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New York, Ny, Us

C-Suite team member leading the development of artificial intelligence products in Federal and commercial markets, including leveraging commercial and government cloud providers. Serve as company thought leader via public speaking, publications, serving on expert panels, and news media interviews. Delivered technical AI solutions, valued between $200K to $10M, from conception through development and implementation in both Federal and commercial spheres. Led 15 different cross-functional projects with internal and external partnerships, shaped client demand, and cultivated leads for successful sales team hand-offs. Served as Thought Leader and company voice through public speaking, published 4 articles on AI and national security, selected as an expert witness on multiple government advisory panels, and interviewed by news outlets. Transitioned technical products developed for commercial clients into Federal market. Worked with clients to identify pain points, conceptualize solutions, and negotiate contracts for solution development and implementations.

Fairfax Station, Va, Us

Created and incorporated a 501(c)(3) charity, the Defense Intelligence Memorial Foundation (DIMF). The DIMF is a not-for-profit educational foundation distributing scholarship funds to the families of Defense Intelligence officers killed in the line of duty. Served as Chief Executive and fiduciary authority over contracts for bookkeeping, financial audits, legal support, and other paid services. Grew programs to include an annual fundraising dinner with over 250 attendees per event, identified 20+ eligible families, created 2 outreach programs, and awarded 3 scholarships. Sat 7-person board composed of venture capital and former intelligence senior executives. Established and cultivated individual donor and corporate sponsorships to raise $800K+ in funds to date, providing scholarships and covering operating costs. Built cause-advancing partnerships with corporate organizations from across the spectrum of industry to include the Washington Commanders, Carahsoft, Capital One, AWS, NextOp, and Tech Duels. The DIMF supports all elements of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, to include the: Defense Intelligence Agency National Security Agency National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency National Reconnaissance Office Service Intelligence Components Combatant Commands

Washington, D.C., Us

Directed collaborative briefing team delivering intelligence products and supporting DoD Presidential appointees and senior executive leadership. Cultivated supportive relationships across agency portfolios and senior leadership. Headed resource allocation and people management to help employees meet performance objectives without personnel grievances. Supervised 20 Federal employees in the execution of daily intelligence briefings for the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary, Undersecretary for Policy, General Counsel, Undersecretary for Intelligence and Security, Undersecretary for Research and Engineering, Undersecretary for Acquisition and Sustainment, and other DoD principals. Advised on the technical implementation of the DIA classified iPad program and electronic feedback systems of record.

Washington, D.C., Us

Competitively selected to map-out, organize, resource, build, and grow artificial intelligence (AI) portfolio across the Defense Intelligence Agency. Spearheaded program development and execution from robotic process automation to large-scale AI implementations. Directed 8 AI projects with complex elements, including technical execution, milestones, and performance metrics on multiple contract vehicles. Performed in-depth review of processes, data, algorithms, and automations to identify gaps and establish a $20M venture capital function inside the agency. Secured mission owner and stakeholder buy-in and executed AI solutions for mission success. Authored a future-focused, comprehensive AI Strategy charting an agency wide 5-year investment pipeline. Consolidated divergent approaches and processes across the department into a single document to identify gaps and future investment opportunities. Won Federal Computer Week’s Federal 100 Award for industry outreach and applying AI in national security missions. First person in DIA’s history to earn this award. Established relationships with vendors and external stakeholders to identify cutting-edge AI capabilities and secure investment as part of outreach strategy. Included creating a widely distributed AI Newsletter highlighting business opportunities at DIA and across the DoD and appearing at 17 public speaking events in close partnership with DIA Public Affairs. DIA Relationship Manager for Defense Innovation Unit, National Technical Information Service, and Air Force Research Laboratory contracts and memorandums of agreement.

Washington, D.C., Us

Held budgetary authority over $1.75M and management oversight for team of 15 individuals. Managed 2 contracts focused on synthetic opioid producers around the globe and Dark Web activity analysis. Created Artificial Intelligence program, SABLE SPEAR. Within first year identified 14K+ illegal opioid producers around the world and wrote intelligence products on operations and distribution activities. Gave speech at DoDIIS Worldwide 2019 conference on expanding AI into national intelligence, syndicated across multiple media and news channels. Created a novel data discovery tool coalescing all known Dark Web VPNs into a single query engine of interconnected Dark Net activity. Successfully enabled early detection of criminal activity and collaboration across law enforcement and intelligence.

Washington, D.C., Us

Washington, D.C., Us

Worked in Command Element to optimize performance of Enterprise-wide programs. Leveraged and pursued agency’s core strategic objectives by tracking KPIs and metrics to identify areas of improvement. Briefed and counseled senior leadership on improvement opportunities and performance. Led interdisciplinary team to develop methodology for DIA’s Enterprise Risk Framework identifying over 500 threats, mitigation measures, opportunities, and delivered briefs to DIA executives to inform decision making. Program endures as primary input to budgetary formulation and approval process. Designed and ran Senior Military Intelligence Officers Conference (SMIOC) with 200+ senior level attendees. Within three months designed, organized, oversaw logistics, led preparation, execution day, and wrap up for flawless event execution. Conducted 4-month in-depth data analysis resulting in ~$20M of savings on superfluous studies and program redundancies. Compiled data from across department databases to identify discrepancies in reporting and cost reporting for 200+ studies.

Washington, D.C., Us

Worked in emerging and disruptive technologies, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and weapons of mass destruction. Promoted to acting Senior Intelligence Analyst due to high performance in All-Source intelligence. Managed contracts with budget, performance, and staffing responsibilities for operational activities in cyberspace, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, and counterintelligence. Briefed multiple White House and Pentagon principals to deliver and explain analytic intelligence product insights. Served as Executive Support Office Briefer for 14 customers, the most of anyone else in the history of the office. Led team of 15 government and contract analysts performing threat, opportunity, and predictive analysist on worldwide advanced technology, counterproliferation, and cybersecurity topics. Selected for Joint Information Review Task Force 2 responsible for consequence appraisal and mission impact analysis.

Worldwide, Oo

Brought on as Senior Consultant and quickly promoted to Manager. Led efforts as Strategic Planner and Organizational Communications Specialist focused on collaboration strategies and technologies. Primary engagements aimed to enhance collaboration within the Intelligence Community using full suite of tools in classified and unclassified environments, eChirp, Intelink blogs, SharePoint, Intellipedia, and more. Founded and governed Program Manager, developing and implementing A-Space, a collaborative platform featured in Time Magazine as one of the Most Innovative Technologies in 2008. Worked with numerous Intelligence Community elements to include the Office of the Director for National Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Marine Corps Intelligence Agency, and others to optimize technical solutions for collaboration challenges. Served as personal cybersecurity and collaboration strategic advisor to the first Director of the National Cyber Security Center (now known as CISA). Spearheaded program development and optimization of D.Wiki, a collaboration platform for Deloitte consultants. Success of which led to platform adoption by the global firm and rolled out worldwide to 270K+ users, as well as gaining endorsement by Deloitte’s Global CEO. Managed contract performance, personnel, and $2M+ budgets for simultaneous projects. Headed CIA’s ID8 Knowledge Management, Innovation Strategy & Implementation Team

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Applied advanced strategic planning methodologies for current and future challenges for commercial and government clients. Provided change management services, business process refinement, human talent planning, Congressional issue management, and consulting support for C-suite commercial and SES-level government executives. Expertise in Alternative Worlds methodologies, crisis communications, communications planning and implementation, scenario-based planning, executive coaching, and strategic and tactical threat analysis. Clients included: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defense Intelligence Agency, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a Fortune 50 defense and aerospace corporation, and a large surface transportation corporation.

Alexandria, Va, Us

Executed end-to-end analysis of political-military issues, platform-to-threat match analysis, and scenario-based planning. Identified issues, challenges, developed metrics, coordinated with partner companies and client, briefed and constructed presentations and white-papers concerning military systems, policy analysis, and strategic planning. Areas of special interest include effect-based operations, nuclear strategic planning, intelligence, alternative futures, and scenario construction and execution. Clients included: Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lockheed-Martin, Department of the Navy, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

Under DynCorp/CSC's Arms Control and Threat Reduction Division, served as personal consultant to SES-level decisionmaker on-site at the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, Joint and Institutional Programs. Worked specifically on defense weapons (conventional and nuclear), homeland security, and Congressional issues under the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD), Work for Others, and Technology Partnership Programs

Us

Responsible for end-to-end Federal contract process, including soliciting, evaluating, negotiating, and awarding contracts with commercial organizations, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and State, local or foreign governments for furnishing products, services, construction or research and development to the Federal Government.

Washington, Dc, Dc, Us

Staff assistant for the Front Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs (Charlie Craigin)

Washington, Dc, Us

Served then-Congressman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

Master'S Degree, Security Studies

Ba, Political Science And Women & Gender Studies

High School