Bob Wald Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Mo, Us

I integrate Data, Insights, Innovation, Ecosystems, and Standardsfor a radically new AI-based "intelligent decision system" for:• Pre-provisional/pre-patent assembly with auto associations (allowing human reality check) and graphical clustering,• Gap and opportunity analysis driving R&D prioritization,• “Real world” IP valuation using unbiased industry and financial analyst sources,• IP commercialization process benchmarking to significantly improve efficiency,• IP portfolio analysis and patent “pruning” to focus resources on the highest ROI opportunities,• Hyper personalized BUY-side and SELL-side “actionable” opportunity recommendations and marketing, and• The first patent liquidity exchange marketplace.CURIOUS? Contact me to discuss becoming an Alliance Partner.

Contract Roles—Management Consulting, IP Commercialization, & Interim Management :In-Knowvation, LLC 2008-Present * Stealth Startup--CURRENTLY Creating Graphical, Story-Based, & Metric-Driven Collaborative Problem-Solving Platform for Strategic Goal Alignment. * Far UV Technology--Led Strategy & All Eye Safe FarUV Products for Microbial Inactivation & Destruction. * Americo Life & Annuity--Led Several AI-based Digital Transformation Projects. * Cobalt Iron--Strategic Plans & Roadmap for Data, Analytics, & ML in Exabyte Storage Management. * Diocese of KC-SJ--HRIS Project Management, SW Integration, & Testing. * XAQT--C-level Bus Dev for Data Analytics in Engineering, Architecture, & Construction Companies. * Ansera Analytics--Strategy, Product Development & C-Level Bus Dev for Food & Spice Safety Testing. * Technology & Business Fusion--Application of Proprietary Behavioral Psychology Methods into Online/CRM Systems. * Enduring Energy/Hydro Strategy--C-Level Bus Dev, Project Management & Research for Renewable Energy Projects. * Agile Precis--Interim Managing Director in Analytical Product Management, Business Development, & Team Management. * UMKC Bloch School of Management--Lectured in Three Innovation & Entrepreneurial Courses. * Osseo Imaging--Interim COO, Led All Strategic Decisions & Operations for Medical Imaging Device Company.Ongoing work centers on: technology innovation, R&D, strategy development, interim/fractional CTO/COO, product dev/mgmt., business dev, IP commercialization, technical project/program mgmt., data science, advisory boards, & thought leadership across a vast range of industries.PLEASE SEE EXCELLENT LINKEDIN RECOMMENDATIONS.

Norman, Oklahoma, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Technical and business strategy/operations consulting opportunities over a wide range of market segments, technologies and functions. Work accomplished under the highest levels of integrity, information security, and avoidance of ANY conflicts of interest.GLG is a technology-enabled learning platform that connects top professionals with experts.More than 1,400 companies use GLG to help solve complex strategic and operational challenges, test hypotheses, gain market feedback, and seek mentorship, all within our rigorous compliance framework.

Exton, Pa, Us

1) Conceived & implemented GRAPHICAL & AI-driven PoC project for the very sophisticated idea management system (IMS), innovation workflows, PoC projects, IP, corporate strategy, external grants, & grand challenges. Required expertise in data strategies, taxonomies, ontologies, semantic networks, NLP, GenAI, graphical dBs, data mgmt, security, & graphical UIs with faceted search.2) Submitted & contributed to 50+(!) tech ideas for PoC projects & IP consideration,3) Utilized novel GRAPHICAL problem-solving platform to optimally plan activities for IoT WG, an innovation project, & corporate tech strategy,4) Technical paper abstract titled "Encourage Employees to Learn & Utilize Data, Analytics, & Machine Learning (DAML) " presented at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo22. Please see www.scte.org/documents/5876/FTF22_WORK02_Wald_3910.pdf. Also Moderator for “Automation to Improve the Customer Experience” workshop.5) Invited 2 orgs to submit for 10GChallenge--they won GR& PRIZE & LIVE awards!6) Peer reviewer for SCTE Journal technical papers in IoT, Telemedicine, & AI/ML topics,7) Attended Innovation Boot Camp #19 & The 7 Laws of Innovation. My IBC idea "Work Everywhere" was chosen as problem statement. The innovation coach gave me the call sign "Be Like Bob" for the breadth & depth of my ideation, ranking, pivoting, & collaboration skills. He said, "Be-Like-Bob Bob is an innovation force. He is impressive both in the breadth & depth of thinking he brought to the team. He had a team member's jaw dropping at the sheer quantity of ideas he was able to generate in a compressed timeframe. I kept telling myself throughout boot camp to be more like Bob with idea generation skills. In respect for this show of innovation force & with tongue in cheek reference to the memes calling for others to be like bob, Bob's call sign is "Be-Like-Bob.”

Exton, Pa, Us

Technology innovation, strategy, and standards for the worldwide cable industry.1) Greatly assisted as moderator & SME of Explorer WG meetings in IoT/IIoT, SmartCities, AI/ML, PNM, Edge Computing, Telemedicine/Health, Immersive Experiences/VR/AR, MicroGrids, etc., One WG chair said, "Your input and comments were much appreciated and insightful. "2) Participated in CableLabs Coherent Passive Optical Network WG,3) Actively participated in Immersive Digital Experiences Alliance. Goal was to create the central translation method for ALL content using ALL SW environments, and ALL display technologies over ALL telecommunications methods. Analogy of Matter for IoT. 4) Assisted CableLabs spinoff Gridmetrics many times. Their CEO Scott Caruso said to my CEO Mark Dzuban, "...just wanted to ensure you know how cool your team is!! I thought it was awesome that Bob initiated the reached out and asked how he could help."The SCTE Explorer Initiative will establish a shared path forward through SCTE Standards working groups focusing on emerging services and technologies that will impact telecommunications. Explorer areas are linked to CableLabs' 10G Challenge initiatives which include: 1) Live--Telemedicine, Aging in Place, In Home Care, and Safer Alternatives to Surgery;2) Work--Immersive Video (AR/VR), Lightfield Holodecks, and Enhanced Collaboration;3) Learn--Immersive Displays, Enhanced Remote Learning, Simulation, and More Accessibility;4) Play--Super HD Streaming Video, Edge Computing, No Lag (low and predictable latency), Gaming, and Augmented Reality.SCTE® is the only ANSI accredited Standards body for developing technical specifications supporting cable telecommunications. Standards ensure the safety, quality and reliability of products and services; they facilitate trade and protect our health and the health of the environment. For business, standards improve systems and processes; they reduce waste, cut costs and ensure consistency.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

3 month contract to Ramp Up Product Development and Management.Duties included: team management, R&D, product development, HW/SW/optical engineering, component selection and ordering, IoT strategy, secure dashboard design, UL product certification, vendor management, test plans, intellectual property (IP), problem resolution, cloud-based supply chain management system, and c-level business/partnership development. Mentored more junior members of the team plus building and guiding others, then driving brainstorming and discovery sessions to facilitate creation and fine-tuning new product development.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

6 month "Digital Transformation" contract to define and create a holistic view of customer service to create cost savings and serve as a platform for growth and predictive analytics. Managed project teams.Focused on innovation processes for evaluating ROI of potential ideas as well as formal project requirements once prioritized. Technologies encompass the heart of digital transformation: Intelligent Document Recognition and Processing (IDR, IDP, OCR using Hyperscience, SAP Callidus Cloud and internal developments), robotic process automation (RPA using UiPath SW in operations and finance processes), conversational AI-based voice/chat/text bots (speech-to-text, NLP), secure eForms delivery, context-driven cognitive collaboration ("cognitive computing", augmenting human capabilities by simulating thought processes to find solutions to complex problems), and call center automation. Tools included Azure Dev Ops (ADO), MS Project, and Planview PPM Pro for program management and Tableau for data visualization.

Lawrence, Kansas, Us

8 month contract to create strategic plans for data analytics and machine learning to accelerate product development in Exabyte-scale data management.Delivered the following:• Comprehensive Competitor Review of Data Analytics (DA) and Machine Learning (ML): capabilities, product plans, employee profiles, hiring plans, deep patent analysis and analyst perspectives;• Tactical DA and ML Product Roadmap;• Strategic Plan for DA and ML Innovation with Q1 and Q2 Metrics and Outcomes, specifically addressing corporate change management; and• Competitive Intelligence "Deep Dive" of all Relevant and Unique Data Protection Competitors.Reported to both CEO and CTO. FT contract was at the forefront of R&D and SaaS product development. I leveraged predictive data analytics, machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL aka NN), and data science (metadata management, MDM, stewardship, taxonomies, ontologies, semantics, controlled vocabularies, data masking, etc.) methods on BILLIONS OF ROWS of both unstructured data (MongoDB) and structured data (DB2, PostGresSQL). The goal was to build a data model that joins together multiple disparate systems for analysis leading to important and novel automated capabilities.The solution space is the largest enterprise application of them all--SaaS-based Exabyte-scale data backup, security, protection, restoration, archive, long term retention, disaster recovery, business continuity, and compliance. This is being achieved through a fully automated, highly secure, analytics-optimized, hybrid-cloud/multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM, Oracle, Alibaba, Dell Technologies/VMware, HPE, Cisco Systems) enterprise backup as a service.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Created new IoT technology, software and engineering products for an elite R&D team in a large and well-regarded multi-national corporation. Areas encompassed Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), predictive data analytics, cybersecurity, intelligent process control, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX) testing and multi-disciplinary engineering.On Feb 11, 2019 my division Precision Flow Systems was acquired by Ingersoll-Rand plc (NYSE:IR), a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments. All IIoT product development was transferred to their Trane Technology division.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Contributed to and led internal and outsourced SW dev team management, product development, project management, partner interactions, all applications for both grants and start-up accelerators., R&D, and future vision of analytics and AI automating decisions.SW dev environment includes .NET and node.js, JS, AngularJS 1.X, C#, SQL Server, Python, Git/GitHub, Visual Studio Enterprise, TFS, JIRA, Smartsheet, integration with commercial datasets, and Microsoft Azure cloud. Future strategies: IoT & connected devices, VR/AR, data analytics and AWS scalable computing resources.Assisted with marketing, sales, operations, business plan/financial model refinement, public speaking, and mentoring.

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Hired by division president to lead new initiative that previous teams could not capture. Supported Smart Integrated Infrastructure (SII) projects related to Smart Utilities/Cities.Areas of focus included Technology Innovation, Smart Metering, Geographic Information Systems (GIS, specifically ESRI ArcGIS for Desktop 10.2 and Google Earth Pro), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Fiber Optics, Wireless Technologies, Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), and Small Cellular Networks. Familiar with iBwave software for RF characterization.Created 3x more business plans than any employee worldwide for the "CEO Challenge" to produce new revenue streams using innovative technology ideas, projects, and partnerships.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Lectured in three entrepreneurial courses: Creating the New Venture-Experiential Learning; Product Innovation Management; and Creating the Enterprise.

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• Effectively led the entire operations and strategic decisions for the company. Titled CEO and CMO were too busy leading their medical practices.• Developed the business strategy, business plan, product plan, and created marketing materials.• Sought equity and SBIR financing to build and test a medical imaging device.• Independently managed the product definition of a dual-energy X-ray medical imaging device by facilitating meetings with prospective partners, customers, and venture capital firms.• Collaborated with medical/dental surgeons and radiologists, managing the working prototype creation, and defining the initial testing requirements.

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

• Contributions included both unique R&D and Agile product development areas.• Leveraged Digital Asset Management (DAM, non-textual assets like videos, complex multi-layered images, audio), Intelligent Document Recognition and Processing (higher education transcripts), and Information Organization and Access (IOA, critical for advanced search functionality) with competitive/market/technology research to create and enhance electronic content management (ECM) software products.• Led product definition, user stories and management of these and file format/MIME-type semantic analysis solutions.• Facilitated discussions with senior management and select customers.• Communicated with various industry analysts and attended trade shows to prioritize relevant functionality.• Extensively utilized IBM RPM custom-built product development and software versioning system.

Stamford, Ct, Us

• Managed a team of 7 emerging technology consulting resources.• Achieved highest Gartner consulting revenue in EMEA!• Co-founded and served as the only American on a pan-European industry board with more than €2B of purchase authority.• Served clients thru outsourced CTO, C-level bus dev, consulting director, complex program management, & industry board of director roles.• Led the creation, delivery, and successful deployment into 17 countries of a €350M broadband cable internet, voice, & video product platform for a major European cable company (UPC) that has added over 30% to their top-line revenues since 2000.• Served as Chief Architect prior to the introduction of Accenture, & then managed the program and Accenture partners following this introduction.• Direct report to consulting client CTOs and Managing Directors providing high-level strategy & technical/logistical implementation.• Performed technology due diligence for VCs (including ABN-AMRO, Fortis, and BNP-Paribas) plus private placements.• Supplemented Gartner research reports, including co-authoring “Emerging Technologies for Managing Content” research article.• Helped develop the Emerging Technologies Relevance Scope process used to provide continuous monitoring of relevant technologies/standards/competition/trends for many clients.• Won the Gartner Innovation Council top innovator award two times.European-based partner of the holding company ECA leading to the formation of wholly-owned sister companies Intellocity and Solista. Intellocity, a developer of advanced interactive TV applications, was sold for $42M to what is now OpenTV (Symbol: OPTV). One of the earliest successes powered by this technology allowed viewer selection of multiple video camera feeds during NASCAR auto races.Emerging technology consulting accomplishments and individual revenue with Solista significantly contributed to the 2000 Gartner (Symbol: IT) acquisition of the company for $10.9M with a whopping 1,189% IRR!

Louisville, Co, Us

• Founding architect and Program Manager of the exclusive cable modem technology used throughout the world (DOCSIS™), the first always-on, broadband fiber/coax network that revolutionized internet and VoIP access.• Co-managed the creation and implementation of 13 functional specifications that became an international standard (ITU-T Recommendation J.112 Annex B) used by EVERY cable operator.• Created and implemented certification/interoperability test labs and automated scripts critical to user and industry acceptance.• Specific work included: hands-on reverse engineering of existing proprietary cable modems; working in lock-step with over 30 cable industry CTOs to assess their requirements; interacting with standards bodies on current and planned standards; and helping to manage 20 vendors, contractors, regulators, and 500 engineers to completely define, test, and deliver broadband internet access devices to customers world-wide.• Served as the Secretary of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Data Standards Subcommittee.CableLabs is the international cable industry R&D center. DOCSIS directly increased worldwide cable industry revenues by over $20B making it one of the most successfully implemented international standards in 20th century world history. Over 2.3B cable modems have been deployed dwarfing all other residential broadband access technologies worldwide. The impact of DOCSIS to the information age is analogous to what railroads created in the industrial age.DOCSIS received the 2010 "Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award" for development and innovation in broadcast technology and to recognize breakthroughs in technology that have a significant effect on television engineering.

Clive, Iowa, Us

• Serving as the sole product manager, analyzed competitive intelligence, disruptive technologies, standards, and telecommunications trends to create a revolutionary xDSL product that was exclusively OEMed to ADC Telecom plus a migration path from T-1 Access Bank channel bank to T-3 internet access devices for the CLEC market, plus the Access Bank II and Wide Bank 28 Multiplexer.• Responsibilities centered on product development and competitive intelligence for DLC, xDSL, VoIP, T1/T3, SONET, IP, and SNMP solutions as the direct liaison to engineering.• Development efforts defined a completely new platform integrating voice and data services as well as an exclusive OEM product for ADC Telecom through interaction with senior management, select customers, CLECs, trade shows, and industry analysts. • The new products and momentum greatly-enhanced analyst visibility and customer perceptions leading to a successful IPO (NASDAQ: CACS).This new direction and momentum contributed to a second product line increasing visibility with analysts and greatly impacting a successful IPO Carrier Access Corporation was subsequently acquired by Force10 Networks, Inc. in December 2007."“Bob is someone who was always a hard worker, provided honest feedback, and was easy to work with. He has strong business and system analysis skills and a good handle on the industry trends that I often drew upon. He was a great help to me when we were working on defining new product direction and features for Carrier Access. Much of that was due to Bob's willingness to help out wherever he could. These are the qualities I remember most about Bob, his honesty, helpfulness, and great attitude"— Michael Trofi Jr. CISSP, CISM, CGEIT, Manager Software Engineering.

Hopkinton, Ma, Us

• Managed new datacenter product definitions, creation, testing, and product management activities.• Coordinated and ran many brown bag employee lunch sessions, a newly created customer advisory board including a Fortune 100 CIO-only retreat in Beaver Creek, CO to define and prioritize areas of excellence.• Assessed DS-1/3, ATM, SMDS, DWDM, and Clear Channel SONET/SDH interfaces in both the US and Europe.• Managed $250k/year research services budget and interaction with industry and equity analysts for technology strategy, competitive analysis, and potential partnerships.• Facilitated numerous interactive sessions with senior management including proposal creation and presentations for buy-in of useful features/functions relevant to the organizational capabilities.• Analyzed technology trends and competitive products to define new WAN interfaces and switching technology for the most profitable product of the most profitable division in the history of IBM (ESCON/Fibre Channel Director, now known as the SAN Director).• Provided input to senior management for board member discussions.• Created the product plan for new capabilities and directly interfaced with engineering to modify, execute, and test the capabilities.• Instrumental in managing and marketing these new products, along with others.• Brewed quality beer numerous times for their legendary company events;)• Eventually we hit an astounding $1.2m RPE (revenue per employee)!• Delivered novel product enhancements that attracted analysts’ attention, leading to higher profit levels. Efforts contributed significantly and directly to the 1995 acquisition of McDATA Corporation by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) for $230 million in stock.

Ms, Optical/Electrical Engineering, Minor Ai, Ph.D. Coursework

Bs, Electrical Engineering, Minor Ai

Broadband Fiber Installation Boot Camp, Ftth/Fttp

Certificate, Data Visualization With Tableau

Certificate, Textual Etl

Certificate, Data Analysis Using Pig And Hive

Certificate, Apache Hadoop Essentials

Certificate, Big Data – Nosql Database Essentials

Certificate, Excel Data Analysis

Certificate, Python Programming

Certificate, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (Cissp)

Certificate, Pmp Project Management

Fasttrac Entrepreneurship Program--New Ventures And Tech Ventures

Information Organization And Access Practitioner (Ioap)

Graduate, University Preparatory And Advanced High School Diploma Program