Andy Woods, Vice President of Enterprise Managed Services at ECS

Andy Woods is the vice president of enterprise managed services at ECS, working out of Great Falls, Virginia. He is a cybersecurity and cloud executive with a business, communication, leadership, project management, and technical skill set, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Woods is the management consulting company’s lead executive in the execution of enterprise managed services in the areas of artificial intelligence/machine learning, cybersecurity and cloud. He has demonstrated the ability to develop worldwide security programs in tough regulatory environments to support the firm’s core business, his profile reveals.

Woods has been working at ECS for over six years. His current role sees him taking the lead in the company’s go-to-market strategies in AI/ML. His work encompasses sales, marketing, channels, sales engineering, corporate strategy, growth, delivery, technology integration, solution architecture, and research and development.

Before joining his current employer, Woods was the director of commercial cybersecurity at BAE Systems. During his year and a half with the company, he managed to establish a managed security service and professional service business. His efforts during this time were focused on critical infrastructure, the defense industrial base, supply chain management and key clients across sectors.

Earlier in his career, Woods served as a senior computer scientist with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Woods earned his degrees in computer science and mathematics from Mercer University. He later earned his master’s degree in information management from Syracuse University.