Jilian Metz is a Project Manager at Digital Bazaar, where she leads the company's engagement with the California DMV on OpenCred and all verifiable credential programs, coordinating delivery across state, vendor, and standards stakeholders. Digital Bazaar is a co-inventor of W3C Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, and JSON-LD, and supports credential deployments for California DMV and US Department of Homeland Security programs. Before Digital Bazaar, Jilian has held project management roles at several technology companies including Rackspace Technology.