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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

San Francisco, Us

Redwood City, California, Us

Technical Business Development for MinIO in the financial services, machine learning, and artificial intelligence areas

Boston, Ma, Us

- Consulted with business units to define AI/ML and A/B hypothesis testing solutions to drive Fidelity customer and prospect engagement to increase revenue- Solutions Architect for applications of Reinforcement Learning technology to hyper-customization of client experience- Consulted with Marketing Technology group to create AI/ML appropriate KPI definitions and AI/ML appropriate marketing analytics

Ridgewood, Us

- Head of Analytics and AI/ML effort within Manetu- Defined product positioning and drove AI/ML sales strategy for Manetu- Engaged with prospects to present Manetu’s capabilities for using AI/ML to identify personallyidentifiable information (PII) in structured and unstructured data across the enterprise- Architected a real-time, continuous, and automated platform for the identification of PII exposurerisks across multiple data stores

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

- Demonstrated cutting edge applications of AI/ML to State Street board members in support of advanced technology funding, helping to secure a multi-year $1.5 billion cross-bank technology budget- Architected a cross-bank, shared services distributed platform and set of ML services for artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives to be leveraged by all business units within the bank- Educated and drove adoption by business units for multiple AI/ML projects in NLP and predictive analytics.- Managed a team for Proof-Of-Concept projects deriving intelligence from investment prospectuses and contracts, developing cognitive models for securities lending and investment management, portfolio optimization, credit and client risk evaluation, and predicting overall market movements based on macro-economic data

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

- Architect for the build-out of the State Street FX Accelerated Growth Program for Global Markets, a $75 million program targeting significant increases in State Street FX market share. The program included 11 Agile teams leveraging State Street Bank PaaS and IaaS Cloud infrastructure- Worked closely with Head of Foreign Exchange for State Street Global markets to define the required capabilities of the platform to ensure success

- CTO for a foreign exchange focused start-up that raised $4 million in funding and had California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) as its beta-client- Presented BuysideFX technology and vision for board meetings, sales meetings, and to secure funding- Recruited and managed technical team of 18 while tailoring mentoring to their individual corecapabilities

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

- Head of the Apama Center-of-Excellence with a $2.5 million annual budget- Managed on-shore / off-shore team of 20 developing advanced technologies for multiple simultaneous projects including:o Implementation of the Apama FX Aggregator (HFT algorithmic trading of FX across executionvenues)o A real-time VaR risk calculation platform for FX positions and tradingo A machine learning (gradient-descent neural network optimization) based financial portfoliooptimization platform

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

- Sales Engineer and on-site Solutions Architect for Progress Apama Complex Event Processing (CEP) clients- Built high frequency FX trading applications for large banks and hedge funds based on Apama as well as advanced machine learning predictive modeling for price formation and movement prediction- Managed clients’ development teams to integrate Apama platform with clients’ execution platforms

Power Control Solutions, LLC provided intelligent, fine-grained demand response technology systems as part of the IOT “Smart-Grid” focus. These systems are driven by advanced machine learning power delivery optimization models (Artificial Neural Networks and Programming Logic – PROLOG). - Early start-up entrant into Smart Grid and Internet-of-Things (IoT) domain- Architected and developed fine-grain energy demand management technology platform based on PIC microcontrollers, IoT communications, and a large-scale parallel execution optimization platform for delivering power- Granted two US Patents for the technology

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Valaran Corp. provided a next generation Java / Jini / JavaSpaces based enterprise integration platform targeting the telecommunications industry.- Architected and developed a distributed, resilient platform based on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA / micro-services) principles targeting the telecommunications industry- Responsible for management of the technical team, customer presentations, and steering the technology of the platform- Filed one US patent for technology

DataTrend Information Systems provides software solution consulting services to the telecommunications industry. Technical Team Lead on contract to US West- Led engineering team developing a technology platform for US West (telecom) based on Java, RMI, Sockets, Corba, IBM MQ Series, and Oracle enabling straight-through processing of orders for service provisioning (billing and service allocation)

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

- Developed HP OpenView network management products based on TCP/IP and SNMP protocols in C and C++. Awarded two US patents for the technology- Full life-cycle design and development for Unix Development Labs Software Distributor platform for large-scale push installs of software to heterogeneous UNIX and Windows computer systems.- Expertise in Novell, C, POSIX-threads, OSF DCE RPCs, TCP/IP Networking

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance / Entrepreneurship

Ba, Economics