crimes and
criminal procedure) of U.S. Code, § 207 (restrictions on
former officers, employees, and elected officials of the
executive and legislative branches) — and working for
one of the companies she dealt with when she was Federal CIO,
like
Accenture,
Booz
Allen,
Proofpoint,
etc. One more turn of the
illegal
revolving door.