Adviser on general scalability and high availability systems, Big Data analysis and dashboarding, and new technology research.

AI, ML, and deep learning technology direction adviser to the executive committee. Had a blast helping some of the largest companies in the world to design and build high availability systems - then it came time to jump into the social networking and other technologies.

Building value through applied research and product development for an innovative mix of financial services and ad tech products and services at numo/triple, a PNC-incubator. Areas of application:* Knowledge Discovery and Representation* High volume data processing* Genetic algorithms, particle swarms* Multivariate structured and unstructured data analytics* Various AI and ML techniquesOur objective is to maximize FI customer satisfaction with their product and service offerings by providing unparalleled cohort identification and targetting. At triple we maximize the benefits to the FI customers, the FIs serving them, and the product and services offer providers.We build cutting edge technology to transform the industry and dislodge incumbent dinosaurs.

Manage a distributed team with the best knowledge modeling and representation scientists and engineers in the world. Building a next generation knowledge engine for competitive intelligence that contextualizes 40 billion entries to provide real-time access to companies, people, products, and social media and their interrelations.* Science team distributed between San Francisco, Oxford University, and Budapest* Engineering team distributed between San Francisco, Budapest, North Carolina* Map and contextualize 1.2 trillion documents and 12 million unique entities from over 10 million unique sourcesThe Knowledge Graph is the cornerstone of the Fairhair.ai and the Meltwater Outside Insight analytics products and services.

We are dedicated to sharing the most current, accurate information about the COVID-19 virus, and the data science and engineering tools to produce our dashboards and predictive analytics, with the data science community and the public at large. Engaged a number of sponsors and data analytics professionals to help this project succeed, looking forward to helping other technical teams and to share our successes here, via our dashboard at https://virustrack.live - project ended in Nov 2020 after a successful run.

Adviser to the MuleSoft technology board on implementation, technology direction, system architecture, and enterprise integration trends. Explored was of extending the Mule integration platform and Cloudhub for application domains ranging from mobile to advanced machine learning.

Meltwater acquired Cosmify, Inc. in the spring of 2017 to beef up their exploratory analysis of unstructured data tools in what has been dubbed a top AI talent acquisition of 2017 in Silicon Valley (CB Insights, April 2018).Defined the overall company technology strategy, and hired a world class team to help build the Cosmify platform and business case. Design, architecture, and implementation of a general purpose exploratory data analysis platform for unstructured and semi-structured data. Managed a distributed team of 9 scientists and engineers in San Francisco, Columbus OH, San Diego, and Czech Republic. First hand application of: PMI, ontology merging, model averaging/posterior distributions, attribute selection, supervised learning, and noise pruning; Python, R/CRAN, spaCy, Docker, Mesos, Spark, GraphX, Kafka on OS X and Linux.• Defined the architecture for a scalable, distributed unstructured data analysis built on original intellectual property combined with best of breed open source framework for data science, analytics, and knowledge discovery• Implemented a robust and distributed unstructured data acquisition, extraction, transformation, and loading system that supports all major unstructured data sources, file formats, and social media streams (patent pending)• Defined the specification for secure transport and storage of sensitive and regulated data on public cloud systems that meets or exceeds best governance practices and infosec standards (patent pending)• Organized an effective engineering, science, and business development team, and raised capital for two years of applied R&D, implementation, and seamless operation

Implemented and coordinated the integration of Summly summarization technology into Yahoo!'s main line of business mobile app; from AWS to Yahoo data centers in production in less than 4 weeks after the Summly acquisition was complete, one of the fastest integrations in Silicon Valley history (Java, Python, Scala, Mule, mongoDB, ActiveMQ). Spent the year on various POC projects related to unstructured data semantic analysis, categorization, and search.* Semantic graph data normalization, consolidation, and search POC platform for mobile applications (Java, Python, Redis, Neo4J HA, RESTful web service, Hadoop, HDFS; Neo4J, Titan) architecture and application design; applied research and development (May - Nov 2013)* Managed the 8-person team (Sunnyvale and India) that implemented the POC semantic search platform for mobile applications and transitioned to a larger production team (Dec 2013)* Ongoing research on ontological, semantic, and knowledge discovery technologies and methods, with emphasis on modeling and science-to-engineering team skills transition (R, Python, Scala, Java, C, Neo4J, HBase) (Jan 2014 - Apr 2014)Great experience working here, not my cup of tea for the mid- or long terms.

Technology, intellectual property, and business development advise for the worldwide social media and social discovery ventures in the Lakefield portfolio, with work based in Zürich and Berlin.

Designed the highly scalable architecture for the consumer app Summly, coordinated the programming languages selection, designed the end-to-end NLP workflow for news sources, summarization, (human) multi-language processing paths, heuristics, storage subsystems, and the IT support infrastructure. Hands on implementation of all tech except for the IT lifecycle management tools. Worked directly with M&A team in auditing, packaging, delivering, and integrating all technology assets part of the $30M Yahoo! acquisition of Summly in late March, 2013.* Managed around-the-clock development and IT teams distributed between San Francisco, Moscow, Kiev, Pittsburgh (PA), London, Thailand, and India* Designed and implemented the Summly Engine RESTful API and A/A cluster content delivery system (AWS EC2 XL, Mule, Java, memcached, JSON, BSON, custom RESTlet and userless-session implementation)* Designed and implemented the web crawler and article Aggregator server for processing an average of 350,000 articles/day in multiple languages (DE, EN, ES, FR, JA, PT), per server (AWS EC2 XL, Mule, Java, Python, C, bash, awk)* Designed and implemented the Summarizer Pod architecture for routing, extracting, summarizing, analyzing, and storing high volumes of articles and summaries (AWS EC2 Medium, Mule, Java, Python, R, C, bash, awk)* Designed and rolled out the data and caching models for the app, and coordinated pre- and post-launch optimizations to server sharding and replica set configurations (mongoDB, memcached)* Designed the interface between the NLP summarization code and the high performance servers in collaboration with SRI International (Java, Scala, Mule, Spring 3)* Coordinated NLP code optimization across the San Francisco, Menlo Park, and Thailand teams (Java, Scala, Spring 3)* Started the company up along with Nick D'Aloisio, Bart Swanson, and Inderjeet Mani, thought leaders in their respective areas of expertise

Advisor in basic technology infrastructure (SOA, NoSQL, Big Data, and programming tools) during pre-funding and post series-A stages. Ongoing role through November 2012, when Appcelerator acquired the company.

* Grew the Badoo active membership from 80 to 130 million users at 4-nines availability, spread between two data centers in Europe and the US. 2012 revenues of $150M, the company has been profitable since mid-2010.* Reduced financial consolidation errors from up to 20% when matching 3rd-party payment processing systems against internal income log to less than 1% by identifying data source and payment processing errors on both our partner's and Badoo's systems through regression analysis, dispersion reverse forecasting, and related analysis techniques (R programming; Oct. 2011)* Achieved PCI DSS tier 1/QAS compliance for Badoo - first company in our space to achieve this compliance level (Nov. 2011)* Managed development and business integration teams in Moscow and London (50 developers and IT in Moscow, 6 business owners and IT in London), then managed a transition to a split between R&D and decision support systems development and integration for business intelligence, CRM, CMS, financial forecasting systems (PHP, MySQL, bash, C; Sep. 2011)* Rolled out a business intelligence and data mining decision support system based on open source, best of breed software (Pentaho Data Integration, R Project, VectorWise, Hadoop; ongoing)* Adopted JIRA Studio as the companywide standard SasS software mashup package for IT project management, Agile development tools, version control system, and across-the-board collaboration suite, including the business and finance departments (Agile, Java, PHP, Git, Subversion; Mar. 2011)* Created and staffed a QA Team to serve the 50+ development team at Badoo Moscow* Deployed point-of-presence in Hong Kong, supplementing the data centers in Prague and Miami (Oct 2011)* Rolled out billing via SMS, credit card, PayPal, and direct payment in 26 new markets* Rolled out the white label software infrastructure Aug. 2011)* Implemented both the technology and business ends of the ad serving offerings with Open X (Aug. 2011)

Responsible for consolidating the server and networking infrastructure for web operations for the company, both e-Commerce, hosted applications, and internal, and for defining the technology path for the next five years.

* Architected a variety of web services, alerts, and performance metrics services for supporting main line of business applications with average daily revenues of at least $300,000 (Nov. 2004).* Architected and supervised the migration to Java 5 for the core business platform (Jun 2005).* Developed the foundations for mobile, rich Internet applications, and PC-based media client infrastructure (Aug. 2005).* Honors graduate from Wal-Mart Store’s Walton Institute management bootcamp (Aug 2005).* Architected technology for the site redesign, fulfillment systems, and supervised the new digital streaming media (video, audio) products (Garth Brooks, media download manager, Soundcheck, site redesign Mar 2006).* Chief liaison between Walmart.com Global and the Wal-Mart Stores ISD Technology Council (2006)* Architected and delivered the reference platform and proof of concept infrastructure for Wal-Mart Global and aligned business requirements with technology stack (Nov 2006).

Started this company to create turnkey networked embedded applications for OEMs and service providers. Led the development of the company's DXA (Dynamic Execution Architecture) product, an OSGi-compliant embedded server and application delivery platform that allows remote device administration and software updates over a network. Managed the development of DXA-based OEM products and training for most of the company's clients. The company shifted focus from software development to turnkey system design and implementation consulting in 2001.The company's delivered products were OEMed into video conferencing infrastructure, robotics control systems, mission-critical network management tools for such companies as Varco, Credit Suisse, Bank One/Chase, etc.

* Chief designer of the Change Management Facility (CMF) 32-bit version 3.0 deployed in production at Bank One, Credit Suisse, Barnett/Nations Bank, and chief technology liaison with Bank of America technology in Concord, CA* $5M A-round in funding from Charterhouse International (1995)* Chief designer of the IBM/Bank of America Distributed Change Management Facility (DCMF) for OS/2 and DOS systems distributed components for automatic configuration management in use in high security environments (e.g. cash vaults).* Implementation of the Bank of America ABC compiler for network configurations, subsystem of the Network Configuration Facility used for managing the 35,000+ workstations, servers, and network devices in the COIN retail banking network.* Languages: C++, C, Smalltalk* Operating systems: Windows NT, Solaris, OS/2, DOS, Windows* Databases: DB2* Network: TCP/IP, LU6.2, LU2, SAA