Shawn Purvis is sector vice president and general manager for the Cyber division of Northrop Grumman’s Information Systems. The division is responsible for delivering cyber and security solutions to intelligence, defense, federal, state and international customers. Key capabilities for the division include global provisioning of full spectrum cybersecurity to include IT infrastructure and architectural design and services; command and control deployment and operations; intelligence collection; net-centric cloud-enabled data distribution and storage; data analytics and development of intelligence products with web-enabled collaboration and visualization. Ms. Purvis has 20 years of experience in the global security, intelligence, information systems and defense industry.
Prior to her current position, Ms. Purvis was vice president of the Integrated Intelligence Systems (IIS) business unit in the former Intelligence Systems division. In this role, Ms. Purvis was responsible for all aspects of the $500 million IIS business, including strategy, growth, customer relationships and program execution. The division had broad capabilities centered on the successful delivery of information technology solutions to solve key customer processing, exploitation, and dissemination requirements.
Ms. Purvis holds Bachelor’s of Science in computer science from Hampton University and a Master’s of Science in information systems from George Mason University. She also earned a program management certification and graduated from the Executive Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.