2019 IJIS Institute National Symposium Speaker Biographies

NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTES

Carlos Rivero, Chief Data Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia

Carlos Rivero is the chief data officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Prior to his appointment, Rivero served as chief data officer and chief enterprise architect for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration in Washington, D.C. Rivero has also worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Miami, Florida, as a physical scientist and as a research associate at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, where he developed a passion for geospatial information systems, ecological modeling, and data.

Jeff Jonas, Founder and CEO, Senzing

Jeff Jonas, founder and CEO of Senzing, is an acclaimed data scientist and the leading creator of Entity Resolution systems. For more than three decades, he has been at the forefront of solving complex big data problems for companies and governments. National Geographic recognized him as the Wizard of Big Data.

A three-time entrepreneur, Jonas sold his last company to IBM in 2005. Prior to founding Senzing, Jonas served as an IBM fellow and chief scientist of context computing at IBM. He

led a team focused on creating next-generation AI for Entity Resolution technology, code-named G2. At IBM G2 was deployed in many innovative ways, including modernizing U.S. voter registration through a joint effort with Pew Charitable Trust, and helping the Singaporean government build a maritime domain awareness system to better protect the Malacca Straits. In 2016, Jonas founded Senzing, based on a one-of-a-kind IBM spinout of the G2 technology and team.

Jonas regularly meets with government leaders, industry executives and think tanks around the globe about innovation, national security and privacy. He serves on the boards of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and the advisory board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a distinguished engineer of information systems (adjunct) at Singapore Management University (SMU).

Jonas was awarded an honorary Ph.D. in Science in 2015 from Claremont Graduate University, and is the author or co-author of 14 patents. On a more personal note, Jonas is one of only five people in the world who has completed every Ironman triathlon currently on the global circuit. This is especially significant given he was briefly a quadriplegic in 1988 following a car accident.

Doug Robinson, Executive Director, National Association of State CIOs

Doug Robinson has served as Executive Director of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) since 2004. Founded in 1969, NASCIO is the only national organization representing state chief information officers of the fifty states and territories. Doug is responsible for the overall executive leadership of the association including strategic plan and policy execution, government affairs, strategic alliances, emerging issues and board and committee oversight. He also provides strategic

direction for NASCIO’s initiatives and advocacy positions on issues such as cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, IT governance, information sharing and business innovation.

Doug is a frequent speaker, panelist, author and recognized national expert representing state CIOs, policy issues, priorities and trends in state government IT. In addition, he represents NASCIO on several national

councils, boards and advisory committees. Notably, he is a longstanding member of the Executive Council for Information and Technology Management of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Among his recognitions, Doug recently received the Advocacy for Archives award presented by the Council of State Archivists. In 2012, he was elected as a Fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Public Administration. In 2006, he was named to Government Technology magazine’s top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers in public sector information technology.

His career spans over 39 years in public sector information technology including positions in state government, higher education and IT consulting. Prior to joining NASCIO he served as Executive Director in the Governor's Office for Technology, Commonwealth of Kentucky. As a senior IT executive in the state CIO office, he led IT strategic planning, enterprise architecture, policy and research initiatives for state government. Specific areas of responsibility included developing and advancing the enterprise architecture, digital government, security policy, privacy issues and emerging technologies. During this tenure, he served as the lead executive for numerous enterprise IT initiatives, projects and business process improvement efforts.

His previous leadership positions in state government include Executive Director of the Kentucky Information Resources Management Commission and Executive Director of the Kentucky Office of Geographic Information. For fifteen years, he served in a university public service and technical assistance role with NASA's Technology Applications Center at the University of Kentucky.

Doug holds a BA from Maryville College in Tennessee and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) with a concentration in science, technology and public policy from the University of Tennessee.

NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS

Michael Alagna, Program Director, IJIS Institute

Michael Alagna, a program director for the IJIS Institute, is a multi-faceted technology professional with extensive business experience, routinely consulted as an expert on nationally significant policy issues. Having served in engineering, marketing, program management, and government affairs roles, he is able to communicate the technology

environment to policy makers to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Most recently, he focused on homeland security, national security and strategic initiatives for emergency preparedness, public safety and the intersection of emerging technology and policy.

Mike Bell, Chief Technology Officer, Houston Police Department

Mike Bell is the chief technology officer for the Houston Police Department. He previously served as the chief information officer for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Bell is former president of the Correction Technology Association and former committee chair for the American Corrections Association.

Dr. John E. Bischoff III, Executive Director, Missing Children Division, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)

Dr. John E. Bischoff III is currently an executive director in the Missing Children Division for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Within this role, he is responsible for managerial oversight of program, staff, and case management activities of the Missing Children Division including the Contact Centers. Prior to NCMEC, Dr. Bischoff was a Mass Care (ESF#6) program specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Washington D.C. In this capacity, he was responsible for coordinating with federal, state and local governments, and private sector partners to develop effective evacuation & reentry plans, strategies, and policies. Prior to FEMA, Dr. Bischoff was the technical director of Public Safety and Criminal Investigations for AOL located in Dulles, Virginia. During his thirteen years at AOL, Bischoff was directly involved with hundreds of federal, state, and local law enforcement investigations involving child sexual exploitation,

financial fraud, and computer crimes. He was considered an expert by federal, state, and local courts in the area of AOL networks, email platforms, and data transfer technologies.

Maria Cardiellos, Director of Operations, IJIS Institute

Maria Cardiellos has more than 30 years of experience in public safety and justice program development, implementation, and evaluation, both nationally and internationally. She currently supports the IJIS Institute as its director of operations. In this capacity, she oversees the overall operations of the institute that includes numerous national initiatives for the

Institute. Prior to this role, she served as senior program manager for IJIS, supporting several key initiatives including the National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X), the Collaboration Reform Initiative (CRI), the Newark NJ Police Department (NPD) Consent Decree (CD) providing technical assistance, and the New Jersey Information Sharing Environment (NJ ISE) that seeks to move beyond the status quo of public safety operations to a more efficient, cost-effective, and timely data sharing model. Prior to this position, Ms. Cardiellos served as the chief of staff and executive advisor of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI) Program Management Office (PMO) where she provided guidance on all programmatic and operational aspects of the initiative as well as was responsible for all the administrative functions of the program. She previously served as deputy executive director of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Program for the joint Department of Justice/Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiative. She was previously chief information officer for the NJ Department of Law and Public Safety within the Office of the Attorney General. Her office supported the IT needs of more than a dozen divisions/in-but-not-off offices, ranging in scope from the Division of State Police to the Division of Consumer Affairs. In addition to supporting these efforts, she was responsible for coordinating and/or supporting information technology related aspects of the State’s homeland defense solution Emergency Preparedness Information Network for the Attorney General, LPS Administrator, Colonel of State Police, and Director of Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness. She started her career with the Newark (NJ) Police Department as staff assistant to the Police Director of the State’s largest sworn force. She continued her work with public safety and justice for the Police Foundation in Washington D.C. where she developed its Training and TA Division serving as its deputy director.

James Collins, Delaware CIO and President of NASCIO

Driven by a passion for innovation and commitment to excellence, James Collins is honored to serve as a member of Governor John Carney's Cabinet as Chief Information Officer (CIO) responsible for leading the Delaware Department of Technology and Information (DTI) to fulfill its mission of providing technology services and collaborative solutions. As CIO, Collins has

leveraged his extensive experience in both the public and private sectors to implement synergistic, cost-effective and scalable IT solutions that help Delaware deliver the highest quality programs and services to its citizens. Notable achievements under Collins' leadership include expanding broadband high-speed Internet service across rural areas of Delaware and implementing the multi-organization, enterprise geospatial information system FirstMap. Collins also fulfilled multiple Executive Orders including creating the Delaware Cyber Security Council, expanding the State Open Data/Open Checkbook portal, and offering IT centralization and virtualization cloud-based, as-a-Service solutions. Collins currently serves as the president of the National Association of Chief Information Officers (NASCIO). He also chairs the Technology Investment Council of Governor-appointed private sector and government (Executive, Legislative and Judicial branch) partners and is a member of a number of boards and commissions involving public safety, health care, and education. Appointed as CIO in October 2014 by then-Governor Jack Markell, Collins previously served as Markell's Deputy Chief of Staff where his duties included acting as a legislative liaison and policy advisor on information technology. Preceding his appointment as Deputy Chief of Staff, Collins served as Deputy Secretary of State. In this role he was critical in expanding the state's e-Government initiatives and use of information technology including the Delaware Prescription Monitoring Program and Veterans Services Directory. For a portion of his Department of State tenure, Collins served concurrently as Deputy and as Director of the Division of Professional Regulation. Prior to joining the Delaware Department of State, Collins worked in the private sector as a senior consultant with Peregrine Systems, Inc. and MAXIMUS, Inc. where he implemented large-scale software projects for major clients such as the Pepsi Bottling Group, the United States Marine Corps, and the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. Collins

is a 2012 Council of State Governments' Henry Toll Fellowship alumni and served eight years in the United States Air Force.

Brian Day, Director of Product Strategy, Syscon Justice Systems Ltd.

Brian Day is director of product strategy at Syscon Justice Systems, currently responsible for market research and planning for a JMS/OMS product serving custodial and community corrections. Day has been at Syscon for over 25 years, primarily as a systems and business analyst involved in application development, design, and implementation for jail, prison, probation, and parole agencies. His project experience includes numerous U.S., states and counties, several Canadian provinces, and extended postings in London, England, and Sydney, Australia.

Lt. Colonel James Emerson USMC (Ret), Executive Advisor for Cyber Policy, NW3C

Lt. Colonel James J. Emerson USMC (Ret) provides executive advisory services to the National White Collar Crime Center (NWCC). He is experienced in the management of cybercrime investigation and mitigation services for private sector victims in cooperation with public sector agencies. Mr. Emerson's law enforcement and security background encompasses a wide

spectrum of national security and public safety disciplines over 37 years with a focus on cybercrime investigation, computer forensics, and related criminal intelligence over the past 12 years.

Mr. Emerson is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, 151st Session and the U.S. Navy Information System Security Management Course. He also holds numerous professional certifications in information security and computer forensics. He has presented forensic evidence and expert testimony in many federal and state civil and criminal cases over the past 12 years.

Mr. Emerson has been the Chairman of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Computer Crime and Digital Evidence Committee for five years and he participates in the ICANN Law Enforcement Working Group.

Akbar Farook, CEO, Global Justice Solutions

Akbar Farook, is the CEO at Global Justice Solutions and Founder of JUSTICE CHAIN™ - a blockchain for justice and public safety. He is passionate about building innovative solutions for courts and the justice practice, where he has over 16 years of experience. Currently, he is involved with leveraging IoT and Blockchain for justice and public safety. He is actively involved with the IJIS institute and is the Co-Chair for the NIBRS/NDEx task force with the CJIS Advisory Committee. He has a master’s degree in Computer Science with a focus on Security and Cryptography from GWU and a certificate in Blockchain technologies from MIT. He is also on the Next Gen Court Technology Standards Working Group with NCSC/JTC to help build the next generation technology standards for the courts and justice community.

Chuck Georgo, Executive Director, NOWHERETOHIDE.org

For more than thirty years, Chuck Georgo has served as a public safety strategist, business analyst, systems engineer, and project manager supporting national and homeland security missions of federal, state, local, and tribal government agencies, and corporate security and intellectual property protection objectives of private sector organizations. He is currently the

executive director for NOWHERETOHIDE.ORG, a position he has held since 2007, where he helps organizations to develop and implement effective strategy and program management, to design, procure, and implement innovative technologies, and to build behavior-changing performance management systems designed to affect achievement of desired public safety and business results. Georgo also currently serves on the Computer Crimes and Digital Evidence committee for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and as a Director on the Board of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s InfraGard Program where he is the program manager for the InfraGard National Sector Security and Resilience Program. Within the IJIS Institute, Georgo previously served as the chair of the IJIS Institute’s Security and Privacy Committee.

Richard J. Gold, Program Manager, IJIS Institute

Richard J. Gold is an attorney and health and human services policy expert with real-world experience in the power of information sharing and technology advancements and how they can positively impact work in the health and human services domain.

Gold assists the IJIS Institute as a program manager. He lends expertise to the Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust effort to share data in an interoperable manner among three adjoining counties’ behavioral health and human services systems, a project in which he was involved in his prior work as an independent management consultant. He also provides guidance and expertise in the IJIS Institute work on improvements to background checks for childcare providers for the Department of Health and Human Services Administration of Children and Families.

Gold served as the deputy secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare’s Office of Children, Youth, and Families, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of statewide policies and procedures and the supervision of child welfare, child abuse, and juvenile justice services throughout the 67 Pennsylvania counties. In this position, Gold supervised more than 1100 staff persons, directed the operations of seven juvenile delinquent facilities serving more than 640 youths, and oversaw the expenditure of a budget in excess of $2 billion dollars of state funds and a total budget in excess of $5 billion dollars.

Gold’s key accomplishments included:

• Integrating behavioral health services for children and youth in both the child welfare and juvenile delinquent systems, maximizing the use of Title XIX Medicaid funds by more than $70 million for all residential and non-residential treatment services.

• Implementing evidence-based services of Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST), Functional Family Therapy (FFT), and Multi-Dimensional Treatment Foster Care (MDTFC), using both Title XIX Medicaid and state child welfare funds, and increasing use of such services five-fold, decreasing by half the number of children and youth placed in out-of-state congregate living facilities, decreasing safely by twenty-nine percent the total number of children and youth in out-of-home placement, and decreasing the number of children and youth in out-of-state placement by more than two-thirds.

• Implementing a state-of-the art, statewide safety assessment tool and process and bringing modern, performance-based standards to the state-operated juvenile delinquency facilities, as well as the Sanctuary Model and a clinical treatment approach to replace the traditional corrections methodology.

Prior to his work with the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Gold was a practicing attorney specializing in health and human services, both in private practice and for the City of Philadelphia.

Ray Hicks, Founder and CTO, 5th Column

Ray Hicks, the founder and current CTO of 5th Column, has more than twenty years of innovative and technical leadership experience within both public and private sectors. Hicks is a seasoned, award winning visionary who has addressed audiences worldwide ranging from the Pentagon, every branch within the Department of Defense (DoD), Public Company

Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), NATO, and DHS (Homeland Security), as well as several industry events including Black Hat, DEFCON, SANS institute, ISACA, IETF with a special emphasis on emerging and innovative solutions that reduce risk and increase business performance. Prior to founding 5th Column, Hicks was security practice director for Netrix, CTO for Terra Echos, the founder and CEO of Looking Glass Systems. He has also worked for Northrop Grumman, SAIC, UUnet, and Cable and Wireless during his career.

Jenner Holden, Chief Information Security Officer, Axon

Jenner has over 14 years experience evaluating, developing, and managing enterprise-level information security programs. His experience includes conducting security assessments and audits of public institutions, and managing the defensive posture of highly critical and sensitive systems. He has led the security efforts for the Arizona Department of Education, and Lifelock, a leading identity theft protection provider. Most recently, Holden has delved

deeply into providing world-class cloud security as the chief information security officer for Axon, including Evidence.com, a cloud-based digital evidence repository for law enforcement. He is also in the middle of the emerging world of security for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, as Axon builds secure wearable devices for public safety.

Ashwini Jarral, Executive Director, IJIS Institute Mr. Jarral is the executive director of the IJIS Institute, a nonprofit corporation formed to help state and local governments develop ways to share information among the disciplines engaged in homeland security, justice, and public safety.

Prior to his current position he served as the Director of Operations and earlier as the Director of Program and Technology Services with the IJIS Institute. In this capacity, he

managed technology assistance, training, and technical support organizations to provide support for national initiatives including the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) standard.

Mr. Jarral was responsible for planning, organizing and managing the execution of the technology-based knowledge source and help desk. He worked with executives to negotiate Service Level Agreements, maintain ongoing client relationships, and generate additional revenue by creating Professional Services and consulting opportunities. Mr. Jarral also managed teams to gather requirements, installation, and configuration of publishing and billing applications.

Mr. Jarral has over 14 years of information technology, software deployment, configuration, tier 1 & 2 support, release management, business consulting, program management, project management, and pre-sales experience in the telecommunications and publishing industries. He is an experienced technical manager with demonstrated abilities in setting up tier 2 support organizations to provide technical support for billing and order entry system to system administrators, database administrators, and developers.

Dave Kilmer, Data Architect, Measures for Justice David Kilmer joined Measures for Justice (MFJ) in 2015 as lead developer/architect. He helps design and develop MFJ's product line. David has over 20 years of software architecture and development experience. He most recently designed and built a large-scale system for drug-testing administration and occupational health management that met strict governmental

regulations for data reliability and security.

Dr. Janet L. Lauritsen, Curators' Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri – St. Louis

Janet L. Lauritsen is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of victimization, the social and historical contexts of crime and victimization, and quantitative research methodologies. Her current research analyzes how correlates of violent victimization such as gender, race and ethnicity, and poverty status have changed in the US over the past

four decades. Recent publications cover topics on crime data and trends, gender inequality and violence against women, and the relationship between changing economic conditions and violent victimization. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the National Institute of Justice. Dr. Lauritsen recently served as chair of the Panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics for the

Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Science. She is co-editor of the journal Criminology and, in 2013, was named Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.

Barbara Mack, King County Superior Court Judge, Seattle, Washington

Barbara Mack is a King County Superior Court Judge in Seattle, Washington. She has presided over a wide variety of criminal and civil cases, and served four years as a judge in Juvenile Court. Judge Mack convened and chairs the King County Task Force on Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC). The mission of the Task Force is to ensure

the safety and support of CSEC and to prevent further exploitation. The Task Force trains those who may come in contact with exploited children to recognize and identify them, and ensures that each such child has access to an advocate. Task Force partners provide and coordinate services specific to each child through multidisciplinary teams where appropriate, and provide continuing training to and communication among community partners. The Task Force, with its partners, also collects and evaluates data and outcomes in order to establish best practices. Judge Mack has participated as faculty for the NCJFCJ National Judicial Institutes on Domestic Child Sex Trafficking, serves on the NCJFCJ Legislative Committee, and is the NCJFCJ representative to the Global Advisory Committee, which advises the U.S. Attorney General on information sharing issues. She is a member of the Washington Superior Court judges Association Family and Juvenile Law Committee, the Court Improvement Program Steering Committee, and the Ethics Committee.

Joe Mandala, Chief Information Officer, Kansas Bureau of Investigation

Joe Mandala is the CIO for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Mandala has been working in IT for more than 20 years, including work in networking, security, as a director, and in project management. He has been the CIO at the Kansas Bureau of Investigation since 2014. Mandala is also the Kansas representative to the International Justice and Public Safety Network (Nlets) and works with other interstate and national organizations to further the interests of the Kansas Criminal Justice Information Sharing (KCJIS) community.

Luke J. McCormack, Federal Executive Forum Host, Federal News Network

Luke McCormack, a former chief information officer at the Homeland Security Department, is the host of the Federal Executive Forum on Federal News Radio 1500 AM and FederalNewsNetwork.com, focusing on the positive work and innovative technology programs happening throughout government today such as big data, DevOps, cloud computing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and many more.

McCormack’s federal technology career also included stops at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and the Justice Department, where he served as CIO and deputy assistant attorney general for Information Resources Management.

Fred Roesel, Chair, IJIS Corrections Advisory Committee, and Business Architect, Marquis Software

Fred Roesel is the chair of the IJIS Corrections Advisory Committee and a business architect for Marquis Software where he focuses on client relations, implementation, new technology and assisting Marquis clients shift from legacy IT systems to the latest in offender

management technology. Roesel joined Marquis after a thirty-five-year career in law enforcement and corrections from line officer positions to agency-wide responsibilities. Prior to joining Marquis, Roesel was the chief of classification and institutional management for the Florida Department of Corrections. In that role he oversaw the intake, classification, transfer, placement, and release of the agency's 85,000 inmates. During his career, he also served as an adjunct instructor at the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Training Academy and as a technical resource provider to State Corrections Commissioners through the NIC Technical Assistance Program.

Amelia Rubenstein, MSW, LCSW-C, Clinical Research Specialist for the Child Sex Trafficking Victims Initiative (CSTVI) and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work

Amelia Rubenstein, MSW, LCSW-C is the Clinical Research Specialist for the Child Sex Trafficking Victims Initiative (CSTVI) and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Social

Work. In implementing CSTVI, Amelia is dedicated to assist the state’s child-serving agencies to address the issue of sex trafficking among system-involved youth. Ms. Rubenstein previously oversaw the Anti-Trafficking Program at TurnAround, Inc., a victim services non-profit in Baltimore where she provided clinical services to survivors of human trafficking. Amelia’s clinical work and research on the issue of trafficking stemmed from her background in child welfare and gender-based violence. Ms. Rubenstein received her Bachelors of Social Work from Skidmore College and a Masters of Social Work from Columbia University with a concentration in public policy and reproductive rights. Ms. Rubenstein received the Human Trafficking Award from Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2015 and citations from Governor Hogan in 2015 and 2017 for her efforts to fight trafficking.

Erica L. Smith, Unit Chief, Law Enforcement Incident-Based Statistics Unit, Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice Erica Smith is unit chief for the Law Enforcement Incident-Based Statistics Unit at the Bureau of Justice Statistics within the US Department of Justice. She has more than 17 years of experience in conducting research and data collection in the field of criminal justice.

Smith’s research has focused on elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, and the nexus of elder abuse with other forms of family and intimate partner violence. Some of her work included assessing the feasibility of using administrative data from state Adult Protective Services agencies for statistical reporting purposes, examining the processing of elder abuse and neglect cases by local prosecutors, developing strategies for measuring victimization and abuse among persons living in nursing homes and other group quarters residential facilities, and examining the use of incident based data collected by law enforcement agencies for understanding hidden types of victimization such as elder abuse and sexual violence of children. In addition to her research portfolio, Smith serves as co-chair of the Federal Interagency Elder Justice Working Group, co-chair of the Office of Justice Programs Juvenile Justice Research Working Group, and is the BJS liaison to the Planning Committee of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Smith was previously with the Administration on Aging at the US Department of Health and Human Services, providing direct program support to the Elder Justice Coordinating Council. Prior to joining BJS, Smith served as adjunct faculty in the Department of Justice, Law, and Society at American University where she taught undergraduate courses on research methodology, statistics, and criminal justice. Before moving to Washington, DC, she was a development and campaign assistant with the Michigan Regional Office of the City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute.

Steve Spiker, Data Evangelist, Measures for Justice Steve ‘Spike’ Spiker joined Measures for Justice (MFJ) in 2018. As data evangelist supports the outreach teams, developing a new client portal and working on standards and vendor relationships. Spike has extensive multidisciplinary research experience, leading dozens of applied social research projects in his term as Director of Research with Oakland’s Urban

Strategies Council. He speaks nationally on data informed decision making, open data and the communication of data to diverse audiences. Spike has led crime analysis projects, evaluated probation agency programs and supported community reentry networks and reinvestment efforts. He is proficient in advanced computer mapping and data analysis platforms as well as data visualization. He has managed and mentored research and tech teams and before emigrating to the USA he worked in spatial epidemiology.

Richard A. Spires, CEO, Learning Tree (and former CIO for the Department of Homeland Security)

Richard Spires has been an independent member of Learning Tree’s Board of Directors since December 2013 and was appointed CEO in 2015. Prior to Learning Tree, Spires served as the CEO of Resilient Network Systems during 2014 and 2015, a San Francisco-based software firm

that provides the Trust Network platform to bring trust to the cloud and the Internet of Things. Spires was appointed and served as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Chief Information Officer (CIO) from 2009 till 2013. Spires also served as the Vice-Chairman of the Federal Government CIO Council and the Co-Chairman of the Committee for National Security Systems (CNSS), the committee that sets standards for the U.S. Government’s classified systems. Spires held a number of positions at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2004 through 2008. He served as the Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support, having overall responsibility for the key support and administrative functions for the IRS. Spires served as the IRS’s CIO, with overall strategic and operational responsibility for a $2 billion budget and a 7,000-person organization. He led the IRS’s Business Systems Modernization program for two and half years, one of the largest and most complex information technology modernization efforts ever undertaken. From 2000 through 2003, Spires served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Director of Mantas, Inc., a software company that provides business intelligence solutions to the financial services industry. Prior to Mantas, he spent more than 16 years serving in a number of technical and managerial positions at SRA International.

Anne Thompson, Principal Consultant, Thomson | Finn LLC

Anne Thompson has more than 17 years of product development experience, working with legal professionals to design and develop software solutions to address their unique needs. She has a background in design and communication and worked for Thomson Reuters in both Australia and the United States prior to her current role as principal consultant with Thompson | Finn LLC.

Thompson is currently serving as vice-chair of the IJIS Courts Advisory Committee. In addition, she is leading the IJIS Blockchain Task Force, working with IJIS partners in public sector and industry organizations to identify blockchain use cases for secure interagency records management, together with developing a use case assessment framework to assist organizations evaluate the applicability of blockchain technology.

Todd Thompson, Vice President – Strategic Development, Caliber Public Safety

As vice president of strategic development, Todd Thompson is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and market adoption of Caliber Public Safety's industry-leading hosted RMS and Cloud-based solutions. Thompson has played many roles over the course of his 30 years in public safety, corporate IT, and the software business including street cop, investigator,

software trainer, project manager, business analyst, and business executive. Since 2005, Thompson has focused his efforts on changing mindsets and driving acceptance of Public Safety Cloud solutions. His efforts have led to the adoption of InterAct’s Public Safety Cloud by public safety and private security entities ranging in size from one officer to several thousand officers. His leadership and guidance was instrumental in the successful replacement of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department's legacy RMS with the Caliber Online RMS hosted at Nlets. The Indianapolis implementation marks a significant shift in the mindset of a large agency to adopt a cloud based COTS RMS. Cloud technology will continue to be a game changer for public safety by providing an architecture that encourages regional coordination and shared resources aimed at improving public safety outcomes.

Scott A. Vantrease, CISSP, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Digital Investigations Branch, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Scott Vantrease has more than 25 years of law enforcement experience and has been with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of the Inspector General – Office of Investigations (HHS/OIG/OI) since 1997. He currently serves as assistant special agent in charge (ASAC) for the Digital Investigations Branch where

he supervises staff with the Digital Investigations Unit (Forensic Computer Examiners) and Computer Crimes Unit, overseeing investigations involving network security issues within HHS including Healthcare.gov. Additionally, he serves as an appointed member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Computer Crimes & Digital Evidence Committee, and has been published several articles on information technology in Police Chief Magazine. Prior to his current assignment, Scott served as ASAC for the Investigations Branch and Director of OIG Hotline Operations, overseeing the processing of over 200,000 contacts a year. He has served as ASAC for the Special Investigations Branch, overseeing investigations involving HHS’ presidential appointees, employees, and contract employees across the United States, and as ASAC for OI’s Chicago Regional Office, supervising a staff and overseeing investigations in multiple states. Scott began his career as a special agent in the Detroit Field Office working health care fraud cases as part of Operation Restore Trust, coming to OIG after starting his law enforcement career in 1989 serving as a deputy sheriff, police officer, and evidence technician in Detroit Metropolitan Area.

Steven White, Assistant Director, Infrastructure & Customer Support Section, Missouri State Highway Patrol

Steve White is currently the assistant director for Cyber Security and Infrastructure at the Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. White was previously the assistant director over the Application Development section. During White's tenure, he has led many efforts to modernize the Missouri State Highway Patrol's technology and infrastructure. Steve led the adoption of the Agile approach to application development, development of a service oriented architecture for the Patrol and has assisted with numerous state wide information sharing initiatives.

Melissa Winesburg, Criminal Justice Practice Director, Optimum Technology

Dr. Melissa Winesburg is responsible for the company’s project implementation strategy and for executive level communications with customers. She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of criminal justice with an emphasis on law enforcement technology. Winesburg joined Optimum Technology in 2014 after spending 20 years in state government as both a state

employee and consultant. She has a thorough understanding of law enforcement records management systems including implementation of CJIS security policy requirements, NIBRS, NIEM, and N-Dex. She was responsible for creating Ohio’s NIBRS program. She also authored the technical specifications and directed the design of the original Ohio Law Enforcement Toolkit that enabled Ohio to increase the number of law enforcement agencies reporting to NIBRS by 300.

Paul Wormeli, President, Wormeli Consulting Paul Wormeli is an innovator and entrepreneur who has focused his career on the application of information technology to public safety, law enforcement, criminal justice, and homeland security. He has introduced innovative programs in public policy, as well as innovations in the use of technology. He has been active in the development of software products, has managed

system implementation for dozens of agencies throughout the world, and has managed national programs in support of law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. Mr. Wormeli was the first national project director of Project SEARCH and was subsequently appointed by the President as Deputy Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Mr. Wormeli went on to create, and was the first chairman of, the Integrated Justice Information Systems Industry Working Group (IWG). After the IJIS Institute was created as a non-profit follow-on to the IWG, he became the first full-time executive director of the IJIS Institute and served in this capacity until January 2011, when he transitioned to the role of executive director emeritus. Mr. Wormeli is currently the owner and innovation strategist for Wormeli Consulting LLC. Mr. Wormeli serves on the Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ) of the National Academy of Sciences, is an author and lecturer on law enforcement and justice technology, and has won numerous awards for his work in information sharing in justice, public safety, and homeland security.

Stacey A. Wright, CISSP, Director of Cyber Intelligence, Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) and Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC), CIS (Center for Internet Security)

Stacey A. Wright is the director of Cyber Intelligence at CIS, where she runs the Intel Team for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) and Elections Infrastructure ISAC (EI-ISAC). She designed and built the Intel Team to focus on providing strategic and operational cyber intelligence to state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments. The team publishes more than 250 products per year providing timely, actionable, unbiased SLTT government and elections-focused insight on cyber risks, actors, trends, tactics, and vulnerabilities. In addition to her work at CIS, Stacey teaches two graduate cybersecurity and threat intelligence classes at the State University of New York. Prior to her employment at CIS, Stacey was the Cyber Intelligence Analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Albany Division, where she was responsible for coordinating the local cyber intelligence program and served as the FBI's liaison to the MS-ISAC. Stacey began her career as an Information Systems Specialist for the Cambridge, MA, Emergency Communications and Fire Departments. She received her Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University and her Master of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is a formally trained Intelligence Analyst and a national speaker on cybercrime.

Facial Recognition Summit Speakers

Ben Bawden, Partner, Brooks Bawden Moore LLC

Ben Bawden has supported companies and professional associations in the public safety space for nearly two decades. Formerly a Senior Vice President at a leading Washington, DC based consulting and government relations firm from 2000-2012, Ben led numerous legislative, policy development, and business development

engagements for leading national law enforcement professional associations and innovative technology providers to the public safety, homeland security, and defense markets.

Ben has worked on cutting-edge technology and policy issues affecting public safety and homeland security including data collection and analysis, tech privacy, interoperable communications, digital evidence access, encryption, forensics, information sharing, and criminal intelligence. He has coordinated coalitions to drive legislative change and has managed nationwide legislative efforts in state capitals and Congress to preserve access to critical technology, systems, and data for federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

Daniel Castro, Vice President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Daniel Castro is vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and director of ITIF's Center for Data Innovation. Castro writes and speaks on a variety of issues related to information technology and internet policy, including privacy, security, intellectual property, Internet governance, e-government, and accessibility for people with disabilities. His work has been quoted and cited in numerous media outlets, including The

Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, USA Today, Bloomberg News, and Bloomberg Businessweek. In 2013, Castro was named to FedScoop’s list of the “top 25 most influential people under 40 in government and tech.” In 2015, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker appointed Castro to the Commerce Data Advisory Council. Castro previously worked as an IT analyst at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) where he audited IT security and management controls at various government agencies. He contributed to GAO reports on the state of information security at a variety of federal agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. In addition, Castro was a visiting scientist at the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, PA, where he developed virtual training simulations to provide clients with hands-on training of the latest information security tools.

Patrick Doyle, Subject Matter Expert, Unisys Global Justice, Law Enforcement, and Border Security

Patrick is a justice industry manager and client advisor for the Unisys Corporation, providing police agencies worldwide with consultation and sales advice regarding technologies, methods, and best practices to improve law enforcement outcomes. He is an active member

in many policy development organizations, and is currently Chair of the IJIS Institute Law Enforcement Imaging Technology Task Force. Doyle is also a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Criminal Justice Information Systems Committee, and has served in volunteer roles supporting the United States Bureau of Justice Assistance Global Video Task Team, Canadian Technology Alliance and Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP). He regularly guest lectures in graduate school seminars and leads topical public safety discussions at various digital technology seminars. As the former senior watch officer of the largest all-threats fusion center in the United States, Doyle led a 24/7 newsroom combining hundreds of allied-agency information and video streams into situational awareness for thousands of elected and appointed leaders throughout the country. He is a retired New Jersey State Trooper who also served as the duty officer for the State Office of Emergency Management, overseeing critical infrastructure monitoring, asset deployment, cyber breach-reporting and early public alert messaging. He was also assigned to dozens of significant command-level liaison positions with the FBI, U.S. Secret Service and New York City Police Department throughout his 25-year career in law enforcement.

Andrew Howell, Monument Policy Group

With a decade of experience at Monument, Andrew Howell helps companies sharpen their federal business development efforts, especially for firms marketing innovative technology solutions. He specializes in security, transportation, federal procurement, and cybersecurity issues and works with members on both sides of the aisle. Formerly, he was vice president of

homeland security policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He also has served as senior vice president at the National Chamber Foundation and as a senior associate at Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter & Associates. Howell also worked as executive director at the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America earlier in his career.

James (Benji) Hutchinson, Vice President, Advanced Recognition Systems Division, NEC Corporation

James (Benji) Hutchinson is the vice president of federal operations for NEC Corporation of America’s Advanced Recognition Systems Division. He has 13 years of direct experience in the biometrics and identity technology industries supporting US national security and homeland defense agencies across the Department of Defense, Department of Justice,

Department of State, Intelligence Community, and Department of Homeland Security. His current focus is building NEC’s U.S. federal identity solutions business in the newly opened Washington, D.C. office. From 2012 to 2016, Hutchinson was the senior director for U.S. federal government national security accounts at MorphoTrust USA. He led efforts that won a key account in the Intelligence Community and oversaw the launch of the company’s first enterprise multimodal biometric cloud based solution. From 2010 to 2012, Hutchinson served as a aenior biometric and identity intelligence technology consultant for the Pentagon’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He co-led the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) technical team developing the Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 4715 – NATO Biometrics Data, Interchange, Watch Listing, and Reporting Standard. From 2006–2010, Hutchinson served as a biometric standards consultant for the US Army Biometrics Task Force. During his tenure there, he served as a subject matter expert for the US National (INCITS/M1) and the International (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37) Standards Bodies on Biometrics. He also chaired the US Interagency Department of Defense Biometric Standards Working Group. From 2004–2006, he served as a member of the technology team that implemented the US Department of State Consular Affairs multimodal biometric visa and passport issuance systems at various consulates and embassies around the globe.

Hutchison serves on the Advisory Board of the International Center for Biometric Research at Purdue University, the Board of Directors for the IJIS Institute, the Board of Directors for the Identity Technology Association, and Chairs the IJIS Institute’s Biometrics Task Force as well as the Advances in Biometric Technology Working Group of the International Biometrics and Identity Association.

James Loudermilk, Senior Director, Innovation and Customer Solutions, IDEMIA National Security Solutions Jim Loudermilk is senior director, Innovation and Customer Solutions, with IDEMIA National Security Solutions. His focus is on applied R&D to advance biometric and human identification technology and to architect high-performance and cost-effective solutions to customer

identification challenges. Until his recent retirement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he represented the FBI nationally and internationally as a senior-level technologist on identification and innovation issues. He co-chaired the Interagency Biometrics and Identity Forum, and its predecessor the Biometrics and Identity Management Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council. He was a member of the FBI Biometric Steering Committee and represented the FBI with the National Science Foundation Center for Identification Technology Research. In an earlier FBI assignment he was chief engineer and deputy program manager for development of the Integrated Automated fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS); the predecessor system to the current Next Generation Identification (NGI). For NGI he provided Director’s Office oversight during the $1.2 billion development effort. Jim also managed the Science and Technology Branch multibillion dollar information technology portfolio for six years.