Andrew Seely

Andrew “Andy” Seely has 30 years of experience designing, developing, and delivering Information Technology solutions, spanning systems administration, software development, engineering, architecture, entrepreneurship, education, professional development, and leadership in commercial, academic, government, and military settings in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Andy is currently the Director of Architecture and Engineering at MindPoint Group.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE, where he volunteers in multiple roles, including: Vice Chair of the Florida West Coast Section (FWCS), Region 3 Senior Membership Advancement Coordinator, Secretary for IEEE Standards Association P1228 working group for software safety, and a member of IEEE’s 2019 Congressional Visits Delegation. Andy is also a founding member of the U.S. Government Communities of Interest ad-hoc committee and he leads the international IEEE Student Volunteer Program pilot.

Andy is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Life Member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post 424, and he is the lead volunteer for the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) outreach program for the Tampa chapter of the American Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces.

Andy’s technical experience spans multiple customers, markets, and technical domains. His previous roles include 13 years at SAIC as the Vice President for Solution Architecture for National Security and Space, the leader of the SAIC Fellows program, Solution Director for Digital Transformation, Solution Architect for multiple customers and internal projects, and Engineering Division Manager, Chief Engineer, and Command and Control Systems team lead for the Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) Enterprise Support Contract at the Headquarters, United States Central Command on MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Previous to working with SAIC, Andy worked in systems, engineering, and leadership roles on large defense contracts for Computer Sciences Corporation, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics, as well as “dot-comming” as a self-employed consultant and for San Mateo, California start-up There.com. Andy served in the U.S. Air Force for seven years as a computer systems operator at duty stations in Mississippi, Korea, and Germany.

He also teaches Computer and Information Science courses for the distance education program at the University of Maryland Global Campus, where he has taught programming and operating systems courses for over 20 years in the classroom and online. Andy also served as Lecturer for two and a half years in the Information and Technology Management department at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida, where he taught information systems and application development courses, and he was a visiting professor for the System Administration graduate program in the Technology, Art, and Design department at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences in Oslo, Norway.

Andy was a regular contributor for the USENIX Association publication “;login:”, where he was a columnist for two years writing about managing technical teams. He was a Program Committee member for the 2012 and 2018 Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conferences, he has been both committee and board member for the USENIX Summit for Education in System Administration, and he was the annual chair of LISA’s Government and Military systems administration workshop from 2008 through 2017. He was also the chairman for the Global Command and Control Systems Administration and Engineering international conference in 2005 and 2010 and a committee member in 2007.

Andy holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of Maryland University College in Heidelberg, Germany, and a master’s degree in Computer Science from Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. His master’s thesis explored novel approaches to modeling neural networks.

Andy is a Florida native and grew up in Inglis, Florida. He is married to Heather from Ocala, Florida, and has two sons, Marek and Ivo, both born in Tampa. Andy has been profiled in regional newspapers and radio stations as the author of the popular local food blog “Tampa Bay Breakfasts” (http://www.tampabaybreakfasts.com/).