Shawn Tyrie
Meet Shawn
Shawn Tyrie is a Partner at McChrystal Group. He leads engagements with clients across the federal, defense contracting, and commercial sectors.
These engagements are unified by their focus on building high-performing, resilient teams – and the leaders who lead them. He provides mission-focused technology experience with 20 years of management and leadership experience in the National Security, Intelligence Community, and Department of Defense sectors, focused on program management and implementation, strategy development, and systems engineering built on the context of intelligence community mission experience. This includes helping customers develop strategic vision, foster innovation, transform organizational workflows through the application of Information Technology (IT) and execute implementation plans over long-time horizons.
As a driven organizational architect with strong analytic skills and demonstrated ability to align organizational goals with strategic objectives, he captures requirements and data to thoughtfully position and deliver mission capability. Shawn also understands the complexity of concurrently addressing procurement, security and fiscal concerns within the government space. Shawn has significant experience in IT systems engineering and all aspects of the machine learning cycle, having developed targeting and cloud-based mission solutions for Amazon Web Services within their Intelligence Community practice. Shawn also served on Louisiana's Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (SIEC) in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, where he assisted in the redrafting of response and recovery protocols.
Before joining the private sector, Shawn served in the U.S. Army’s special operations community and as an Operations Officer in the U.S. Intelligence Community with extensive time in overseas postings. Shawn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from Louisiana State University, a Master of Science degree in the Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia, and is an MBA candidate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
B.A. Louisiana State University
M.S. University of Virginia
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The Greatest Threat: Transforming Federal Hiring and Retention
In the war for talent, the federal government is finding itself falling behind. This challenge is not new, but it has risen to a new level. What can the public sector do to attract and retain this new generation of workers?
