David Furst Email & Phone Number

I am an accomplished Executive with proven experience in building and managing high-performance teams, profitable products and scalable environments. Proven track record in developing revenue generating new products, cost optimization and building web scale systems. Hand-on expertise in Natural Understanding, Large Language Models (LLM), Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Autonomous Mobility. Featured in Canadian CIO Magazine https://bit.ly/2KNb9mpACCOMPLISHMENTS• Deployed a social distancing program utilizing Augmented Reality, computer vision and AI to increase employees’ safety within Amazon building globally. Led the design, procurement, development and deployment of thousand of systems across hundreds of facilities world-wide. • Lead the launch of a new AWS service (Amazon Lex) utilizing the Alexa Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding services.• Owned the E2E roadmap for one of the Amazon Alexa engineering teams. Released hundreds of new features and capabilities including supporting new device launches and reginal expansions. • Deployed strategies, processes, people and infrastructure to enable the growth and futureproof one of the largest Virtual Worlds to date – Webkinz (with millions of registered users and hundred of thousands of concurrent users).• Designed and deployed systems and process to support one of North America’s leading News organizations post multiple acquisitions, resulting in significantly higher availability (99.99%) and lower OpEx (30% reduction) by consolidated systems, unifying processes and migrating to a Hybrid Cloud.• Helped acquire and integrate a world leading social and traditional media monitoring SaaS offering and revolutionized both Development and Infrastructure to reduce costs by 50% and enable significant revenue growth (10x).

Listed skills include Social Media, Cloud Computing, E Commerce, Product Development, and 14 others.