Bruce O'Dell, Data Analysis Co-Coordinator, Data Architect
Bruce O'Dell is a self-employed information technology consultant who applies his technical expertise to his work as an election integrity activist.
Election Activism
In the aftermath of the 2004 election, O'Dell co-founded US Count Votes, a volunteer scientific research project to investigate the integrity and accuracy of American elections. He left that group in 2005, but has continued to work on scientific analyses of exit poll and election data. He recently collaborated with Jonathan Simon on a computer simulation of the reliability of election auditing proposals.
Information Technology
In the early 1980s O'Dell worked at Control Data Corporation on research and development of artificial intelligence, robot vision systems, and satellite imagery analysis, but most of his career has been spent in financial services data processing.
He is familiar with the design and operation of very large-scale computer systems with stringent security, audit and accountability requirements. He recently had leading roles in large-scale e-Commerce and security projects while employed by American Express and by the finance arm of General Motors. At American Express he was lead software architect for a project to create a company-wide security component, and received their Chairman's Award for Quality, in 1998, for helping to define methods for securely deploying new software to networks of thousands of computers. As a Principal Consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation one of his system designs was nominated for a national technical quality award.
His current consulting practice centers on e-Commerce security and the performance and design of very large-scale computer systems for Fortune 100 clients. He recently spent a year as the chief technical architect in a company-wide security project at one of the top twenty public companies in America, and is currently helping to design a bond underwriting application that will safely process trillions of dollars of other people's money.
He lives just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, and shares a love of good books with his wife - and her beautiful garden, with their talkative cat.
(See www.digitalagility.com for a complete resume)
10,000 Election Simulation proves effectiveness of UBS ballot count validation system. 
