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Mark Jablonowski
The story of a 21-year-old presidential CTO
Follow my journey from taking time off of college and interning for the Obama campaign to becoming the chief technology officer for the Presidential Inaugural Committee and founding my own Washington, DC based consulting firm.
Discover the technology and age-related challenges I faced, the raw numbers of the Obama campaign's technology operation, and the story of a young Alaskan playing an important role on the Obama campaign.
About Mark Jablonowski:
Mark is the Founder and CEO of Rogue Global Solutions, a premiere technology strategy firm for political, governmental, and international organizations.
Prior to founding Rogue, Jablonowski was the Chief Technology Officer at the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC), the organization that created the most open and accessible inauguration in American history. At the Inaugural Committee, Mark was responsible for the oversight of all technical, communication, and data matters. With time as the primary obstacle, he employed cutting edge technology to greatly reduce deployment time and cost for an enterprise IT infrastructure. Before the PIC, Mark joined Obama for America at the beginning of the New Hampshire primary. He traveled the country managing regional IT operations until he landed at headquarters as the IT Special Projects Manager and Regional IT Director, where he was responsible for multi-million dollar contract negotiations and implementing innovative technology solutions.
Also, during the 2008 election cycle, Mark helped to found Atlas Voter Protection, an online tool that the Obama campaign used to manage their voter protection operation.
Prior to joining the Obama Campaign, Jablonowski ran his own technical consulting company that catered to local candidates and small businesses. In the 2004 election cycle, Mark was the IT Manager for the Tony Knowles for US Senate campaign.
At 22 years of age, Mark consistently turns heads for the scale and quality of the projects that he successfully tackles. Even at such a young age, he has been providing technical solutions for nearly a decade and has been involved with progressive politics for over five years. From providing strategy to help get local progressives elected, to managing all of the technical aspects for the nation's largest inauguration, he has a wide variety of experience.
Mark is a native of Anchorage, Alaska and is an avid backcountry skier.
