# Clinton May > Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Mad Science Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/clintonmay For the last ten years I've been making mission impact with AI. A deal I sourced and closed at Deepgram (an In-Q-Tel company) produced the best performing speech recognition model on NASA's space-to-ground audio, achieving a 93%+ word recognition rate on thousands of NASA acronyms. Sourced and closed 7-figure AI deals with Intelligence Community. I helped Ukraine by building them a trained AI speech recognition model that had high accuracy on military radio communications in both Russian and Ukrainian. If you're looking for a seasoned AI sales rep for retainer business development, message me! ## Work Experience ### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Breacher.ai Jan 2025 – Present Product Manager and lead AI/ML Engineer for "Terror Bot" -- Breacher.ai's in-house Agentic AI Impersonator; which uses a cloned voice and carries out tailored, real-time social engineering conversations to simulate deepfake attacks for our clients. "Terror Bot" averages a ~17% rate of socially engineering users into taking actions outside of corporate policy. I designed and built the Breacher's audio data curation and pre-processing app. The python application — “Terror Forge” — ingests OSINT audio of targets, trims silence, normalizes volume, cuts out crosstalk, and separates speakers into individual clips. The output is ready made training data for voice clones for our clients. This application reduced the time spent preparing data for voice cloning from 1-2 hours per clone to ~5 minutes. Building an in-house voice cloning text-to-speech model and training pipeline for use in real-time voice agents. Using opensource datasets, PyTorch Lightning 2x, NeMo models, torchaudio, OmegaConf, librosa. Develop strategies for enterprise clients to improve cognitive defense and cybersecurity posture against AI-powered social engineering attacks. Create Red Team Simulation campaigns for clients. Terror Forge – Voice AI training data prep pipeline (Python, pyannote.audio, diarization). Automates speaker-isolated audio extraction from YouTube. GitHub Terror Root – Built a full TTS training pipeline using NVIDIA NeMo FastPitch. Implemented data prep (audio/text alignment, pitch extraction, tokenizer setup, 7-tuple formatting), enabling successful training and model loading. Deepfake Artist in Residence ### Senior Federal Account Executive @ Reality Defender Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States Reality Defender detects deepfakes and AI-generated content for enterprises, platforms, and governments. ### Chief of AI Mad Science and Engineering @ Silvereye Technologies Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Arlington, Virginia, United States Silvereye is a Cloud Distributor with a division that does AI strategy and systems integration, another that does cybersecurity value-added reselling and marketing, for the US Government, Federal Systems Integrators, the Defense Industrial Base and the Intelligence Community. Sourced and closed a $1M+ cybersecurity deal with the NNSA (DOE) for OEM partner. Led ETL project that collated all visually confirmed Russian equipment losses from the Russo-Ukraine war into a structured dataset (available on my GitHub link) using BeautifulSoup, Python, Pandas, and DataFrames. Created viral marketing memes (see examples from my portfolio on this page) that have seen 18%+ response (sic) rates. I have created, executed on, and received follow on contracts for marketing campaigns that total ~120k per year of marketing development funds from our partners, including Carahsoft. I lead our work to solve the automatic speech recognition problem for the FAA and USAF, and our allies. Ask me or the leadership at www.gov-acq.com for more on how to unlock air traffic speech. Sourced and closed $1M+ in net new business with the US Government in 2023. Onboarded and managed first inside sales rep hire; who sourced ~$150k in new pipeline in 2023, and $180k in 2024. ### Director of Federal Sales @ Deepgram Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States Founding Federal sales rep, 17th employee of an In-Q-Tel portfolio company. As a business scientist, I curated datasets to train deep learning models to unlock critical speech data to support missions within DoD and Civilian agencies. Sourced and closed a $1M dollar deal with the Intelligence Community. Landed 1st Federal System Integrator deal. Hunted 1st allied Government deal. Through my work, Deepgram, our partners, and NASA produced the best performing speech recognition model on NASA’s space-to-ground audio. At 94%+ we become the very first vendor to score higher than 78% (WRR) Word Recognition Rate on NASAs validation set of astronaut speech data from the ISS. Thousands of NASA acronyms? Done. Landed NASA logo, then expanded to multiple NASA organizations, including Neutral Buoyancy Lab. Our work garnered a panel and speaking spot at NVIDIA GTC 2022. Partner manager for; In-Q-Tel, NVIDIA, Carahsoft, Government Acquisitions Inc. Registered Deepgram on Sam.gov and for a CAGE code. ### Federal Sales Manager @ Silvereye Technologies Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Reston, Virginia ### Senior Sales Representative @ IBM Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Bethesda, MD / Herndon, VA IBM's sales lead for Bluemix: a Platform as a Service (PaaS) including APIs and software development tools and infrastructure, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Cyber Security and Threat Intelligence (X-Force). Via Bluemix, customers could consume Watson APIs including; Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision. Prospected white space application development shops and scheduled conversations to understand client needs and goals, ~2 meeting a week average. I assisted with the creation of Prototypes, Minimally Viable Products, and Network Architecture Proof of Concepts to progress opportunities from 'art of the possible' conversations to working software applications. Written proposals to federal RFIs and RFPs as SME lead for the proposal writing and capture managers team, in the ~$400k - $1.5M ranges. Proposal wins: (2) $600,000 ARR AI Pilots sourced and secured: (8) including Leidos, USAF, FFRDCs Partnered along many of the major GWACs, and contract vehicles. NASA SEWP, FirstSource, GSA Schedule 70. I’ve advised and trouble shot multiple software development projects executed by our clients using IBM APIs. Popular with the engineers :) ### Scholastic Chess Coach @ Loudoun County and Fairfax County Public Schools - Virginia Jan 2003 – Jan 2015 Led three separate schools to place in the top five schools at the Virginia scholastic chess championships. Featured on DC 101 radiostation as prominent promoter of scholastic chess ### Federal Sales Executive @ Silvereye Technologies Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Leesburg, VA Sold solutions including virtualization, data storage, cyber security and mobility to federal agencies, DoD and Civilian, as well as Federal Systems Integrators. Hunted multiple net new logos of $250k deals year over year. Lead proposal writer for RFQs, RFPs, and RFIs respondes for Federal customers, tracked orders and managed teaming agreements along several different contract vehicles - GSA 70, SEWP, and others. Onboarded new sales members, managed vendor relationships, and attended workshops and IT conferences. Traveled for outside sales opportunities approximately 25% of the time. Promoted to Project Manager for: Deployment and management of company's internal VMware suite. VMware Certified Professional 5. Serves as company strategic partnership manager - works with manufacturer channel managers to provide sales and technical sales support for campaigns. 50 cold calls per day. Liaison for Carahsoft partnership. ### Inside Sales Representative @ AGSI Systems Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Purcellville, Virginia, United States Created contract files: RFQs, RFPs, quotes, proposals, sales orders, and purchase orders. Managed vendor relationships with IT manufacturers/distributors/resellers for Federal Government IT hardware/software/service contracting requirements. ## Education ### Bachelor's of Arts in History George Mason University ### Park View ### Shepherd University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/clintonai - Portfolio: https://www.perle.ai --- Source: https://flows.cv/clintonmay JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/clintonmay/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10