Michael Mestrovich
Senior Technology Officer for Innovation
DIA

Mr. Michael Mestrovich was appointed to the Defense Intelligence Senior Level position of senior technology officer for innovation within the Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Officer on August 18, 2008. As such, he leads the research and evaluation of next-generation information technology (IT) solutions for the Department of Defense (DoD) Intelligence Information System enterprise to identify IT products, tools, environments, systems, and methodologies for their applicability to improve the analytic process.

Prior to his present appointment, Mr. Mestrovich worked as a systems engineer for Cisco Systems, Inc., for 11 years. He provided network design and architectural support for various DoD entities in Europe, Southwest Asia, and Africa, to include European Command, Africa Command, Central Command, U.S. Army Forces Europe, U.S. Naval Forces Europe, U.S. Army Forces Central Command, and Multinational Forces-Iraq. He helped to author various design and deployment guides on such topics as Voice over Internet Protocol, virtual private networks, quality of service, and campus and wide area network (WAN) architectures for various organizations. He was the lead systems engineer for numerous networking projects: asynchronous transfer mode migrations to Gigabit Ethernet in support of the Combat Information Transport System, datacenter consolidations, WAN optimizations and application accelerations, and network security and optical network implementations.

Mr. Mestrovich is an active Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) in routing and switching, having achieved his certification in 2000. He obtained his bachelor’s of science degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1990 while on an Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship. He then attended Creighton University. where he received his master’s of science in atmospheric science in 1994.

Mr. Mestrovich served in the U.S. Air Force from 1991 - 1997. After completing Basic Communication Officer Training at Keesler Air Force Base, he was assigned to Strategic Command (STRATCOM) at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, from 1991 - 1994. He worked as a software engineer at STRATCOM developing targeting software for the Single Integrated Operation Plan. He was then assigned to HQ EUCOM, where he served as a communications engineer for the EUCOM J2 from 1994 to 1997.