Lead the Cohort Program and Build accelerators at C10 Labs. Role involves working with founders and their teams to mature early stage AI-First, applied AI ventures from conception to first investment, through a co-build process covering all aspects of venture development.

Lead a team of seasoned creators to conceive, design, develop, and deploy online learning experiences in tech diplomacy, in partnership with Krach Institute leadership and Purdue University faculty.

Teach IT courses focused on tech strategy and data analytics

Member of instructional team for AI Venture Studio (previously: Media Ventures)

Work directly with clients in technology, education, and publishing to develop product strategy and vision, provide technical direction and architecture, and conceive end-to-end solutions that meet business needs.

CTO of an NYSE-listed blank check company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. We intend to focus our search for target businesses in the education, training, and education technology (“edtech”) industries. We intend to build an industry-leading sustainable education platform with attractive returns on invested capital and robust free cash flow generation.

Transforming global workforces using AI, in partnership with leading organizations and universities. President/COO Oct 2019 - Sept 2022; CEO Sept 2022 - present

A revolution in collaborative learning online, powered by AI and in partnership with leading organizations and universities around the world. Join us in this extraordinary journey to advance your career and professional development.

Formed Riff Learning, now Riff Analytics (riffanalytics.ai) in order to create a social learning platform for people and companies. By combining decades of experience in learning technologies and team building, especially online, with expertise from MIT in human dynamics and collaboration models, Riff Learning aims to transform the culture of learning in the corporate setting to one that helps organizations support their employees during every phase of growth and change.

Lead technical design of the Texas OnCourse platform (www.texasoncourse.org) .

Lead the strategy, development, and implementation of edX’s product roadmap. Bring vision, passion, and leadership to the Open edX project and acted as its public face at conferences, events, and workshops. Provide stimulation, motivation, and structure for edX and Open edX community members to become involved in roadmap process. Build a team of product owners, user experience designers, documentation specialists, and accessibility experts to develop sensible, user-centric Web experiences. Work cross functionally in the organization to understand customer needs and organizational goals in order to deliver effective products.Open edX blog posts: https://open.edx.org/user/77/blog

Run Core Platforms software product management team and practice:* Elaborate strategy, develop business use cases, create workflows, and detail requirements from inception through execution for higher education products and services as standalone applications, reusable widgets, and APIs.* Collaborate in product development teams to develop commitments, groom and manage backlogs, assess and control risk, work to deadlines, and deliver software releases into production.* Design our catalogue of capabilities (APIs) and work across the organization to foster their production in an architecturally sound manner and with high utility to promote their reuse.* Support scale, quality and performance goals through product definition, establishing requirements that account for both functional and non-functional aspects of our solutions.Work in concert with peers across product management, engineering, content production, marketing, business development, customer experience, sales, support, and operations, to determine the success criteria for Pearson products:* Drive teams cross-functionally to build, deploy, and support high quality go-to-market products.* Support decision making by Pearson senior leadership through clear communication of progress, opportunities and challenges in getting products to market.* Socialize to raise awareness and educate to promote use of Core Platforms capabilities and services, by creating materials and conducting presentations and training sessions for product managers, engineering, Marketing, Support, Operations and Sales.

* Managed MyLab/Mastering New Design (MMND) program from inception to full product launch in June 2011, working with newly acquired eCollege platform teams to create white label LMS to power MyLabs self-service experience.* Collaborated with Engineering management and PMO to create multi-site, large-scale Agile product development process, delivering quarterly releases of elaborate software solution in support of MMND program.* Created multiple reusable software components that were leveraged in other product releases, such as MyLabsPlus, Learning Studio and OpenClass, to enable integrations with third party applications.Grew product management staff to keep pace with scope and depth of MMND product line, including developing new managers, recruiting and training technical BAs, and participating in Sri Lanka Ambassador and PLDP programs.

* Managed CourseCompass program, including product and project managers, architects, engineers, SQE, and vendors, and our relationship with Blackboard, the white label LMS provider for the system.* Designed the CourseCompass retirement project, a high-risk, multi-year technology transition exercise involving our highest revenue product line (MyMathLab), working with all Higher Education teams to execute the plan.* Collaboratively designed the MyLab/Mastering New Design program, the destination system for all MyLab and Mastering products. Ran customer feedback sessions, beta programs, and other outreach initiatives to cultivate acceptance of new product.

Managed team of engineers who write code for new, cutting-edge products and maintenance stream releases of Mathcad; involved:* Organizing engineers’ work, helping them translate requirements into development tasks, creating product specifications, leading and participating in design and architecture discussions, reviewing code, hiring new engineers, writing reviews and managing engineers’ growth and development.* Forging and refining new Agile process, which uses test-driven development (TDD), short-cycle iterations, continuous builds, and pair programming among other techniques and practices, as deemed effective.* Working with other teams and departments, managing cross-functional workflow and relationships.

Company produced software (Mathcad, Mathcad Application Server, Designate for Mathcad, various Extension Packs and E-books), Web-based resources, and training materials for engineering, mathematics and science calculation and documentation, serving both domestic and international commercial and academic customers, including scientists, engineers, and other technical professionals, as well as students, professors, and researchers.Software Development Manager, Sept 2004-April 2006Researched, designed and managed development of new feature enhancements for Mathsoft’s flagship product, Mathcad, and all related peripheral products; involved:* Coordinating translation of product requirements into technical and functional specifications for use by software engineers and QA.* Working with CTO, Product Management, Marketing and other contributors to review and validate project plan and specifications.* Working with software engineers, QA, and Documentation team to estimate effort and resources required for each aspect of the Mathcad project.* Leading project meetings, design reviews, bug triage proceedings, and other cross-functional gatherings by way of supervising the entire release process.* Guiding software development effort by meeting with engineers on a regular basis to ensure implementation is proceeding to spec with minimum risk according to schedule.* Creating and communicating development schedule and status to management, continually assessing and mitigating risks and identifying opportunities.* Working with technical and QA project leads to define project tools, methodology, and strategy for development.* Running 200+ member Beta Program with domestic and international participants running 4 language versions of the software (Sum 2004).Other positions:>> Technical Product Manager, Jan 2003-Sept 2004>> Education Project/Product Manager, Aug 2001-Sept 2004>> Math/Science Editor, Aug 1998-April 2002>> Technical Support Engineer, Aug 1997-Aug 1998

Worked in teaching positions at university, in public middle and high schools around Cornell (toward certification), and in private high schools (PA and MA), teaching mostly upper level math, especially Calculus, Discrete Math and Geometry, as well as supervising students and coaching various sports.