Dean Thompson Email & Phone Number

Ligonier, PA, US

Eloquence AI (http://eloquence.cloud) provides consulting and custom development for LLM-powered AI persona and agent design. Here are our core beliefs and capabilities:* AI's greatest business and personal value will be delivered by businesses with deep expertise in their own non-AI domains. * Eloquence empowers these businesses to amplify their existing.

San Francisco, CA, US

Hands-on engineer in Yelp's Applied Machine Learning team, focused on LLMs and deep learning. Introduced LLMs to Yelp, collaborated on Yelp's first LLM application, led replacement of an XGBoost model with a superior deep learning model.

San Francisco, CA, US

Group Tech Lead (overall technical leader) for Data and Analytics Platform -- a team of about 35 Yelp engineers who build and support Yelp's infrastructure for A/B testing and product analytics.

San Francisco, CA, US

Group Tech Lead (overall technical leader) for Yelp's Waitlist and Reservation products.

Reston, Virginia (VA), US

We intend to revolutionize athletic training by developing and marketing a technically superior monitoring and training technology. Our proprietary approach will help improve physiological performance by both elite and recreational athletes.

The Moonshot Education Project (http://www.dev4x.com/#moonshot-education-project) is an open community that aims to provide a 10X improvement in the education of the poorest children, reach a billion people in the next 10 years, and do so for 100th the cost of current approaches. I am proud to be advising them from my experience pursuing a literal.

Nowait was a Pittsburgh-based mobile app startup founded in 2010. Our iOS and Android consumer apps let people see the wait time as casual restaurants in their area and put themselves on the list before traveling to a restaurant. I joined Nowait as CTO in 2014, at a time when our rapid uptake of new guests and new restaurants was putting great pressure on.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

I am an investor and was an active board member in this space venture. Astrobotic aimed to win the Google Lunar X Prize by completing the first commercial lunar landing in 2018. As a Carnegie Mellon spinout, Astrobotic spent years pulling all the pieces together. Astrobotic worked under a series of NASA contracts and private lunar payload deliver contracts.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

I was a member of our Presentation team, which was responsible for the software frameworks and infrastructure for www.linkedin.com and other browser-based LinkedIn applications. I focused on our integration of the open-source Play Framework into our presentation infrastructure, operational infrastructure, and development processes.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

I directed the Content Insight engineering team, which developed the new product LinkedIn Today from concept to full production. We applied social signals and machine learning to help make LinkedIn a primary source of professional insight for our members.

Los Angeles, CA, US

As a transitional chief software architect for ModCloth, I led development of ModCloth's first data warehouse, using Pentaho.

US

I was the co-founder and CTO of mSpoke, f.k.a. Peak Strategy, which was based on research in adaptive computation that I began in 1995.mSpoke's Adaptive Personalization Engine, in spite of its unfortunate acronym, gave each user personally relevant content, advertising, and products, using a unique combination of machine learning and human interaction.The.

Peak Strategy is a software and services company providing a new paradigm for ubiquitous adaptive computation. Our first product, Strategy Shaper(tm), is a predictive modeling platform for the quantitative financial investment industry. Responsible for all research, development, products, and services. Conducted the 7 years of underlying research that led.

Completely responsible for technical strategy, technical direction, and technical execution. The Medebiz software provided web-delivered contract management solutions for hospitals and group purchasing organizations (GPOs). It was constructed from JSP pages, servlets, and Enterprise Java Beans and used XML for all data access. (Ah, those were the days.) As.

Responsible for all aspects of architecting and supervising the architectural development of a complete healthcare B2B exchange, including- Web-based procurement: catalog, requisition management, order management- Order processing business logic: order, order confirmation, ASN, invoice, etc.- Web-based reverse auction and electronic RFP- Machine-to-machine.

Responsible for architectural direction, technical supervision of the development team, and evaluation and uptake management of external components. The company was sold to Medibuy in a stock-for-stock transaction valued by Goldman Sachs at $500 million. (But note the year.)

Wide range of management assignments from Marketing to Software Development to Operations, with a peak management load of about 110 people. Contributed heavily to an intensive executive and senior management planning process in preparation for historic deregulation of the ocean shipping industry in May 1999. The deregulation placed complex new demands on.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

During 5 years at MAYA, was lead designer, project manager, or relationship manager (frequently all three) for dozens of product design engagements. These projects spanned industries from banking to Web start-ups, and spanned technology from relational databases to artificial intelligence.

Responsible for day-to-day management of the 40 engineers who developed the Encina line of transaction processing products. Supervised five first-line managers. Responsible for personnel reviews, resolving personnel problems, planning, department budget, development and testing process, assigning people to projects, resolving technical disagreements..

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Worked on the Camelot experimental transaction processing system. This project involved six Ph.D. students and one other staff member. It received substantial outside use and provided six thesis topics. Designed and implemented the Camelot recovery manager, which handled failure recovery.

B.S., Applied Math/Computer Science

High School