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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Berkeley, California, Us

Revolutionizing retail shopping with computer vision and AI

Assisting companies large and small transform by leveraging the power of data.Specializing in SaaS business transformations, architectures, and data directed products and decision making.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

Director, Platform Strategy (July 2014 - December 2014)-- Driving the platform strategy for Zephyr's Diverse Big Data PlatformDirector, Product (January 2014 - July 2014)-- Established Product Management practice.-- Drove product strategy & roadmap creationArchitect & Director, Platform Engineering-- Architecture, Design and Implementation of a next generation Big Data Analytics and Data Visualization platform for Pharmaceutical companies.-- Drove Proof of Concept development of and vendor selection for aNoSQL persistence solution leveraging multiple data platforms to provide the full range of Analytics and Visualization functionality.-- Driving product development best practices including: --- Continuous Integration --- SCRUM/Agile methods --- Automated Unit/Integration testing at all layers of the software stack (including JavaScript) --- Best of Breed tool selections (JIRA, STASH, Jenkins, Clover, etc)-- Product Development team leadership (formal and informal).-- Primary REST API developer - providing a single REST API over multiple NoSQL persistence platforms, including the development of a domain query language.

-- Providing Courseware Product Management, Architecture and development team leadership for one of the the worlds largest & most innovative Higher Education Publishers.-- Working directly with Authors (tenured professors at major universities) to translate content into product functionality.-- Driving product management methodology, agile product development and product road-mapping for multiple courseware products.-- Provided leadership within Unicon for Big Data technologies, recruiting, product management and road-mapping.-- Drove 3x increase in annual revenue from custom courseware practice.

• Built a highly scalable Social Media real-time aggregation and analytics platform leveraging cloud computing. • Created a disruptively priced product by focusing on controlling costs - operating at a 45% margin. • Drove initial sales and partner agreements leading to break-even operations after 8 months.

Mountain View, California, Us

• Drove creation of sustainable innovation practice in CIO organization generating 2 transformational innovations to product or internal technology per quarter.• Primary technical resource (architecture and development) for multiple version one products.• Built extensive collaboration network between CIO, CTO and Innovation Lab organizations leading to significant cross- pollination and innovation.• Led creation of and drove implementation of yearly Season Readiness Review encompassing all technology infrastructure - led to significant improvements in Enterprise Architecture, uptime and performance at peak.

Austin, Tx, Us

• Technical Architect on three subsequent projects with total billable revenues in excess of 5MM. • Go to resource for integrated CRM, CTI,Telephony customer loyalty technologies. • Worked with the eLoyalty RadLab to productize multiple solutions including CTI soft-phones, customer analytics and contact center management dashboards.