White House Author
Rusty Pickens
Deputy Director for New Media Technologies
Rusty D. Pickens was the Deputy Director for New Media Technologies at the Executive Office of the President, Office of Administration where he helped oversee White House cloud computing platforms and strategy in addition to supporting the daily operations of the WhiteHouse.gov, email messaging services, and the We The People petitions system. Rusty's fifteen years of leadership experience aligning organizational vision with technology strategy across top federal agencies and start-up environments includes the U.S. Small Business Administration, the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee, Obama for America, and the Chickasaw Nation.