Bridging AI, human connection, and network ecosystems by building the social infrastructure that empowers a new class of impact entrepreneurs—dot-connectors—to unlock the full potential of their networks and create new models of engagement and community-driven economics.

Creative and Spiritual SabbaticalIn a tech culture that glorifies "move fast and break things," I chose to slow down—a radical act of agency and rebellion against the pace of modern innovation. This creative and spiritual sabbatical was a deliberate pause to reflect, recalibrate, and explore. As Paul Cilliers, South African philosopher and complexity theorist, once said, "It is exactly when one would think that being fast is what is required that slowness proves its worth." This period taught me the value of intentionality and depth, laying the groundwork for my next chapter of building with purpose.Most importantly, this journey was made possible by the unwavering support of my life partner of 20 years, https://www.linkedin.com/in/majerryp/

• Joined the NLP team at it's infancy (3rd Data Scientist) • Worked with a number of Fortune 500 clients on proof of value, MVPs, and implementing advance NLP capabilites as they transitioned off of legacy technologies and workflows. Bottom line and Top line impacts.• Implemented a reinforcement (continuous) learning framework that included instrumentation logic for collecting and storing click-stream data to facilitate off-line model retraining of a Watson AI engine. (Fortune 10 healthcare client) • python, C#, azure cloud provider, sklearn, word2vec, nltk, spcy, huggingface, pytorch

As an e•a•r•l•y Data Scientist at REEF I had the unique opportunity to work with various business functions - including sales, operations, and marketing - on a range of 0-1 problems encountered while scaling micro-kitchens across regions in North America.*position impacted by COVID19.

As a member of the data science team, I get to work on open-ended challenges, as we explore ways Healthaxis can shape product offerings and innovate in the areas of analytics by identifying healthcare-related insights, answering targeted healthcare questions, etc, with the hopes of transitioning these solutions into the commercial space.day-to-day activities include but not limited to:• Collaborate with our chief medical officer (Dr. Cyril Spiro, MD) to derive clinical features, build prototypes, visualizations, and internal tools for key concepts and ideas.• Authoring & refining ETL scripts in python to acquire, ingest, aggregate, and bring structure to noisy healthcare claims data. • Leveraging various libraries to perform ad hoc statistical and data mining analyses, machine learning, predictive modeling, etc.• Participate in discussions, design thinking, and iterations with customers and internal/external stakeholders to create market fit for products.Technology Stack: Jupyter notebook, Python 3.5, MSSQL, sci-kit learn

CTO (technical co-founder; in loose terms.) & I building version 1.0 for one of the company's early core SaaS products. Wore many hats and contributed at a high-level while taking end-to-end product ownership on many core modules. As a early contributor I play an integral and visible role in evolving the system organically, as we went from product vision to production deployment.The API ($1mm+ in medicare claims transactions ) is now live and consumed by our immediate clients (health insurance payers); the service integrates with their existing claims processing workflow to create cost transparency, efficiencies and reduce administrative burden. Career Highlights: • Worked closely with the SMEs/clients' as design partners; developed a deep understanding of their business challenges and objectives. • Improved claims processing accuracy. • Wrote code that optimized for core metric (auto-adjudication rate). • Developed code that was performant and scaled. So as to support the high number of concurrent users and API requests per day. • Integration & support of 3rd party vendor API into our system to enable the medicare edit feature. Technology Stack: Visual Studio IDE 2013, MS SQL Server, SoapUI, LINQPad

My first contracting stint. I worked on SCEEDS (Standoff, Covert Eye-safe, Explosive Detection System) project. My contribution was small, but I'm still proud of it. It was fun. Could not continue due to juggling full-time work load and personal projects.Technology Stack : Visual Studio IDE 2013, C++

As a member of the communication systems group, supported the IAF M-346 Program, authoring software requirements/specifications, capturing feature requests, debugging software, consulting with engineering team, and leveraging C++ to develop mission-critical software solutions to control the M-346 trainer communication subsystem, across an agile development environment.

Recruited into the Intelligence Transportation Systems Division as a member of a team to design and deliver innovative traffic engineering automation, optimization, and integration solutions to clients. Interface with civil engineering, ITS system engineering, and scientific teams to research, evaluate, define, present, and develop critical systems. Assist in preparing engineering reports, conducting feasibility studies, presenting findings and recommendations, designing and validating high-level concepts, configuring and testing wireless communication components / devices, and resolving critical issues.

Provided optimal support to student athletes with all hardware, software, and networking issues across 2 laboratories. Prepared documentation to improve operational processes. Updated and maintained user database.

Core member of team credited with designing and building an audio amplifier system with digital signal processing effects for senior design project. Full accountability for programming, simulating, and testing different audio effects in MATLAB; implementing effects on the TI C6713 leveraging C++; soldering electrical circuit components onto PCB; debugging and validating current and voltage continuity; and simulating circuit with PSpice.Effectively planned, designed, and delivered digital signal processing, digital speech & audio processing, engineering acoustics, digital design and electronic projects to support undergraduate studies. Collaborated extensively with peers and professors to define needs and project scope. Accountable for overall success of assigned projects, from initial analysis through schematics design and layout, modeling, testing, and problem resolution. Delivered designs, presentations, and projects to class.

Assisted in building and implementing infrastructure to enable NFL employees and executives at headquarters, media center, and Sun Life Stadium to access critical services during 2010 Pro Bowl and Super Bowl XLIV sporting events.