Richard Joseph Mitchell, ESEP, MBA is the founder and CEO of AuraSpark Technologies LLC (Tavares, Florida), a company developing high-reliability, explainable autonomous systems with built-in governance architectures for safe real-world deployment. He holds the INCOSE Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP) designation and an MBA from the University of Florida. His 38-year career in safety-critical systems spans nuclear instrumentation and control, power plant optimization, and military autonomous systems. He is co-inventor of US Patent 8,838,955 B2 (Two- Way Secure Data Communication Within Critical Infrastructures, assigned to General Electric, granted 2014), a unidirectional data diode architecture for power plant SCADA protection. He has filed 30+ patent applications under AuraSpark Technologies LLC covering the AURA (Autonomous Unified Reliability Architecture) portfolio. Three papers by the author have been accepted at the I/ITSEC 2026 conference. More information is available at https://auraspark.com.