Quantum photonics for cybersecurity.

The QED-C was created by Congress by the 2018 National Quantum Initiative Act. It includes representatives from industry, academia and government to advance quantum technologies in the US. Committee Chairman during the QED-C's first two years.

Served as an individual investor and senior advisor with a focus on Internet related businesses. Consultant to Artificial Solutions, a European technology company offering a leading platform for computer generated conversations whether by phone, chat or webpages. Artificial Solutions is especially well known for its enterprise scale, reliability and experience.Advised the CEO at Hillcrest Labs, a company offering a breakthrough in-air pointer remote for widescreen TVs, such as the LG smart TVs. Areas of focus include business development, product development and working with Fortune 500 companies.Assisted the Amazon product team that built the new Amazon Kindle electronic book with new product research for their digital distribution strategy. Other clients include Trend Micro Inc. and BAM Labs.(Guillermin & Gable was formerly known as The Brand Group)

Led Product Management for the Compass group that provides the data and discovery services for the Xfinity X1 platform and other Comcast products. The X1 Platform is the leading next generation TV system, now in millions of homes.Compass is the home of the images, descriptions, tags and entitlements that are served up, in an instant, billions of times a day. Compass provides the search and menus systems that are core to the Xfinity TV experience. Compass also researches and delivers innovative technologies like the X1 voice control, user personalization, and automatic DVR features like football game highlights.Focused on constantly improving systems in market, using Agile methodology combined with long-term architecture design, and working with operations to deploy software across multiple data centers for continuous availability. We created an effective sub-culture for Compass within the larger organization while building strong ties to our internal client teams.Beyond the group management, I focused on several specific areas such as bringing web content into X1, personalization, A/B testing, and new DVR and VOD features like automatically extending sports recordings. Worked closely with the research team on machine learning and deep learning systems as applied to Comcast issues.

Hillcrest Labs is the leading global supplier of software and hardware for sensor-enabled products. Their Freespace technology is a leading motion sensing system that powers a variety of products including several major TV products including the LG Electronics line of smart TVs.

Joined the consumer products division of 3Com after the company acquired Kerbango, rounding out the 3Com’s Internet consumer product portfolio. Served as acting VP of marketing for larger Residential Connectivity Group, covering cable, DSL and other products.Instrumental in company’s acquisition of Kerbango.

Founded this VC backed Internet radio start-up with two partners.Built the world’s first standalone Internet radio, a Linux based diskless device that worked more like a traditional AM/FM radio while tuning to 1,000s of stations around the world. We believe it was the first implementation of Linux for a consumer device without a hard drive. The product won Best of Show at the 2001 Consumer Electronics Show and appeared in many newspapers and magazines including USA Today, Newsweek and Rolling Stone. Created a deep and detailed website of worldwide Internet radio sources for web users worldwide. Developed the Kerbango Tuning Service for finding and rating Internet radio feeds which was adopted by Apple’s iTunes program. Raised 2 rounds of funding, growing to over 30 employees engaged in hardware, software and web development. The company was acquired by 3Com Corporation for $80M.

Vice President, Software Product Marketing (1996-1998):Managed the product managers responsible for: Mac OS 8, which sold 1.2M units in its first month making it at the time the highest selling US software product; Rhapsody, Apple’s high end operating system based on technology from NeXT Software; QuickTime, Apple’s multimedia standard; AppleShare, the network server software and all other Apple software products excluding Newton. Responsible for an operating budget of $8 million and a group of 45 product managers, business planners and researchers.Director, Mac OS Licensing (1994-1996): Served as Apple's primary business contact for Motorola and IBM in licensing negotiations. Assisted in delivering the Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) specifications. Helped deliver the initial Mac OS license to Power Computing. Product Manager (1986-1994):Power Macintosh: Lead product manager for initial PowerPC products from Apple—the first personal computers to incorporate RISC technology in high volume. First year sales exceeded 1 million units. Managed industry and customer expectations for over two years from the original signing of the PowerPC agreement between Apple, IBM and Motorola. Worked with engineering to set initial product feature set and deliver final systems. Major contributor on pricing, forecasting and other decisions. TrueType: Product manager for Apple’s TrueType font technology. Successfully negotiated a license with Microsoft Corporation to incorporate TrueType into the Windows. TrueType became an open industry standard and dramatically lowered the price of digital typography. LaserWriter II: One of two product managers for Apple’s second generation laser printers. Championed internally the LaserWriter II NT which became the largest selling model.Named “Demo God” on two occasions at the technology industry DEMO Conference.

Served as a researcher and member of consulting team for projects including market research for major industrial manufacturers and financial analysis for clients.