K.C. MADSEN
Program Director  |  Fully Cleared  |  Hamilton, VA
https://kc.madsen7.com  |  https://www.linkedin.com/in/kcmadsen  |  https://github.com/polysemous
kcmadsen@gmail.com  |  (703) 399-9536

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SUMMARY
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Technical Program Director currently leading a 24+ engineer AI / OSINT R&D
organization on a $45M+ IC contract, shipping products across a multi-cloud
footprint spanning AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, and IBM with custom
data-collection pipelines. 25-year arc from Naval Flight Officer to enterprise
software delivery, with a track record of scaling teams 3x, growing programs
125%, and earning formal client recognition as “the driving force behind OSINT
innovation.” Self-directed LLM and agentic-systems builder outside work.

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EXPERIENCE
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BTI360  |  Sep 2021 – Present

  Program Director  |  Jul 2023 – Present
  - Direct a 24+ engineer AI / OSINT R&D organization building production
    data-collection pipelines across a multi-cloud stack spanning AWS, Azure,
    Google, Oracle, and IBM; innovations earned formal client recognition of
    the team as “the driving force behind OSINT innovation.”
  - Own multi-year technical roadmap and delivery for a mission-critical IC
    program, consistently aligned to customer strategic objectives with zero
    delivery misses.
  - Built an automated financial forecasting pipeline that improved annual
    target-tracking accuracy to within 0.01% of contractual requirements and
    cut year-over-year over-expenditures by 0.86%, freeing capacity for
    additional innovation funding.

  Deputy Program Manager  |  Sep 2021 – Jul 2023
  - Delivery lead for a $75M IC contract (5 dev teams, 35 engineers); won
    the 5-year re-compete and secured annual contract-value increases
    averaging 20% over ceiling.

Perspecta  |  Jun 2020 – Sep 2021

  Systems Engineer
  - Drove evaluation and adoption of transformational technologies across
    commercial, academic, and vendor partners; fed 3–5 year technology
    roadmaps into IC strategic planning.
  - Acted as proxy Product Owner for the Government Technical Director —
    ran vendor technology demonstrations, program reviews, and system design
    sessions end-to-end.

Leidos  |  Jun 2017 – Jun 2020

  Software Development Manager → Solutions Architect → Systems Engineer
  - Led a 25-engineer team; drove CI/CD and test-automation adoption.
  - Tech volume lead for a $70M re-compete and BAA capture opportunities.

ByLight Professional IT Services  |  May 2015 – Jun 2017

  Director, Application Services
  - Shipped DISA Global Video Services apps to 25,000+ DoD users.

Altamira Technologies  |  Nov 2011 – May 2015

  Director
  - DPM for $30M Army cloud analytics program; grew DIA program revenue
    125%.

United States Navy  |  May 2001 – Mar 2011

  Naval Flight Officer
  - 10-year career with multiple combat zone deployments.

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EDUCATION
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M.S., Finance: Financial Planning
  Liberty University  |  in progress
M.S., Information Systems
  The George Washington University
B.A., Management Information Systems
  University of Notre Dame

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CERTIFICATION
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Project Management Professional (PMP)

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TECHNICAL SKILLS
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Program Leadership:
  Technical Program Management, Agile/Scrum, Stakeholder Management, Risk &
  Financial Management, Roadmap Strategy, P&L Ownership

Cloud & AI:
  Multi-cloud delivery (AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM), LLM integration,
  agentic workflows, local inference (Ollama), hands-on with OpenAI / Anthropic
  / Nvidia stacks

Engineering:
  Linux, CI/CD, Test Automation, OSINT / Data Pipelines, self-hosted
  infrastructure (Home Assistant, Immich, Oracle Cloud ARM), Openclaw, Power
  Automate, MS Copilot Studio, Hyperagent, Codex, Claude Code, NotebookLM,
  Gemini