About Jason L. Lind

I grew up, through 5th grade, in the Story Hill Neighborhood and after that in Wedgewood Park. My first apartment was in 4th District on the corner of Cass and Kilbourn. While I was working in Chicago from 2005-2016 I maintained a strong connection to Milwaukee with close friends living in Riverwest, South Milwaukee and others.

At age 14 I began attending Brewers Games with my Dad and his friends in the old bleacher section, attended my first Milwaukee Bucks game in 1996 and Admirals game in 1994. While residing in Story Hill I on more than one occasion explored old Milwaukee County Stadium, during Spring Training, on my bicycle - entering through Gate X. In 1992 I began watching Packers games on TV and became a massive NFL fan, I have attended 6 games at Lambeau including Aaron Rodger's first start in 2008.

A "Milwaukee Foodie" I have been dining at many famous Milwaukee establishments in the 4th District such as The King & I, Elsa's on the Park and Mo's since I was a teenager. I am a member of the Milwaukee Historical Society, at times an annual member of the Milwaukee Public Museum and a patron of the Milwaukee Public Library System and Milwaukee Art Museum.

Why I am Running

First and foremost I believe Alderman Bauman - who has announced his retirement - has done an amazing job. I actually explored running against him in the 2003 special election - even attending a Libertarian Party of Milwaukee meeting to gather support for my bid. However, I ultimately decided to enlist in the Air Force. Alderman Bauman is the architect behind The Milwaukee Streetcar Project (aka The Hop) and presented me with his plan way back in 2012.

I believe in collaboration - and right now the Great Milwaukee Families are more divided and disillusioned then ever. As Alderman I would first and foremost promote a culture of collaboration and transformation in Milwaukee; I would also continue Alderman Bauman's legacy on expanding Transportation Services in the City of Milwaukee. Advocating for Mental Health and Judicial Reform are key tenants of my platform.

Continuing Milwaukee's culture of innovation and leadership on the national and global stages - something that has been lost in recent decades - and using Milwaukee's unique perspective on reality to transform the world in general, is what I want my campaign to stand for. I am always available at +1 414.704.0718 and lind@yahoo.com.

Family History

Born 27 August 1984 to a single mother in Neenah, WI who was a freshmen at University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh I was immediately adopted through a pre-arrangement to Larry and Dorothy (Dot) Lind of Milwaukee, WI. Dot was unable to have children of her own due to a 1970s kidney transplant that required a hysterectomy and worked with a Catholic Charity to arrange for an at-birth adoption. At the time she was a Junior HR Executive at the Journal Company where she was on the Employee Stock Board; after my birth she chose to retire and focus all of her energy on me as a stay at home mom.

I am an only child within my adoptive family and I have 7 half brothers and sisters on my bio-mom side.

My father, Larry, retired in 2003 after 27 years on the Milwaukee Fire Department, his last role being the Heavy Equipment Operator for Engine 2: the largest fire truck in the Milwaukee fleet. In addition to his work for MFD he worked as a driver for the Journal Company - where is where he met my mom: volunteering to drive her to her dialysis appointments while she was waiting for a kidney. Larry also served in the United States Marine Corps Reserves during Vietnam and was deployed to a helicopter gun ship in the South Pacific for a short time.

They were happily married for nearly 40 years, my mom passing away in September 2019 after being diagnosed with Stage IV Lung Cancer in August of that year: she hadn't smoked in over 40 years and the cancer was likely a result of her transplant rejection medication. My father died in September 2023 after a nearly 6 year battle with Stage IV Prostate cancer; he was chopping wood up until 3 months before his death. He was able to leave me a small trust fund, administered by a long time family friend, that enables me to be very particular regarding the jobs I take.

My Grandfather, on my Mother's side, worked for Harley Davidson as an enlisted US Army soldier in logistics during World War II where he was stationed at the HD Factory in Milwaukee and later overseas in Europe. Upon returning home he worked for Harley Davidson up until his death in the early 1960s.

Early Career

In 1995, at the age of 11, I was accepted into the GeoCities Community Leader Program for the Hollywood Neighborhood where I supported, and patrolled for content violations, more than 50,000 homesteaders. In 1996 I joined the Freedows OS Project quickly rising to the #2 in command of the 4500 member organization as the Administrative Lead where I ran the non-OS side of the house such as a Translation Team that spanned the entire globe and rendered our website into 27+ languages with less than a 48 hour leg, and a team that wrote one of the first full-text search engines - leading the way for Google.

I graduated 8th grade with honors from St. Jude's in Wauwatosa in 1998 and completed my Junior year at Marquette University High School in 2001 when I transferred from part-time to full-time standing, as a sophomore, at Marquette University majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Political Science. At MUHS I was the co-Captain of our 2nd in State Chess Team in 2001, Portfolio Director of a student-run real-money investment fund used to provide scholarships to incoming Freshmen, and the founding National Deputy Director of Junior State of America's CIA which implemented social networking capabilities before Facebook.

In addition to my student activities I also worked part-time for Milwaukee PC where I was their top Sales Engineer by revenue for the duration of my employment, in-spite only working 20hrs/week. I later changed companies to CompUSA where I led the region in Service/Support Plan sales volume - again only working part-time.

At Marquette University I was the Treasurer of the Engineering Student Council from 2001-2002 where I increased our budget from around $2500/yr to $15,000/yr; I was the Midwest Regional Vice President of Finance for National Association of Engineering Student Councils from 2002-2003 where I successfully led a fiscal year change from December to May and was able to bring NAESC's National Conference to Milwaukee in 2004. I also served as the President of Marquette's IEEE program in 2002 and co-founded the MU-MUHS F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Team in 2002 - successfully raising the $25,000 entrance fee in only a few weeks and securing lab space at Rockwell Automation.

In addition to my student activities I also served as a Research Assistant to Joseph Majdalani in his Rocket Propulsion Research lab, the Chief Architect of Johnny Vassallo's brainchild Enterprise Restaurant Management System and as a Programmer Analyst I internship at Fortis Health Insurance (previously occupied the now Milwaukee Tool building on 5th and Michigan). In combination of me dropping all my classes Fall Semester 2002 and an unfortunate drinking incident, where I accidentally broke some windows in my office building playing racquetball at 2 in the morning, I was placed on Academic and University probation where I would have been limited to a 12 credit role and had to relinquish my involvement in student organizations. My roles in these student organizations was more value than the degree itself so I chose to go full time at Fortis Health Insurance.

Due to being perpetually late to work I was fired from Fortis in June 2003 and the CIO - Captain Roger J. Jones, USN - took me out for a drink and more or less "ordered" me to join the USAF. I went to a recruiter the next day, they had me take the ASVAB which I scored a perfect score of 99 on and informed me I needed to lose 25lbs to sign the paperwork - which I did in less than a month. On 16 December 2o03 I deployed to Lackland AFB for Basic Training with a guaranteed job of programming nuclear command and control with an automatic E3 (Airman First Class) rank.

USAF

I was a total "space cadet" and Basic Training was challenging for me. The physical aspect wasn't even the biggest problem - although I did require extra-training to build up my upper body strength: my first TI had me in his office every day, several hours a day, for the first two weeks where he had me do pushups, situps, and flutter-kicks - all the while telling me all I had to do was say "quit" and it'd be over.

On the second week of training I was granted permission to attend a briefing on an Enlisted to Officer program for those with significant college credits where after 6 months operational I would be eligible to go back to college as an E5 (Staff Sergeant) and upon completion enter OTS and commission as a 2nd Lieutenant - which at age 20 would make me one of the youngest officers since Vietnam.

During the second week I was sitting on my bed folding socks with a ruler to spec and I was mightily struggling he came up and said "Lind! Its not fucking rocket science!" I immediately snapped to attention and said "Sir Trainee Lind reports as ordered! Sir I have done rocket science and believe me I find this much more difficult." He walked away trying not to laugh. As the third week came to a close he lined me up in front my flight and said "I would take a flight of Trainee Linds over a flight of you any day of the week". Later that night my Dorm Chief and I nearly came to blows due to my handling of spilled edge dressing in the shower room at 4 in the morning - he thought I did it but I was just in command mode getting it cleaned up before it stained the floor.

The next morning I was recycled two weeks into another flight in the same squadron but different building. In that flight I successfully passed the PT test of 50 pushups and situps each in a minute and half. After three weeks in that flight I fell ill - to the point that I had to self-prescribe myself Lidocaine to gargle with in order to swallow water without having horrible pain in order to stay in training. I was recycled into another flight and told that it would be my last chance to complete training. I successfully completed Basic Training in February of 2004.

At some point during basic I was directed to fill out paperwork for my Top Secret clearance which was required for my job - and I disclosed $4k in delinquent credit card debt against $20k in my ROTH IRA. The USAF considered me too much of a risk and denied me a TS but issued a transitional Secret clearance. I was then directed to page through a several hundred page book of AFOSC's that I would qualify for - my first choice being Media Relations, which was an 8 week technical school and with my background in cyber almost a guaranteed Pentagon Post.

In the Air Force's infinite wisdom, and due to my perfect ASVAB score on the Electronics section, I was placed in Avionics Backshop Test Maintenance: a 14 month tech school. After Basic I was deployed to Keesler AFB for the 8 week Electronics Principle course that I completed with honors. Also at Keesler I was made an Airman Leader (Green Rope) where I was commanded/liaised for 50 first term airmen. While awaiting transfer to my next training base I was put in charge of an E2 and two E1's in the First Term Out-processing File Room where through re-organization and command culture changes I increased our efficiency by at least 75% which prompted a surprise inspection by the new base commander - Brig. Gen. William T. Lord and was written an excellent letter of recommendation for my file.

Ultimately the training environment proved to be too much with my Wing Commander at Sheppard AFB telling me that the USAF was simply not ready for me and I was rendered a General Under Honorable Conditions Discharge for Failure to Adapt to Military Life after 11 months of service.

Software Consulting

After discharge from the USAF I worked at several companies as a Junior Software Engineer including JJ Keller in Neenah, Wisconsin and Monster TMP by Northridge in Milwaukee. Ultimately I took a position at Triton-Tek in Chicago as a Senior Software Engineer and eventually a Lead Software Engineer. In 2007 I left Triton-Tek to form my consulting company, Lind Innovation, with my first client being comScore developing one of the first syndicated REST Service platforms. Other clients, before I shut down my consulting company in 2016, included Aon Benfield, Citadel Investment Group, Northern Trust Bank, Neuberger Berman, Guggenheim Partners and United Airlines.

Management Consulting

In February 2016 I was the Lead Solutions Architect of the Merchandising IT Group at United Airlines and was very unhappy with my work environment and career trajectory. I felt that I had stagnated since opening Lind Innovation and I was stuck in a pattern where my business skills were not being valued. The decision was to abruptly resign from UAL and close down Lind Innovation and instead focus my efforts on learning Cyberwarfare and developing a new Management Consulting framework I coined "Transformation Engineering".

I started an organization, called STARFLEET IN BOLD, that attempted to "commission" individuals interested in advancing Roddenberry's ideas in real life. At one point I had my "Starfleet" jacket - from Acting Ensign in my GeoCities days to Lt. Commander in my current role on my LinkedIn profile under the "volunteer" section. Eventually a high ranking military official ordered me to take that down and I replaced it with a Cyber Commander Odyss3us profile that resulted in my ban from LinkedIn.

In early 2018 I started Transformation.run and at one point had 15 members with a few small clients and an offer from a high ranking official at Leidos - unfortunately due to mental health issues that organization disbanded and Leidos revoked the offer. Our Chief Financial Officer - Ret. Lt. Col. Mitchell Maddox, USAF - has remained a constant in my business ventures ever since and in 2019 we founded MultiPlex.studio around an AFWERX Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) challenge where our team submitted a proposal that was accepted for "Showcase Status" at their 2019 flagship conference in Las Vegas. In 2020 we began advancing the concept of "Cognitive Warfare" and submitted a white paper on the topic to the DoD which became part of the congressional record on the 2030 Technological Roadmap.

In 2023 Mitch and I founded Groundbreaker Solutions as a home for our work with United States Space Force and an avenue to submit responses the Small Business Innovation (SBIR) research grant program. Additionally we spun up our entrepreneurial efforts building projects such as https://programming.team.