Currently co-founder and CTO of Blink Identity, a Texas-based company specializing in facial recognition technology that identifies people at a full walking speed. Creator of the technology that modernizes access control for a wide variety of industries, including live events, commercial enterprises, healthcare, and others. Recently completed Techstars Music Accelerator with Blink Identity, leading to a national partnership with Live Nation/Ticketmaster, developing pilot programs with their revolutionary facial recognition system.Early military officer career, including management of the $12M Air Force basic research program in Computer Science. Post Air Force, built advanced training software for large enterprises, such as Dell and USAA, producing solutions used by tens of thousands of large company employees. Developed microcontroller solutions for DARPA, as well as applied research in the areas of intelligent training systems, social network analysis, intelligent agents, and knowledge-based systems.Commercializing biometric technology is current focus, having developed a number of biometric security and access control software products purchased by Government of Iraq and the Government of Afghanistan in use today. This includes the biometric security system for the Jordan Police Academy (used to train Iraqi Police), the largest police academy in the world. Served as the technical lead on the Afghan and Iraqi national fingerprint databases, as well as the lead for deployment of thousands of biometric collection stations in Iraq and Afghanistan.A frequently requested speaker on a variety of emerging technology and privacy issues including a focus on the use of the internet for teaching, training, interoperability standards, web technologies, and biometrics; recently published in Forbes.com.