Dr. Victor Udoewa

Dr. Victor Udoewa is a Service Design Lead in the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology at the CDC, in charge of the design of all AI/ML and data interoperability products and services. Before that, he was the Chief Technology Officer, Chief Experience Officer, and Service Design Lead of the NASA Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Research (SBIR/STTR) Programs. Before NASA, he was Director of Strategy at 18F, a civic consultancy for and inside the federal government. He started the education business unit, developed a line of educational products and services, directed strategy, managed the digital strategists’ practice, and served as a designer and strategist on partner projects. Previously, as a Global Education Instructional Designer and Training Development Specialist at Google, he designed learning experiences for people in low-to-middle-income countries around the world. The education could range from experiences covering how to develop web applications and how to use the internet to improve teaching and learning, to experiences exploring how to use internet technologies in post-disaster emergency response situations as well as global digital literacy. As a part of that work, he also advised Google in global energy and access work. Prior to Google, Victor served at USAID and DHS as a science & technology policy advisor and development engineer, focusing on infrastructure, post-disaster reconstruction, and global health. He still conducts and publishes engineering, design, or education research and is a certified health crisis and trauma counselor. Pre-COVID, he enjoyed singing in his male a cappella group and teaching salsa classes on the weekend. He still enjoys time with his wonderful family and his local choir.