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Stanford, Ca, Us

A tech lead for Meta's cross functional capacity and efficiency efforts supporting ML training services.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT │ PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT │ GROWTH STRATEGIESAlign and drive product and strategic direction for technology solutions provider, with oversight of data sciences, computer vision, machine learning and data engineering functions. Direct cross-functional projects across the entire organization.PROCESS IMPROVEMENTRebuilt analytics engine from the ground up and introduced rigor in software development process.TEAM BUILDINGSourced, hired and onboarded product manager and drove adoption of product management best practices in the company.METRICS AND ANALYTICSProduced new sensor processing methods and analytics for health of rodents utilized in medical experimentation. Published automated and remote rat arthritis metric which matches gold standard manual measurements.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

PRODUCT DESIGN │ TEAM BUILDING │ OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY │ PROCESS MANAGEMENTFinalized virtual reality product for 3D and virtual reality company in seed funding/demo stage. Doubled product development team in eight months, hiring world-class C++ engineers, vision, web and 3D display specialists and creating a cohesive and efficient team.CULTURE CHANGESet engineering culture and processes to deliver unique products with evolving requirements.TECHNOLOGY DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONInvented and implemented computer vision algorithms, from sensor data correction to global reconstruction methods.PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTLed development of previously non-existing, intuitive 3D web interface and improved user functionality with the creation of mobile applications, custom binary format and client-side JavaScript decoder, allowing real time interface/upload within three to five seconds.PATENTSAuthored five US patent applications.

Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE │ OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY STRATEGIES │ PROCESS IMPROVEMENTFacilitated commercialization of a private cloud system. Tasked with assessing and resolving issues with storage system, from both hardware and software perspective.SYSTEM DESIGNPrototyped the management architecture on a small cluster of computers. Brought in an expert in file systems, and together selected and adapted an existing open-source file system.SYSTEM INTEGRATIONIntegrated initial storage system, which led to the creation of a distributed file system that auto-scaled and worked with chosen hardware and unblocked required product specifications.PATENTSAuthored one US patent application.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

TECHNOLOGY EXPERT │ PROBLEM SOLVING │ ADVISOR │ ANALYTICS │ RESEARCH Provided expertise and problem resolution for American multinational technology company, in an internal consulting role, in areas that encompassed statistics, machine learning, online algorithms, operations research and social network analysis.METRICSDesigned, implemented and drove adoption of quality metrics and monitoring for webpage crawl scheduling and index selection algorithms, the core of Google’s search engines, improving freshness 50% and quality of web internal and user-facing metrics.ISSUES RESOLUTIONSuccessfully mediated conflict between senior engineers who designed previous ranking and selection processes and new team implementing machine learning based systems.TEAM COLLABORATIONResolved debugging problems across the company, in collaboration with a representative sampling of engineers, by implementing changes to the core memory allocation and reporting codes.PATENTSAuthored four US patent applications.

ACIL Australia - largest Australian economic consulting firm. 1996-1999 Consultant Sydney, Australia MAGMA, Inc - premier computational algebra system. 1998 Consultant Sydney, Australia APTECH Systems Inc - provider of GAUSS suite of analytical software and tools. 2000-2001 Consultant Seattle, WA

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mathematics, Co-Advised In Statistics

Bsc (Adv), Mathematics And Statistics, Minor, Computer Science