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• Generative AI technology and product R&D. Developing generative AI startups, including building proof of concept and prototype development, experimentation with models, toolkits, agent frameworks, etc.
• Spearhead ongoing startup ideation and technical vision, leveraging deep expertise in generative AI, product development, and customer validation to drive innovation across multiple venture-backed technology startup.
• Provide strategic leadership on multiple simultaneous projects as interim CTO during critical bootstrapping phase, guiding technical architecture, data and machine-learning application design, and founder recruitment.
• Co-develop groundbreaking ideas with technical co-founders, demonstrating keen understanding of emerging technologies and market opportunities, resulting in inception of transformative ventures.

Seattle, US

• A Madrona Venture Labs spinout company focused on business process measurement and employee productivity. Joined the company full-time mid-seed stage to help the company develop a viable technology solution.
• A spinoff from Madrona Labs, stepped into role of CEO as strategic leader and problem-solver during critical juncture, navigating formidable task of addressing significant technical hurdles.
• Strategically minimized negative outcomes, demonstrating resilience and adaptability in face of challenging circumstances while maintaining focus on innovation and product excellence.
• Returned to Madrona Labs with enriched experience and insights, ready to apply lessons learned and continue driving cutting-edge AI solutions as a seasoned tech executive.

• Oversaw all aspects of technology startup creation in Madrona Venture Group’s startup studio.
• Co-led Go Vertical in partnership with TIE Seattle., pioneering initiatives in technology entrepreneurship, facilitating 5 startup creation workshops and nurturing >150 participants to identify 50+ startup concepts.
• Frequently addressed and mentored University of Washington and Seattle startup communities on various technical-oriented topics.

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Post Vhoto acquisition, stitched together several disparate technology teams across geographic regions to create a cohesive data analytics team and move the company toward a data-driven mindset.
• Brought together and led several disparate data processing, management, analytics, and data science teams across geographic regions (Seattle, LA, and Bejing) to create a cohesive group (~70 total), driving toward.
• Quickly ramped up on the latest high-throughput data streaming processing technologies such as Apache Kafka and Spark along with other OLAP and Data Warehousing technologies.
• Used emotional intelligence to manage cultural and geographic divides between team and create collaborative, unified teams.

• Computer vision technology startup that identified and extracted salient frames from video and turned them into GIFs or still images.
• Co-founded and built company that used image processing and computer vision technology to automatically analyze and extract salient frames and "moments" from consumer mobile video.
• Raised $4.5M in venture capital.
• Recruited and built engineering team, including iOS and backend disciplines.
• Designed and built the image processing and computer vision analysis pipeline that ran locally on the device (iOS).
• Led product development, using growth hacking and systematic focus group methodologies to optimize product experience.

South Jordan, UT, US

• Post acquisition, led the Seattle and Salt Lake City engineering teams (20 engineers), optimizing efficiency and collaboration.
• Facilitated introduction of ML and NLP technologies to AHN platform and helped refactor significant technical debt.

US

• Medify was a venture-backed technology startup that used NLP, machine learning, and search technologies to bring in-depth medical information to consumers and professionals navigating complex and chronic illnesses.
• Raised venture capital and co-founded firm.
• Recruited and built team of technologists and ML engineers.
• Trained NLP models to classify and extract entities from medical text.
• Medify was sold to Alliance Health Networks in 2012

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led Bing Travel team of ~30 engineers after the acquisition of Farecast.
• Oversaw the transition of Farecast and underlying technologies to run on Microsoft internal cloud computing platforms.

• Online services startup that used data and ML to mine and forecast airline data and provide users with intelligent airfare predictions. First ML data play in consumer travel.
• Co-developed proof-of-concept prototype that led to Series A funding.
• Prototyped and validated data acquisition and prediction technology.
• Recruited and developed Production, Data Mining R&D, and Network/Ops technology groups.
• Partnered with the business to mold technology potential into viable consumer products.
• Participated in VC fundraising, raising nearly $20M in venture capital.

• Sightward took a powerful predictive analytics enterprise product and converted it to a lighter weight SaaS platform for direct marketers.
• Led the engineering team to design and develop a new, interactive, hosted-service predictive analytics application.
• Participated in sales/business development efforts and VC fundraising efforts.
• Developed interactive data-analysis components.

• Innovative technology that automated process of retrieving and delivering online advertising data to advertisers. First competitive analysis tool of its kind.
• Using specialized web crawling and digital ad classification technologies, AdRelevance provided media planners and sales professionals the ability to gauge the extent of competitors' online advertising campaigns.
• AdRelevance was sold to Media Metrix in 1999 and then to Nielson/NetRatings in 2002.

• University of Washington computer science technology-transfer and venture-backed technology startup.
• Netbot was acquired by Excite.com in October of 1997

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