The Seventh Sense Sense is a power tool for strategic sales. We capture interaction information between you and your customers and colleagues and use it to build predictive profiles. The system then uses those profiles to improve your interactions by delivering messages at the optimal time and integrating with the other tools in your workflow including Dialers, CRM and Marketing Automation. Try it out using Gmail, Office365 or Exchange at http://theseventhsense.comI'm responsible for the technology and product. We've built a variety of data connectors using REST, SOAP, binary and text, a streaming data pipeline using Akka with Kinesis or Kafka, a event storage system using S3 and DynamoDB, a profile computation engine using Scala and Breeze, search using Elasticsearch, administrative API's using Play and PostgresSQL and tied them all together with a Javascript web frontend. The platform leverages AWS heavily, but can be deployed on-premise with a few compromises if needed.

Founded in 2015, Synaptiq is a full-scale AI services consultancy. Our growing team of 25 professionals has backgrounds in management consulting, AI research and application, and product development and management. These seasoned experts partner directly with each client to identify and deliver unique and impactful AI services and solutions to real world problems AI services solve best. With over 50 clients in over 20 sectors worldwide to date, we are poised to lead the AI-revolution well into the future.

Technology and security leadership for SAAS healthcare decision support company. Designed and built an engaging platform based on a services-oriented architecture of Python REST API's consumed by JavaScript single-page applications. Combined cutting edge semantic web, data science, and visualization tools to create an interactive and engaging online decision support system. Implemented an ISO 27k information security management system, successfully managing risk and meeting vendor risk assessment critera for a number of the worlds top brands.

Founded and continue to work with this small web production, programming and hosting company as necessary. Developed and maintained web and email hosting infrastructure using Redhat Linux, Apache, postfix, dovecot, qmail and courier-imap. Provide architectural and coding support to many dynamic web sites using Python, Perl, PHP, Adobe Flash/Flex, Javascript, JSON, JQuery and other tools.

Primary strategic, day-to-day, technical management interface between Product Management and Engineering – helping drive the technology and feature roadmap of the product. Oversee strategic relationships for technology vendors and the product-hosting environment.

Manage systems engineering and operations infrastructure for nationalgeographic.com and other associate National Geographic web properties.

Tech lead for Python / Django application development resulting in the 2010 launch of the redesigned nationalgeographic.com and associated web properties. Responsible for implementing core software engineering process and systems engineering allowing for repeatable deployments and high-traffic availability and scalability.

I built a variety of terrain models using aerial photography and survey data and assisted with developing digital data capture techniques using digital photography and in-field collection systems.

Directed software development program for flagship Interlink Circulation software, maintaining balance between new features, regulatory environment changes, and product stability.• Responsible for feature additions including caching and performance tuning and maintenance of USPS CASS and DSF service back-end system using Firebird SQL, Perl, Python and SWIG.• Responsible for client software development using Delphi, Visual C++, C#, Firebird, Python, win32 API and GDI including modifications to the Firebird embedded database engine and integration between the win32 Delphi application and Python.• Responsible for managing virtualized infrastructure using VMWare, Xen, CentOS, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office Communications Server, Bugzilla, MySQL, Firebird and an assortment of other open source packages.• Responsible for network administration and security including Cisco IOS routers with CBAC firewalls and packet filter screens, Checkpoint UTM security appliances and Linux IPTables host firewalls.• Deployed and integrated customized NetSuite web application functionality using JavaScript and a C# .NET interface between Firebird and the NetSuite SuiteLink SOAP API.• Evaluated performance ramifications of virtualization on batch processing system handling over 5 million records per day. Benchmarked NetApp NFS and iSCSI disks, local SCSI and IDE disks, a variety of RAID levels, and several virtualization engines including VMWare ESXi, XEN, OpenSolaris Zones using ZFS and VMWare Server on CentOS• Implemented revision controlled documentation system and process using DocBook XML. These tools allowed over 500 pages of documentation to be created by multiple parties without losing any data to corrupt word processor documents or conflicting edits.• Implemented an agile / SCRUM style development and release cycle. Allowed for quick, consistent product iterations and improved reactivity to customer needs and regulatory changes.

Responsible for system and network administration while contributing as a member and eventually leader of the software development team. • Developed and maintained in-house CRM system using Python, YUI, Mod_python, PSP, Spyce, Apache, Firebird, kinterbasdb, REST, XML and XSLT on Linux. Integrated this application with a custom GUI frontend using Delphi and the external facing client website using PHP.• Created win32 GUI development support tools using Python, WxWindows and XML to solve various problems such as conversion automation, form design, installer validity checking, and test automation.• Developed extranet applications using PHP, exposing client services and records to customers over the Internet and integrating with the Perl/Python backend processing system and CRM database.• Created Perl and Python on Linux USPS CASS processing system, interfacing with clients through the web and wrapping various system libraries. Responsible for ongoing certification and maintenance.• Contributed to software development as part of the team tasked with planning for a windows replacement for an aging DOS project. Directly responsible for several modules including installation, printing using GDI, PDF and PostScript, configuration using windows registry and XML, user interface design using Delphi and C++, and Linux-based server-side support systems.• Implemented virtualized web deployment container using Linux vservers, allowing for separation of concerns between the system and application environments. • Implemented software industry best practices including revision control, defect tracking, continuous integration and deployment automation. Improved developer communication, productivity and accountability resulted in improved product quality and defect resolution time.

Software engineering intern, working as a part of the CUBS project team using Java, and Oracle on Solaris. • Implemented the Java Preferences API, including feedback incorporated into following revisions. • Created a JavaScript support library simplifying DHTML manipulation of HTML forms and persisting them. Back then XMLHTTPRequest was not an option, so we used what we had at our disposal. Nowadays, this would be a pretty simple JQuery plugin.• Implemented a series of Java routines to extract data from the Oracle database and present it to Java Servlets for easy manipulation prior to display to the user.• Created test cases of Session and Entity beans using the early EJB 1.0 specification on WebLogic. This research provided to us conclusively that EJB was not yet a technology fit for consumption.