Chief of Staff · Strategic Operations · Decision Intelligence

Dr. Martin
Trevino Jr.

Former NSA Senior Technical Director  ·  Executive Operator  ·  Published Researcher

Bridging technical depth and strategic execution — twenty-five years translating the world's most complex environments into organizations that move with precision and purpose.

200+
Global Staff Led
25+
Years Experience
27
Nations Advised
3K+
Research Citations
Professional Experience

Operator. Advisor. Executor.

A career built in the most demanding technical and strategic environments in existence — national security, global cybersecurity, AI analytics, and executive advisory. Each role defined by the same discipline: translate complex environments into clear, executable direction.

Australian AI Firm
Senior Program Director / Chief of Staff & AI Researcher
2025 – May 2026
Co-founder serving as operational CoS and principal researcher — building company infrastructure from zero while driving the scientific foundation of the Universal Cognitive Intelligence Platform. Full executive operating rhythm, portfolio governance, board materials, and AI governance framework development.
RiskOpsAI
Chief of Staff & Analytics Executive
2021 – 2025
Principal CoS and strategic operations partner to CEO of a global AI risk analytics firm. Led 25+ globally distributed staff. Built executive operating rhythm, OKR tracking, board materials, investor reporting, and established the firm's project management methodology from scratch.
Fortinet
Chief of Staff & Analytics Program Director to the CISO
2017 – 2021
Direct strategic support to the Chief Information Security Officer of a global cybersecurity technology firm. Led global security programs, managed CISO operating cadence, prepared board and conference materials, coordinated cross-directorate execution across global security functions.
National Security Agency
Senior Technical Director — CoS Level Operations
2009 – 2017
Senior Technical Director and mission analytics authority managing 200+ global staff across NSA, CIA, DIA, NGA, and partner organizations. Ran three concurrent programs simultaneously. Built the NSA 21 Global Mission Analytics platform — KPI standards adopted across five intelligence agencies. TS/SCI clearance.
BearingPoint (KPMG Consulting)
Senior Consultant & Technical Expert
2000 – 2009
Management consulting across 17 commercial and government engagements — delivering decision support systems, business intelligence infrastructure, and strategic operations improvements. Bridge between senior client leadership and technical delivery teams across defense, intelligence, and commercial sectors.
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Doctorate · Business Intelligence & Analytics Cyber Warfare Accreditation · DoD/NSA M.A.S. · Military History & International Political Development BBA · Texas A&M University–Kingsville Patent-Pending Portfolio · Behavioral Intelligence
Published Practitioner

Research. Writing. Thought Leadership.

A practitioner who publishes — not an academic who consults. The discipline is always the same: go deeper than the audience ever will, so the audience never has to. Over 3,000 citations in open literature across national security, AI strategy, and decision science.

Pipeline Magazine · 2025
Reducing Human-AI Cognitive Friction with Intelligent Agentic AI
Published in Pipeline Magazine's Innovation edition — examining how agentic AI systems can be designed to reduce cognitive load rather than increase it, with a framework for human-centered AI deployment at enterprise scale.
DoD PRISM Journal · 2019
Cyber-Physical Systems — Cover Article
Cover article in the Department of Defense's premier strategic research journal — examining the convergence of physical and digital infrastructure and the decision-science implications for national security leadership.
Forbes Technology Council · 2018–Present
AI Strategy & Human-Technology Complementarity
Regular contributor on AI governance, decision science, and the strategic deployment of AI in complex organizational environments. Audience of senior technology executives and board-level decision makers.
Journal of Information Warfare
Cognitive Frameworks & Decision Science
Published research on cognitive architecture as applied to information warfare environments — connecting neuroscience research to operational decision-making under pressure and uncertainty.
National Defense University · 2015–Present
Visiting Professor — Advanced Analytics & AI Strategy
Teaches Advanced Analytics in Decision-Making and Human/AI Complementarity to senior government and military leaders from 27 nations of the Americas. Curriculum bridges technical AI capability with strategic leadership application.
Nextgov Bold Award · 2015
Solomon — Visual Analytics Platform · Federal Innovation Award
Recognized by Nextgov — Washington's premier government technology publication — for leading development of Solomon, a 3D visual analytics platform for intelligence program valuation at the NSA. NSA official account promoted the nomination publicly.
Proof of Work

Visual Intelligence & Decision Architecture

The most meaningful gains hide at the intersection of human intellect and computational power. Finding answers in complex data is only half the equation — making those findings navigable, actionable, and legible to the humans who must act on them is the discipline that separates analysis from decision.

"For every successful system there is an undiscovered mathematics of irrelevance — a catalog of impossibilities."

The M. Prescient · Core Operating Principle
Multi-dimensional intelligence environment
Multi-Dimensional Intelligence Environment
Real-time clustering of complex datasets across segmented populations — thousands of data points navigable in 3D space with dynamic variable selection.
Geospatial threat intelligence
Geospatial Threat Intelligence
Volumetric density mapping of security event concentration across geographic attack surfaces — intensity and distribution rendered as navigable terrain.
Multi-quadrant analytics architecture
Multi-Quadrant Analytics Architecture
Simultaneous visualization of competing vectors across a unified decision surface — a 360-degree operational picture where no signal is lost in the noise.
IoT Primitives in Dimensional Space and Movement Through Data
Fortinet · Visual Analytics · Proof of Work
Live visual analytics work produced at Fortinet. Data in dimensional space — the future of human-navigable intelligence environments. Full interactive demonstration available on request.
NSA · 2015 · Federal Innovation
Solomon — Visual Analytics Platform
Built at the National Security Agency to help senior leaders make sense of massive intelligence datasets by turning complex program metrics into navigable 3D visual environments. Named after the king who asked God not for wealth or power but for understanding — the same discipline that drives every analytics system built since. The platform combined multiobjective decision analysis with visual analytics to guide strategy at national security scale.
Nextgov Bold Award · Federal Innovation · 2015
Advisory & Institutional Roles

Beyond the Organization Chart

A career defined not just by the organizations employed but by the broader community served — governments, militaries, universities, and the public understanding of AI and technology.

01
National Defense University · Washington DC
Visiting Professor — Advanced Analytics & AI Strategy
2015–Present · Senior government and military leaders from 27 nations of the Americas. Curriculum: decision-making under uncertainty, Human/AI complementarity, data-driven strategy.
02
Inter-American Defense Board
Senior Technical Advisor
2017 · Advised governments and military organizations across the Americas on advanced cyber strategy, analytics frameworks, and AI implementation at national scale.
03
Colombian Military · Brazilian Cyber Command
Invited Instructor
Cyber Analytics & Machine Learning (Colombia) · Data Science for Cyber Operations (Brazil) · Building sovereign analytical capability in partner nations.
04
Forbes Technology Council
Published Contributor · AI Strategy & Decision Science
2018–Present · Regular contributor on AI governance, human-technology complementarity, and the strategic deployment of AI in complex organizational environments.
The M. Prescient
"For every successful system, there is an undiscovered mathematics of irrelevance — a catalog of impossibilities."
Core Operating Principle · Dr. Martin Trevino Jr.
Get In Touch

Available for Executive Engagement

Open to Chief of Staff, Chief AI Officer, and senior strategic operations roles. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma — open to relocation and remote.

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