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Seattle, Washington, United States

Taking a sabbatical until Q2'25- currently advising AI startups and coaching leaders in the space.

Working on-site with startups in the Foundations community to tackle tough problems around getting Gen AI to succeed, make their AI infra hum, and generally work through business models for AI startups.

Seattle, WA, US

Advisor in Tola's Magnet network (https://tolacapital.com/network) providing founders in their portfolio with deep advice on challenges and opportunities. Focusing on Gen AI, AI infra, and founder/startup operations.

Mountain View, CA, US

Created the three year technical strategy and roadmap for AI Agents across Google Cloud's Data & Analytics product portfolio. Worked with executive leadership & Google Research to align multiple engineering organizations to roadmap. Roadmap was adopted and team staffed to begin building services for powering AI agents across one of GCP's largest lines of.

Mountain View, CA, US

Overarching AI lead across six teams powering our Gen AI experiences in Google Cloud across products such as BigQuery, Looker, and Dataproc.Setting multi-year technical strategy and roadmap org-wide. Examples of team launches include Data Canvas (a gen-AI-first app), Text2SQL, Data-to-Charts, and Data Summarization, along with other initiatives not yet.

Mountain View, CA, US

* Engineering leader for Vertex AI (ML platform for Google Cloud): Responsible for model & data analysis portfolio in Vertex with multiple technical leads/managers reporting to me. Teams included Explainable AI, Model Evals, Experiments, Model & Data Analysis, and the SDK for Vertex AI.* Customer ML strategy - singular role within Vertex responsible for.

Mountain View, CA, US

AI Safety / Responsible AI engineering lead across all of Google Cloud: Worked with internal teams and external customers on finding successful technical solutions to risks posed by novel AI uses. Provided technical advice to multiple regulatory bodies on AI standards (ISO, EU, NIST, etc).

Mountain View, CA, US

Built a new team across multiple sites responsible for Compute Engine's front-end experience and customer tooling. Team grew from 3 -> 25+ SWEs in 3 quarters, and was directly responsible for the largest customer facing UX in Google Cloud.

San Francisco, CA, US

• CEO/Cofounder of Converge, drone inspection for buildings. Backed by Samsung, Techstars & Kima Ventures.
• Managing team of 5-10, monthly/quarterly planning, business development, investor relations and product management
• Technical responsibilities included leading AI/ML efforts, web app, cloud infrastructure, UI/UX/AR design.Technical Work:
• Designed and implemented an AI for flying a drone
• Machine Learning work on analysis of 3D building models
• System architecture and engineering for a complex aerial data pipeline & machine learning on data products

New York, NY, US

• Full-time consultant to executive leadership at AIG (N-2->4 from CEO). Led tech innovation group (multiple products & teams), AI/tech strategy advisor to SVP/COO.
• Started, led & grew first tech innovation org at AIG. Responsible for product roadmap, strategy, managing multiple teams of engineers, product designers and PMs.
• Portfolio included:
• Advising C-suite on AI, performing technical due diligence on AI partnerships and M&A
• Assessing intersection of technology and regulatory environment across 80+ countries
• New apps that targeted areas ripe for automation within company. Ex: App rolled out to ~1/10th of global workforce (10k employees), handling $B/annually in claims, first successful adoption of OSS technologies by IT.

Kampala, UG

Advised on product design, user experience and technical challenges. Fenix (since acquired by one of the largest energy companies in EU) was focused on delivering renewable energy to the 1.3 billion people who live without power in emerging markets.

• Founded and scaled consulting firm focused on implementing sophisticated technical products & strategy for clients.
• Managed in-house team of >10 employees across three offices (one international).
• Budget/line item responsibility (monthly, 6-figures), client pipeline, research strategy, and team allocation.
• Clients ranged from Fortune 500 companies to SMBs and Startups

Cambridge, MA, US

Worked as a research scientist in the Humans & Automation Lab at MIT. Performed research in human-computer interaction and human-supervisory control. Projects include an iPhone app for exploring environments with unmanned micro aerial vehicles and attention awareness for train drivers. Managed two teams of graduate and undergrad students. Gave guest.

Cambridge, MA, US

Performed research in HCI and human supervisory control. My thesis focused on allowing field personnel to explore an unknown environment with a small autonomous helicopter (MAV). This research has been featured on Wired.com I performed the first "real-life" usability study of a MAV interface. During this study, operators successfully used my interface.

Portland, Oregon, US

Paydici was acquired in 2015 by North American Bankcard. Paydici provides online payment solutions for property management companies. As co-founder, I implemented the backend for the web app, along with designing and implementing the web UX.

San Francisco, California, US

As the lead UI/UX designer, created design and interactions for Xobni’s initial product, Xobni Outlook. As an engineer, primarily focused on implementing Xobni's custom-built (from the pixels up) user interface. Xobni Outlook was downloaded by over six million users, given a 5 star review by CNET, and picked as Editor’s Choice by PC Magazine.Oversaw.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Ee & Cs, Concentration In Human-Ai Interaction & Hci

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science (Ai Concentration), Historical Architecture, Int'L Relations