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Michael serves as sales lead for the Public Sector Civilian Team. The team is focused on strategic growth for the Federal Civilian Agencies nationwide utilizing Verizon Business Group’s Wireline and Wireless product portfolio. The winning aspiration of the team is to deliver the most transformative solutions; built on the nation’s most reliable and secure networks; that modernize and safeguard critical infrastructure and enable those in public service to achieve their missions.

Prior to this role, Michael served as lead for the Wireless Solutions Sales Team in Verizon Partner Solutions (VPS). He led a team of highly motivated sales professionals that worked collaboratively with established wireless carriers to build their next generation 5G. He also created and served as sales lead for the VPS Business Development (BD) team. The BD team was commissioned to better enable partners to sell more, grow new partnerships, and develop new paths to market with VPS.

Michael was also a Master Black Belt (MBB) in the Verizon’s Business Transformation Team. He had overall responsibility for Lean Six Sigma process improvements and Business Transformation for the VBG Wholesale organization. His team delivered both hard and soft revenue benefits to the bottom line. Michael managed a diverse project portfolio across sales, marketing and operations. He led a team of Black Belts that utilized a time-tested method for improving speed and quality by removing waste, streamlining processes, reducing variances, and eliminating defects.

Michael has 26 years of service with Verizon and has held a variety of roles in sales, business development, marketing, lean six sigma, and product management. His diverse experiences havepresented him the opportunity to work with cross functional partners in operations, network, regulatory, legal, sales, product management, corporate strategy, and finance. Michael leverages those diverse cross functional partnerships internally to effectively interface externally with many customer contacts from Technicians to C-Levels. Michael truly believes that we are “All Better by Working Together”.

Michael interned with Verizon through the INROADS program and received his degree in Economics from Princeton University. He resides with his wife and four children in Davidsonville, Maryland.

Taka Ariga is GAO’s first Chief Data Scientist and Director of the Innovation Lab. As an integral part of the Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics team, he will help GAO develop and implement advanced analytical capabilities for its auditing practices. Prior to joining GAO, he held executive positions at Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and Booz Allen Hamilton, where he worked with audit, compliance, legal, and regulated entities.

Taka earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He is natively fluent in both Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. In his spare time, Taka is a serious amateur classical chamber musician (performing on cello throughout the Washington DC region), as well as a competitive tennis player.

Hansang Bae has over 25 years of experience working in the information technology industry. As Zscaler’s Public Sector CTO, he is responsible for assisting and educating customers in their Digital Transformation journey. He is not only well versed but also passionate about his role in advising public sector organizations on best practices and strategies for adopting a Cloud-First security posture.

During his career, Bae has served in similar roles as an executive member at Netskope and at Riverbed. Prior to Riverbed, he was a member of the Citi (Citigroup) Architecture and Technology Engineering leadership team. As one of the six global engineering leads, he was responsible for datacenter, branch and performance engineering, network management (NMS) tools, and capacity planning groups for all of Citi.

As an avid protocol analyst, Bae collaborates with industry associations in educating public sector organizations and also holds an active role as a board member of Wireshark Foundation, helping steer the open-source project and ensure its continued success.

Kanuj is a Chief Technologist with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. Having spent over two decades working in the datacenter with experience running cables, configuring networking equipment, managing various web and application systems, as well as administering virtualized Windows and Unix/Linux systems for both commercial organizations and federal agencies. Ten years spent in sales, working on some of the largest and most complex private and hybrid cloud opportunities in the Federal Civilian space at Nutanix.

Jay Bhalodia is the Managing Director and founder of Microsoft Federal’s Security, Compliance, and Identity (SCI) Customer Success organization. The Microsoft Federal SCI Customer Success Organization accelerates federal government transformation through security solutions that enable mission outcomes and cloud to enable cybersecurity outcomes. In this role, Jay leads Microsoft Federal’s Solution Architects and Engineers that provide advisory and cybersecurity operations support to empower Federal customers and their partners.

Throughout his career, Jay has focused on enabling regulated industry customers to achieve mission and program success through trusted, innovative solutions. He has over 20 years of technology and security leadership, providing advisory services to government C-Level decision makers, including serving as an augmented Deputy CISO to federal agencies. Jay is a member of leading industry organizations including Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) Advisory Boad, American Council for Technology – Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC), the International Information System Security Certification
Consortium (ISC)2.

Jay is an alumnus of Wake Forest University and holds graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in Information Security Management and SANS Technology Institute for Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking. He also holds many industry recognized credentials and designations including CISSP, CSSLP, GCIH, GWAPT, GPEN, PMP, and Prosci CCP.

Alexis Bonnell is the Chief Information Officer and Director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, the primary scientific research and development center for the Department of the Air Force. She is responsible to develop and execute the AFRL Information Technology strategy, leading the strategic development of highly advanced next generation technologies and platforms for AFRL. Her focus includes catalyzing the discovery, development, and integration of warfighting technologies for air, space, and cyberspace forces via digital capabilities, IT infrastructure and technological innovation across the lab’s operations and culture.

She was one of the first employees of the Internet Trade Association, contributing to the early development and growth of the digital landscape. She has served in challenging environments, including warzones with the United Nations to support over $1B of critical DOD operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and many other operational theaters. She has contributed to dual-use technology and innovation culture across the DOD Innovation community including: AFWERX, AFRL, Kessel Run, NavalX, Marine Innovation Unit, Army Futures Command, DIU, Army Software Factory, DARPA and more. Prior to her current position, she was the Emerging Technology Evangelist at Google, driving the use of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, cyber security/zero trust, API First, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and others to drive efficiency and innovation within government organizations, including tackling digital transformation in defense, healthcare, education, COVID response, natural disasters, supply chain, system/process modernization, hybrid workforce and more.

Bonnell co-founded the Global Development Lab, the premier innovation lab of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), leveraging Global Allied Nation partnerships in Science, Technology, and Innovation, reviewing over 25,000 game changing innovations and technologies, funding 1,200 of them. She served as USAID’s Chief Innovation Officer, receiving the first 10/10 for innovation in the Results For America Rankings. She was named in the Fed 100 in 2020. She also assisted with major platform and technology transitions, drove hybrid work adoption, countering malign nation initiatives and global cyber security programming.

Dr. Tyson Brooks is the Technical Director for the Artifical Intelligence Security Center. Dr. Brooks leds technical efforts to develop and operationalize AI cybersecurity services to prevent and eradicate AI cyber threats. Dr. Brooks collaborates with internal cross-functional teams and throughout the IC/DoD community to ensure the integration of AI security technologies aligns with overall DoD/IC mission goals.

In his prior position, Dr. Brooks was the Technical Director for the Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, Fusion Operations Divison. In this role, he supported the technical health of a team of analysts and prototypers performing cyber threat analysis, including identifying new sources of data and methods to track adversary activities in Cyberspace. Dr. Brooks previously worked as a Senior Weapons Engineer in the Weapons Cybersecurity Division where he advised DoD customers in developing security designs and assessing the effectiveness of security solutions against present and projected cyber threats. Dr. Brooks was also the Innovation Portfolio Lead and Deputy Research Liaison for National Security Agency Hawaii (NSAH) and Technical Lead for the former Remote and Deployed (RDO) Information Assurance Operations Team. As the first NSAH Innovation Portfolio Lead, Dr. Brooks implemented and managed NSAH’s Innovation Portfolio program which delivered innovation projects to rapidly solve difficult mission challenges. He also served as the Deputy Research Liaison for the Command Technical Director by supporting research activities with the University of Hawaii while creating strategies for creating research projects for the Agency. Prior to the formation of the Hawaii Innovation Office, Dr. Brooks was the RDO lead for NSAH. In RDO, Dr. Brooks directed projects in searching for sophisticated advanced persistent threat adversaries operating on U.S. Government classified networks integrating advanced hunting passive and active operations. Moreover, Dr. Brooks has led risk assessment teams, designed information systems and performed Blue Team activities to identify vulnerabilities, developed customized mitigation strategies and techniques to secure networks to thwart intrusions of U.S. Government networks. Prior to joining NSA, Dr. Brooks was a cyber-security researcher/penetration tester with various private and public companies for over 10 years.

Dr. Amanda Bullock is an accomplished Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lead at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), where she is driving digital transformation and modernization initiatives in AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics. With a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from Eastern Kentucky University and a Master of Science in Applied Statistics from Wright State University, Amanda brings a strong foundation in statistical analysis to her work.

She earned her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in 2013, specializing in Statistical Signal Processing. Following her postdoc work in Non-Destructive Evaluation and Non-GPS navigation, Amanda taught mathematics, biostatistics, statistics, signal processing, and data science at Wright State University, Central State University, and AFIT.

During her tenure at Central State University, Amanda was selected for a prestigious Fellowship at the Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, where she worked in the Survivability and Lethality Analysis Division. This experience further solidified her expertise in advanced analytics and AI.

In 2017, Amanda entered civil service and served as the Project Engineer for the LEGACY program, an Air Force STEM internship program. She then went on to lead the Enterprise Architecture Modeling team in 2019 before becoming the AFRL Deputy Chief Data Officer in the Digital Capabilities Directorate in 2022.

Currently, Amanda serves as the AI Lead for the Digital Capabilities Directorate, where she aims to reduce business toil through AI, connect AFRL, DoD, and industry AI efforts, and upskill the workforce in AI/ML/Advanced Analytics. Amanda’s research interests include Enterprise Architecture, STEM education for underrepresented populations, Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing. She is passionate about leveraging her expertise in AI and analytics to drive innovation and modernization in the Air Force and beyond.

Adam Clater is a Chief Architect at Red Hat. He has worked internationally with federal agencies, integrators and Red Hat partners & communities to promote and define the use of enterprise open source solutions.

Adam has extensive Enterprise IT and Sales experience with the US Federal Government. An Open Source advocate and thought leader, Adam has featured regularly in radio, webcasts and print. He is experienced working with product management and leadership to emphasize and prioritize US Government standards and technical needs in the course of product life cycles. Adam is frequently called upon to interface with Senate/House staffers, Government CxO, and executive leadership.

Adam has experienced first hand the evolving role that I.T. has played in the federal government for more than two decades, starting with his role as a Systems Administrator at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1997. Prior to joining Red Hat in 2010, Adam was a senior architect, system administrator and lead for a variety of commercial and government agencies.

Maksim E. Eren is an early career scientist in A-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Advanced Research in Cyber Systems division. He is an alumnus of the Scholarship for Service CyberCorps program. Maksim graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2020 and earned his Master’s degree from the same institution in 2022. In 2024, he received his Ph.D. from UMBC, focusing on tensor decomposition methods for malware characterization.

Maksim’s interdisciplinary research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and cybersecurity, with a focus on tensor decomposition. His tensor decomposition-based research projects encompass large-scale malware detection and characterization, cyber anomaly detection, data privacy, biology, text mining, large language models, knowledge graphs, and high-performance computing. Maksim has developed and published state-of-the-art solutions in anomaly detection and malware characterization. He has also worked on various other machine learning research projects, including detecting malicious hidden code, adversarial analysis of malware classifiers, and federated learning. At LANL, Maksim was a member of the 2021 R&D 100 winning project SmartTensors AI, where he has released a fast tensor decomposition and anomaly detection software, contributed to the design and development of various other tensor decomposition libraries, and developed state-of-the-art text mining tools.

Tommy Gardner is HP’s Chief Technology Officer for HP Federal, spanning the US Federal Agencies, Higher Education, K-12 Education, State and Local government customer segments, as well as Federal Systems Integrators. His current responsibilities include technology leadership, strategic technology plans, product and technology strategies, sales force technical support, and customer and partner relationships.

Previously, Tommy has served as the Chief Technology Officer for Jacobs Engineering, Scitor, and ManTech. Earlier in his career he was a senior technical executive at Raytheon. In the U.S. Navy he served as the Deputy for Science and Technology for the Chief of Naval Research. He oversaw the Navy’s Deep Submergence Program as well as its Advanced Technology Program. He also commanded the nuclear submarine, USS San Juan (SSN 751).

Tommy’s educational background covers multiple disciplines and fields of interest including: cybersecurity, data science, blockchain, quantum information science, artificial intelligence, high performance computing and systems integration.

Tommy holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University, an M.S. in Management of Technology from MIT and a Ph. D. in Energy Economics from George Washington University. He is a Professional Engineer, an ASME Fellow, and serves on the ASME Board of Governors, the ANSI Board of Directors and the U. S. Council on Competitiveness as the Co-chair of the Advanced Computer Roundtable.

As the Vice President of Public Sector at Equinix, Jim Gwiazda plays a pivotal role within the company, supporting agencies that leverage Platform Equinix as the place where they come together, enabling the innovations that improve the quality of life for the citizens they serve and keep our nation safe. With over two decades of experience in the technology industry, Jim is committed to fostering a culture of change, innovation, and excellence in service to the missions that his organization supports.

He is a decorated veteran of the United States Army and served as a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Corps of Engineers. Jim holds a Master of Business Administration from The George Washington University School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Northeastern University.

Mangala Kuppa is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. She is a go-getter with a unique skill set that includes in-depth technical expertise, experience with industry best practices, and exceptional leadership and management skills. As Chief Technology Officer within the Department of Labor’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, she serves as a key advisor to the Chief Information Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officers on the development of short and long-range IT plans for all elements of the enterprise-wide technology environment. This includes providing technology leadership, advice, and guidance throughout the department in planning for implementation of all new or upgraded IT services in a managed architecture program. Mangala also serves as Chief AI Officer and the Director of Technology, Innovation and Engineering, making her responsible for overseeing the development and operations of the department’s Enterprise Data Platform and AI and Machine Language strategies and policies. Mangala previously served as the Department of Labor’s Director of Business Applications Services, where she oversaw the operation, maintenance, and modernization of the department’s mission and business-focused systems.

David Larrimore serves as the Executive Director of the Chief Technology Officer Directorate for the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). As Executive Director, Mr. Larrimore is responsible for determining the future of critical systems across the entire Department of Homeland Security portfolio of national security missions. He leads a team of experts engaged in enterprise architecture, digital innovation, emerging technologies, and IT program delivery, oversight, and governance.

Mr. Larrimore has over a decade of experience in federal IT and has dedicated his professional career to leveraging technology to build and transform organizations. Prior to joining OCIO, Mr. Larrimore served as a Lead Solutions Engineer in the Global Public Sector business unit of Salesforce, Inc., where he used design thinking to reinvent how Solution Engineers build, tailor, and deploy assets to be shared by every role in the organization.

Mr. Larrimore also served as the Chief Technology Officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In that role, his team led the effort to deploy the organization’s first multi-cloud environment, providing not only transparency and cost savings, but doubled project teams speed to deliver mission value.

Prior to his time at ICE, Mr. Larrimore served as a Cloud Strategist, where he helped bring cloud technology to the Department of Agriculture and built the first Enterprise Data Warehouse for the General Services Administration. Mr. Larrimore earned his Bachelor of Arts in visual communication from Salisbury University.

Rose Mata serves as the Senior Director of Federal Healthcare, Education and Finance across the Verizon organization. This includes leading a group or professionals across the mobility and wireline sides of business to partner with customers to deliver technology solutions.

Rose has held many leadership roles in her 19-year Verizon career, including those in the consumer and business segments and government sectors.

Rose holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. Rose also serves on the board of directors at Santa Fe Montessori, a non-profit organization that provides early childhood education, at the foundation of educational success and is an active volunteer at several different volunteer programs.

Dr. Rick Muller serves as the Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). As IARPA’s sixth full-time director, he is responsible for implementing high-risk, high-payoff, technically viable research programs to address the Intelligence Community’s most challenging intelligence gaps and provide our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage. Prior to joining IARPA, Dr. Muller was senior manager of Quantum and Advanced Microsystems at Sandia National Laboratories and led the Quantum Information Science program there. He also served as the director of Department of Energy’s (DOE) Quantum Systems Accelerator, one of the five centers DOE created under the National Quantum Initiative. From 2016 to 2017, Dr. Muller led the drive for advanced computational capabilities for national security as part of the Joint Program Office for the National Strategic Computing Initiative. Before taking on management roles, his research interests focused on developing computational methods to predict the behavior and applications of novel materials, molecules, and devices. Dr. Muller holds a bachelor’s degree from Rice University and a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in chemistry. Dr. Muller was raised outside of Chicago and enjoys baking bread, drinking coffee, and spending time with his wife Tess and their son Alex.

Jessie Posilkin is the Acting Executive Director of the Technology Modernization Fund, working to help implement IT solutions across the government that improve agency processes and systems. She has previously worked on the Acquisitions Team at 18F, working to improve the way that the government buys technology by developing the use of the Agile BPA. She has also worked in a variety of non-profits as an organizer and technologist, supporting her colleagues to become stronger users of technology and finding ways for online systems to help social workers, lawyers, and food pantry managers help their clients. Jessie has tried many project management systems, and is a firm believer the best system is the one you will use. Jessie graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies.

Mr. Rojas is a Technical Program Manager with the US Department of Agriculture in the FPAC Business Center Group, leading teams in technical modernization projects and the operations and maintenance of geospatial, financial and commodity applications housed on these websites. His oversight includes maintaining the operations, safety and security of applications and websites for USDA Agencies and working with government hosting centers to ensure the high availability of these websites and associated applications for the many customers relying on agricultural data.

He has extensive technology experience in private industry as well, having worked for Oracle Corp and several technology consulting firms.

Kris is a recognized leader in the United States Army people enterprise, who has spent the past eight years investigating new technologies and analytics, pairing them with teams of talented individuals, partnering with academia and industry to deliver best practices, and attacking the Army’s most pressing challenges in people analytics and talent management.

Since she arrived at the HQDA G-1 in 2016, she established data, analytics, and innovation teams and capabilities for the Army Talent Management Task Force, for the ASA(M&RA)’s People Analytics directorate, for US Army Human Resources Command, and is now designing the Innovation Directorate for US Army Recruiting Command.

During my high school and college years, I trained as a community organizer. After college I joined the Navy as a photographer, and after completing my naval service, I opened a photography studio in Oakland, California. I also worked as the staff photographer for the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, as well as a photographer jazz musicians and celebrities. During this period I became an artists’ representative, and also tried to start a rocket ship company with Evel Knievel’s rocket designer. I sold air time on a cable radio station, became a filmmaker, sold encyclopedias door to door, and finally ended up painting aircraft for 12 years at the Naval Aviation Depot in Alameda, California.

In 1994 I was transferred to NAVSEA Carderock as a photographer. At one point I tried to borrow a camera from DARPA. They wouldn’t give me a camera, but instead gave me $24 million and told me to transition HDTV out of the lab, and integrate it into the Force. My life changed.

Along with my team, I co-founded the Motion Imagery Standards Board at the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency. I then founded another organization, the Advanced Motion Imagery Working Group at the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency.

In 2001, I started the Advanced Motion Imagery Office at NAVSEA Carderock, developing advanced imaging systems. I also established the Intelligent Mobile Machines Office, which develops industrial exoskeletons and human augmentation systems.

2009 I started the Disruptive Technologies Lab, which is focused on identifying paradigm shifts in technologies, and then rapidly transitioning them to the Force.

I am now focused on the developing a creativity engine based on the biologic response of humans and developing a training program for improvisation from the resultant data.

Vinay V. Singh is passionate about process and project management. He has been in numerous leadership roles in the private sector for over 25 years, spanning accounting, finance, technology & operations management spheres. He is a Certified Public Accountant. He joined the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in July 2022 from the Small Business Administration where he helped implement a new mission for the Office of Disaster Assistance. In November 2023, HUD announced Mr. Singh in the additional role of Chief AI Officer. Prior to this he was Lead Partner, World Bank Group and Chief Operating Officer for KPMG in India.
His work in the private sector provided an opportunity to learn and lead teams with Closing the books; SEC Reporting; IT and Business Auditing; Business Process design, Budgets & Reporting, Governance, Risk & Compliance; Technology implementations (Oracle, SAP) and Organizational restructuring. The critical thread across roles is Program, Process and Project Management. Leadership is enabling the right culture for people to pursue their passions. It is only then you can focus on – Doing the right thing, the right way, getting them done well and getting the benefits.
During his time with the International Trade Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary, he also learned how to balance priorities and execute complex tasks with multiple stakeholders inside the Federal Government. It was here he worked on Infrastructure and Smart Cities and learned that housing is the core pillar of not only economic growth but individual and community integration.

Eric Smith makes and manages integrated investments that accelerate growth by enabling economies throughout the United States to realize their potential, ultimately increasing individual opportunity and prosperity and strengthening U.S. economic and national security. As the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), he manages over $2 billion in investments to accelerate the production and delivery of new technologies, increase U.S. regions’ economic success and competitiveness in the global economy, and drive employer-driven workforce development. Earlier in his current tour at EDA, Eric was the Tech Hubs Director. Before that, he was Chief Customer Officer of NASA’s SBIR/STTR Program, helped stand up EDA’s other technology- and innovation-centric programs, and worked in fintech and at software startups. He holds a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and a JD from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

Martin Stanley is the Strategic Technology Branch Chief and leads the development of artificial intelligence strategy for the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Martin previously led the cybersecurity assurance program at DHS and the Enterprise Cybersecurity Program at the FDA.

Sean Tabbert, a seasoned leader with over a decade of experience on the IBM team, currently serves as a principal for WatsonX Sales within the US Federal and Americas region. In his role, he drives the adoption of the IBM Watson platform, enabling organizations to integrate cognitive computing features into their applications. His goal is to help federal customers develop a customized roadmap for their AI strategy.

Davon Tyler is the acting deputy chief operating officer for information technology management and the chief information security officer (CISO) for the U.S. Department of Education (ED) office of Federal Student Aid (FSA). He also serves as director of the FSA Enterprise Cybersecurity Group. FSA administers the federal student aid programs, which—in Fiscal Year 2023—provided more than $114 billion in federal grants, loans, and work-study funds to nearly 9.7 million students attending approximately 5,400 postsecondary institutions. In total, FSA manages a federal student loan portfolio valued at more than $1.6 trillion representing more than 45 million borrowers.

Under Tyler’s leadership, FSA’s Enterprise Cybersecurity Group is responsible for implementing FSA’s portion of ED’s Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and cybersecurity requirements. Such requirements include ensuring safeguards are in place to protect the critical data that FSA has been entrusted with and rapidly responding to cyber threats to quickly mitigate FSA’s exposure.

In December 2022, Tyler joined FSA from the Technology Modernization Fund Program Management Office within the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). There, he served as the cyber investment manager responsible for advising GSA and Office of Management and Budget leadership about cyber proposals across the federal government. Prior to his time with the GSA, Tyler served as the chief information security officer for the U.S. Mint, where he was responsible for overseeing the Mint’s Authorization and Assessment implementation, as well as the Security Operations Center. Previously, Tyler worked in senior positions at the Defense Information Systems Agency and was an active-duty member of the U.S. Navy.

With more than 20 years of combined public and private sector experience, Tyler is recognized as an expert in cybersecurity with skills in network and system engineering, program management, and financial and acquisition management.

Tyler earned an associate of applied science degree in information technology from the State of New York University Empire State College while on active naval duty. In addition, he holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in cybersecurity and a Master of Business Administration, all from the University of Maryland Global Campus.

Kevin Walsh is a Director in GAO’s Information Technology and Cybersecurity team. He oversees work related to AI, Census, CIO authorities, legacy modernizations, and satellite and space systems. He has led reviews covering topics related to the authorities of federal Chief Information Officers, management of legacy IT systems, coordination of IT contracts, and assessments of IT-related risk.

Kevin joined GAO in June 2006, and led projects related to FITARA and GAO’s High Risk area on Improving the Management of IT Acquisitions and Operations.

Kevin earned a master’s degree in business administration from Virginia Tech. Kevin earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Dr. Kaeli Yuen currently serves as the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Product Lead for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Chief AI Officer. She served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at VA Office of the Chef Technology Officer from 2019-2021 and is thrilled to have recently re-joined the federal government as part of the new Office of the Chief AI Officer. During her time away from VA, she worked as Director of Clinical Product Management at Accolade, a personalized health care company offering advocacy, navigation, and virtual care services, and as Enterprise Product Manager at Ambience Healthcare, which offers an AI medical scribe and related products. Previously, she worked in health care startups including The Human Diagnosis Project, Curai, and Akido Labs. She is now embarking on her own side venture, AltMD, which aims to empower medical students to pursue careers in digital health. Kaeli received an MD from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, and a BS in biology from Stanford University. She is based in Arlington, VA.