NYLA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
- Chief Experience Officer ( CXO )
- CXO
Amanda O'Donohue is Nyla's Chief Experience Officer (CXO). As CXO, Ms. O'Donohue expertly prospects and maintains mutually beneficial relationships with both business partners and customers alike. Internally, she directs process improvements to ensure an unparalleled level of employee engagement and that every potential candidate experience is a positive and pleasant one. Amanda O'Donohue leads Nyla's philanthropic efforts through external partnerships, as well as, spearheading internal initiatives. In 2019 Ms. O'Donohue received The Daily Record's Leading Women award, which honors 50 women who are 40 years of age or younger for the accomplishments they have made so far in their careers. Ms. O'Donohue graduated from The State University of New York College at Buffalo with a BS in Forensic Chemistry and earned a Masters in Forensic Science from Towson University.
Job Titles:
- CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
- Co - Founder
- Partner
Brian Cosgrove is co-founder and partner of Nyla Technology Solutions, Inc. Mr. Cosgrove has 22 years of Department of Defense experience in technical roles from architecture design, software capability development, system deployments, and system operations. Mr. Cosgrove has broad technical knowledge and extensive experience matching hardware and software solutions in areas such as offensive and defensive cyber operations, overcoming SIGINT collection challenges, hosting Hadoop-based analytic tools, and standing up data storage/query services such as NoSQL and Elasticsearch systems. Mr. Cosgrove, individually, and as part of teams, has received more than a dozen awards, including from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He has earned a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Akron and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Job Titles:
- CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
- Engineer
- Founder
- Owner
- Our CEO
Shana Cosgrove is the founder, owner, and CEO of Nyla Technology Solutions, Inc., A principal engineer, enterprise architect, and product strategist- she combines over 20 years of experience in the computer science and systems engineering fields with a creative, proactive, and focused approach to projects that address all aspects of the software systems lifecycle. Ms. Cosgrove graduated from the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science with a Bachelors in Science in Computer Science. She received her Masters in Science in Systems Engineering of Computer-Based Systems from George Mason University.
Our CEO, Shana Cosgrove, starts working on contract under Nyla, as the first full-time employee
Job Titles:
- Chief
- CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST
Stephanie Beben is Nyla's Chief Data Scientist, applying more than 10 years of experience and technical thought leadership to deriving value from massive data sets. She delivers expertise in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Large-Scale Graph Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Data Visualization, and Rapid Prototyping across multiple sectors. Most recently, Ms. Beben was a Chief Data Scientist for Booz Allen Hamilton's Strategic Innovation and National Security Groups. There she helped to stand up the firm's Women in Data Science (WiDS) organization, contributed as an author for The Field Guide to Data Science, and spoke at multiple conferences on Data Science topics. Ms. Beben has a passion for cultivating diverse, multidisciplinary teams to solve our nation's toughest technical challenges. Ms. Beben received her Bachelors in Mathematics from Quinnipiac University and a Masters in Mathematics from Texas A&M University.