TalentGuard Labs was formed in late 2019 and focuses on the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to solve complex talent management problems in large global enterprises. Guided by our commitment to Responsible AI, we seek to solve intricate problems and mitigate the potential risks associated with the misapplication of AI and ML, which can impact an individual's career, reputation, and livelihood. We strive to empower the public and our clients by sharing best practices, thereby nurturing a well-informed and ethically grounded application of AI and ML in our field.To date, TalentGuard Labs has produced many applications and capabilities that are commercially available to all TalentGuard customers, including the Intelligent Role Studio, with its AI-powered Role Alignment that will automatically align an organization's preexisting roles and skills with TalentGuard’s vast role and skill inventories, and Role Progression Builder that will build out role progressions (career path maps/graphs) for thousands of roles in minutes; Career Path Finder that will automatically build detailed career paths to any target role within an organization based on the user’s preferences, such as shortest time, fewest steps, and so on, earning it the nickname “Waze for your career!”; skills inference that can infer skills from a user’s LinkedIn Profile and a user’s post-hire career journey, automatically adding them to a user’s Talent Profile and Talent Assessment, continuously expanding the organization's global skills inventory; and, WorkforceGPT, a LLM-based job role architecture builder capable of building complex role/skill taxonomies from simply a role title in a matter of minutes that takes a human expert days or even weeks to accomplish.

• Chief software architect responsible for transforming broad business requirements into software to capitalize on near-term market opportunities through sustaining innovation and to open new markets through disruptive innovation.• Pragmatic programmer who draws inspiration from the Software Craftsmanship and Lean-Agile approaches to creating software that thoroughly satisfies our customers' continuously evolving talent management needs.• Hands-on leader who is skilled at writing C#, SQL queries, navigating the .NET framework, applying HCI principals and methods to the design of award-winning user experiences, applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) tools and techniques to solve challenging talent management problems, and integrating applications with SOAP and RESTful APIs to build talent management solutions that both complement and enhance the human capital management ecosystem.• Oversee G&A Operations for all TalentGuard foreign subsidiaries and responsible for establishing new operations in strategic geographies.• Serve as Board Director with broad administrative and corporate development responsibilities including early-stage company financing, intellectual property acquisition, and the formation of strategic technology partnerships.

Provide curriculum support and assist with class instruction for graduate-level computer science courses in Artificial Intelligence and related fields of study. Specific duties include grading, responding to student questions in forums, providing online office hours, and enforcing academic integrity.Current assignments: - CS 7650 Natural Language Processing - CS 6476 Computer VisionPast assignment(s): - CS 7637 Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence: Cognitive Systems - CS 6750 Human-Computer Interaction

• Led the IT operations team responsible for developing innovative communications systems linking global field resources to analysts and other members of the global watch team. • Developed new web publishing features to support improvements to research and writing workflows substantially reducing time to publish time-sensitive geopolitical intelligence, economic, political, and military strategic forecasting.• Improved free-to-paid conversion rates of company's content subscription service through makeover of its e-commerce site.• Established a project management process based on Scrum that transformed a poorly performing development team into one that consistently met the business' expectations.• Responsible for all technical and operational aspects of the company's web publishing systems and infrastructure, internal and customer-facing websites, and global communications network employing a broad range of open source technologies including Drupal, Asterisk, Vyatta, and others.• Worked closely with FBI Cyber Crime during the operation that led to the identification and arrest of the hacker responsible for breaching Stratfor's servers and stealing confidential customer information and company intellectual property. Detailed information about the operation can be found at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/stakeout-how-the-fbi-tracked-and-busted-a-chicago-anon.

• Led the skunk works team that produced innovations leading to the development of highly engaging interactive educational software for the K-12 institutional marketplace and massive multiplayer online (MMO) social learning and gaming software.• Produced over 30 new award-winning web applications for the K-12 educational software market operating the largest on-line educational software web site in the world serving in excess of a million primary and secondary school students.• Managed a $12M annual budget; delivered high quality products, on-time, and on-budget year-over-year reducing costs of production by 35% through process improvements (Lean-Agile), by shifting routine software development and testing activities off-shore, and by bringing commercial video production in-house.• Managed all aspects of IT from security, servers, and infrastructure, to business applications development and help desk support.• Key contributor to the successful sale of CompassLearning from RDA through a challenging Bankruptcy sale process to Marlin Equity Partners. Led all aspects of technical due diligence during the sale process, and all IT-related carve-out projects to successfully separate the company from RDA to operate as a stand-alone company.

• Led the development of IT Asset Management and Compliance Management applications supporting both the SaaS and enterprise software models.• Led technical due diligence for the acquisition of Meta Security Group and the integration of the company's product development and customer support teams, and IT infrastructures.• Integrated Scalable's IT Asset Management application with Meta Security Group's SOX/HIPAA compliance application to create an enterprise software license management system.• Launched company's first offshore software development team in Kiev, Ukraine.

HILLCAST, CONFORMATIVE, PERMEO, EXPERO, THE TEACHING CO., ...Provided business planning, product and project planning, process improvement, software project rescue, technical due diligence, and other services to a number of early-stage companies and on behalf of several venture capital firms.DELL• Project Manager responsible for the globalization of Dell’s online catalog management system (Harmony) and order fulfillment system (3dGfx) in support of Dell’s strategic objective to grow its S&P business from $4B to $30B.• Successfully transitioned all EMEA online catalog and fulfillment processing from EMEA to the US for the S&P business with zero downtime and zero lost orders.• Collaborated with regional executives to train and educate staff on how to effectively plan, develop and deliver global eCommerce systems.

• Co-authored the business plan and crafted the product and marketing strategy for mobile workforce solutions leveraging 2.5G, 3G, and 802.11 smartphone technologies.• Led the development of a prototype smartphone application provisioning and management application.

• Led the development of BroadJump's residential broadband provisioning and service delivery software including the popular Virtual Truck and service management solutions.• Built the product development team consisting of product management, software development, test, and technical publications, from the ground up.• Applied processes and methodologies to streamline the product delivery cycle and decrease time to market by employing techniques and methods that I developed and that were published in two original works of authorship: Creating High Performance Software Development Teams and Customer Oriented Software Quality Assurance, both published by Prentice-Hall PTR.

• Lead the product development team responsible for numerous technical and process innovations that drove substantial cost savings and provided new sources of revenue: replaced a proprietary distributed computing framework with DCE, invented a highly collaborative and iterative software development life cycle (SDLC), created a test and certification program for vendors seeking to certify their printers for use with the Dazel Output Server.• Responsible for the development of numerous integrations with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems from SAP, Oracle, Baan, Peoplesoft, and enterprise systems management (ESM) solutions including Tivoli TME10, CA Unicenter TNG, and HP OpenView ITO.• Led the technical due diligence team for numerous technology acquisition targets. Key member of the HP/Dazel acquisition and integration team.

• Led the team responsible for porting several database backup and recovery utilities for Oracle, Sybase, and Informix across a number of UNIX-based operating systems.• Developed test plans and test suites used to qualify several releases of a database back up and recovery utilty for Informix.• Developed BMC/Patrol knowledge modules for monitoring and managing database systems.

• Led the team at The Open Software Foundation (OSF) that qualified several major reference releases of the OSF/1 operating system and the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) used by IBM, DEC, HP, and others as the basis of their respective commercial offerings.• Led the team at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that qualified several releases of DECs commercial implementation of the OSF/1 operating system on the 64-bit Alpha AXP platform.• Worked with the team from Microsoft to qualify their commercial implementation of DCE for Windows 3.51 on the DEC Alpha AXP platform.

• Developed numerous test suites written in C to test the networking layer and related kernel components of ConvexOS, a BSD-based UNIX operating system designed to support the company's proprietary supercomputer hardware.• Worked closely with the software engineering team, and in collaboration with the Open Software Foundation (OSF), on the selection of an embedded third-party framework used to develop a secure version of ConvexOS.• Created the ConvexOS/Secure Ratings Maintenance Program (RAMP), a software change management process required to maintain the operating system's Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) Class C2 rating. Class C2 is a security rating established by the U.S. National Computer Security Center (NCSC) under the auspices of the National Security Agency (NSA) and granted to products that pass Department of Defense (DoD) TCSEC tests.

• Designed and led the development of the company's first fully automated test tool harness through the application of the Yourdon Structured Method, a structured systems analysis and design method.• Developed numerous test suites written in C to test the terminal services and networking layers of the AOS/VS and DG/UX operating systems across numerous revisions.