• Technical advisor to CEO and board• Involved in company formation, executive hiring, developing business strategy, and establishing engineering operations

Own the product strategy and roadmap for Natural Language Processing(NLP) and Machine Learning(ML) based B2B SaaS healthcare product• Scaled a 4-member data science team to a 15-member multidisciplinary group of data scientists, designers, engineers, QA and product analysts• Increased productivity of data science team by 300% by introducing agile processes for data management, model development and release hardening • Mentored and coached product and engineering team to ensure their professional development • Hands-on experience in marketing strategy, building vendor partnerships, customer engagement and onboarding

• Led a 4-member data science team which delivered NLP prototypes that resulted in a follow on investment.

Responsible for planning, design and marketing of several large software research grants with total operating budget exceeding $4million.Managed medium-sized development teams across three different institutions.> Managed budgets, resourcing conflicts and technical risks.> Increased team productivity by 400% using new project management tools and techniques.> Provided user interface design and system architecture expertise to other teams.> Led product demos and presentations to researchers and program managers to effectively communicate merits of the products.> Mentored and supervised junior programmers in the team.

Responsible for leading design and development for ODIE.> Lead design and development for ODIE ‐ a software toolkit with NLP algorithms for ontology enrichment and information extraction from free text medical documents. Team size: 6, Budget:$2million> Set up an active user community support infrastructure that supports 100+ users with tools like forums, trackers, mailing lists and websites. Marketing strategy along with community support increased user base from two institutions to over 10 institutions in a year. Increased downloads by 1000% in two years.> Introduced code management practices including commit policies and coding standards.

Responsible for designing, prototyping, evaluating and implementing user experiences for in-house software products.> Designed technical architecture and user experience for caTIES – CAncer Text Information Extraction System that supports concept searching, collaborative case set building, ordering tissue and multi-node architecture to support searching across multiple institution data sets. Team size: 4, Budget:$2million> Developed and successfully executed deployment plans for external adopter sites.> Developed product branding and marketing strategy for open source software.> Provided senior level user interface design and usability expertise.

Responsible for UI design and development of web applications> Developed VirtualSlide – a web application for annotating and presenting diagnostic quality microscopic slide images in a virtual microscope as course work for medical students.> Developed ProtocolQuery – a web application for querying UI interaction logs for detecting usability problems.

Responsible for all aspects of product development, including project management, software development and releases.

Designing and developing mobile applications for the Apple iOS platform• Developed the ‘What’s My Size?’ iPhone app which calculates your clothing size in over 500 brands based on body measurements.• 'What’s My Size?’ generated 35,000 downloads in two weeks and was in the Top 15 Utility apps list for the iPhone.• Was selected by Apple for the “New and Noteworthy” section of the App Store.• Designed and developed the ‘eMoBo’ iPhone app. ‘eMoBo’ allows users to create and read thousands of short stories.

Responsible for brand development of Net-IP Pittsburgh, marketing strategy for chapter activities and increasing membership through innovative incentive programs.