• Forged a fundamental change in how Churchill Downs conducts business by spearheading digital transformation and introducing AI/ML-based and data-driven practices. • Achieved robust stakeholder and end-user engagement with high adoption rates, effectively mitigating change resistance by employing the OKR framework and a strategic approach of active involvement and comprehensive education, empowering them to pose insightful inquiries and advocate for superior product quality.• Formed and led the Data Strategy Organization with 3 departments of software development, data engineering, and data science and data analytics. • Hosted the 1st Virtual Derby ever and developed a proprietary multi-agent RL-based AI model to simulate the horse racing game, outcomes, and states, and raised $1.5Mil for 3 nonprofit & public funds.• Supervised and directed the implementation of CRM, marketing automation, and the 1st customer 360 enterprise solutions by building the required master data management systems and advanced analytics pipelines.• Architected an integration gateway to centralize customer profiles, integrating Ticketmaster, Salesforce, Marketing Cloud, Tableau, Social Media Aggregator, Demographics databases, and AWS SQL and NoSQL data warehouses.• Designed and architected ticket sales analysis systems, reports, and predictive models for future sales.• Developed a lead recommendation system using a voting stacked ensemble of Gradient Boosting Machines, Distributed Random Forest, and Generalized Linear Models, with an excellent conversion of 10.83% in 3 weeks.• Developed a late buyer recommendation engine for Derby’s sales based on a two-level attention mechanism to latent factor model with a phenomenal conversion rate of 11.71% in 4 weeks.• Developed an interpretable optimized risk scoring-based model for sales agents to gauge the lead customers in real-time with binary questions, increasing the call throughput by 2x.

At Noble Cortex, I lead the end-to-end technology strategy for AI ventures, driving scalable architecture, seamless onboarding, and high-impact solutions from day one. I work hand-in-hand with founders and investors, crafting ambitious roadmaps, aligning cutting-edge AI with business objectives, and leveraging our private family-backed resources to fast-track growth. I ensure elite talent and strategic guidance are in place to optimize delivery, achieve milestones, and keep projects on the path to industry-defining success. Imagine having a partner who brings this level of leadership, innovation, and vision to your company—elevating your venture to its highest potential.Startups that I act as part CTO:- Aibes.AI: Overseeing the strategic development of tailored AI solutions that empower businesses to optimize operations, enhance decision-making, and drive innovation. Leading the integration of custom AI models across industries, including strategy development and AIaaS solutions.- VoxrAI Corp: Guiding the creation of AI-powered communication tools that automate and personalize business interactions. Directing the architecture and MVP development while focusing on scaling the platform for customer engagement and operational efficiency.DataMonetix LLC: Leading the strategic divestment process of DataMonetix, a platform allowing individuals to aggregate, control, and monetize their personal data. Involved in optimizing the product and shaping the go-to-market strategy for potential buyers.

• Co-Architected multiple end-to-end user-facing machine learning-based products.• Directed product development lifecycle from idea to maintenance, resulting in two revenue-generating products.• Built a competent technical team focused on growth, transparency, and team values, resulting in a self-organizing team.• Effectively executed and delivered a portfolio of eight short-term projects, employing a blend of dedicated full-time resources and highly skilled freelancers. • Co-developed a petabyte/day Network Netflow Anomaly detection system using C++ and R in a restricted environment.• Co-developed a cloud-based big data cybersecurity situational awareness solution on AWS, utilizing Python, Spark, HBase, Hive, and Metron, streaming petabytes of data into the digestion system. Resulting in 4000x faster throughput.• Designed and developed a multi-agent reinforcement learning system for high-speed stock trading.• Architected and co-developed a freelance job platform, Experolis, creating highly connected graphs based on members’ existing social media data and using neural networks, generating a vector of candidates with the highest likelihood of a successful partnership. • Developed a hybrid shopping recommendation engine, a B2C, predicting the highest likelihood of conversion by learning users’ styles and behavior and recommending the right products to the end users, Seek in Web.• Developed a disaster search & rescue mobile application for Weather Channel, WeatherSafe.• Led the architectural design and development of MyDailyPanel, an innovative project management and productivity application. Leveraging machine learning techniques and a graph-based database to analyze behavioral patterns and provide intelligent task scheduling recommendations. Currently employed at Sullivan University for Classroom management.

• Awarded Gift for Life Honor of Excellence at 2015 ICON honors for RM Datalink.• Started a successful track of delivering backlogged goals by introducing and internalizing SMART concepts and KPIs and implementing a balanced reward and responsibility-based leadership approach.• Built a confident organization by redefining engineering strategy, bringing modern and emerging technologies, introducing agile development, and focusing on human capital and team values.• Restarted project and product deliveries by implementing Scrum, CI/CD practices, and strategically positioning product managers as intermediaries between engineering and sales/service teams. Effectively curtailed scope creep across all products, ensuring streamlined and focused development processes.• Led 5 teams of 25 managers, and engineers, in-house and offshore, spread around 3 continents.• Established dedicated product teams with distinct expertise and specialization, focusing on end-to-end development, testing, delivery, and support of their respective products.• Redesigned the “RM Databank,” an enterprise data warehouse for the home furnishing industry, to have a superior performance containing a 3,000,000 products catalog.• Designed and co-developed two enterprise e-commerce B2B solutions for Vendor/Retailer relations: North America Home Furnishing Association and RM Datalink catalog management dashboard.

• Chief Designer & Manager for the Engineering Unit and IT department.• Formed and grew Engineering Unit to a profitable SBU in two years, implementing an agile paradigm and focus on customer-engaged iterative delivery.• Improved workforce stability, controlled turnover rate by overseeing staffing & employee promotions/terminations and strategic human resource planning, introducing transparent daily office routines and administrative and HR processes.• Expanded R&D team (5x) through strategic hires and mentoring team members in technical and soft skills.• Designed and implemented lab info management system and CRM.• Design & development of more than ten digital testing/analyzing devices for new products.• Built an add-ware to Neuro-feedback patient headphones to omit EMC disturbance from PC to EEG sensors.• Built a Gearbox TCU for Peugeot cars (206 model), capable of adapting and learning driving styles using machine learning (HMM and MDP), and implemented on an FPGA-based custom board.• Created a bioinformatics solution for the FBA matrix of E.Coli, based on Genetic Algorithms and biostatistics to increase the succinate production yield.• Built a Low-Temperature Brittleness tester Robot (ASTM D 746-7).

• Finished two stalled projects and brought the revenue back to the company.• Designed multiple systems and worked with operational colleagues to finish implementation.• Redefined all project Milestones and schedules and started tracking progress based on the plans.