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Chicago, Il, Us

- Guided the strategy and efforts in creating revolutionary Generative AI enabled products and features in an established Enterprise product across multiple teams.- Upleveled and inspired product and technology strategy and execution using data and AI to drive ROI.- Built a successful and highly productive research program working closely with a wide range of partners.- Led technology leadership in prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and data for AI product research and development on complex and ambiguous problems.- Maximized impact through pragmatic decisions and focused execution using careful consideration of the trade-offs of the business.-Boosted the visibility of AI/ML research through research external presentations, conferences, and publications.

- Led Artificial Intelligence (AI) product development of a food logging mobile application that identifies 100 classes of foods and determines nutritional information from a single overhead image in a 6 month period.- Enabled capture and annotation of 60,000 food images and depth maps in a 4 month period for training deep learning models focused on segmentation, classification, and volume.- Reduced product complexity and cost by 99% by envisioning and overseeing the migration of deep learning models onto the mobile device from the cloud. - Set product scope and timelines; managed international team in AI / deep learning model research, development, and productization to meet product requirements. (Python, Tensorflow, Google Cloud)- Reduced project budget by 80% by sourcing and leading a team of international AI/ML engineers, researchers, and software engineers better suited for the product and timelines.- Championed the communication and writing of technical product design documents focused on cross-team dependencies, APIs, and data structures.- Created a ranked list of differentiating features by reviewing competitor products to determine the core functionalities and established use paradigms.- Determined gaps in knowledge of the customer required for product-market fit and communicated with user research teams in collecting, analyzing, addressing these gaps.- Helped hire and retain talent - help with sourcing and selling to candidates as well as vetting them for the team.- Led research efforts in Natural Language Processing (NLP) product for recipe parsing and ingredient matching.

Los Altos, California, Us

- Led efforts for integrating cutting-edge AI technologies into cloud and firmware software products.- Designed and guided C-levels through company strategy workshops for core competency alignment, idea brainstorming and prioritization, and formed roadmap for data, cloud, and machine learning strategy in product and hiring. - Reduced data storage costs and improved product maintenance costs through leading a cross-functional international team in implementing best-practices in cloud architectures. (AWS)- Convinced leadership of a product pivot that lead to focusing on the product’s current star feature by leading workshops, analyses, and presentations.- Partnered with UX research lead to conduct a rapid user study to validate customer assumptions and determine product technical requirements.- Architected, implemented, and managed production the entire cloud system responsible for operation of the IOT products using testable, scalable, and production coding standards that integrated with multiple internal and external customers.- Helped hire and retain talent - help with sourcing and selling to candidates as well as vetting them for the team.

- Built Generative AI and NLP systems for fast moving startups.- Offered strategy and technology advice on AI, data, and machine learning for a new product development initiative.- Reviewed cloud solutions for several technology start-ups and offered cloud, data, and machine learning architectural guidance.- Led Fortune 100 client’s team of data scientists and engineers in development of automated machine learning price-demand modeling tool.- Investigated and presented on various deep learning frameworks and packages for image recognition and reconstruction for DARPA hard problem. (TensorFlow)

Westminster, Co, Us

- Mentored, managed, and led machine learning teams from planning through productization of identity resolution product to enable the full view of identity leveraging AWS services and big data technologies.- Saved $1MM / year in cloud compute costs by leading a cross-functional team to launch a new identity resolution product for adtech linking offline and online data for 90% of USA.- Managed the machine learning components of the identity resolution portfolio which required processing of terabytes of data daily. (AWS, Qubole, Spark)- Consulted as a technical and strategic expert with the new initiative team on evaluating the performance and establishing the requirements for a new potential product. - Balanced immediate impact and long-term company needs, as well as managing resourcing and prioritization.- Designed and implemented production machine learning products using testable, scalable, and production coding standards that integrated with multiple internal and external customers.- Helped hire and retain talent - help with sourcing and selling to candidates as well as vetting them for the team.

Lincoln, Ne, Us

- Managed, wrote code, and led cross-functional team from product vision through functioning prototype launch for a scalable, automated, and secure Spark-based cloud analytics application for a government agency using AWS.- Led multiple customer engagements with internal and external stakeholders, translated user interviews into technical requirements and determined implementation and schedule for product.- Managed an AWS security consultant and participated in architecture design reviews to meet CJIS (Security) reqs.- Quickly grew a machine learning productization team from 1 to 5 persons to aid in addressing the Heroin epidemic using cutting-edge technologies and massive data sets. (AWS, Databricks, Python, Spark)- Conducted ad hoc analyses, wrote back-end Pyspark network analysis code, developed front-end D3 visualizations, and setup cloud infrastructure using AWS managed services.- Investigated legacy products and processes and provided thought leadership, which addressed training pain-points and reduced cost, streamlined customer trials, and reduced time to market for new products.

Fremont, Ca, Us

- Communicated, architected, and developed a HPC job manager product through leading a cross-functional machine learning team using Spark, Cassandra, and MongoDB. - Architected and developed distributed data analytics software products using Spark, Cassandra, and MongoDB.- Mined, analyzed, and presented findings from various data sources using Python, R, and JMP.- Integrated R, Python, and Hadoop data analytics capabilities for analyzing large unstructured text files.- Developed project plans and presented use cases to upper management.- Lead a team of 4 data scientists and engineers in development of automated machine learning API for cloud-based applications.

www.automatefitness.com- Started from an idea generated at Start-up Weekend in October 2013 in Pittsburgh, PA.- Track sets, reps, and workout automatically using accelerometer and bluetooth data.- Differentiate various workouts using statistical and time-series data and visualize the information for users.- Create business plan and sales distribution strategies for investor presentations.

Irving, Texas, Us

- Aided in redesign of $MM product issue by analyzing time-series sensor data, conducting simulation / optimizations, and visualizing trends for management design trade-off.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

- Conducted theoretical and applied research for various industry and government products in the areas of machine learning, product design, software engineering, system engineering, and optimization.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

- Generated kinematically correct motion primitives for autonomous path-planning of ground and aerial vehicles.- Enabled analysis of maximum performance path generation for helicopter mission critical maneuvers.

Ft. Huachuca, Arizona, Us

- Conducted research on military cargo delivery capability gaps, developing requirements for future delivery systems. - Developed global design and optimization technique, providing guaranteed bounds on feasible design space.

Arlington, Va, Us

- Developed reliability assessment tools for Orbiter Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel Team to produce new tank loading/unloading procedures on the space shuttle. - Assessed damage potential and possible solutions for faulty Tyvek covers used on thruster system on launch pad of the space shuttle and updated Orbiter Hazard Report Analyses.

Rosemead, Ca, Us

- Modeled a coal feeder pipe subsystem and potable water flow diagrams using CAD software for 2GW coal-burning power station. - Participated in start-up procedures for a $1.3 million Reverse Osmosis Unit and assembled an operation manual including general operating and cleaning procedure.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Engineering

Master'S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering