Get in touch with me! I love talking to customers to explore solutions and wasy in which we can assist in validating their ideas.Having transitioned to the technology team as part of our M&A strategy, I am now at the forefront of shaping the future of AI training and technology to enhance our customer's models. My focus areas include:• Designing workflows along side trends in AI, particularly in how we can leverage them to help our customers develop even stronger and more capable models.• Showcasing through technology demonstrations of how iMerit can address current industry challenges.• Cultivating a deep understanding of Generative AI's potential impact on global economies.Key Areas of Leadership:• Customer Engineering Group: I lead four specialized roles in Computer Vision (CV), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Pointclouds, and Analytics, aimed at broadening our technological capabilities and solutions.• Application Support Group: I manage two crucial roles responsible for providing 24/7 application and partnership inquiries within our organization, ensuring comprehensive internal support.• Product Marketing Group: Alongside my Senior Product Manager, we develop case studies that illustrate our holistic approach, combining Automation, Applications, Annotation, and Analytics to address real-world problems.

Transitioning into the Director position at iMerit, I embraced new responsibilities and shifted focus towards growth and an important and successful M&A initiative.• Expanded the Customer Engineering team to 4 specialized roles, establishing efficient workflows to meet all customer and stakeholder customization requirements.• Established an application support team to ensure 24/7 coverage for our internal teams, enhancing operational reliability and responsiveness.• Became an integral member of the Global Sales and Marketing leadership team, contributing to the development and execution of strategic processes aimed at driving growth and revenue.• Spearheaded the identification and due diligence process for the M&A of a cutting edge annotation platform, presenting to our executive team a compelling case that aligned with our strategic objectives.• Integrated a new Senior Product Manager role on to the team, focusing on refining the execution details of the M&A, ensuring a smooth transition.

Joined the iMerit team to lead the creation of a pioneering partnership division, aimed at cultivating strategic relationships with technology partners and expanding our collaborative network.• Established a Customer Engineering team, focusing on enhancing data integration processes between clients and our annotators, ensuring efficient project execution.• Initiated a dedicated team that successfully built partnerships with 5 global workforces, strategically aligned with our mission, to bolster project capacity and flexibility.• Identified and fostered relationships with 8 key technology partners, facilitating streamlined project execution through contractual agreements, co-hosted webinars, co-marketing initiatives, and joint feature advisories.

• Gengo was acquired by Lionbridge for it's technology to launch lionbridge.ai !• Team was absorbed into the greater translation provider org.• Primary industry focus on Gaming and Entertainment service translation and labour needs.• Worked with F500 companies to identify project needs and the best solutions available.• Provided internal x-sales support for our AI training data industry• Implemented process workflows to an older style sales team

With a new focus on AI technology we launched a major new initiative that I lead from market research and technical solution scoping.• Designed initial plans for the platform rework of Gengo toward a HitL, AI training service.• Put together market analysis, competitor research and go-to-market strategy.• Defined sales process by discussing solutions will customers.• Brought the customer and market requirements to product team for platform expansion needs.• Developed the sales "playbook" and trained team on the emergent industry.

During a particularly important time in our revenue growth needs, I took on a purely new-business-focus position for the team. Taking advantage of my technical experience and subject matter expertise in global strategy I was able to quickly become the to performing Sales Executive on the team. In addition, drawing on my background as a partnership manager I was able to target new, young business that were facing expansion challenges. Interfacing with their teams and being able to talk about the engineering side of the solution made for a very efficient combination.

As a subject matter expert in the localization and implementation space, I moved away from direct engineering and focused primary on developing the eco-system around our solutions• Provided technical integration support for a variety of different customer engineering teams.• Understood product strengths and weaknesses to create a partnership road map.• Aligned with 30+ companies to create full-solution options for customers.• Analyzed data trends to monitor partner service health.• Launched co-marketing campaigns across social and publishing channels.

Joining as the first employee of a new start-up we set out to create the "Uber of translation services"• Worked within an agile framework to rapidly scope and deliver product features.• Developed and launched several key components of the platform such as our order form, workbench and marketing site.• Helped spec and develop the first Human Translation API in the industry.• Maintained API documentation and developer resources.• Launched major head-to-toe re-brand post Series B funding.

https://thediplomat.com/I joined a highly successful Asia-Pacific news outlet as part of the their new launch team. I headed up a small team of developers to sketch out the migration from a proprietary, legacy system to a more modern and robust WordPress system.• All engineering needs were handled by myself and one junior developer that reported to me.

I feel very lucky to have such a successful and wide spread freelance career. Working alone or in small teams has taught me a lot about about entrepreneurship. During these years I leveraged a growing base of skillsets including -• Managing the "for sale to launch" customer journey• Clear timeline planning and communication• Remote team collaboration• Infrastructure set-up, back/front-end coding and deployment• Collaboration with creatives to push the edge and take advantage of emergent web technologies• Writing detailed hand-off documentation to reduce dependencies

I worked with this fun, creative agency for a little over a year helping cement their internal designer-developer processes while coding on some really strong advertising campaign interactives.

For several years, I worked with InsightU by coding quizzes and games that focused on re-enforcing learning objectives. This was a fantastic environment to not only leverage the best of Flash/ActionScript (which was pretty hype back then :) but also to storyboard and collaborate on UX design.