Lionel W
Vice President Business Operations
Town of Ossining, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLionel W is a seasoned technology and operations leader with over two decades of experience building secure, scalable systems and operational practices across startups and global enterprises. Currently leading Business, Marketing and Revenue Operations at Level Access and a long-time partner at TLV Startup Hub, he blends hands-on R&D and DevOps transformation experience with go-to-market and compliance expertise. He previously served as CCOO at UserWay, advancing AI-powered accessibility and representing accessibility interests at W3C working groups, a signal of his commitment to inclusive web standards. Lionel’s background spans founding technical startups (Platin, Emmett Global), leading large-scale deployments at Cisco and NDS, and directing ML-driven R&D at dMASS, showing fluency from low-level security to product strategy. Comfortable in both technical and investor-facing roles, he repeatedly reduces time-to-delivery and operational costs while scaling teams across continents. An alumnus of Cornell and Wesleyan with an unusual mix of physics and ethnomusicology training, he brings analytical rigor and human-centered thinking to complex technology problems.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Ethnomusicology, PhD, Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan UniversityAP Math, Physics. Honors, AP Math, Physics. Honors at Bronx High School of ScienceBA, College Scholar (Physics), BA, College Scholar (Physics) at Cornell University
Github Skills (16)
workitem10
disclosure9
personalization7
describe7
accessibility6
semantics5
css5
w3c4
testing2
wcag2
tooltips2
render1
verifiable-credentials1
axe1
voiceover1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
w3c-ccg/data-minimization
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
WORK ITEM: Repo for Data Minimization and selective disclosure
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 issue in 4 years 3 months
minimizationworkitemselectivedisclosureitem
a11yedge/overlays
Jan 2023 - Apr 2024
Overlays as examined by the W3C Accessibility at the Edge Community Group.
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
accessibilityw3c
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