{"id":10276,"date":"2020-06-16T06:21:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/?p=10276"},"modified":"2020-06-22T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T16:47:37","slug":"jim-rinaldi-chief-it-advisor-former-cio-of-the-nasa-jet-propulsion-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/jim-rinaldi-chief-it-advisor-former-cio-of-the-nasa-jet-propulsion-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Rinaldi: Chief IT Advisor &#038; former CIO of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14791787\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ITsmiths-Jim-Rinaldi.jpg\" rel='magnific'><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10277 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ITsmiths-Jim-Rinaldi.jpg\" alt=\"ITsmiths - Jim Rinaldi\" width=\"492\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ITsmiths-Jim-Rinaldi.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ITsmiths-Jim-Rinaldi-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ITsmiths-Jim-Rinaldi-239x200.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ITsmiths-Jim-Rinaldi-477x400.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After we all just watched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a> launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\">SpaceX<\/a> rocket in May of this year\u2026 when you think of one of the coolest places to work, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a> has to be one of them, right?<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s guest, <a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jamesrinaldi\/\">Jim Rinaldi<\/a>, not only got to work there\u2026 but was the CIO for 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not all\u2026 Before working at JPL, Jim was the CIO for both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/\">FDA<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/\">IRS<\/a>, and was a Senior Vice President at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marriott.com\/default.mi\">Marriott<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But before all that, Jim was just a normal kid, raised by a single mom in Birmingham, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Jim\u2019s story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After we all just watched the NASA launch of the SpaceX rocket in May of this year\u2026 when you think of one of the coolest places to work, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has to be one of them, right?<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/jim-rinaldi-chief-it-advisor-former-cio-of-the-nasa-jet-propulsion-laboratory\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[964],"tags":[965,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}