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ICIT (Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology)Distinguished Fellow, Food, Agriculture and Healthcaare
Feb. 2024Washington, District of Columbia, United StatesDistinguished Fellows play a pivotal role in advancing the mission of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) by leveraging their extensive expertise and networks to support various ICIT initiatives. As the Distinguished Fellow for Food, Agriculture, and Health, I work closely with public and private sector stakeholders to increase awareness on the criticality of our nation’s food supply chains and healthcare systems on public health, local economies, and societal stability, as well as offer strategies and solutions to improve resiliency of these sectors. Serve as a thought leader and subject matter expert on cybersecurity and critical infrastricture issues impacting the food, agriculture, and health sectors.
F3TechnologiesProject Director
Nov. 2023The Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals (SEDI) Program is a unique initiative designed to empower socially and economically disadvantaged individuals in Maryland and Delaware. It is a joint effort involving entrepreneurs, the Innovation ecosystem, Five (5) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's), Four (4) Chapters of the Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences and the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSCBI).
CyberAgAdvisory Board Chair
Jun. 2023CyberAg is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the adoption and advancement of digital technologies in agriculture. Through research, education, and outreach programs, CyberAg aims to empower farmers and agricultural stakeholders with the knowledge and tools needed to harness the benefits of technology for sustainable and efficient farming practices. The organization works towards bridging the gap between technology developers and agricultural practitioners, fostering innovation, and driving positive change in the agricultural industry.
ChiefFounding Member - DC
Apr. 2021 - Feb. 2024Washington, District of Columbia, United StatesChief is a private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. Chief is specifically designed for senior women leaders to strengthen their leadership journey, cross-pollinate ideas across industries, and effect change from the top-down. As a Founding Member of Chief in Chicago, I'm committing to lifting up women and building community with leaders across sectors, communities, and areas of impact.
ICIT (Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology)Executive Director
May. 2020 - Feb. 2024United StatesBrought in by the CEO/Founder to help develop and execute a long-term growth strategy for ICIT while serving as a chief evangelist and advisor for a broad array of initiatives including roundtable briefings, publications, and curriculum development. Successfully helped the Institute navigate the disruptions caused by the pandemic, fundraise, and engage high-profile public and private sector leaders, and developed the concept for ICIT’s 2023 publication “The Guide to Security our Nation’s Critical Infrastructures” (published by CRC Press). To accommodate the Institute’s growth and resourcing needs, the Executive Director role was dissolved in 2024 and its responsibilities were divided between operator roles and thought leadership roles, including the newly created role of Distinguished Fellows which I assumed in February 2024.
AdvisoryCloudAdvisor
Dec. 2019
NativeAdvisor and Investor
Apr. 2017New York City Metropolitan AreaRoles include setting goals for and overseeing the organization's marketing, meetings, fundraising, website, member recruitment and retention and sponsorship recruitment.
Vulcan Enterprises LLCCEO
Feb. 2017Washington, District of Columbia, United StatesVulcan's goal is to equip and encourage Federal, Industry, Academic and Non-Profit leaders to become Strategic Doers. Vulcan LLC is a minority woman owned small business focused on the Food, Agriculture and Healthcare sectors. We provide strategic advisory, technical assistance, and workforce planning services with a focus on technology modernization, cybersecurity, Governance Risk Compliance, Artificial Intelligence, Critical Infrastructure and Diversity Equity, Inclusion and Access. At Vulcan, we will help your organization find balance between creating a vision and strategy and executing with measurable and sustainable results. ADVISORY AND OPERATIONAL SERVICES:
•Strategic Planning •Business Development •Policy Analysis •Workforce Planning •IT Governance •Project Management •Cybersecurity •Budget & Cost Control
•Stakeholder and Vendor Management •Organizational Transformation
Data Science Camp Inc.Founder and President
Jul. 2014United StatesThe summer program is designed to immerse these students in an intensive, design thinking, project-based effort using data to address important issues of public policy related to agriculture, energy or athletics. Divided into teams of no more than five students each and under the close supervision of faculty and experts, participants work with official data sets to define, shape, research, analyze, and present their findings on a topic they choose from a short list of key themes. What makes these programs distinctive is their learning design. Days are not spent in classroom lecture but in active, hands-on, team-based working sessions to explore mastering all the different steps of a well-organized project to drive innovation in public policy: problem definition; constituency mapping; data gathering, cleaning, analysis, and visualization; conclusion framing; shaping of an appropriate narrative; and presentation. In parallel, students get detailed instruction in – and get to work closely with – the best current software tools to support their efforts at each project stage. What makes these programs significant is their objective. They are not – and are not intended to be -- mini coding academies. They are living workshops in using data to drive policy innovation on difficult and important public issues. It is all too easy for such teenagers to think that such complex issues lie well outside the world they can shape and touch and affect. STEAM is purposely designed so that they discover – by doing – that they can, indeed, make a real contribution to progress against such issues. Perhaps most important, what makes these programs effective is that, through hands-on experience, participants build awareness of what is possible and confidence in their own ability to contribute. They frame, they work with data, they analyze, they conclude, they structure narrative, and they present. They practice, redo, practice again, and improve.
US Department of AgricultureDeputy CIO, Policy and Planning
Apr. 2013 - Jan. 2017Washigton, D.C.Provide visionary and strategic leadership to implement the Secretary of Agriculture’s policy objectives and goals. Oversee IT spending budget of $3.4B annually.Lead and manage IT Policy, Enterprise Architecture and Capital Planning initiatives. Manage effective communication and collaboration with the CIO Council consisting of 27 agencies and staff offices. Provide executive leadership as Chair of the Open Data Council, the Big Data working Group and IT workforce Planning. Developed and published the USDA Information Technology Strategic Plan 2014 – 2018 and the update 2016-2018. Trusted Advisor to CIO and senior executives, providing recommendations and insight on innovation initiatives, cybersecurity, and information technology trends.
HavServe, Inc.CEO
Jul. 2011 - Aug. 2013www.havserve.orgAs the CEO of this 100% volunteer organization, Joyce spearheaded HavServe’s fundraising, outreach and organizational efforts to rebuild the health, education and economic infrastucture in Haiti. Designed and launched grassroots organization, utilized volunteers to meet UN Millennium Development Goals in Haitian small towns and villages through community-led development. Championed efforts to empower locals with education, training, and basic services needed to play ever-increasing roles in determining their own futures. Established multiple programs including Sponsor a Teacher/Teacher Training and Community Gardens Joyce will continue her role as CEO of Vulcan Enterprises providing strategic planning, business advisory, business development support, and stakeholder/partner relationship management.
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