Machine intelligence creates smarter programs. Team Intelligence creates smarter organizations.Team Machine is a Team Intelligence platform that captures and measures a team’s performance effectiveness automatically and provides real-time, actionable insights for improving performance and impacting the company’s bottom line. Team Machine structures the behavioral data in an organization and uses proprietary AI algorithms to predict the optimal action plan for a team. Combined with data connectors and delightful UX for the entire team, our platform enables a real-time, data-driven change management system maximizing a team’s potential while minimizing turnover.

Handle is a productivity application for busy knowledge workers.From July '11 worked to build early prototype and hire/manage our engineering team as director of engineering. Helped company to raise funds towards our first $4M of funding.Jan '12 worked in VP of Product role and put improvement processes in place around the product and engineering teams. We launched at TC Disrupt '13 in NYC to win 2nd place and subsequently raise our first round of angel funding.May '13 began building our UX design team for the mobile version of Handle. Worked closely with the team for conceptual ideation, high-fidelity prototyping, and ongoing research activities as we worked to bring the product to market. Provided base feature set and roadmap for launch product.August '14 managed new feature discovery with the goal of increasing post-launch growth. Rapid prototyping combined with qualitative user research methods provide the team with growth feature options following Jan '15 mobile product launch.

Worked as part-time team member to help evolve product from a forms-centric UX to task / project oriented UX for retail teams.Provided full-stack engineering services, feature inputs, and design mockups on both mobile and web products.Stack: Python/Django, JS/Backbone/Marionette, CSS/HTML, Moqups, Trigger.io

Built CI server and initial suite of regression tests for engineering team. Updated app store search test harness for competitive analysis.Stack: PHP, phpUnit, Jenkins

Built product features for multiple product experiments and deployed event tracking funnels, a/b tests, and a qualitative analytics framework to measure success criteria towards product goals.Stack: Python, Django, JS, jQuery, CSS/HTML

Co-architected and engineered a real-time mobile dispatching and order-taking system for real-time, local, 'pooled' delivery networks• Built order-taking and mobile interfaces using RoR, JS/jQuery• Processed over 100k real-time deliveries in first 9 months• Integrated to consumer-facing order taking interface, asterisk based VoIP system, and mobile driver interfaces.

Blend of research, product development and consulting work with the goal of commercializing predictive technologies.Sample of prototypes created:• Multi-variate testing tool for UX flows in a web experience• Simulated logic circuits• Domain-specific search in Computer Forensics Investigation• Intelligent recruitment marketplace proof of concept• Search tool + UX for consumer food ordering

Purchased and built several small businesses. Learned the joy of delivery / logistics unit costs; purchasing/selling companies; managing cashflow; managing employees and promoting business services.• Green Light Delivery, professional courier, purchased 9/2002, sold 10/2007• Greenling Organics, founded in my garage in May, 2005, Greenling's mission is to bring local, organic goods from farm to the home.• Longhorn Delivery, purchased as partnership in 7/2005 to offer on-demand restaurant delivery in central Austin. Sold to Mr Delivery in May, 2008.

Managed a line of high-precision A/D converters with applications in weigh scales, temperature measurement, and various industrial applications. Primary responsibility was to drive customer development and new products by engaging world-wide customer base, sales distribution channel and engineering team.

Responsible for Voice over Broadband product line of CODEC and Subscriber Line Interface chips.

SWI Solutions was founded to provide wireless internet access to multi-tenant units. In the early days of 802.11 technology, the company offered cost-effective wireless internet deployment solutions using commercially available radio receivers, custom antennas, and linux-based technology network management.

Worked as a product engineer on a variety of projects including testing, validation, and verification of voice CODEC telecommunication chips.