About Jon
Jon has worked in the IT department for most of his 29 years with the Cherokee Nation. Jon is currently the Information Security Director and was recently assigned to that position after Cherokee Nation decided there was a need for an information security team. Jon served the last nine years as the CIO of Information Technology and as the Executive Director for five years prior to that. His strengths include: IT security, networking, routing, Microsoft domain architecture, data infrastructure and engineering, Cisco VoIP as well as database programming in various languages and applications.
Jon has a Computer Science Degree from Northeastern State University located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma . Having served in the United States Air Force, he got his first exposure to mainframe computers in 1984 and has been working with computers and computer systems ever since. He is Vice President of the Oklahoma Native American Technology Council, a member of InfraGard, MS-ISAC, Tulsa CIO Forum and various other organizations.
The Cherokee Nation headquarters is located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The reservation of the Cherokee Nation covers over 7,000 square miles and a total of 14 counties in northeast Oklahoma. The wide area network strategically covers this area with support from over 65 staff in the Information Technology team which will later include an information security team. These staff members support over 4500 employees with all of their data and telecommunications needs.
Event Leadership Profile
2023 Central Regional Tribal Technology Forum
