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I craft articles, speeches and tell stories. I also am a crack researcher, editor and strategic communications planner.
I have more than 30 years' experience in corporate communications and reporting, in fields such as energy, IT, cybersecurity, heath, and international relations. I design, lead and implement successful communications campaigns that boost employee morale and productivity, influence customers, and inform shareholders. I also mentor and train staff, network, and stay abreast of best practices. My analytical, research, and writing/editing skills are well honed. I translate technical writing into layman's language. In addition, I have authored a book and several short stories, and edited a book as well.
By most counts, human trafficking is the second-most profitable transnational crime, just behind illegal drug trafficking. But behind that statistic is the ugly reality of human suffering, as thousands of these people are being trafficked against their will, and far too many of them are children.
"I love information security," Terri Phillips says. "Cybersecurity, computer security-all the iterations it's gone through. I find it fascinating because I like the art and the science of it-the fact that it's not just about technology, there are policy, process, and people issues to consider as well."
Cloud computing has become a game changer worldwide. And it's obvious why: It connects vast numbers of servers over the internet rather than using servers at an organization's physical location, making IT resources more efficient and accessible. For many years, MITRE has assisted our sponsors in choosing the best way to move to the cloud, securely.
U.S. Army soldiers participating in Cyber Quest 2018 monitor activities in the field. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. TaMaya Eberhart) Cyberattacks by adversaries could cripple the networks and systems our nation's warfighters rely on to protect themselves and to project power on the battlefield.
Analyst. Storyteller. Innovator. Connection builder. Those are just a few facets of Dr. Nahum Gershon, whose expertise and outreach activities extend across MITRE, our sponsors, and international boundaries. His "day job" involves data and information organization and visualization, with a specialty in analyzing medical, environmental, and other multi-dimensional data.
Sometimes you have to go far afield to understand what's happening right at home. That's why MITRE's Lisa Kerby and her colleagues headed to Alaska last year to discuss the environment. "Our goal is to develop strong, predictive analytics based on the real events taking place in the Arctic that might also occur across the country," says Kerby.
More than half of Americans deal with one or more chronic conditions, either as a patient or as a relative, friend, or caregiver. To help patients become effective members of their own healthcare team, MITRE is now offering our Patient Toolkit to our government sponsors and for commercial licensing.
The 42 staffers and interns who participated in MITRE's 2017 Hackathon aimed to connect around problems not projects. and connect they did, using Discuss@MITRE, Github, Hackathon.io, Slack, our internal wiki (MITREpedia)-and these are just the tools. The teams won awards for spirit and motivation, knowledge sharing, innovation, collaboration, team solution, team building, and a judges shout out.
As part of MITRE's effort to nurture new expertise to help solve problems for a safer world, employees at MITRE's Los Angeles (LA) site are helping grow the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) ecosystem in southern California. Many of their efforts focus on the region's universities.
At past health IT developers' conferences, there was limited focus on the methods of data analytics: showing actual methods, actual data, and actual results. That's because analytics are run primarily on real data-but real patient data sets cannot be shared due to privacy laws and ethical issues.