Reality Defender detects deepfakes and AI-generated content for enterprises, platforms, and governments.

AI and Defense industrial base analyst; focusing on Voice AI, OSINT, Deepfakes, and Cognitive Warfare. My thought piece on AI and OSINT is the leading user published article on Rain AI+ Defense's site.

Silvereye is a Cloud Distributor with a division that does AI strategy and systems integration, another that does cybersecurity value-added reselling and marketing, for the US Government, Federal Systems Integrators, the Defense Industrial Base and the Intelligence Community.Sourced and closed a $1M+ cybersecurity deal with the NNSA (DOE) in September 2024.Led ETL project that collated all visually confirmed Russian equipment losses from the Russo-Ukraine war into a structured dataset (available on my GitHub link) using BeautifulSoup, Python, Pandas, and DataFrames. Created viral marketing memes (see examples from my portfolio on this page) that have seen 18%+ response (sic) rates. I have created, executed on, and received follow on contracts for marketing campaigns that total ~120k per year of marketing development funds from our partners, including Carahsoft.I lead our work to solve the automatic speech recognition problem for the FAA and USAF, and our allies. Ask me or the leadership at www.gov-acq.com for more on how to unlock air traffic speech.Sourced and closed $1M+ in net new business with the US Government in 2023. Closed $400k net new cybersecurity deal via Batelle for the National Labs, in 2024.Onboarded and managed first inside sales rep hire; who sourced ~$150k in new pipeline in 2023, and $180k in 2024.

Founding Federal sales rep, 17th employee of an In-Q-Tel portfolio company.As a business scientist, I curated datasets to train deep learning models to unlock critical speech data to support missions within DoD and Civilian agencies. Sourced and closed a $1M dollar deal with the Intelligence Community. Landed 1st Federal System Integrator deal. Hunted 1st allied Government deal. Through my work, Deepgram, our partners, and NASA produced the best performing speech recognition model on NASA’s space-to-ground audio. At 94%+ we become the very first vendor to score higher than 78% (WRR) Word Recognition Rate on NASAs validation set of astronaut speech data from the ISS. Thousands of NASA acronyms? Done. Landed NASA logo, then expanded to multiple NASA organizations, including Neutral Buoyancy Lab. Our work garnered a panel and speaking spot at NVIDIA GTC 2022.Partner manager for; In-Q-Tel, NVIDIA, Carahsoft, Government Acquisitions Inc. Registered Deepgram on Sam.gov and for a CAGE code.

IBM's sales lead for Bluemix: a Platform as a Service (PaaS) including APIs and software development tools and infrastructure, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Cyber Security and Threat Intelligence (X-Force).Via Bluemix, customers could consume Watson APIs including; Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision.Prospected white space application development shops and scheduled conversations to understand client needs and goals, ~2 meeting a week average. I assisted with the creation of Prototypes, Minimally Viable Products, and Network Architecture Proof of Concepts to progress opportunities from 'art of the possible' conversations to working software applications. Written proposals to federal RFIs and RFPs as SME lead for the proposal writing and capture managers team, in the ~$400k - $1.5M ranges.Partnered along many of the major GWACs, and contract vehicles. NASA SEWP, FirstSource, GSA Schedule 70. I’ve advised and trouble shot multiple software development projects executed by our clients using IBM APIs. Popular with the engineers :)

Designed chess curriculum for annual chess programs at 12+ elementary schools. Maintained discipline over large groups (60+) of children ages 7 - 10, and parents and faculty.Led three separate schools to place in the top five schools at the Virginia scholastic chess championships.Featured on DC 101 as prominent promoter of scholastic chess

Sold solutions including virtualization, data storage, cyber security and mobility to federal agencies, DoD and Civilian, as well as Federal Systems Integrators. Hunted multiple net new logos of $250k deals year over year.Lead proposal writer for RFQs, RFPs, and RFIs respondes for Federal customers, tracked orders and managed teaming agreements along several different contract vehicles - GSA 70, SEWP, and others.Onboarded new sales members, managed vendor relationships, and attended workshops and IT conferences. Traveled for outside sales opportunities approximately 25% of the time.Promoted to Project Manager for: Deployment and management of company's internal VMware suite. VMware Certified Professional 5. Serves as company strategic partnership manager - works with manufacturer channel managers to provide sales and technical sales support for campaigns. 50 cold calls per day. Liaison for Carahsoft partnership.

Created contract files: RFQs, RFPs, quotes, proposals, sales orders, and purchase orders.Managed vendor relationships with IT manufacturers/distributors/resellers for Federal Government IT hardware/software/service contracting requirements.