Sarah Fahden
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Sarah Fahden is currently the Chief of the Identity Records and National Security Division within the Office of Information Technology (OIT). In this role, Ms. Fahden is responsible for managing the all USCIS applications and staff associated with the Records, Identity, Verification, and Fraud Detection and National Security portfolios. Ms. Fahden has more than 20 years of experience working within the Information Technology (IT) field, mostly specializing in IT Security and agile software development. Some of her most notable accomplishments at USCIS specifically, include standing up a successful Ongoing Authorization Program, which included Continuous Monitoring for all of USCIS; modernizing the E-Verify and SAVE applications in the cloud; as well as, building new data driven, machine learning approaches to managing, organizing and cleansing USCIS data at an enterprise level in order to produce more accurate responses to queries. Ms. Fahden is most best known for implementing very forward-leaning technological solutions using Devops/agile/open source/cloud approaches, in addition to forward leaning acquisition strategies.
