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Director, IT Software Engineering at the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), reports to the Chief Technology Officer and has 4 Software Engineering Managers reporting to her with an additional 60+-member team. She is responsible for directing the activities associated with programming and engineering all changes within the UNetSM platform, Salesforce platform, application architecture, and software quality assurance. Ms. Wilson has been with UNOS in IT for 5 and years. Prior to this, she spent 20 years working in IT at Capital One. She held leadership positions in Operations, Information Security, Business Continuity, End-User Services and Business Support Services. She received her bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Luke Rabin is co-founder and Product Lead of BLDR, a startup studio and product architecture firm focusing on creating new tech products from scratch. Luke is also a drummer, record producer, wood worker, and dad to his amazing little 3 year old daughter, Vera.

Ryan Shriver, Chief Technology Officer, specializes in solving complex technical problems and is a trusted partner to some of our biggest clients. Ryan is passionate about teaching and mentoring: in addition to leading our Cloud and DevOps team, Ryan teaches Problem Solving for Designers at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Arts.

Chris Belyea is SingleStone’s Cloud and DevOps Technical Director. Chris guides clients through Cloud and DevOps transformations, including cloud strategy, migrating workloads to the cloud, automating infrastructure deployment, creating CI/CD pipelines, and improving automated configuration management.

Greg is a Senior Computer Scientist with broad academic, technical, research, and leadership experience. His areas of expertise include Software Engineering and Systems, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Information Assurance, and Mobile Computing. He spent over 4 years as a Master Software Engineer with Capital One and is has now been with Terazo for over 2 years where he recently moved into the role of Market Technical Director. Greg has developed graduate and undergraduate programs, curricula, and courses (online and in-seat), and has taught a wide variety of courses to students at all levels. 

Julia is an innovative leader with a rich Interdisciplinary background blending vision, strategy, systems thinking, data science, and machine-learning engineering to drive innovation within organizations. She has the ability to lead cross-functional team development and delivery of data/algorithmic products and services, influence the adoption of new technologies and organizational work structures, and evangelize the long-term vision of an augmented algorithmic organization.

She is currently leading and growing a team of very-talented and highly-engaged Data Engineers and ML Engineers with a diverse skill set in Azure cloud engineering, software development, machine learning, data lakes, data streaming, and distributed computing to support the development, productionisation, and operationalization of predictive models (algorithms) that enhance the iconic CarMax customer experience. Julia uses the Agile approach and DevOps practices to continually deliver enhancements and new features with direct, measurable business value.

David is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Forestry Machine Learning, which is a strategic partner for companies that seek to gain competitive advantage through data and artificial intelligence. Following the successful acquisition of his last startup and leading a consulting organization in Capital One's Center for Machine Learning, he wanted to get back to my passion as an entrepreneur. David is a former Director of Machine Learning at Capital One. His team, in the Center for Machine Learning, builds predictive solutions across lines of business including use cases in time series forecasting, anomaly detection, natural language and distributed model training. Prior to this role, he was a co-founder and chief operating officer of a boutique data agency called Notch which Capital One acquired in December of 2017.