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Pleasanton, CA, US

Assisting start-up and mid-size companies with their business plans including financial models, organizational scaling, goto market strategies, product positioning, product development and early-stage financing (seed, Series A and B).

Performing research in five (5) areas: distributed, clustered operating systems; Artificial Assistants (leveraging our previous work in ChatBots and command and control systems); Artificial Learning (from unstructured information sources); Robot STEM Kits (creating a better learning environment for our next generation scientists and engineers); and.

Coaching and advising Executive Directors and CEOs of small NGOs and for-profits around the world that focus on children and family life, helping them grow, improve their product and services and become more sustainable over the long term.

Architected, designed and implemented a true to life virtual meeting center. One World Virtual was a new collaborative meeting platform and environment in immersive 2.5D. You literally sat in the same virtual room in a real-time meeting with full A/V and with others from around the world.

Architected the next generation Social Discovery platform that identifies "what is hot" on the web in real-time using state-of-the art crowd sourcing technology. Managed the platform which used Amazon EC2/S3 services and serviced clients world-wide. At one point LiveHit was the 10th largest site on the internet in terms of traffic.

Helped a start-up redefine their product/service offering while adjusting their business plan and created Guide Builder, an interactive system that enabled the creation and real-time maintenance of any type of online, self-help guides.

Architected a next generation iPad/iPhone travel application that was toprovide current on-the-ground information on points of interest, activities and events in major world-wide cities, enable event ticket purchasing and was tightly integrated into a new Call Center service for corporate travel programs

San Francisco, CA, US

Re-architected all of Maxthon's Cloud based services which are hosted in several co-lo's in China and deployed them in AWS. These services are used by Maxthon's MX3 and Android phone/tablet browser's worldwide.

Authored Amblit Navigator, an intelligent semantic browser, and Amblit Easy Navigator, a simple information organizational and web access aid. Developed an online Sales Assistant which was a pre-cursor to some of the more advanced chat-bots today. Worked on several advanced speech and language recognition systems for advanced command/control system UIs.

Authored 3 patents on next generation distributed, multi-user game networking, rapid-development prototyping and multi-user information management. Designed and developed a prototype multi-media delivery system for cell phones. Designed and developed a fantasy game and web site for the Professional Bowlers Association (http://www.tokenworld.com).

Assisted in the definition and set-up of the Wingspring Venture Capital Incubator for seed and Series A funded companies. Served as the COO for a small supply-chain start-up company in the incubator.

• eConvergent, Inc., a Crosspoint Ventures funded company, was the first company to deliver next-generation customer data integration software that allowed large enterprises to connect multiple sources of customer data.
• Helped develop the business plan, which raised $65M over two rounds
• Recruited and staffed 35 engineers and testers for Engineering
• Managed the creation of the initial web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system in 9 months
• Managed the development of the first Managed Service Center (MSC) that provided multi-tenant application hosting, 99.99% guaranteed uptime, and integrated voice (VoIP) and data network communications in 6 months

• Channel Concepts, Inc. (CCI) worked with Fortune 200 companies world-wide to improve their sales and marketing strategies, channels and programs.
• Developed several products and consulting methodologies including: Channel Assessment for determining the best market coverage model and go-to-market strategy for a large company; Sales Coverage Analysis, which.
• Managed consulting operations and engagements
• Staffed engagements with senior marketing, technical and financial personnel (e.g., VP, CFO, COO, CTO level)

Zacson Corp was one of the largest telemarketing companies, operating inbound and outbound call centers around the world. Managed the processional services organization which built and updated call centers for major companies world-wide.

Boston, MA, US

Served as one of the chief trouble shooters in the Industrial and Electronics Business Group (IEBG) when GE was purchasing various electronics companies. Developed the requirements for the next generation CAD/CAM/CAE design platform. Assisted in the design and development of the first low-cost design station.

Boston, MA, US

Developed the first integrated CAD/CAM workstation environment with fully integrated job processing, printing and plotting capabilities. CalmaNet was the first networked computer environment installed in mainland China and was deployed worldwide.

Ms, Aeronautical-Astronautical Engineering

Bs, General Engineering

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