Strategic Accounts Director with Red Hat Public Sector for Department of Defense, Missile Defense, and Fourth Estate.Previously I led business development for Microsoft's Digital Transformation & Cloud team, leading Microsoft Federal entrance into the modeling & simulation market, creating a unified digital platform and studio for simulating, designing, rehearsing, visualizing, and analyzing complex global conflict scenarios (wargames). I worked inside Xbox Research and Xbox Game Studios with Microsoft Azure and AI product teams, streaming services (XCloud), content creators, and game operations (PlayFab) to adapt these and other innovative gaming technologies to serious gaming, initially for US Marine Corps, Navy, Army, and US Special Operations. During my time at Microsoft, I created a program for inner-city NYC schools -“Summer Challenge” providing 9th-11th grade students a 6-week experience teamed with corporate volunteers to develop creative solutions to a real-world business problem. The program recognized all participant student with a monetary award, and proved to motivate students to go on to college and pursue fulfilling, happy careers and lives. I am passionate about bringing emerging technology to help our nations warfighters gain strategic advantage. I am also a Fellow at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington D.C., a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization, advancing the understanding of military affairs through reliable research, where I focus on the impact of information operations and influence campaigns on contemporary and future conflict.