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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Responsible all Federal Government contracting efforts within the company.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Co-founded Malama Haloa ‘O Utah to promote healthy living and dietary practices within the Utah based Hawaiian community

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Pioneered Perfect Search’s foray into the Healthcare vertical by championing the creation of the company’s flagship medical analytics product. Work included producing the product’s business plan and marketing strategy, finding and recruiting a development team, building a robust sales pipeline, and successfully negotiating sales contracts. • Leveraged successful OEM contracts and relationships to unite development and sales efforts resulting in a unified company vision and focus• Developed the business plan and marketing strategy for the Perfect Search Healthcare product line• Recruited the IMAT product development team in and out of country• Developed a sales pipeline that delivered 4 key deals within a year of product launch• Successfully negotiated sales contracts with top tier health care systems nationwide representing approximately 20M unique patients across the US, 150 Hospitals, and 2,100 Clinics and secondary care centers• Drove over $2.5M in sales during the 18 months following the product’s release

Greater Salt Lake City Area

- Business development- Facilitating key strategic partnerships- Product and corporate development strategy for the Healthcare verticalPerfect Search is a unique indexing and search technology that allows us to connect to data at least 10 times faster, be more comprehensive in terms of the content we search, and operate on 80% less hardware.In the Healthcare space, we have partnered a best of breed NLP technology to develop a tool that facilitates the mining of complex unstructured clinical notes data.The tool that we've created, enables our research physicians, hospital administrators, and clinicians to easily create and run ad hoc queries against millions of complex medical records and get results back in under a second. This is a dramatic improvement over the process today, which is to run specialized queries through the IT department, and get results back in hours, if not days.We not only put critical data in the hands of those who need it, exponentially faster than anyone else on the market, but with 75% of organizations taking "green" solutions into consideration as they look at making IT purchases, our ability to run on 80% less hardware, also makes us the most economical. We're faster, more accurate, and have a much smaller "footprint" than any other like solution on the market.

Orem, Ut

Responsible for taking a core software technology, and identifying a specific market vertical to pursue sales in. Developed sales pipeline. Negotiated OEM sales with strategic partners in the Healthcare space.• Developed OEM sales in the healthcare market• Successfully negotiated OEM relationships with 5 key strategic partners in the Healthcare space including Nuance Communications, the 2nd largest clinical documentation company in the world.• Identified and negotiated partner relationships with technology partners to augment and improve the overall software offering.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

The Many Islands Foundation seeks to provide avenues and opportunities for those in the local Polynesian community to express themselves, through music, art, and business. Founded in August of 2009, by Kimo Watanabe, Reed Hew-Len, and Jake Kongaika, Many Island events quickly drew in crowds from all over the Salt Lake Valley, and from cities as far away as Provo in the South and Logan to the North. Attendees and participants enjoy the opportunity to experience culture, art, and music and an uplifting and positive environment. At Many Islands, the belief is that art is powerful, but that good art is revolutionary, and it's this good art that we seek to perpetuate and pursue.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Actively perpetuating the art of Hawaiian slack key guitar in the Intermountain West.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Responsible for developing relationships with major credit card issuers and associations. Managed relationships with strategic partners throughout the United States. Led work to develop internal and external reporting and analytical tools. • Worked with internal implementation teams, issuing banks, credit card associations, and clients to develop and produce prepaid card programs. • Worked with clients in the field to implement the physical roll out of their prepaid care programs.• Original member of the Galileo Foundation Steering committee. • Coordinated service work locally, nationally, and internationally (As a member of the steering committee).

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