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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Qualytics delivers a novel platform for detecting data quality concerns by continually observing and adjusting to the actual values and normal shape of your data & thereby supporting data quality monitoring and corrective action at scale.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Helped the engineering and data science teams of this Kleiner Perkins backed unicorn construct the preeminent graph of business relationships and supply chains. Interos applies machine learning at scale to uncover risk by discovering unknown relationships for the public & private sector customers of their SaaS platform.• Served as Executive Officer for the team through growth and fundraising efforts that culminated in a successful $100M Series C round with a post-money valuation exceeding $1B • Lead strategy and execution of scaling and direct reporting for the architecture, engineering, project management and data science teams while rapidly growing group from 14 to over 160 amazing full time employees• Delivered kubernetes-native event-driven data intensive platform on AWS standard and GovCloud • Responsible for developing and operating internal and customer-facing SPAs using front end frameworks including Javascript/Typescript/React for various database systems Postgres, Snowflake, Neptune leveraging Next.js/Node.js/Lambda/GraphQL• Developed data pipelines for massive ETL architectures to support timely extraction, ingestion, routing, and ML model processing of both structured and unstructured data utilizing technologies such as Kafka, Prefect, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, Postgres, Neptune, SageMaker• Integrated of Amazon Web Services infrastructure and automation of CI/CD pipelines using technologies: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Gitlab• Delivered robust systems with real time monitoring, alerting, and logging to reduce operational overhead using Datadog, Splunk, Kibana, PagerDuty• Oversaw development and operations for novel advances in entity extraction, entity linking, article classification, sentiment analysis, and predictive models that generated customer value via Python and various machine learning algorithms and techniques• Provided strategic, operational, and technical support for post acquisition assimilation & refactoring of M&A assets

As CTO at HealthPrize, I was responsible for the delivery & operation of innovative technical solutions that dramatically improved medication adherence, patient engagement and brand loyalty for the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies and their life science agencies.• Recruited the company’s first internal software development teams & restructured outsourced relationships to bring technology innovation capability in-house for tighter goal alignment while growing our team in India to focus on operations - with positive impact on company valuation• Served as a principal negotiator for the company’s largest deal to date, a six-year commitment to launch on our B2B2C platform in over forty countries by a leading international pharmaceutical company • Rebuilt a legacy platform to deliver a cloud-native multi-tenant Java/Kotlin Spring-boot based architecture deployed through Docker containers with Amazon ECS in a HIPAA / PCI / SOC / ISO compliant environment & coupled with React front-ends - cutting development & deployment baselines in half• Delivered product-centric and design led technical solutions from inception to fast prototyping to production release, with a focus on operational excellence including SLAs and strict quality measures• Oversaw the development of predictive machine learning models for patient churn in our medication adherence programs - driving increased retention, profits and patient outcomes

Washington, Dc, Us

Served as the executive responsible for all software development & operations for this Bessemer Venture Partners backed event optimization company delivering SaaS solutions to over 4,000 businesses worldwide:• Restructured, recruited, and reinvigorated a foundering Engineering group through focus on continuous improvement while doubling team to 55 local and off-shore contributors• Oversaw the cultural & technological transition to a microservices architecture for a React / WebGL / Node.js B2B SaaS platform deployed through Docker containers with Amazon ECS and a React / WebGL front-end - enabling a strategic shift to upmarket customers as we doubled annual recurring revenue• Led the development of an enterprise-ready service that leverages machine learning for calculating the optimal use of the world’s largest event spaces through spatial analysis of blueprints and reinforcement learning techniques

Washington, Dc, Us

Drove the design, implementation and operational management of the first multi-tenant SaaS platform to use realtime complex event processing (CEP) to analyze streams (over 478 Million clinical events annually) of highly-sensitive clinical event data from US hospitals with a proprietary model using 100+ measurements for identifying & predicting patient harm• Guided corporate & technical strategy through the development & delivery of a mission-critical cloud-based B2B platform deployed at over 1,000 inpatient acute care centers worldwide• Successfully navigated security & compliance audits and due diligence reviews with both public (AHRQ) and private (Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health, Adventist Health System) sector institutions• Envisioned & Launched a Microsoft BizSpark & Startup Chile backed effort (FolderGrid) as a fully independent spin-out servicing clients including Mayo Clinic, Partners HealthCare Systems, and Johns Hopkins• Delivered innovative web services atop big data tooling (Esper, MongoDB, Kafka, Java, Scala, Kotlin) and cloud-based architecture to reduce annualized patient harm by over 44% at a major US healthcare provider• Directed all aspects of the design, development and delivery of a highly-secured Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform that leverages Amazon Web Services & Windows Azure to provide HIPAA & PCI compliance-focused file storage in the cloud• Personally implemented a wide-range of customer facing interfaces via a common RESTful API including a native virtual drive for Microsoft Windows, a single-page application (SPA) and a cross-platform desktop application in Java, C#, and Objective-C

Mclean, Va, Us

Successfully catapulted this MVNO from a greenfield to beta launch of a nationwide mobile phone service in six months; exceeding all technical goals and securing the second tranche of a 27 million dollar Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners

Provided custom contracted technical services to varied enterprises through my own consulting firm

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Held diverse roles within this technical services consulting firm while delivering on contracts in the United States, Canada, & Europe including a stint as lead integrator of enterprise search for Altavista in London, U.K.