EXPERIENCE
July 2006-Present: Independent Technology Consultant, US Intelligence Community (IC)
- Advise IC office on how to improve analytic integrity and increase interagency collaboration and information sharing. Brief concepts to IC technology officers and executives.
- Created concept and prototype for Web application for collaborative, interagency analysis. Application would add rigor to analysis, encourage information sharing among agencies and preserve dissenting analytical viewpoints. Briefed senior IC officers and executives.
January 2003-July 2005: Intelligence Analyst, Defense
Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.
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January 2005: Authored project proposal now being pursued by Office of
the Director of National Intelligence. Project would change the culture
of the Intelligence Community's intranet in order to ease our information
glut and increase communication among intelligence agencies. One of 15 IC personnel to receive award from Director of Central Intelligence
Porter Goss for innovative project proposals.
- At 24, was one of a select few IC personnel to contribute to the Quadrennial Intelligence Community Review, the IC's primary strategic planning document. Contributions regarded as “excellent” by project manager.
- August 2004: Founded five-agency working group of 15 previously
incommunicado analysts; hosted meetings to increase collaboration among
analysts.
- March 2005: First beta tester of IC's new Weblogging
platform. Promoted benefits of blogging to office chief and received permission
to create and manage blog for intraoffice communication, the first of its
kind in the IC.
- June 2005: One of 15 junior analysts selected from
among several hundred Agency-wide for accelerated promotions.
- Authored intelligence reports on foreign information
control strategies, media manipulation and telecommunications infrastructure.
Multiple reports were routed to the Secretary of Defense and National Security
Council.
- Promoted COTS software packages to Agency leadership
and coordinated in-office demonstrations by software executives to encourage
purchase of powerful data mining tools.
October 2002-2005: Webmaster and Research Assistant,
Stanhope Centre
for Communications Policy Research
- Coordinated virtually with internationally
based staff to develop Web-based research tools and update site content.
- Co-edited electronic
newsletter on postwar Iraqi media and telecommunications policies and
reconstruction. Managed distribution to over 250 technology industry leaders,
media professionals and policymakers.
September 2000-May 2002: Technology Assistant, Center
for Instructional Technology (Duke University)
- Wrote several easy-to-understand, graphics-rich how-to manuals
on complex software and hardware, including video digitization, Web design,
database management and streaming media, for use by professors and students.
Provided hands-on, in-person tutorials on similar topics for the same audience.
Summer 2001: Student Intern, US Embassy-Kyiv, Political
and Consular Sections
- Created computer-based NGO referral system for persecuted
Ukrainians requesting US assistance.
- Created consulate office Web site for State Department Intranet.
Summer 2000: Technology Consultant, Wichita Falls Symphony
(pro bono)
- Managed $20,000 budget for purchasing, installation and staff
training of systems upgrade, office-wide network & ticket sales/donor
management software.
- Software more effectively targets potential donors and provides
personalized customer service; mobile ticket printer allows for point-of-sale
printing, eliminating wasted, pre-printed tickets and speeding up the box
office sales process.
- Wrote HTML-based system and program reference manual customized
for their use.
PUBLICATIONS & ASSOCIATIONS
- "Connecting the Virtual Dots: How the Web Can Relieve
Our Information Glut and Get Us Talking to Each Other," Studies
in Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Fall 2005.
- Panelist, Intelligence Science Board Quarterly Meeting, September,
2005: Effecting Change in the Intelligence Community
COMPUTER SKILLS
Web Development
- Nine years of experience developing web interfaces, primarily
for students, professors, researchers and intelligence analysts.
- Five years experience with Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
- Experience with CSS, Flash, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, streaming
video and audio.
- Proficient in dozens of desktop applications, Mac OS X, Windows. Expert knowledge of Web society, psychology, and research tools.
EDUCATION
New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program,
September 2005-May 2007
- Masters in technology design
- Projects: Web encyclopedia of Congressional legislation in plain English; collaborative Web-based news production for citizen journalists (concept); RFID-based urban navigation for the blind; mobile phone-based cross-street calculator for NYC pedestrians; self-powered, door-mounted surveillance camera.
Duke University, 1998-2002
- BA in Public Policy Studies, International Policy focus
- minor in Russian Language
- Relevant coursework: International Community and the Rebuilding
of Bosnian Media; Russian Telecommunications Infrastructure; Ethics and the
Internet (online communities); Digital Production (Web development & multimedia);
Statistics and Data Analysis for Public Policy and Sociology; Introduction
to Computer Science
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