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Los Altos, California, US

Building the world’s largest business search engine.

West Valley AI is my independent advisory firm. I am currently focused on heading up data science at GeoFlow AI, building the world's largest search engine for business.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led a team of 20+ language engineers to source and prepare data for AI initiatives, including Generative AI.
• Drove innovation in technical strategy to maximize data effectiveness and workflow scalability.
• Dived deep into ethical considerations of data collection and implications for fairness and bias.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Assessed and rebuilt the data science team with the skills needed to take the company through its next phase of growth, with a focus on leveling up our capabilities.
• Managed dozens of machine learning models used in SaaS products, with predictions leading to millions of dollars of savings per customer.
• Directed the development of a new natural language processing pipeline for a key product initiative, on track to reduce manual efforts by 10x.
• Completed a proof of concept for a new line of business, creating predictive models with high levels of accuracy and explainability.
• Created roadmaps balancing product development and innovative research with infrastructure improvements to scale up model development and deployment.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Built a distributed twelve member team to drive innovation in natural language processing, data science, and computer vision in the course of consistent promotions during my tenure.
• Integrated Quid team members and technology with NetBase, after NetBase acquired Quid in 2020.
• Set the strategy for AI-driven product functionality, and coordinated across technical and non-technical teams to define and direct projects.
• Delivered results leading to recognition in a 2018 Forrester Wave report as a leader among social listening platforms, citing “strong text and language analysis capabilities” and noting that “client references praise.
• Designed and built a quality control system generating accuracy metrics for forty languages, including crowdsourced annotations.
• Presented at customer conferences and wrote collateral positioning AI for non-technical audiences.

• Managed a wide variety of projects including industry-specific and generic ontology generation, translation testing, and Boolean search.
• Hired/trained/managed consultants and other support personnel.
• Designed and tested tool for upgrading dictionary from previous monolingual format to new multilingual format, saving professional services approximately 100 hours per upgrade project.
• Provided level 2/3 support and worked on-site with clients including Yahoo!, T-Mobile, and NetApp.
• Addressed requests from customer support, professional services, and sales, and resolved complex technical issues.
• Wrote and maintained detailed documentation tailored to needs of support and professional services groups.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Phd, Linguistics (Theoretical Syntax And Semantics)

Ba, Linguistics