About Speaker

Julaine Simmons oversees division operations, customer growth and employee development to keep the company at the forefront of the security industry. She also serves as a program executive for federal agencies and commercial sector customers. Having worked with M.C. Dean for more than 14 years, she has helped the company expand relationships with some of our top U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community customers, advancing M.C. Dean’s mission-critical capabilities.

Simmons is a member of the Security Industry Association's board of directors and serves on the Voice of the Industry and NavigateHER subcommittees. board of directors and serves on the Voice of the Industry and NavigateHER subcommittees. She is also an executive sponsor of Women at M.C. Dean, an affinity group established to support female employees across professional fields. She represents the company at universities and industry organizations, such as the Society of Women Engineers and Women in Technology, providing mentorship and advocating for career growth of women in engineering and technology.

Prior to joining M.C. Dean, Simmons worked at Lucent Bell Labs in the chief technology office working to transfer technologies in non-linear optical communications from Bell Labs into the telecommunications Industry, then she moved over to working in startup companies to develop fiber optic and security technologies for the solve problems and fill in the gaps in the market.

Simmons earned her Master of Science in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech with a focus on fiber optics communications and telecommunications. She was GRA in 160 Gbps Femtosecond Ultrafast Laser Communications at Georgia Tech.