Design and deliver innovation and entrepreneurship training, coaching, and programs.

Teach Jumpstart I-Corps course, develop and deliver Platform Technology Assessment workshop, consult on strategic projects.

Teach MBA-level courses on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Co-Principal Investigator and Program Director of Minnesota Innovation Corps (MIN-Corps), a partner in the NSF I-Corps Great Lakes Region Hub that delivers commercialization education and coaching to accelerate the development of new technologies based on University of Minnesota research-based innovations. Co-Lead of Innovation Ecosystem pillar of the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio). Associate Director-Innovation of the UMN Institute for Engineering in Medicine.

Teach entrepreneurship, strategy, and leadership MBA-level courses.

Occasionally serve on grant proposal review panels in the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), including SBIR/STTR and Engines.

A NASA Jet Propulsion labs spinoff, TFWireless Inc was established to commercialize the physical layer (PHY) rateless codec technology for both space communication and terrestrial wireless networks. The mission is to develop transformative wireless communications technology which provides excellent performance enhancements and dramatic cost savings offering key benefits in terms of latency or processing speeds and power/energy consumption.

InterJad — whose name blends “interactive” and the Arabic word “jadeed,” (which means modern) — streamlines clinical research with medical practice as part of Graduate Medical Education (GME). InterJad is an interactive platform that uses specialty-specific curriculum (to increase engagement), multimodal learning (to increase long-term retention), and gamified simulation (to build practical skills).

Taught executive MBA course on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Taught entrepreneurship to both undergraduate and MBA students. Research focus on entrepreneurship and risk-based decision making.

Taught courses in entrepreneurship and innovation.

Responsible for 50-person operational staff, 350-person project staff and $25-30 mm annual project budget. Developed strategies and products that increased sales and reduced costs of financial products.

Led 160-person operation and 300-person project with responsibility for $1 billion in sales compensation, $15 mm annual operating budget, $15-20 mm annual project budget.

Responsible for 400-person client service organization for internal start-ups, small business retirement programs, and back office functions.

Led quality improvement, reengineering and technology initiatives supporting mutual funds, annuities and life insurance products. Marketed employee financial planning services.

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