Joe Knight is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Data & Analytics practice. Mr. Knight provides technical consulting services in electronic discovery, advanced data analytics that leverage artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning (“ML”) techniques, AI and algorithmic bias testing, litigation and investigation support, data visualization and the implementation of business intelligence solutions. Additionally, Mr. Knight has worked as an internal and external auditor identifying and evaluating financial reporting compliance and operational risks in IT-intensive business processes.
Mr. Knight has extensive experience in disputes and investigations. He has assisted in managing the collection and analysis of large and complex data sets from systems, including enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) systems such as Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft Financials. He assisted in the consolidation, normalization and analysis of these complex data sets using SQL, Python, C# and other tools. Mr. Knight has extensive experience developing flexible statistical models and analytics for litigation and investigation support, which could be modified based upon the legal foundations provided by counsel. Mr. Knight supported investigations of complex entities by analyzing large amounts of operational and accounting data. Specifically, Mr. Knight has assisted in performing source code reviews to confirm the functionality of systems, reconciling transactions against the general ledger and performing due diligence on vendor master data, accounts payable and general ledger data.
Recently, Mr. Knight helped lead an investigation for a large technology company that came under intense media scrutiny due to its historical user data and privacy policies, which allowed third parties access to a significant amount of user information, creating the potential for large-scale misuse. Mr. Knight assisted the client by working to develop a sophisticated algorithm to prioritize third parties for investigation. The algorithm analyzed the client’s infrastructure (containing more than 20 billion data points) to evaluate the amount and type of data to which access was granted and each third party's historical API request logs.
Mr. Knight is the U.S. Data Science Lead, assisting clients with AI from a solution and advisory perspective. He leads a team of analysts, data scientists and software developers specializing in helping clients at different points in the AI lifecycle, from strategy and governance to full-scale solutions with supporting architecture. He has extensive experience with algorithmic bias testing related to the use of AI and automated decision-making systems.
Before joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Knight worked in Ernst & Young’s advisory services practice. He has experience performing IT general controls (“ITGCs”) audits for financially significant systems and infrastructure components in conjunction with Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance and support of financial statement audit opinions. In addition, Mr. Knight has utilized computer assisted audit techniques (“CAAT”) and data analytics to perform procedures in relation to SAS 99, “Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit.”
Associations
Information Systems Audit and Control Association (“ISACA”)
Institute of Internal Auditors (“IAA”)
Formation
B.B.A., Computer Information Systems, James Madison University
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Contact
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