Irene Schwarting

Current

• Director, Research and Special Projects at McAfee
• Principal Partner at Companies By Design

Past

• Technical Account Manager and Modeling Specialist at Thetus Corporation
• Marketing, Communications, and Client Services at GoLife Mobile
• Director of Development Partnerships and Government Programs at SignaCert

• Scientist 4 at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Production Manager at UNC - Carolina Union

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Education

• University of Utah
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• WG Enloe

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

• My Company
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Irene Schwarting’s Summary

Director of Research and special projects, McAfee: pre-sales support for large custom development and integration accounts. Post-sales management and technical delivery of advanced threat intelligence solutions.

Technical account manager, applications design and semantic modeling specialist, Thetus

Lead Marketing and Communications, GoLife Mobile Corporation

Principal Partner, Computers By Design, helping ideas become reality.

Director of Strategic Accounts, Development Partnerships, and Government Programs, SignaCert, Inc.

Operations Manager, Operational Analysis Center, Department of Energy

Project Manager and Security/intelligence analyst, PNNL

User Interface Designer, Human Factors Engineer, Cognitive Analyst

Irene Schwarting’s Specialties:

Government and commercial business development and relationship management, multi-disciplinary team and project leadership. Network and traffic analysis, security/intelligence and law enforcement analysis and operations. Experienced at corporate communications, including positioning, branding, market and customer analysis, product definition and management, documentation and training.

Irene Schwarting’s Experience

• Director, Research and Special Projects

  McAfee

  (Public Company; MFE; Computer & Network Security industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

  Pre-sales support and post-sales management of custom development projects for customers requiring unique and significant access to MFE threat intelligence products.

• Principal Partner

  Companies By Design

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  Management consulting and support to companies and organizations undergoing transition, to accelerate product revenue streams and ensure smooth and effective growth, by design, rather than by happenstance.
  Provide consulting and domain expertise in disaster recovery, business continuity, continuity of operations, and emergency management

• Technical Account Manager and Modeling Specialist

  Thetus Corporation

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  March 2009 — July 2009 (5 months)

  Manage multiple customer, partner and reseller accounts, including all technical and marketing support. Use case development, application and visualization design, semantic modeling and ontology design, documentation, training, and relationship managment.

• Marketing, Communications, and Client Services

  GoLife Mobile

  (Privately Held; Wireless industry)

  March 2008 — January 2009 (11 months)

  Manage all aspects of strategic corporate internal and external communications , and marketing, including corporate and product definition, positioning, and branding, project and product management. Create white papers, marketing collateral, documentation and training materials, website design, company prospectus and strategic plan. Work cross-functionally to ensure smooth, efficient and consistent communications across all departments.

• Director of Development Partnerships and Government Programs

  SignaCert

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  May 2006 — February 2007 (10 months)

  Responsible for managing relationships, business development, and pre/post sales support to federal agencies and contractors. Also responsible for developing and managing development and integration partner programs with OEMs, ISVs, and other strategic partners.

• Scientist 4

  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  December 1997 — May 2006 (8 years 6 months)

  Managed national intelligence analysis center, conducting analysis and support for national and international investigations and operations into cyber crime, espionage and terrorism.
  Consulted by national intelligence agencies including FBI, NSA, and military on large scale data management and analysis
  Managed multiple large R&D projects on information visualization and advanced interaction technologies

• Production Manager

  UNC - Carolina Union

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  1988 — 1992 (4 years )

Irene Schwarting’s Education

• University of Utah

  M.S. , Cognitive Psychology , 1993 — 1997

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  BS , Psychology , 1988 — 1993

• WG Enloe

Additional Information

Irene Schwarting’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company

Irene Schwarting’s Interests:

information security, intelligence analysis, ubiquitous computing, web 3.0, semantic web, threat modeling,

Irene Schwarting’s Groups:

Ambercon NW, New Security Paradigms Workshop, Pentjak silat, ExecuNet, Lunch2.0, BarCampPDX, DrupalCampPDX, Mobile Portland, RainSec

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Irene Schwarting’s Honors:

Outstanding Performance Award, from the Chief Information Officer of the US Department of Energy

Outstanding Performance Award, from the Director of Counterintelligence, US Department of Energy

Nominated for NSA Rowlett Award for Outstanding Contribution to National Information Security

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