Kristie Romer Bio
Kristie Romer is a Dell Federal Major Account Manager, Army. This position is a consultative role to help transform and modernize Army’s approach to managing data from capture, collection, and analytics in order to increase the advantage for our Warfighters whether in training or in battle. Aside from the Dell resources Ms. Romer has access to, her collaboration with leading technology providers of all sizes is imperative to completely fulfill the Mission. Ms. Romer has a degree in Technical Management, 12 years’ history of working in the information technology industry with the federal government as well as 7 years as board member for a cyber security consulting firm. She is skilled in Enterprise Solutions, Strategic Partnerships and Professional Services. Ms. Romer is known for her mission centric approach for long term initiatives to modernize how the Military improves its offensive and defensive capabilities.
Prior to joining Dell Federal, Ms. Romer pioneered the cutting edge technology of biometrics for identification management. This engineering brake through called Live Scan allowed law enforcement and private sector to rapid ID persons of interest using fingerprint, iris, and facial recognition against custom algorithms. This advanced technology is now the standard for all of law enforcement throughout the country.
Ms. Romer has always had an entrepreneurial spirit and drive for innovation. She is honored to use her knowledge and experience to serve Dell Federal and the community we serve. Now as the newly co-chairperson of the AI/ML and Digital Twins committee of the VRARA, Ms. Romer promotes delivering and brokering technologies and tools to productize solutions to the government around Digital Twin, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Teresa Speck Bio
Teresa Speck is SoarTech’s Director of Strategic Partnerships. In this position, Speck collaborates with government and industry to bring SoarTech innovations and solutions to Warfighters. Whether in government teams or with industry, Teresa knows partnership is important to everything SoarTech does.
Speck is an experienced executive whose experience includes the many various facets of Federal Government contracting from relationship building to managing programs in close coordination with brilliant specialized experts. With over 15 years of Army intelligence and federal government contracting service, Speck is widely known for her knowledge and guidance on Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), and non-FAR-based acquisitions. During her military service, Speck served as an Intelligence solider for various impactful agencies giving her a deep understanding of the relevance of her work.
Today, Speck is honored to use her vast executive and frontline experience to serve SoarTech and the community. As the co-chair of the AI/ML and Digital Twin committee of the VRARA, Speck promotes the development of techniques and tools that enhance the offering of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as well as Digital Twins.
About Dell Technologies
Dell ranks among the world’s largest IT Infrastructure and solutions companies. Dell continues to Digitally Transform how big data is managed & analyzed with focus to improve machine learning solutions for predictive analytics and modeling for ML and Digital Twin. Dell Federal leads in IT infrastructure, data, and chain of custody security exceeding all US Federal security requirements. Government and industry partners have access to thousands of technical resources directly with Dell, OEM partners, system Integrator, VARS’s, strategic distributors for solutions ranging from high-end compute, cloud services, to machine learning to name a few.
About SoarTech
SoarTech is leveraging a talented and growing team of engineers and scientists to develop innovative, human-centered AI solutions for the military’s toughest problems. Rooted in cognitive science research and decades fielding artificial intelligence solutions, SoarTech builds systems for government, commercial, and military applications that process large amounts of data, emulate human decision making, and enhance human capabilities. Whether in government teams or with our clients, partnership is important to everything we do. SoarTech employs knowledge leaders in research and engineering to create unique solutions that save time, money, and lives.
