Mark Washington

At Johns Hopkins, Mark A. Washington serves as a lecturer in the MS in Geographic Information Systems program. He has taught GIS for Infrastructure Management since 2019, providing graduate students with opportunities to apply GIS technologies to real-world challenges involving facilities operations, infrastructure planning, real estate, architecture, design and construction, sustainability, utilities, building and space management, and emerging geospatial technologies.

Washington is the Director of Information Technology for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., where he leads strategic and tactical technology planning and the evaluation, deployment, and management of information technology systems and services. He works closely with university leaders and constituents to translate organizational needs into technology strategies, applications, business processes, and technical solutions while supporting information security, disaster recovery, and the university’s broader enterprise technology direction.

Previously, Washington served as Senior Manager of Information Technology for Johns Hopkins Facilities and Real Estate and was the founding architect of the Johns Hopkins Geographic Information System for infrastructure and utility management. The enterprise GIS supported stakeholders across Johns Hopkins University and Medicine in areas including design and construction, engineering, facilities operations, sustainability, utilities, real estate, and emergency response. He also developed mobile mapping solutions for emergency response and collaborated with university staff and consultants on GIS enhancement initiatives.

Washington has more than three decades of information technology leadership experience in higher education, including technology leadership positions at Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania. At Princeton, he led information technology initiatives for Facilities and Real Estate Services and launched the university’s Facilities GIS in 2006. He also served for more than six years as an adjunct faculty member at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey, teaching information technology courses.

Washington earned a DSc in cybersecurity from Marymount University, an MS from Rutgers University, and a BA in business administration from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He is also a United States Marine Corps veteran.