Gulam is NARA's Acting Chief Information Officer, since Dec 2024. Previously, Gulam was NARA’s Chief Technology Officer from 2020. In his CTO role, Gulam established agency-wide enterprise technology architectures and provided program-level IT strategic direction to mission-critical programs.
Some of Gulam’s recent achievements include exploring options for the transfer of electronic records from various cloud sources, providing secure access to partners in external agencies, migrating legacy applications to the cloud, and advising on the modernization of legacy applications that process requests to veteran’s records.
Currently, as NARA's Chief AI Officer, Gulam is leading a few AI-related pilots to improve search within the National Archives Catalog, to detect personally identifiable information (PII) within NARA records before releasing it to the public, and to create an AI-assisted first draft of descriptive metadata for NARA’s records.
In the past, Gulam has served as NARA’s Chief Data Officer and as a System Architect within Information Services since 2016. Before joining NARA, Gulam served in various technical leadership roles at DataXu, Inc., Marchex, Inc., and IBM Corporation. He has a Master of Science degree in computer science from West Virginia University.
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