Nelson, David

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) data breach Chief Information Officer (CIO), Aug 2016 – present. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data breach CIO, hired specifically to fix cybersecurity at HealthCare.gov; Feb 2014 – Aug 2016.

No IT education. Only a bachelor's degree in business management from the University of Phoenix; see The Most Important IT Credential: An IT Education in Principles of IT Incompetence. Not only is that not an IT education, it is a fake education. The University of Phoenix — nothing officially to do with the City of Phoenix Arizona, although that association was probably fraudulently intended — is a notorious for-profit college providing worthless educations, to employers who are even a little knowledgeable, and worthless degrees, to those few who can afford to pay the exorbitant tuition long enough to get one; see No IT Education: For-Profit and Community Colleges, Other Training in Principles of IT Incompetence. The federal government would not provide educational loans to those attending U Phoenix, so should not accept an education from it as a qualification for a government job, particularly one protecting the lives of millions. (See also Sean Gallagher, NASA Glenn Research Center post data breach CIO.) Nelson has no other college.

$199,300 is Nelson's most recent annual salary as of Aug 2021 according to my FOIA request to the NRC. This is outrageous. Most doctors and lawyers don't make that much and, unlike Nelson, they are at least qualified; by law they have to be. $177,061 was Nelson's annual salary when he left CMS in Aug 2016 according to my FOIA request to the CMS. Even that salary was outrageous. Nelson is clearly just climbing the government job ladder seeking the most outrageous salary he can get.

From Ransomwared Nuclear Power Plants Upwind of Major U.S. Cities:

The CIO of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is the government official responsible for stopping nuclear power plant hackers. The NRC is an independent agency of the federal government responsible for the safety and security of nuclear power plants. The NRC may have been hacked in The Doomsday Microsoft Government Email Data Breach or Doomsday II: The Massive Microsoft Email Data Breach Sequel.

The CIO of the NRC, for the last 5 years (since Aug 2016), is David Nelson, who is IT incompetent. Nelson only has a bachelor's degree in business management from the University of Phoenix. Not only is that not an IT education — see The Most Important IT Credential: An IT Education in Principles of IT Incompetence — it is a fake education. The University of Phoenix — nothing officially to do with the City of Phoenix Arizona, although that association was probably fraudulently intended — is a notorious for-profit college providing worthless educations, to employers who are even a little knowledgeable, and worthless degrees, to those few who can afford to pay the exorbitant tuition long enough to get one. The federal government would not provide educational loans to those attending U Phoenix, so should not accept an education from it as a qualification for a government job, particularly one protecting the lives of millions. Nelson has no other college.

Before David Nelson became CIO of the NRC, he was for 2 years (from Feb 2014) CIO of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which was hacked; see The Doomsday Microsoft Government Email Data Breach and Microsoft Guilty But Protected by NSA, AB PAC, India, and DelBenes. CMS oversees the HealthCare.gov website. In fact, David Nelson was specifically hired as CIO of CMS to fix the cybersecurity of the HealthCare.gov website. But the HealthCare.gov website was hacked from its launch in Oct 2013 to Sep 2015 — see HealthCare.gov Hacked — while Nelson was CIO of CMS and unbeknownst to him.

So, David Nelson, the CIO of the NRC, responsible for stopping nuclear power plant hackers, who could kill millions, has no college education and has already put at risk millions seeking healthcare.

From Nuclear 9/11:

Nuclear power plant companies are overseen directly by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an independent agency of the U.S. Government that is already notorious for its incompetence and corruption. The NRC Chief Information Officer (CIO) would naturally be responsible for the cybersecurity oversight. David Nelson is (2016 – present) NRC CIO and also has no IT education so is IT incompetent; he only has a bachelor's degree in business management from the University of Phoenix, which itself is a notorious for-profit college providing fake educations. The NRC may have been hacked while Nelson was CIO in The Doomsday Microsoft Government Email Data Breach, and before that Nelson did cybersecurity for HealthCare.gov, during which time it was hacked; see HealthCare.gov Hacked. I wrote about David Nelson in Ransomwared Nuclear Power Plants Upwind of Major U.S. Cities, and then added him to the Government IT Incompetents Hall Of Shame.