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Toronto, Ontario, CA

Member of the Board of Directors as well as a member of the technical staff of VoxTonePro, an AI audio advertising startup. Advise on intellectual property, technical research, and systems architecture.

Advisor offering mentorship to Headstart, an app focused on health and wellbeing. Responsibilities include investigating new product offerings, advising on the latest medical research, and finding partnership opportunities.

Advisor offering mentorship to Next Play, a digital and physical card game startup. Responsibilities include improving technology maturity and raising VC funding.

Berlin, DE

• Developed the long-term roadmap, technical strategy and €40m budget of the engineering organization to create Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions that would perform predictive maintenance using Internet of Things.
• Drove growth, execution and innovation for the 3 core products that used Artificial Intelligence (AI) for predictive maintenance with Internet of Things (IoT) sensors on manufacturing machinery to generate an annual.
• Led the international engineering organization of 150+ engineers and data scientists across 25 teams in Europe and the US. Improved the execution of the management organization by 25% comprised to deliver the next.

Vilnius, Vilniaus, LT

• For the 40m+ customers, developed the technical strategy for reducing carbon emissions for delivery by over 50%
• Started a new engineering hub in Berlin while continuing growth in Lithuania, doubling the org size from 30 to 60 engineers in 12 months
• Evaluated technical feasibility for various start-ups for mergers and acquisition targets that would improve sustainability

Munich, Bavaria, DE

• Led the Revenue Management domain, which developed machine learning models to automatically set prices, resulting in a positive revenue impact of over €100M+
• Created the long-term technical strategy, OKR’s, roadmaps, and financial budgets for the 30+ engineers, data scientists and agile coaches, and product owners in the organization
• The innovation, feedback, and transparent culture in the domain lead to employee satisfaction being in the top 5% of the company

Santa Monica, California, US

• Developed technical specifications, product requirements and tradeoffs for augmented reality and camera hardware projects based on user data
• Led the supplier selection in Asia and test execution for the battery and camera sensors in the US for multiple hardware projects
• Investigated new hardware and computer vision startups and provided recommendations for acquisitions

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led the $2M+ battery, photo/video camera and ambient light sensor development for the HoloLens augmented reality headset by program managing internal engineers across the US and external teams across Asia
• Developed technical battery and sensor specifications for future generations of the HoloLens program
• Owned $30M budget to evaluate startups for technical feasibility into Microsoft’s battery hardware strategy

Cupertino, California, US

• Led the technical development for the batteries in the iPad, iPod and the iPhone. With a cross functional team in Engineering, Operations and Testing that delivered complex products for system builds
• Created project schedules and managed 30+ vendors across Asia and the US for multi-million dollar programs
• Improved processes in the engineering organization by creating tutorials, sharing best practices, and developing customized issue tracking tools

Redmond, Washington, US

• Developed best practices and process improvements for validation, production and manufacturing for multiple large-scale global hardware products including Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
• Created databases and software tools that manage risks, capital assets, and compliance requirements used by all hardware teams at Microsoft
• Served as Scrum Master using Agile Program Management methodologies to create tools that decrease hardware defects by identifying critical issues quickly with reports created from the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led the multi-million dollar development and qualification effort for hard disk drives for the Xbox and cloud game streaming concepts from planning through production.
• Owned the technical specifications, test plans, and telemetry data requirements for multiple large-scale global project releases.
• Performed test execution as needed in alignment with local and overseas suppliers, communicated to senior leaders on schedules, roadblocks, issues and solutions using statistical analysis for a data-driven approach to.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Joined a 2 year rotation program for the Xbox 360, which included developing a new form factor, hardware testing a cost reduction of the optical disk drive, and program managing alternative component suppliers.

Master'S Degree, Executive Master Of Business Administration (Emba)

Bachelor Of Science Degree, Electrical Engineering