Leading Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence at Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL), a collection of cruise lines including Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises. Ultimately responsible for establishing the productive use of data-driven and AI/analytics-enabled approaches across business and operational functions. Employing the three levers of: (1) Direct creation of solutions via a Center of Excellence model; (2) Development and management of a common, cloud-based Data and AI/Analytics infrastructure; and (3) Governance to ensure best practices employed across all data-driven activities in the company. We’re actively hiring data scientists & ML engineers, data analysts, and data engineers, especially those with experience in enterprise or industrial domains!

Founder and Chief Data Science Officer of Noodle.ai, an AI-as-a-Service company building and deploying AI-enabled applications for enterprise and industrial firms. Raised $107M from venture and strategic investors. Noodle is a global leader in “Enterprise AI,” enabled by a distinct technical field with unique data, problem formulation, and modeling challenges (see my Medium articles below)…very different from the AI you read about every day in the news. Built the world’s leading Enterprise AI data science & solutions team and capability, to create the models, workflows, and integrated solutions at the heart of Noodle’s ability to generate business value for its customers. Noodle was founded in early 2016, and are backed by TPG, Dell Technology Ventures, SMS Investments, Mitsubishi, Honeywell, and ServiceNow ($97M to date). LinkedIn named Noodle.ai the #4 Startup in the US for 2018, and the top AI and B2B startup.

Chief Data Science Officer of GE, and General Manager of the Data Science Center of Excellence, with a mission to develop and commercialize Data Science & Engineering that dramatically improve industrial systems & processes. By integrating the best of GE's engineering and operational knowledge with the latest data-driven technologies and techniques, built the world's foremost Industrial Data Science & Engineering development group and consulting organization to create, scale, and deploy advanced analytics solutions for GE's customers. Grew the organization from 5 to 160+ Data Scientists and Data Engineers, and worked with Software Engineering and UX organizations to provide ongoing, end-to-end customer solutions. Also developed and deployed practices and procedures for GE's business units to leverage the latest data-driven technologies in the management of their business operations.

Led teams of scientists, engineers, and consultants from Research and the Business Lines to develop and deploy models, analytics, & systems to improve the way the physical world works. Focus areas included mining, oil & gas, agriculture, renewable energy, and human health.Resulted in a platform, solution components, and service offerings to transform the way "big" physical infrastructure is managed. Leveraged the emerging "Industrial Internet." Developed prototype capability for capturing and monitoring physiological and behavioral information from people, employing data-driven modeling and analytics techniques to support systems for improving human health and well-being. ("Commercializing the Quantified Self")Led development of analytics-based system for optimizing financial performance of services-oriented deals, including win-rates, time-to-close, deal sizes, profit margins. Also led development of system for cross-selling and up-selling in deals involving services, software, and hardware.

Partner in IBM's VC group, focused on areas involving Smarter Planet (or Physical-meets-Digital) innovation. Includes related analytics, Big Data, Medium Data, etc. Domains include smarter infrastructure, industrial internet, quantified self, and natural resources. Also focused on Cleantech, Services Innovation, and Social CRM.

Led Global Strategy & Planning for a Division-wide effort to transform to "technology-based" or "asset-based" services models, which are less labor-based and have better productivity and differentiation. Resulted in substantial margin gains and bottom-line impact exceeding $1B. Led a global, Division-wide effort to define and execute an IP strategy for our Global Services businesses. Includes patent incentives & development, portfolio management, patent assertion, target ID. Included efforts to address practices of Non-Practicing Entities (AKA Patent Trolls).

Growth assignment on the staff responsible for conducting monthly technology strategy reviews with IBM's Chairman & CEO, and the Senior Leadership Executives in IBM. Also responsible for ensuring execution of key strategic decisions made.

Led emerging business development activities at IBM Research, including incubations, spin-outs, and IP licensing. Founded IBM's seminal WebFountain business, initially as a spin-out opportunity but converted to an internal incubation. WebFountain pioneered service-based systems for executing advanced web-scale analytics and modeling for variety of business and government verticals, including consumer products, media, and national security. Formed basis for most of IBM's subsequent innovation and SW/service offerings relating advanced text analytics, including IBM Watson and COBRA reputation and brand monitoring. Led IBM's global pursuit of new development foci and markets for nanotechnology. Pursued incubations in personal microfluidic diagnostic systems, multi-analyte sensor systems based on carbon nanotubes, multimedia search & navigation technology, and handheld mobile devices.

Co-founded international consumer products company, which specialized in products for children and for pets. Pioneered "virtual company" model, which focused owning critical intellectual property, and developing a low-cost global manufacturing network. Ultimately had manufacturing locations in China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. Our products obtained distribution in premier retailers such as Wal*Mart, Sam's Club, Albertson's, and Petsmart.

Founded company designed to develop and/or otherwise acquire critical intellectual property, and to monitize it. Also assisted client firms with product and IP development activities.

Research Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona. Served for many years as a consultant, assisting large and small businesses with product research and development efforts and with IP strategy and litigation. Led fundamental and applied research efforts relating to optical and electrical properties of nanostructured materials and devices, with a focus on electrochromic technology for energy-efficient "smart windows." Also led research efforts relating to interfacial properties of medical polymers and to wetting and fluid flow in microporous materials.