[2] In September 2014, VanRoekel announced that he would leave the Office of Management and Budget and return to USAID to advise the agency on technology matters in its response to the Ebola outbreak.

[3] VanRoekel worked for Microsoft in various capacities from 1994 to 2009,[4] including a stint as Speech and Strategy Assistant to Bill Gates, the corporation's co-founder, and as Senior Director of the Windows Server division.

[6] VanRoekel began his public sector career in 2009 as the Managing Director of the Federal Communications Commission where he oversaw all operational, technical, financial, and human resource aspects of the agency.

He oversaw the relaunch of the agency's web presence into an open-source based, cloud powered platform,[7] launched a Twitter account that grew to more than 400,000 followers,[8] launched the first federal "developer" website, crowd-sourcing data with help from citizens for projects like the National Broadband Map,[9] and became the first[10] agency to accept public comment via social media tools.

[12] Before he was named CIO, he was the Executive Director of Citizen and Organizational Engagement at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).