Joshua C. Scott

Curriculum Vitae

AI policy and implementation specialist with sixteen years of cross-sector experience.

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Professional Summary

Led Virginia’s first-in-the-nation agentic AI regulatory review pilot (Executive Order 51) and coordinated the Commonwealth’s AI Task Force (Executive Order 30) through the conclusion of its mandate, working from the Governor’s Office of Regulatory Management. AI policy and implementation specialist; sixteen years of cross-sector work across operations, research, and government. Liaises between technical and non-technical stakeholders, gathers requirements from subject-matter experts, and evaluates AI tools against statutory and operational needs. Anthropology background (Columbia, summa cum laude).

Skills & Technical Tools

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

  • LLM evaluation, testing, and red-teaming (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, xAI Grok, open-source models)
  • Prompt engineering and prompt-system design for analytical and document-processing workflows
  • Agentic system architecture: tool use, retrieval, planning loops, multi-agent orchestration
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): vector embeddings, chunking strategies, hybrid retrieval, evaluation
  • Knowledge graphs and ontology-driven analysis of structured legal/regulatory corpora
  • AI vendor evaluation: proposal review and acceptance testing

Policy & Governance

  • AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001), federal executive orders, state task force outputs, AI transparency artifacts (model and system cards)
  • Regulatory analysis: Virginia Administrative Code, statutory authority review, Documents Incorporated by Reference (DIBR)
  • Legislative tracking: General Assembly committees, federal regulatory proposals, White House executive actions
  • Public meeting facilitation, stakeholder briefings, lobbyist and agency-coordinator engagement
  • Cross-functional coordination across executive-branch agencies, vendors, and elected leadership

Business Analysis & Process Improvement

  • Requirements gathering: stakeholder and subject-matter-expert interviews, structured surveys, agency-coordinator workshops
  • Use case definition and evaluation against statutory, business, and operational needs
  • Review and editing of requirements, specifications, business processes, and recommendations
  • Solution evaluation: vendor proposals, technical deliverables, acceptance criteria
  • Strengths/weaknesses analysis (including SWOT) and identification of governance and process gaps
  • Process documentation, standard-operating-procedure development, and re-engineering across cyclic operations
  • Cross-functional facilitation across executive-branch agencies and external stakeholders

Programming & Data

  • Python (data processing, automation, ML/NN study, scripting)
  • Go (backend services, binary-format parsing and emission, cross-platform desktop tooling)
  • TypeScript / Svelte (frontend application development)
  • SQL (querying and analysis)
  • Pandoc, Markdown, regular expressions, basic shell scripting
  • Git and GitHub: issues, pull requests, GitHub Actions / CI workflows, GitHub Projects boards, multi-worktree development
  • Reverse engineering and binary-format research: Ghidra-assisted analysis, wire-protocol parsing, byte-fidelity emitter design
  • HTML/CSS (20+ years), static site generators (Hugo)

Research, Writing & Operations

  • Advanced research and literature retrieval: scholarly databases (JSTOR, ProQuest, EBSCO, SAGE, Google Scholar; arXiv for AI/ML literature), legal databases (Westlaw, Lexis Nexis), Boolean and proximity search construction, citation chasing, systematic literature reviews
  • Policy research and synthesis across technical and non-technical domains
  • Report writing, editing, and compilation for executive and gubernatorial audiences
  • Project coordination: scope definition, deliverable evaluation, timeline tracking, risk and issue resolution

Workplace Productivity & Tools

  • Operating systems: Linux (Ubuntu — primary), macOS, Windows 10/11
  • Microsoft Office / Microsoft 365 (15+ years): SharePoint, Excel (advanced; VBA macros, pivot models, dashboards), Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive
  • Google Workspace (15+ years): Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Forms
  • Communication and meeting production: Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Teams (including webinar format), Google Meet — high-stakes meetings end-to-end (run-of-show, technical operation, real-time speaker management)
  • Visualization and dashboards: Power BI, Excel-based reporting, dashboard design and information architecture
  • Reference and document management: Zotero, Adobe Acrobat (advanced — form authoring, document collation and assembly, security and access control, redaction), Obsidian, Markdown/Pandoc workflows
  • Project and workflow methodologies: kanban, kaizen, lean / continuous improvement (both in manufacturing and software-development contexts)
  • Government and policy platforms: Virginia Town Hall, Federal Register, Regulations.gov

Professional Experience

Office of Governor Glenn Youngkin, Office of Regulatory Management — Richmond, VA

Policy Analyst / AI Policy Lead | June 2025 – January 2026

Appointed position in a cabinet-level office. Took over the AI policy portfolio after the Deputy Director’s and a senior analyst’s departures, absorbing portions of their responsibilities.

  • Led implementation of Virginia’s agentic AI regulatory review pilot under Executive Order 51, a retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge-graph system analyzing the Commonwealth’s regulatory corpus (Virginia Administrative Code) against claimed statutory authority.
  • Evaluated technical deliverables against business and governance needs; refined scope and acceptance criteria as the pilot progressed; managed timeline and budget across project rescoping and vendor staffing changes.
  • Hand-analyzed Documents Incorporated by Reference (DIBRs), instruments that carry the force of law but were poorly cataloged within the regulatory corpus, quantifying a gap previously suspected by leadership; worked with director and vendor to implement an agentic workflow that surfaces and flags findings to promulgating agencies.
  • Coordinated Virginia’s AI Task Force (EO 30) to mandate completion; managed iterative content development across Task Force members and cabinet secretariats, then edited and compiled its final strategy report.
  • Conducted stakeholder interviews and meetings with lobbyists, agency-level regulations coordinators, and cross-functional executive-branch teams; supported major public meetings, including a Task Force meeting attended by the Governor.
  • Contributed to AI policy briefings of Governor Youngkin: prepared materials and spoke to areas of expertise as part of director-led meetings.
  • Reviewed regulations under Executive Orders 19, 30, 39, 46, and 51, contributing to the Commonwealth’s 35% regulatory streamlining.
  • Monitored state and federal AI policy developments: General Assembly legislative committees, White House executive orders, and federal regulatory proposals.

Career Transition Period — Washington, DC

Independent | October 2024 – May 2025

  • Relocated from New York to transition into AI policy and government service.
  • Researched AI governance frameworks, state regulatory modernization, and federal AI policy; practiced LLM evaluation across frontier providers (Claude, GPT, Grok), prompt engineering, retrieval architectures, and process automation.
  • Studied LLM literature and neural-network internals, training dynamics, and interpretability.
  • Worked full-time as a baker at an artisan bakery in DC (early-morning shifts) to support my family during the transition.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP — New York, NY

Legal Personnel Assistant, Litigation Department | April 2023 – September 2024

  • Implemented department leadership’s operational priorities across a 200+ attorney litigation department at a top-10 Am Law firm; coordinated daily case staffing, scheduling, attorney assignments, and operational execution.
  • Participated in the firm’s Harvey AI pilot; used Harvey hands-on for select research and drafting tasks.
  • Reviewed and edited process documentation across cyclic personnel operations (performance reviews, lateral integration, promotions, bonus cycles); identified ambiguous or duplicative procedures and recommended improvements.
  • Built automated reporting workflows and analytical models in Excel and against internal databases to support ad-hoc and standing management requests on staffing, performance, and case strategy.
  • Synthesized case-staffing data from multiple internal sources to inform attorney assignment and operational decisions.

Odin Partners Americas — New York, NY

Research Associate, FICC Headhunting | August 2022 – April 2023

  • Conducted research on fixed-income and credit trading employment markets to support executive search engagements; synthesized market intelligence from multiple sources into client-facing deliverables.
  • Maintained candidate-tracking and market-mapping databases; produced weekly and on-demand reports for senior partners; cultivated relationships across investment banking and trading seats and seniorities to expand the firm’s candidate network.
  • Drafted candidate write-ups, search progress reports, and client advisory memoranda; coordinated interview scheduling across candidates, clients, and partners.

Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP — New York, NY

Business Immigration Coordinator, Case Assembly Team | January 2022 – August 2022

  • Reviewed and prepared thousands of immigration filings for USCIS submission under service-level agreements; verified regulatory format, evidentiary, and signature requirements at the QC checkpoint.
  • Built Excel macros and automated workflows for case tracking, deadline management, and team-wide handoff visibility; reduced repeat manual work across the case-assembly pipeline.
  • Authored and revised internal process documentation; trained and supervised new hires on case-assembly procedures, internal systems, and quality-control standards.
  • Coordinated with attorneys, paralegals, and corporate clients to gather missing documentation, resolve discrepancies, and escalate exception cases requiring solution definition outside standard workflows.

Earlier Experience (2013–2018)

The Seattle Collegian — Seattle, WA

Editor in Chief | January 2018 – June 2018

  • Re-founded Seattle Central College’s student publication with a board of five other editors; represented the publication to the college administration.
  • Oversaw a five-figure annual budget; hired editorial and production staff; contracted a team to build the publication’s website.
  • Authored the publication’s foundational policies and procedures; led editorial planning across campus, neighborhood, and national/international coverage; contributed photography and reporting alongside editorial leadership.

Bainbridge Island Volunteer Firefighters Association — Bainbridge Island, WA

Treasurer (Elected) | January 2017 – December 2017

  • Elected Treasurer of a volunteer firefighters’ nonprofit supporting fire-department outreach, education, and equipment/training fundraising; managed a mid-five-figure annual budget on cash-basis accounting.
  • Maintained accounts and books; coordinated with donors, vendors, fire-department administration, and the State of Washington to keep the association in good standing.
  • Worked alongside an elected board of officers; accountable to a board of trustees; chaired member meetings and acted as Secretary when needed.
  • Guided members in drafting motions and proposals to direct donated funds; handled administrative tasks directly.

Bainbridge Island Fire Department — Bainbridge Island, WA

Volunteer Firefighter (IFSAC FF-I) / Emergency Medical Technician (NREMT-B) | May 2014 – December 2016

Concurrent service with Bainbridge Island Ambulance Association (March 2015 – December 2016) providing Basic Life Support patient care and transport, freeing fire-department assets for primary response.

  • Responded to medical, property, and environmental emergencies in collaboration with law enforcement, regional EMS, and hospital partners; made transportation decisions, upgraded level of care, and coordinated on-scene resources.
  • Trained for response scenarios including mass casualty incidents, wildland firefighting, and hazmat operations; certified in emergency vehicle operation.

Sage Manufacturing — Bainbridge Island, WA

Production Worker | April 2013 – February 2014

  • Night-shift production worker building fly-fishing rods; applied resin to fishing-line guide wraps under strict safety regulations and lean-manufacturing principles; cross-trained in adjacent processes.

Food Service and Hospitality

Front-of-house and back-of-house roles across Bread Alley (Baker, 2025), Wayward Cafe (Server, 2018), Bar Vacilando (Bartender/Server/Busser, 2017 – 2018), and Doc’s Marina Grill (Expediter/Dishwasher/Busser, 2014 – 2015) — high-volume hospitality, team training, inventory, and POS systems.

Selected Work

Reports & Publications

Technical Projects

  • Annode — Annotation Authoring Tool for Counter-Strike 2 (2026, pre-launch private repository). Desktop authoring application for Workshop guides on Counter-Strike 2 — Wails v2 architecture (Go backend, Svelte/TypeScript frontend), MIT license at public release, operating within the broader Source 2 modder and security-research community. Directed reverse-engineering of Valve’s KV3 binary annotation format using Ghidra to produce a byte-perfect round-trip emitter. Set product, UX, security, and original-research direction across the codebase. Implementation was LLM-augmented; primary work was code audit, architecture design, and original research.
  • joshuacscott.com — Personal professional website (2026). Hugo-based static site authored end-to-end: Go templates, Markdown content, vanilla CSS with custom-property design tokens, deferred vanilla JS, Cloudflare Pages with GitHub-driven CI. WCAG 2.1 AA conformance; Lighthouse 100 on accessibility, best-practices, and SEO. No frameworks beyond Hugo; design philosophy documented separately.

Presentations & Public Engagement

  • Produced the Task Force’s statewide public meeting on Virginia’s AI regulatory review initiative (Governor Youngkin in attendance, 2025) — authored briefing materials and run-of-show, ran live technical operation.
  • Coordinated stakeholder briefings with agency regulations coordinators on AI Task Force findings and EO 51 pilot results (2025).
  • Presented findings and insights from the Virginia Permitting Transparency platform to government and think-tank leaders at a private summit (2025).

Education

Columbia University — New York, NY
B.A., Sociocultural Anthropology, summa cum laude | June 2021

  • Dean’s List, School of General Studies Honor Society

Seattle Central College — Seattle, WA
A.A. | June 2018

  • President’s List, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society