Vantage Systems, Inc.

Providing cybersecurity guidance and support for the GOES-R Ground System Engineering Project, a collaborative NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) program of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites.

Senior Information Technology Security Officer

IPRO

(Joined IPRO through acquisition of ZyLAB)

Director Cloud Solutions

ZyLAB

Responsible for Security and Information Assurance for North American Region.
Designed Internal Auditing program in support of ISO 27001 certification. Conducted Internal Audits for certifications and annual checks of controls for compliance and continuous process improvement. Member of Security Steering Committee which developed, maintained and continuously improved upon security policies and programs for International SaaS software company. Achieved ISO 27001, Cloud Security Alliance - Star 1, and SOC2 Type 2 certifications.

Cyber Security Specialist/Internal Auditor

Responsible for delivering customer success for SaaS and On-Prem clients throughout North America by managing a team of consultants, support technicians, project managers and trainiers who provide the highest quality of services delivery in implementations, upgrades, customizations, consulting engagements, and training activities. Promotes and maintains the highest level of processes, best practices and knowledge sharing within the department to ensure that the quality and consistency of delivery is outstanding at all times with focus on the customer experience.

Director of Professional Services & Operations, North America

CIBER Federal

Information Assurance Manager (Acting/Interim): Appointed Acting IAM, by US Army Judge Advocate General. Responsible for ensuring confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, verification, protection and non-repudiation of information processed by the US Army, Office of The Judge Advocate General information systems. Developed and implement Information Assurance (IA) plans, security policies, standards, and architectures and provided guidance to and exercise technical control over subordinate IA systems officers and Legal Technology Management Officers. Advised OTJAG Chief Information Officer on IA policy, procedures, threats, requirements, resources, and solutions. Developed and maintained OTJAG IA and AIS Security Program, including OTJAG Standard Operating Procedures, designed to minimize security risk.

•	Successfully navigated DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP), Authority to Operate (ATO) and TIGS (Tenant in Good Standing)
•	Created and led Information Assurance Working Group for Information Security Professionals

Information Assurance Manager

CIBER/CRGT

Program Manager supporting the US Army, Office of The Judge Advocate General, IT Division, managing two IT Services contracts, valued at $5,000,000 annually. Responsible for technical and software development, project management analysis, personnel management, records management and all technical matters relating to the support of JAGCNET and other JAG automated systems. 

•	Directed software application design and development, system design, software app design, applications management, installation, maintenance, software support, technical writing, help desk support, network and systems administration, quality assurance, and quality control. 
•	Led a team of 30 contractors in application development, systems administration, network administration, cybersecurity, systems integration, service desk & help desk management all in support of customer success.
•	Managed tools and applications supporting eDiscovery, Investigations, Litigations Support, Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, Knowledge Management, IT Service Management, Project Management 
•	Applied industry best practices for project and program management, IT Service Management, and implemented process standardization and continuous improvement

Senior Project Manager

New Horizons Computer Learning Centers

Responsible for supporting production servers and administrative clients for company and customer use. 

•	Developed and deployed images for both production and training purposes. 
•	Performed basic and advanced software, network and hardware troubleshooting as well as system updates and upgrades
•	Evaluated new products through thorough software evaluation and testing, and worked with budget and policy teams to align acquisitions with strategic initiatives
•	Designed, implemented and maintained SharePoint Portal Server for employees and partners
•	Implemented Microsoft Project Server for Project Management

System Administrator

Taught Technical Classes, Business Skills Lessons and Certification Courses to corporate and government audiences in both public and private class settings. Supervised team of professional Technical and Corporate Instructors.

•	Supervised and mentored instructors, monitored development, evaluated performance, and provided guidance for growth. 
•	Rapidly learned and mastered new and emerging computer technology, and effectively communicated complex and challenging topics in easily consumable and digestible lessons
•	"Instructor of the Year" for New Horizons, Washington, DC 2004 and 2006
•	14 times ranked in the monthly "Top Ten New Horizons Instructors Worldwide" based on student evaluations

Senior Technical Instructor

Converse International School of Languages

Academic Coordinator/Head Teacher: Taught all levels of English as a Foreign Language classes, conversation classes, exam preparation courses and business executive training classes while overseeing Instructor Team.
•	Responsible for Managed company staffing needs by hiring and supervising instructor personnel. 
•	Built course schedule, assigned duties, and evaluated employee performance. 
•	Designed and directed a new international executive business program. 
•	Managed and improved student intake and placement processes and supporting database application.

Academic Coordinator - Head Teacher

Japan Exchange and Teaching Program(me) (JET)

Assistant Language Teacher (JET Programme Participant)

An experienced leader of high-performing teams with over 20 years in the Information Technology field and a background in Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, I have a passion for facilitating individual, team , and customer success through education, technology and inspired solutions.

Jay Schneider, PMP, CEDS, CISSP

BDO USA

Director

AI, Legal Services and Law Firm engagement strategy with an emphasis on reducing cognitive load and improving legal accessibility. Focus on a strategy of building stories that accelerate adoption and increase the integration of legal data management as a service. 

•Deployed transfer learning inspired boosting strategies to update PII and PHI models and generative AI solutions for augmented robotics. Data Analysis and Data Engineering team requirements definition and management.
•Product Development and Program Management lead to deploy Native Redaction with initial concept to market readiness demonstrations in less than 30 days.
•Incubated and developed performance models to move from storage-based pricing to volumetric SAAS based pricing models leveraging Business Analysis and Agile Methodologies to engage teams.
•Initiated vision to align compute frameworks to a common core K8 architecture to enable integrated execution globally. Engaged teamwork across multi-national teams and leveraged a top down problem solving hierarchy to reach agreement.

Focus on moving left on the EDRM and vertical content integration.

Director Product Strategy

Relativity

AI as a service enabling the building blocks to drive exponential innovation across ML pipelines in eDiscovery. Enabling the architecture to enable the industry to build transformative machine models today and every day.

Senior Product Manager AI

ProSearch

Strategic planning and execution of eDiscovery product development. Part horse whisperer, data scientist, architect, strategist and listener. Incubating excellence with ease. 

Equal parts strategy, software architecture and product management. 

Released STAR a semantic email threading engine built as a convolutions neural network compiled in SQL. 

Invented RADIUS, a finite state machine for document classification and determination using a user definable ML model and a model factory to execute choices in real time.
 
Technology architect on a large scale 4TB cloud-data POC in Azure, Databricks with a delta-lake index for persistent sets of 1b documents. (Patent Pending)

Skunkworks Projects:

Email Sentiment Data Warehouse project in SparkSQL

Currently: 
Ingested over 300M Data Sources
Correlation of over 1B+ features with a margin of error within 0.2%.
Ingesting 4-500,000 documents an hour at scale

SpaCy, Scikit-Learn and Pandas to build a one-class SVM for anomaly detection applied to three domains: workflow, responsiveness and privilege.

Head of Strategic Innovation/Product Visionary

ProSearch Strategies, Inc.

ProSearch Strategies, Inc. offers long-term fixed fee eDiscovery services to Fortune 250 companies. By removing financial barriers to technology and aligning our business model with the needs of our enterprise clients, ProSearch delivers a client-focused, value-driven eDiscovery experience.

•	Responsible for managing an eDiscovery team supporting key clients.
•	Responsible for business stakeholder requirements, product development and technology improvement strategy with an emphasis on technology assisted eDiscovery.
•	Primary responsibility for setting expectations with the senior leadership team, teaming cross-organizationally, client advocacy and technical integration review and cross-departmental review.

Engagement Manager

•	Responsible for developing, deploying and managing production operations teams and systems for the Deal of the Day at YP.com. Managing a direct team responsible for the creation, deployment and ongoing management of all Daily Deals produced by YP.com. 
•	Responsible for business stakeholder requirements, product development and technology strategy with an emphasis on production Operations teams across North America. Duties include conflict resolution, forecasting, management, and strategic planning. Managing a direct team of 22 and influencing strategy across all 50 state operations teams.
•	Primary responsibility for setting expectations with the senior leadership team, development of a cross-organizational program office, technical integration review and cross-departmental review.
•	Developed operations-product management team that reduced operating costs by over 30% while onboarding over 100 new product features.
•	Developed a cross-departmental evangelism framework that has reduced initiative review and negotiations by 20%.
•	Corporate Compliance Director including PCI Audit reviews and system architecture alliance.

Strategic Operations Director

IOMA

Technology evangelist and medical technology conference speaker leveraging the opportunity to utilize off the shelf computing solutions to integrate a full spectrum of medical care.

Guest Faculty

Workbrain

Project Director, North America-Western Region
Responsible for P&L and end-end project delivery for software implementation and delivery engagements in North America.
•	Responsible for field consulting, architecture design and SDLC management for workforce enablement/ERP projects in North America. Duties include conflict resolution, forecasting, and strategic client-corporate alliance building. 
•	Primary responsibility for setting expectations with the Warner Bros. Management team, including technical integration with SAP, solution design, technical architecture, and end-end production increasing staff productivity from a corporate average of 45% to 80%.
•	Spear headed technical integration with SAP and Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft-HR, legacy IMAP and Remedy platform solutions by being an extension of the Warner Bros. executive management team by establish a high degree of trust and rapport delivering on deadlines and managed expectations ensuring high client satisfaction and enabling the expansion of the project scope from Warner Bros. to multiple Time Warner Companies.
•	Developed custom integration strategy for PeopleSoft Payroll and Human Capital Management modules to provide a single entity view across systems.
•	Led EAI and SOA initiative teams reducing software integration costs by 50% and reducing the rewrite of platform services by 30%.
•	Drove best practices in System Integration for a services provider including the development of a field training methodology and instituting a client focused Sales to Services transition framework to align project initiatives improving corporate wide integration success by 10%.
•	Developed a financial review model, that the Warner Bros. executive team leveraged to review financial and architectural growth models to include other labor groups including syndication, video, union and other corporate stakeholders.

Project Director, Professional Services

Warner Bros.

Project Director with Workbrain

Longs Drugs

Project Director at Workbrain

Director Strategy @ BDO, Analytics and AI for Data Breach Advisory Services

As the Director of Product Strategy at IPRO, I lead the development and execution of a vision that leverages AI and legal data management to transform the legal industry. I have over 20 years of experience in bridging technology, business, and law, and I hold a Master of Science in Analytics from Georgia Institute of Technology and multiple certifications in Relativity, a powerful eDiscovery platform.

My core competencies include AI, legal services, and the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). I create and deliver stories that accelerate adoption and increase the integration of legal data management as a service, focusing on moving left on the EDRM and vertical content integration. I also reduce cognitive load and improve legal accessibility for our clients, who include lawyers, investigators, and compliance professionals. I collaborate with cross-functional teams, partners, and stakeholders to deliver data-driven and customer-centric solutions that drive exponential innovation and transformation in the legal industry. I am passionate about creating innovative and user-friendly products that enable our clients to access, analyze, and manage legal data more efficiently and effectively.

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