WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman today announced two new senior appointments by naming Ingrid Kolb as Director of the Office of Management and Tom Pyke as Chief Information Officer for the Department of Energy (DOE).
“Our employees are among the best and brightest in the federal government and I’m pleased that Tom and Ingrid will carry on our tradition of excellence in public service,” Secretary Bodman said.
As the Director of the Office of Management, Ms. Kolb will lead an organization comprised of nearly 260 employees and a budget of $55 million, with responsibility for providing project management and acquisition services to the agency that consists of 15,000 federal and 101,000 contract employees.
Ms. Kolb has most recently served in the Department of Energy as the Deputy Director in the office that she will now lead. Previously, she served as the Chief of Staff to the Chief Financial Officer at the Department of Homeland Security and the Chief of Staff in the Department of Energy’s Office of Management, Budget and Evaluation where she managed the department’s implementation of the President’s Management Agenda.
Prior to coming to the Department of Energy, Ms. Kolb served seven years in the Department of Education as the Director of the Training and Development Center. Prior to that, she served two years as the Acting Deputy Director for Drug Demand Reduction at the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), under Presidents Bush and Clinton. Before joining ONDCP, Ms. Kolb served five years in a number of administrative and management roles in the Department of Education. She began her career at the Office of Personnel Management, where she served from 1983-1986.
Ms. Kolb received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Sweet Briar College in 1979.
Mr. Pyke comes to the Department of Energy from the Department of Commerce where he has been the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the last four years. As CIO for the Department of Energy, Mr. Pyke will be responsible for guiding the department’s effective use of information technology (IT) and for managing the department's IT resources, with an annual budget of more than $2.8 billion. He also will be responsible for fulfilling key initiatives of the President’s Management Agenda.
At the Department of Commerce, Mr. Pyke was a senior manager of information technology for over 40 years. He served as Chief Information Officer at the Commerce Department since 2001, and led major improvements in the department’s IT security posture and IT planning and capital investment review processes, with an IT budget of $1.5 billion. Previously, Mr. Pyke was CIO and Director for High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Director of the GLOBE Program, leading an interagency team to create an international environmental science and education program now involving over 16,000 schools in 109 countries.
Mr. Pyke began his career at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology), where he was Director of the Center for Computer Systems Engineering and then Director of the Center for Programming Science and Technology. He joined NOAA as Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services, a post he held for six years prior to becoming NOAA Director for HPCC and then NOAA’s first CIO.
Mr. Pyke earned a BSEE as a Westinghouse Scholar from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and a MSE in Computer Systems as a Ford Foundation Fellow from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of more than 40 technical papers and reports and has lectured widely at conferences and symposiums. He has received numerous awards, including the Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award; two Presidential Meritorious Rank Awards; and is listed in Who's Who in America. Mr. Pyke is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, AAAS, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Omicron Delta Kappa, and is a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences, from which he received the Engineering Science Award.
