Norman Adkins leads a multi-disciplinary team of data engineers, data scientists, data modelers, database administrators, and data analysts responsible for the agency's scientific data platform, large-scale cloud infrastructure, and enterprise data management strategy. Norman Adkins work centers on modernizing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) data ecosystem - transitioning from embedded monolithic systems to cloud-based architectures and advancing microservices-ready data domain structures to support reproducible science and AI readiness.

Over his federal career, Norman has held senior roles spanning data management, scientific computing, program analysis, internal controls, and IT operations. He currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Information Technology Security Division at the EPA. He previously served as the Associate Director for the Scientific Computing and Data Curation Division, when he helped established the division’s IT and data foundation and expanded EPA’s adoption of scalable cloud and ML-ready technologies. He also previously served as an IT Operations Manager at Cisco Systems where he stood up a Data Analytics practice that supported the company’s board of directors and their need to manage company risk. Before Cisco Systems, he worked in other federal agencies including a prior stint at the EPA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Norman Adkins has a Masters Degree from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a Masters Certificate in Data Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a certified Scrum Master, and holds a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.