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Chapel Hill, NC, US

Research Triangle Park, NC, US

• Coordinated research across a large portfolio of government contracts including the Department of Education, Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation
• Led a diverse team of over 65+ managers and staff working across technology, data, analysis, and education
• Led multiple, cross-division business development initiatives
• Advanced innovative professional developed programs for engineering and research staff

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US

• Winner, 2021 CODiE Award for Best Emerging Education Technology Solution for Administrators
• Finalist, 2021 EdTech Digest Cool Tool Awards
• Member, AWS EdStart Startup Accelerator
• Led the conceptual design of the Ask2Learn analysis framework
• Delivered international, data-driven coaching workshops for teachers and administrators
• Conducted international user-research studies and beta-test programs to assess product feasibility and impact

Cary, North Carolina, US

• Led the EdTech start-up from launch to 10 years of profitability and exit through successful acquisition
• Led a distributed workforce of engineers, designers, curriculum developers, and sales leaders
• Developed customer-base across the US, the Middle East, Australia, and Asia
• Primary inventor of SMALLab, an interactive learning environment for K-12 schools and museums that emerged from a university research initiative
• Launched new products for K-12 learning including Wink for online learning and Flow, an interactive platform using the Xbox Kinect
• Delivered teacher training workshops for K-12 educators across the US

• Led research and development efforts in the areas of speech recognition, machine learning, data visualization, and emerging technologies
• Delivered technology briefs to inform executive team strategy, identifying emerging technologies, and evaluate their suitability for company products
• Led a team of engineers developing prototype applications to integrate speech-to-text, natural language processing, and augmented reality
• Conducted formal user testing with children to evaluate application prototypes
• Collaborated with multiple stakeholders across the company including the executive team, engineers, designers, and educatorsKey Technologies: Unity3D, C#, Node, AngularJS, Speech Recognition API’s (Carnegie Speech.

• Led the implementation of two award-winning iOS apps [Haunting Melissa & Dark Hearts]
• Created the information architecture to deliver a patented method for delivering dynamic video content that is customized for individual app users
• Implemented a scalable web services architecture that has delivered millions of in-app video views across multiple apps and provides backend admin tools
• Designed a web services API for client/server interactions that power the apps
• Designed and conducted formal user experience testing pre- and post-launch
• Designed a quality assurance process leading to 99.9% error free performance over 7 million sessions

Scottsdale, AZ, US

• Co-created Kwivia, a social trivia game for iOS. Featured in the 2012 Wired App Guide as a best new App
• Co-created Home Real Estate Trends, a business-to-realtor marketing platform, built atop Facebook. The system gathered real time real estate data from client realtors’ regions via Zillow, and posted branded data.
• Developed Sencia Editorial, a custom, content management system to coordinate a remote team of US and off-shore content creators who generated bi-weekly social media and blog posts on behalf of small business.

• Developed cross-platform, mobile apps and games for media clients including Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Fox Home Entertainment, Warner Bros, and MTV
• Programmed mobile apps, games, and learning interactives for national, non-profit clients including ReadWriteThink.org and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned PregnancyKey Technologies: iOS, Xcode.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Led an interdisciplinary research team of 29 faculty, post doctoral scholars, graduate and undergraduate researchers, spanning 8 academic departments
• Awarded over $3.3 million in research funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Intel Research, and the City of Phoenix
• Led the design and evaluation of SMALLab, a interactive learning environment for K-12 schools and museums
• Designed and implemented the core technological infrastructure for SMALLab
• Earned national press citations including the New York Times, Phoenix Business Journal, and Education Week
• Published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in academic conferences and journals

• Created Sustainable, a robotic sound installation for 7 gongs, water tanks, and microcontrollers. International exhibitions include the Chinese Millennium Museum (Beijing, 2006) and SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies.
• Created Transition Soundings, an interactive public art installation for 100 networked micro-speakers, proximity sensors, solar charger, and arduino micro controllers. Installed in Tempe, AZ (2005 – 06). Funded by the.
• Created, Interactions, an interactive software installation based on neural network learning models. International exhibitions include: Maxis Festival of Sound (Sheffield, 2002) and ACM Multimedia Gallery (Singapore.
• Music/Sound Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), 2003-04
• Artist-in-Residence, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (Netherlands), 2002
• Taught undergraduate courses in music technology at Adelphi University, 2002 - 03Key Technologies: Java, JSyn, Java2d, Arduino microcontrollers, sensors & actuators

Doctor Of Music, Computer Music And Composition

Masters, Computer Music And Composition

Bachelor, Music Theory And Composition