Ed OConnell

Ed O'Connell is a Director of Digital Strategy & AI Enablement with twenty years building content systems in Massachusetts higher education. He architects distributed cognitive infrastructure: multi-model verification systems that catch drift before it compounds, automated documentation loops that make workflows self-describing, and knowledge bases built for auditability rather than ephemeral chat. His approach treats AI collaboration as a governance problem, not just a productivity hack.

These capabilities position him to lead AI adoption where trust and transparency are non-negotiable: educational institutions, regulated environments, anywhere "it worked" falls short of "here's why it worked, and here's the audit trail." The MFA in Poetry isn't decorative. It's why he thinks about language systems the way he does.