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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Oakland, California, Us

First employee at Outlier. Joined pre-product to help define a new market in AI driven data analysis. Outlier uses advanced AI and machine learning algorithms to automatically identify unexpected and important changes within critical business data. These insights are delivered daily in a simple, sharable story format that accelerates business action and decision-making. With its library of data connectors, organizations can integrate Outlier with existing data sources within minutes, allowing leaders to gather business insights quickly, identify potential opportunities, and address the unexpected.** Recent Outlier.ai Awards **2021 Data Breakthrough Awards, Data Analytics Solution of the Year2021 AI Breakthrough Award, Best AI-Based Solution for Marketing2021 Business Intelligence Group, The Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards recognized Outlier in the Pattern Recognition category as a company that brings AI to life and is used to solve real problems2021 Global Achievement Awards for AI, Awards.AI recognized Outlier as the “Best Use of AI in Retail” for the Global Annual Achievement Awards for Artificial Intelligence 2021 The Startup Weekly, 2021 Software Companies to Watch Award 2021 RWRC Discovery 50, Top 50 Retail Tech Start-Ups Operating Globally2020 AI Breakthrough Award, Best AI-Based Solution for Marketing2018 Gartner, Cool Vendor in Augmented Analytics2018 PRISME Forum, Most Promising Product2017 Strata, Audience Choice Award

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Founded Yahoo’s Mobile Developer Platform team responsible for Developer Experience, Mobile Partnerships, and Syndication. Took leadership over the existing Yahoo Developer Network (YDN) team and function, which supported projects and APIs developed within Yahoo that were open sourced to the community. Helped launch the Gemini Ads platform, which went from $0 to $250 million in ARR within the first year. Built an internal dashboard that became the source of record for tracking the impact of Flurry initiatives within Yahoo.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

In charge of building an international team to provide global support and outreach of Flurry services to high-value partners and the mobile community. Responsible for defining strategy and vision for developer platform, ensuring Flurry services were well understood and used in tandem for maximum benefit to current and future Flurry partners. Owned roadmap and development of external data and revenue APIs, in addition to several internal tools. Coordinated functions across all departments to include Marketing, Business Development, Sales, Product Management and Engineering. Reported directly to the CPO.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Built the Partner Integration department responsible for ensuring that high value partners and the community at large implemented Flurry services quickly to achieve maximum value of their business goals. This was a GM style role in which my team was responsible for the end-to-end product lifecycle, including roadmap planning, development, and support. Hired and managed a team across 3 offices.Directed development of Flurry SDKs across iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows, Blackberry and JavaME. SDKs are used by over 125,000 companies across 250,000 apps collecting over 5 billion sessions daily. Led development of high-performance, scalable APIs to support server-based integrations. Main contributor on all major product initiatives to include:AppSpot - publisher ad serving platform that supports advanced targeting, fine grained campaign control, MRAID compliant rich-media display, and mediationClips - the first and largest mobile video advertising networkAnalytics - the leading solution for measuring user behavior in mobile appsReengagement - the leading solution for engagement, which targets the highest quality users to return to apps they previously usedReal-time bidding - programmatic bidding to display advertisements on publisher appsDemand-side platform - programmatic service to deliver advertisements to external networks off of Flurry’s marketplaceDirectly supported partners via on-site, conference call, skype or email, including Rovio (Angry Birds), Supercell, Halfbrick, Skype, CBS, Zynga, New York Times, Electronic Arts, Groupon, Capcom, and MTV.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Temporarily relocated to manage New York operations following departure of founding Director. Led development of AppSpot product until I hired replacement Director. Retained all staff and maintained high employee morale.

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Chosen as 1 of 3 external committers from a community of 2,166 members on the open source Google Wave project. Responsible for reviewing contributions from the community and helping them towards ultimate submission as well as mentoring the community to produce new contributors. Selected as 1 of 15 members of the Podling Project Management Committee (PPMC) to the Apache Wave incubator project. The PPMC is directly responsible for oversight of Apache Wave and selects new committers or PPMC members.Developed initial persistence solution for open source Wave in mongoDB. Modified core Robot and Gadget API components of Wave. Authored technical articles that were referenced by the Google Wave developer blog, which has a readership of approximately 15,000. Technologies Used: Java/JEE, mongoDB, Wave protocol, Guice

Led product development for a team of 5 developers and research scientists in addition to 1 independent contractor over 3 simultaneous projects. Served as Principal Investigator for effort to deploy Google Wave technology into the Navy, which focused on real-time communication in a disconnected, intermittent, and lossy environment.Technologies Used: Java/JEE, mongoDB, MySQL, Wave protocol, ExtJS (Sencha), Guice, Guava

Led software development on 3 projects with a total of 13 developers. Responsible for hiring and training technical staff. Served on the strategy and draft teams for proposal development that resulted in the award of a 5-year contract for a total value of $101.9 million. Routinely interfaced and presented to high value clients.Technologies Used: Java/JEE, JavaScript/CSS, PL/SQL, MySQL, XSLT/XPath, KML, ExtJS (Sencha), Spring

Directed development of software that performed data-warehousing, analysis, and reporting for all major offices of client universities. Managed 5 developers and 1 independent contractor. Responsible for hiring and training of technical staff. Served as primary technical interface to customers.Technologies Used: Java/JEE, JavaScript/CSS, C#, T-SQL

Bs, Computer Science

Bs, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Master, Computer Science