Dr. Jane Homeyer

Jane M. Homeyer, PhD brings to Visionations over 30 years of experience in innovative practices in both the Federal government and private sector. With expertise that spans the fields of forensic science, crime scene investigation, and national security, she has held senior executive positions at the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Northern Illinois Police Crime Laboratory (NIPCL), and at other federal agencies.

Highlights of Dr. Homeyer's forensic and crime scene portfolio include serving as the Dean of Academic Studies and Professional Development at the FBI. As the FBI's Academic Dean, she led Director Mueller's initiative to reengineer training across the FBI. She also led the Office of Training and Development which provided the FBI, its criminal justice partners, and the Intelligence Community with training, educational, and developmental opportunities. Notably, she established the FBI's University Education Program and an enterprise-wide learning management system, the FBI Virtual Academy. Dr. Homeyer also served as the FBI's Training Unit Chief for the Laboratory Division where she directed the National Academy's Forensic Science Training Program, and as Section Chief of the Forensic Science Support Section, oversaw the Combined DNI Indexing System (CODIS), Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research, Forensic Science Training, Evidence Control, and Quality Assurance. As an FBI executive, Dr. Homeyer focused on establishing outreach programs in both training and research to strengthen the forensic science community and to attract students at all levels to forensic science careers.

Dr. Homeyer began her career as a Forensic Scientist at the Northern Illinois Police Crime Laboratory (NIPCL). In eight years at NIPCL, she worked as a Fingerprint Examiner, Questioned Document Examiner, and Crime Scene Specialist prior to being promoted to serve as the Laboratory's Executive Director. As Laboratory Director, she established state-wide, certified training programs for crime scene professionals and led the NIPCL to become the first non-profit crime laboratory in the United States to be accredited by American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB).

Jeff Gurvis

For more than 25 years, Jeff Gurvis has been entrenched in the forensic and law enforcement community by providing forensic analyses in the fields of latent print comparisons and bloodstain pattern analysis. He has also served as a project manager for over a decade with the leading laboratory information management systems company, Porter Lee, implementing the BEAST in scores of forensic laboratories and police departments across the US and tailoring the product for each lab’s specific needs. He has extensive experience with configuring systems into all accredited forensic disciplines and thus has a very deep understanding of operations in all facets of forensic science.

A recognized veteran in the forensic community, Jeff has played a variety of roles and has garnered recognition within the law enforcement community including being a founding member of Scientific Working Group on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (SWGSTAIN). He has served as the Vice Chair of the OSAC BPA Subcommittee and is currently the Chair of the AAFS ASB Bloodstain Pattern Consensus Body. Jeff also served as Chair of the Bloodstain Pattern Certification Board at the International Association for Identification (IAI) where he currently serves on the Board of Directors. In addition, Jeff has an extensive forensic background, having trained hundreds of forensic scientists, crime scene personnel, and criminal investigators. He taught for the FBI for over six years and at the University of Tennessee National Forensic Academy for over 10 years. Other organizations where Jeff has been an instructor include the Illinois State Police, Baltimore Police Department, IAI, and the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts. Jeff’s career began at the Northern Illinois Police Crime Laboratory where he served as a Latent Print Examiner, Crime Scene Response Coordinator, and Bloodstain Pattern Analyst. He is still actively performing forensic examinations as a consultant in the areas of crime scene, latent, and bloodstain evidence for law enforcement departments across the nation.

Lance Christmann

AI researcher, technologist, designer, and innovator. Lance Christmann is the CTO of Visionations where his strong background in interface design and design management, extends the user-centered design approach to providing a refreshing user experience to customers. For 25 years, Lance has created many software products, enterprise applications and conversational AI experiences for brands such FedEx, Boeing, Adobe, Workday, Jeppeson, and the design of the highly acclaimed eBay Desktop application which won an Abode MAX award. Prior to founding Visionations, Lance co-founded and served as chief experience strategist at EffectiveUI, a full-service user experience agency acquired by WPP/Ogilvy. Additionally, Lance also co-founded and helped design OneReach.ai, an enterprise-grade low-code system for designing, managing and deploying AI solutions for business needs.

Robb Wilson

Robb has spent more than 20 years applying his deep understanding of user-centric design to unlocking hyperautomation. In that time he has also built OneReach.ai, the highest-scoring company in Gartner's first Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms report as well as UX Magazine into the world's largest experience design publication. He is the bestselling author of Age of Invisible Machines as well as the host of the accompanying podcast Invisible Machines. Previously he created Effective UI, a full-service UX firm that competed with IDEO and Frog Design. In addition to launching 15 startups and collecting over 130 awards across the fields of design and technology, Robb has held executive roles at several publicly traded companies and mentored colleagues who went on to leadership roles at Amazon Alexa, Google, Ogilvy, GE, Salesforce, Instagram, LinkedIn, Disney, Microsoft, Mastercard, and Boeing.