TRU-Biz Forum Focuses on Artificial Intelligence

The next installment of the Chuck and Sherri Woods TRU-Biz Forum will take place at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 29 in Violette Hall 1000.

The upcoming forum focuses on artificial intelligence with renowned experts in the area, including Brian Moore (’92), senior director at Microsoft Corporation; Madison Nguyun (’22,’24), GenAI delivery manager at Lumen Technologies; April Swagman (’09), product data science, Google; and Mike Terry (’93, ’96), software engineering manager at CARFAX. The event moderator will be Truman student Rahul Chaudhari, computer science major.

Moore is a senior director at Microsoft, responsible for Microsoft Azure AI in the Americas Enterprise Partner Solutions (AEPS) organization. He leads a team of solution architects that work with Microsoft partners to help them explore cloud strategies and Microsoft Azure, focusing on AI, application innovation, data modernization, cloud scale analytics and digital transformation. Moore has more than 30 years of industry experience, both as a corporate developer for The Principal Financial Group and as a senior consultant for Perot Systems Corporation. With eight years of enterprise consulting experience at Perot Systems, Moore worked with numerous customers in a variety of roles as a Microsoft solution architect and SQL Server database specialist consulting with telecommunications, travel and leisure, and health care businesses.

Nguyen graduated with a degree in statistics in 2022 and a degree in data science and analytical storytelling in 2024. She went on to begin her career as a data scientist, and recently moved into a GenAI delivery manager role at Lumen Technologies. She is immersed in the world of AI through owning AI Agent projects and driving AI innovation in the world of telecom.

Swagman graduated in 2009 with a Bachelors of Arts in psychology and a computer science minor. She earned a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Missouri in 2016, then moved to Palo Alto, California, to join the Insight Data Science Fellowship. She has spent the last four years as a product data scientist at Google.

Terry has spent his career standing between IT and business, helping them understand one another. He has been a data analyst for most of that time and has led data transformation and enablement efforts at two companies. He currently manages three teams of software engineers at CARFAX.

Chaudhari is a senior at Truman with a strong focus on computer science and business administration, and he is passionate about building technological solutions for real-world problems. He has authored academic papers published with IEEE, and has demonstrated his commitment to the community by reviving and leading the Google Developer Student Club on campus. He also started Boeing Hackathon, an intercollegiate hackathon at Truman, and has successfully run it for the past two years. He is also involved in Truman Media Network as digital director and Student Government as IT director.