About Clerus Solutions - Staff
Jay Maxwell, Founder, President & CEO
Thomas Osterbind, Senior Vice President,
Technology & CTO
Rich Carter, Senior Vice President, Programs
Jay Maxwell
Jay Maxwell is the founder, President and
CEO of Clerus Solutions, LLC. He has over 25 years
experience working with state and federal agencies,
specializing in the implementation of nationwide,
large-scale information systems that involve the driver
license program domain.
During his career, Mr. Maxwell designed and
implemented the National Driver Register's Problem Driver
pointer System (PDPS) while at NHTSA in the 1980's, managed
the Commercial Driver License Information System (CDLIS)
while at AAMVAnet, Inc., and after September 11, 2001, led
AAMVA's efforts to develop the best approach to prevent a
person from holding more than one license. While at AAMVA,
Mr. Maxwell served as technical advisor to the U.S. House
Judiciary Committee staff while the Real ID Act was being
drafted.
Mr. Maxwell received a BS in Mathematics
from the State University of New York.
Rich Carter
Rich Carter is the Senior Vice President,
Programs Division for Clerus Solutions. Prior to coming to
Clerus, Mr. Carter spent over 15 years at the American
Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) dealing
with all aspects of the driver license issuance process. He
coordinated the AAMVA members’ implementation of the Problem
Driver Pointer System (PDPS) and the AAMVA Code Dictionary
(ACD) codes used by states to exchange driver conviction and
suspension information. As the head of AAMVA’s standards
program, he oversaw the publication of the AAMVA Card Design
Specifications and AAMVA’s participation in the Justice XML
program that became the basis for NIEM. After 911, he played
an important role in the development of AAMVA’s DL/ID
Security Framework, serving as the staff coordinator for all
issues involving information systems and the card design
specifications.
Before working at AAMVA, Mr. Carter is retired from the US
Air Force after serving 21 years in the intelligence field.
During that time he twice served in a Special Security
Office, responsible for the protection of highly sensitive
information. From this experience he gained a thorough
understanding of all aspects of security, such as physical
security, personnel vetting, and operations security.
Mr. Carter received a BA in Business Management from the
University of Maryland, University College and an MS in
Systems Management from the University of Southern
California. While at AAMVA he earned accreditation as a
Certified Association Executive.
Thomas Osterbind
Thomas Osterbind is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Clerus
Solutions LLC. Tom has over fifteen years of experience
within the information technology profession with 10 years
spent managing personnel, development projects and mission
critical operating
environments. At Clerus Solutions, Tom is responsible for
all technology products and services supporting internal
staff or customers. Project management, problem solving and
broad technical knowledge are key strengths.
Before joining Clerus Solutions, Tom was Senior Director of
System Engineering for the American Association of Motor
Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA). At AAMVA, Tom was
responsible for design, development and implementation of
technology solutions for state and federal governments as
well as the AAMVA internal operating environments. Tom
developed and maintained, in coordination with AAMVA CIO and
other directors, the enterprise system architecture for
internal and external server-based systems including the
messaging systems, data centers, and wide area networks that
together are referred to as AAMVAnet™. Tom developed
proposals for messaging architectures, verification systems,
pointer databases, and security plans as well as the
supporting data center and telecommunications
infrastructures. Tom also developed and maintained an
organization wide security program based on ISO 27001
information security management systems. Tom developed AAMVA
specific policies, security plans and an executive
governance model.
Tom received a BS in Computer Science from
James Madison University. He is also a certified project
management professional (PMP).
Tom has experience with the following programs and
information systems:
• Project Management
• Application Development and Management Lifecycle
• Corporate Web Sites
• EVVE hub & EVVER gateway
• AAMVAnet gateways to NLETS, IRE and NAPHSIS
• AAMVAnet middleware messaging components NCS and UNI
• Commercial Driver Licensing Information System (CDLIS)
• Problem Driver Pointer System (PDPS)
• IRP Clearinghouse
• Fraud Emergency Warning System (FEWS)
• Association Management Systems (AMS)
• LAN/WAN Telecommunications
• Server Hosting Data Centers
• Information Security & Privacy