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EMPLOYMENT

§ */**15 – Present US Department of Commerce Washington, DC Deputy Chief Data Officer

§ Leading the Commerce Data Service - responsible for the successful execution of the data initiatives of the twelve bureaus of the Department of Commerce (DOC), running the operations and execution for the Data pillar of DOC’s Office of the Secretary, and creating new data products for the US Patent Office, the US CENSUS Bureau, NIST, NOAA, BEA, etc.

§ 9/2014 – 8/2015 White House & General Services Administration Washington, DC Presidential Innovation Fellow

§ Worked with the Department of Energy, the Department of Labor and the Veterans Administration to execute the Solar Ready Vets program.

§ Worked with data scientists and visualization experts from Bayes Impact, District Data Labs and the University of Maryland to create thirteen data products for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wage Hour Division, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Mining Safety and Health Administration divisions of the Department of Labor.

§ Used agile development techniques to develop and deploy the first ever IOS and Android mobile applications for the Child Labor division of the Bureau of International Affairs. Focused on optimizing their current ETL process.

§ Helped the Department of Labor (DOL) assess, strategize and improve upon their systems and tools for workforce development, skills training and apprenticeship.

§ Performed developer relations, community building and technology consulting for the CENSUS’s CitySDK initiative.

§ 2012-2014 Proficiency Labs International Ashland, OR Chief Executive Officer

§ Created and executed the strategy and technical plan. Led the executive team in strategy execution and new business acquisition.

§ 2014 - 2015 METIS Inc. Ashland, OR

Managing Partner

§ Led clients through successful business systems evolution by implementing a living change management plan based in persuasive strategic communications. Worked hand-in-hand with clients in strategic planning, organizational and technology assessment, project design, product development, creation of new market offers and innovation readiness.

§ 2013-Present University of Technology Kingston, Jamaica Adjunct Professor

§ Teaches courses in Privacy, Security and Secure Software Engineering.

§ Lead graduate students in producing data privacy and security solutions that impact the social good.

§ Nov 2012 – May 2014 EqualityTV Long Beach, CA

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

§ Architected and implemented the technology infrastructure for the online platform.

§ Used user-centered design and agile development methodology to produce the company’s Minimally Viable Product

(MVP).

2003-2012 IBM Research San Jose, CA

Global Program Manager

§ Created and implemented the HIPAA-HITECH compliance framework for IBM Research (worldwide); worked with IBM Legal, Business Development, Sales and Marketing, Global Services and Software Group to ensure that IBM Research could work with healthcare clients in a legally compliant manner. Created the internal audit and enforcement Dr. Tyrone W. A. Grandison

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framework for HIPAA-HITECH; working with the Chief Security Officer of IBM Research to ensure timely implementation.

§ Created data products and privacy solutions and took them through the productization cycle. Some solutions include: Hippocratic Database technology, PRIvacy MAnagement Architecture (PRIMA), End-to-End Data De-identification Infrastructure (EDDI), Data Forensics and Data-Centric Security.

§ Designed, built, deployed and iteratively improved systems in multiple domains, e.g. MONitoring Global Online Opinions via Semantic Extraction (MONGOOSE), BBC Sound Index, Shipment Information Systems Services (SISS),

“Single View of a Patient”, “Single View of a Disease” and Privacy-Preserving RFID Query Processing. 1996-2002 Imperial College (UK), U. Of Queensland (Australia), U of West Indies & U. of Technology (JM) Researcher & Lecturer

§ Taught courses in Computer Science

EDUCATION

IBM Academy of Education

Advanced Executive M.B.A. July 2009

Executive M.B.A. July 2004

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London Ph.D. in Computer Science June 2003

Specialization: Security and Trust management for Internet Applications University of the West Indies, Jamaica

M.Sc. in Computer Science June 1998

Specialization: Software Engineering

B.Sc. (Honors) in Computer Studies June 1997

Specialization: Computer Science, Economics, and Mathematics AWARDS

§ 2016: Innovation Award (for Sweat and Toil App), Department of Labor Secretary's Honor Awards.

§ 1994 to 2015: Please see http://www.tyronegrandison.org/recognition.html PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

§ Program Committee Member & Reviewer for at least 4 conferences and 5 journals each year.

§ External (Course and PhD) Examiner for 4 universities.

§ For more information. See http://www.tyronegrandison.org/professional-activity.html PATENTS

§ Over 30 Patents Filed & Over 20 Patents Published.

§ For more information, see http://www.tyronegrandison.org/patents.html PUBLICATIONS

§ Over 120 publications published in peer-reviewed conferences and journals.

§ For more details, see http://www.tyronegrandison.org/publications.html PRESENTATIONS

§ Over 72 invited talks (since 2003). On average, 5 each year.

§ For details, see http://www.tyronegrandison.org/talks.html

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