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California, United States

Consulting for Crosslake Technology ( HTTP://www.crosslaketech.com ) to evaluate the technology, operations, software, hardware, data architecture and services, AI/ML, organizations, processes, etc of companies for investment and/or purchase.

San Jose, US

Prophyles is pioneering a new category of Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS) coined Contacts-as-a-Service (CaaS) that empowers individuals and organizations to control their most valuable asset.

Startup creating a personal "hearables" device for noisy environments. Partnered with cofounders on product definition, architecture, design, and h/w and s/w development for consumer audio electronics.

Park City, US

Managed technology team aggressively scaling Raftr team, product and services. I lead a distributed development and test team of 14, reset processes for alignment across tech and business, and focus on maximizing the tech team's delivery of business value per release and quarterly time frames. Technologies include Python, Django, Postgres, React, AWS, iOS.

Recruited to transform drone R&D organization into UAS product delivery organization.Managed teams and outsourced projects for data, software, hardware, and test in the design, delivery, and support of autonomous unmanned aerial systems (drones) for security, inspection, and photogrammetry applications. - Grew our deployed systems from 0 to 32 during my.

Transformed the consumer product organization and improved web and mobile apps and backend services. I led several strategic initiatives including CI/CD adoption, improved user data management, and analyzed our user data to drive key the key features: recommendations, search, and alerts.* Increased year/year traffic by 3x in each of my 3 year tenure.

Product and technology consulting and research between full-time employment roles. - Consultant VP Engineering for Rabb.it. Driving the maturation and scaling of process, team, and capacity. - Integrated R, an identity service, and a web UI for Lightminer’s high-end data science appliance system. - Designed, delivered and integrated audio analysis and.

Palo Alto, CA, US

* Recruited as first employee to architect and deliver MVP product and services.* Hired, trained and led the 7 person product and tech team. * Delivered MVP in 2 months to 4 customers via an AWS cloud service layer, B2B RESTful APIs, a Windows Installer plugin, a self-serve admin portal and MVP data analytics system for our customers.* Scaled MVP to.

San Francisco, California, US

* Recruited to resolve production capacity issues and rapidly scale development team, expand into mobile and drive data-driven development.* Migrated service from Eventbrite colocation to AWS Cloud in 8 days to enable scaling up the service to meet the existing needs.* Re-architected system to eliminate scalable deficiencies and security issues.* Trained.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

** Appointed to lead Yahoo’s mobile engineering when Yahoo “got serious about mobile”. Defined and drove Yahoo’s global mobile technical strategy and roadmaps, played a leadership role in M&A, research, scope and definition of new products, and actively participated in defining business strategy and planning. Grew the mobile team from 6 to 150+ and drove.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Delivered enterprise-ready versions of the Yahoo! consumer services: My Yahoo, Yahoo! Messenger, Toolbar and Groups and integrated these into five Enterprise software systems from Sun, Oracle, BEA, Tibco, and IBM. I built and managed engineering teams for the enterprise versions of Yahoo services. Our focus was on exposing consistent integration.

Built and led a team of 18 engineers to deliver BXXP (now BEEP) software and services plus web sites designed to employ this protocol for engaging user experiences. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3117.txt for details and motivation for BEEP. I was the fifth employee of this startup and left shortly after an office relocation that increased my commute.

I worked several short term contracts as I searched for the best, new opportunity. The contracts were with several startup companies that were either acquired or have gone belly-up. My roles ranged from hiring and training engineering teams to delivering a custom GUI for a high-level language for silicon chip design.

Milpitas, CA, US

I joined the Inventor team at SGI in 1995. Inventor is software and supporting technologies for scene graph descriptions (and rendering) of 3D and audio. I joined as an individual contributor and became an engineering manager in 1996. The Inventor team was instrumental in the definition and delivery of VRML and supporting technologies (runtimes, authoring.

Milpitas, CA, US

Milpitas, CA, US

Worked on Open Inventor, a 3D scene description language and runtime, in C++ and on VRML.

Phd, Mathematical Sciences

Ba, Mathematics