Erick H. Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

United States

Helping ex-FAANG and new founders build their startups following the Golden RulePitch DecksRecently helped raise a $10MM Series A with a startup founder in the health & wellness industry by creating their pitch deck and presentation.Product & MarketHelping startup founders build products in the categories of Metaverses, NFTs, Browser Extensions, HRMS/ATS systems, Circular Economy Services, Health & Wellness, and Analytics products.

California, United States

Started in 2016, formerly a research project named Intent & Monetization A.I. Continued to persist into the conversational artificial intelligence category after seeing Microsoft's acquisition of Semantic Machines, and being motivated on how the problem of user-based classification has not been solved yet. Clarification FrameworkDesigned a conversational framework where clarification between an end-user and a voice assistant occurs, weights in a network can be properly re-adjusted as classification takes on its own form of supervised learning: through relationships outside of its own dataset, in this case another person.Auto-Attributed SSML Fixed an inefficiency in the text-to-speech arena where expressions had to be manually input by speech-synthesis markup language (SSML), and created a framework where detected expressions are automatically attributed via SSML tags to give voice assistants a more natural and relatable response.Research-In-ProgressContinuing to research this topic (since 2016) on conversational issues in voice assistants.

Irvine, Ca

Raised seed & Series A funding to build a SaaS social media analytics platform that improved niche content, copywriting, traffic increases, opt-in conversions, and search relevancy for social traffic and leads. Technologies included machine learning, general sentiment analysis, Amazon Web Services (for scalable architecture such as EC2, S3, etc..), location data, and much more leveraged from historical API services. Product DiscoveryResearched and surveyed the social media marketing audience their frustrations with the industry and discovered their biggest needs and desired outcomes for the marketing ecosystem. Took email lists of interested marketers from both the enterprise and smb side and constantly maintained relationships and gave out surveys to have a strong sense of what was needed in the social media marketing space. Recorded all feedback as user stories or as epics for longer features. Product FocusedCoordinated teams to develop a CRM big data dashboard that was focused for enterprise level customers. Served as a SaaS platform. Teams were coordinated locally and virtually. Used scrum as a framework and the agile methodology to complete user stories, epics and initiatives in the backlogs. Stand-ups were part of the routine each morning for our sprints.Software ArchitectResearched AWS and big data compatible architecture for developing a SaaS architecture to scale and sustain users.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Software development startup focused on building Wordpress, enterprise applications, analytics apps, mobile applications (Android & iOS), and more. Program ManagementManaged and oversaw products that involved technologies that were managed on AWS & Rackspace, also common hosting providers like Bluehost VPS, Hostgator VPS, and shared hosting.Demand GenerationCreated sales pages and ranked them with SEO white hat methods by creating niche focused content and targeted traffic to gain steady sales and leads. Offered clients advertising and user acquisition strategies for their own products and companies. Managing Virtual TeamsCoordinated both virtual and onsite teams to execute software on the mobile and desktop end. Used products such as Github, Skype, Slack, and Trello to coordinate teams from different timezones all remotely.

Greater Los Angeles Area

An online e-commerce apparel company that focused on online memes. Went viral within months of launch and developed a great amount of sales thanks to viral traffic from MSNBC, Huffington Post, The Smoking Gun, NBC and many more. Great experience with wholesale vendors, clothing trade shows, and other apparel retail stores. Entrepreneurial Started as a high school project with a friend, we were motivated to create something new in the apparel industry that had a millennial vibe to it for our audience. E-Commerce & Demand Generation (SEO/SEM)Researched and built an e-commerce store and system to generate leads, sales, and grow an email list. Created blogs to generate more organic traffic and leveraged email lists with automated email campaign platforms such as MailChimp. Factory & Tradeshow ExperienceWent to apparel factories around Fashion District and understood how the whole process works when creating apparel. Took responsibility for understanding how to choose the right fabrics, cutting, creating markers (clothing pattern), and sending materials to mass production in factories. Afterwards went to trade shows to display our products for wholesale distribution.