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Invited by founders to be the technology lead and strategic advisor for a startup that empowers women to exercise outdoors alone by providing alters through an AI vision based wearable. Conducts ongoing development reviews, code reviews, creation of good to market strategies, product requirements, formulated system architecture, establishing manufacturing. Launching at the Consumer Electronics Show 2024 see - https://www.sims.technology

New York, Us

Squire began as a startup floundering over the years attempting to produce a SaSS product for DoD but had failed to attract talent and traction in development. Initially established the roadmap and system architecture for a distributed application using Natural Language Processing, Secure Memory Safe Message Passing and Device Drivers that enabled Workflow Configuration, Speech to TXT Messaging, Remote and Voice Activated UAV/UAS Drone Control and report generation for law enforcement and special operations forces on secure priority offline networks. Coded in RUST, Android SDK, and HTML/Vue3, using VSC in addition to being the lead technical co-author of 5 winning DOD-SBIR II grants worth over $3.2M. Co-invented base technology for the 4 patent applications founding the company. Established career ladders, mentored team members, and provided Rust and JNI training.Planned, hired and founded the software team of 11 individual contributors. Generated SOPs, SecDevOPs plans, roadmaps, managed budgets, fusing the technology vision together to launch the first version of the SaSS product.

Envisioned a new means of gathering KPIs for the restaurant industry using IOT sensor networks to reduce wait times, improve employee morale, and increase profitability for restaurant owners leading to the founding of a bootstrapped startup BeeTimer Inc.Built core technical elements for the usage model and initial proof points, leading to a first customer signed PaSS deal for a chain of fast casual dinning stores. As founder wrote 3 patents designed schematics and board designs, managed suppliers and manufacturers, and developed in C++, Python, JS, HTML, and PostSQL.Produced a wholistic plan business plan with technology project planning and roadmap, hiring budget, go to market plans, and deployment strategies to meet our target. The effort led to production of system architecture, hardware schematics, firmware, middleware, server systems for the first installations.Formed a team of 8 software developers in Europe, and 3 full-time employees in San Diego to drive the development and deployment of the system in less than four months. Company was acquired by a point of sale vendor.

Kirkland, Washington, Us

Hired as Contract CTO to lead a team of 320 FTEs with a $65M budget to improve development processes and establish unique IP that would increase the valuation for acquisition. Nytec Inc, specialized in turning innovative ideas into consumer electronics and IoT-based products for Fortune 100 companies but lacked unique assets to increase it’s multiplier.After a short period of observation worked with existing staff to improve morale through open communication, process improvements, establishing a formalized SOP and agile process, employee mentorship chains, and career development plans. Cycle times from bid to development decreased by 15%.Drove the creation of two new product lines. The first was an artificial intelligent facial recognition system for Carnival Cruise Lines coupled with a wearable device for access and guest payment resulting in a 10x revenue increase and 40% margin increase for the customer. Additionally these efforts were recognized in the industry receiving two Red Dot Awards and the Gold IoT Innovator Award for Best Commercial & Industrial Hardware Design. The second product was RF spectrum recon system for T-Mobile which brought a 200% margin into Nytec. These efforts in part led to Nytec being sold to Accenture.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Sought out for employment by Safariland LLC leader in law enforcement gear to ramp their recently acquired body camera business to go from fifth to first in the market place while leading and mentoring technical contributors throughout their portfolio of brands. Conceived and prototyped the first commercial smart holster product and other duty gear which automatically managed the body camera for law enforcement and first responders. Working with the multidisciplinary team created the product design and manufacturer units in record time. Managed the certification through FCC and CE leading to the deployment in police departments in major markets. By delighting our customers our market share went from #5 to #2 in only 4 months post product launch.Consulted on various wearable brands within the Safariland Group, including Mustang Survival, MEDENG, and Tactical Communications Industries.Due to the success of the smart holster the technology and body camera business was sold to Axon Inc.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Chartered by HP Inc to found a wearables and IOT business division. With a scant budget and an eight month window to create a revenue generating business designed, developed and deployed an original smart watch with an award winning designer Michael Bastian. Blazing the industry timeline drove the team of two to product sales in seven months. The entire years worth of inventory was sold out within 3 hours online with no marketing or advertising. Success led to the establishment of two teams of 65 FTEs and $10M budget ramped within four months time. Wearables group ended up creating 40 different smart watch designs, from 12 different fashion brands and 2 industrial wearables products. The smart watch designs included custom hardware, mobile application in iOS and AndroidOS, as well as AWS deployments.Conducted research and prototyping leading to products in smart shoes, smart luggage and baggage and smart jewelry products all branded with “Engineered by HP”. Managed and mentored the technical team, creating value through creation of IP and IP management with generational process improvements cutting design and development time by 75% for all types of smart watches.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Led teams of 75 staff, including Engineering, Sales Marketing, and Manufacturing, with budgets ranging from $6M-$10M/year. Created 5 businesses in IoT/Wearables with a combined valuation of $2.2B Authored iNEMI Roadmaps as Chair of PC and Medical Devices, PCB and Silicon Design/Manufacturing Pathfinding on 40+ products. Created demos for CES, White House, US Congress, AARP, and various Tier 1 Customers.

Certificate - Executive Management, Business - Management - Startups

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Engineering Mechanics

Master'S Of Science, Engineering Mechanics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering Mechanics