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Pasadena, Ca, Us

Pasadena, California, United States

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Leading a dedicated international engineering team at EinStrong Foundation, a well-funded grant-issuing non-profit initiated in 2019, focused on addressing global challenges like climate change, poverty, and education gaps. Our Southern California-based team collaborates on research, funds aligned organizations and educational institutions such as Caltech and University of California system, and coordinates support activities in the US, Cambodia, and Nepal, working passionately to foster environmental health and improve lives globally.Spearheaded the launch of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) pilot program in rural Cambodia, working directly with Scott Neeson of Cambodian Children's Funds. Utilized advanced palm scanning technology to enroll over 3,000 mothers and children, providing them with financial support and essential resources. Managed the implementation of US currency distribution and cash-out processes through a solid fintech framework, ensuring smooth transactions and financial empowerment for all participants.

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Mountain View, Wy, Us

Led the development of a HIPAA-compliant platform designed for healthcare professionals. Our platform incorporates Digital Rights Management (DRM) and copyright features to provide a secure environment for doctors to share insights, monetize their skills, and foster innovation.

Westlake Village, California, Us

• A Nasdaq company.• Established two lucrative business ventures, specializing in digital advertising and automated marketing for institutional relationships, diversifying product offerings and boosting profitability by 80%.• Spearheaded the planning and execution of the industry’s first retail and institutional investor intelligence platform, achieving a client base of 290 in 18 months and reaching cash flow positivity in 23 months. This was accomplished by conceiving an event-driven microservice architecture, building a proficient team for implementation, and managing a system capable of mining intelligence from over 1 million investors monthly.• Led R&D initiatives to research and file 8 patents covering technologies like AI-driven institutional investor classifiers, computational shelf forecasting, and micro-coded financial scanners.• Developed a versatile platform for hedge funds and asset managers to efficiently manage, project, and model portfolios, automating time-consuming tasks around asset life cycles and facilitating new investment discoveries.

Westlake Village, California, Us

• Established the R&D department from the ground up, recruiting skilled R&D engineers to foster innovation.• Led the development of BIGtoken app's AI questionnaire engine, enhancing user engagement and data accuracy.• Restructured the engineering department of over 140+ full-time engineers and project managers, optimizing workflows and project delivery.• Implemented risk-driven software development strategies, achieving a 90% on-time delivery rate of high-quality products throughout the software development life cycle.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

• Contributed to the development and promotion of PathCheck, a privacy-first, open-source solution aimed at mitigating the impact of COVID-19, aiding economic recovery, and building resilient societies.• Worked within an MIT-led collaboration, partnering with institutions like Harvard, Mayo Clinic, Berkeley, and global public health authorities from WHO, HHS, and I-DAIR, leveraging a broad spectrum of expertise to drive the project's success.

Monrovia, California, Us

• Provided strategic counsel to the CEO, who also serves as the Ambassador-at-Large of the Bahamas, on the implementation of Artificial Intelligence technologies, aligning with both corporate and national objectives.• Facilitated communication and engagements with Bahamian government officials, ensuring seamless interactions and fostering a conducive environment for the adoption of AI technologies in line with regulatory frameworks.

• Fostered employee morale and productivity during leadership transitions and business challenges, ensuring a positive work environment.• Oversaw continuous engineering efforts, managing 170+ full-time engineers, ensuring project timelines and quality standards were met.• Collaborated with AI experts to architect a linguistics-based NLU platform and document computational linguistics knowledge, advancing the company's AI capabilities.• Managed intellectual properties, patents, and patent strategy, aiding in the construction of patent documents to secure the company's innovations.• Established a Blockchain team with a Hyperledger-certified Blockchain Engineer, researching GPU utilization for distributed client-side computing using WebGL and Canvas objects, exploring new technological frontiers for the company.

• Recruited top engineering talents enhancing the technical capabilities of SNT Media.• Managed company's intellectual properties and patent strategy ensuring legal protection and competitiveness.• Led the AI Content Generation Team in creating 250,000+ sports-themed AI articles published by major outlets like Chicago Tribune and LA Times.• Directed R&D efforts to optimize servers for 600,000 concurrent connections and 1.6 million insertions per second, improving system performance.• Collaborated with ex-computer science professors on researching and developing SNT Media’s NLU (Natual Language Understanding) platform.• Established the Quality Assurance team setting up processes for code quality management, partner site error monitoring, and checking AI-generated articles for non-human expressions.• Initiated and improved SNT Media’s ad stack technology by creating and evolving products like Frank, Igloo, and Yeti for intelligent ad stack adjustments and real-time revenue reporting, enhancing ad revenue management.

• Recruited over 30 engineers, aiding the startup's early-stage development.• Led the creation of joyfulhome.com, a real estate site with AI-generated text for 3 million+ U.S. listings, updating 200,000 listings weekly.• Founded the R&D department, recruiting two engineers to develop revenue-generating products and optimize SNT Media’s ad stack technology.• Formed the Synapsys team to engineer SNT Media’s internal revenue reporting dashboard, enhancing financial transparency and analysis.

• Led a mostly remote team of engineers and designers at an early-stage startup, fostering collaboration and ensuring project milestones were met on time.• Delegated tasks related to advanced data scraping, mining processes, search engine optimization, and DevOps duties, optimizing workflow and efficiency.• Built Canoodle, a website platform monitoring and crawling over 3,000 news sites with features including:• • Grouping articles using incremental and batch clustering algorithms.• • Writing an entity extraction algorithm for normalizing names of companies, people, and stock tickers.• • Creating a sentiment analysis library to gauge the emotion and feel of news articles.• • Extracting relevant keywords and topics from news articles for better data organization.• Oversaw data scraping efforts including:• • Identifying access to StockTwits’ firehose for sentiment analysis of publicly traded companies.• • Gaining access to FINRA and utilizing Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to bypass Captcha, updating SNT Media’s weekly financial database.• • Creating an EDGAR crawler for company and executive data collection.• • Engineering a program for regular collection of company logos and executive profile photos from Google Images and Flickr, ensuring updated visual assets.

• Audited code quality of SNT's external development team of three developers and one project manager.• Built data scraping applications, handled data cleaning, and delivered data through REST APIs.• Improved and stabilized outdated APIs from Thomson Reuters and Zacks.• Managed back-end and front-end coding for passfail.com, a platform curating data from over 35,000 U.S. companies to generate 2 million+ pages of original content.

A bay area startup. Engineer an auctioning platform using Meteor and MongoDB that tracks coffee roasting, ordering, and delivery. We co-branded a coffee with Andytown Coffee Roasters (https://www.andytownsf.com).

Worked for many different companies around the world. Mostly defense contractors and banks.

AlchemyAPI was one of the world's most popular AI-as-a-service API platforms. Worked on their sentiment analysis engine. AlchemyAPI was acquired by IBM Watson in 2015.From Wikipedia: AlchemyAPI was a software company in the field of machine learning. Its technology employed deep learning for various applications in natural language processing, such as semantic text analysis and sentiment analysis, as well as computer vision. AlchemyAPI offered both traditionally-licensed software products as well API access under a Software as a service model. After acquisition by IBM in 2015, the products were integrated into the Watson line of products.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlchemyAPI

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Led the initiative to complete RBC's internal risk management application, streamlining the process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating financial risks.• Coordinated with cross-functional teams, ensuring timely delivery and quality assurance of the application, contributing to enhanced risk management practices at Canada's largest bank.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

A defense contractor. Worked on various classified software.

Teaneck, Nj, Us

A defense contractor. Contracted to help develop classified software and a GPS-based mapping application. Hanwha Techwin was known as Samsung Techwin back in 2006.

• Worked on developing, building, and maintaining classified military software and intranet applications, including a real-time GPS-assisted battle management system for artillery and infantry units, ensuring reliable and effective tools for mission-critical operations.• Took part in ROK-US Army InfoCon (Information War) exercises, gaining valuable experience in real-world military operations.• Oversaw and trained junior software engineers/developers, helping them improve their skills and contribute effectively to the team.

Wichita, Ks, Us

• Built and maintained the new university website, ensuring it stays updated and runs smoothly.• Help a junior developer learn and improve, sharing knowledge and experience.• Created the university's first online directory and online grading interface, making information and grading processes easier and more efficient.

• Developed and optimized web applications for various purposes including content and inventory management, admin tools, customizable interfaces, news and info management, user login systems, and messaging, ensuring they are fast, reliable, and scalable.• Conducted system analysis and transformed business processes into usable web applications, meeting client requirements efficiently.• Wrote technical guides for client projects, helping them understand and use the developed solutions better.• Worked closely with clients, along with marketing and sales teams, to understand and meet their needs.• Collaborated on the successful launch of two e-commerce sites, each equipped with a complete shopping cart and admin setup.

Wichita, Ks, Us

• Led the creation of an in-house content management system, saving over $1 million compared to using a vendor product.• Member of the ERP training group, helping to improve our work processes.• Conducted usability and accessibility testing on web projects to make sure they are easy to use and accessible to everyone.• Moved web projects from old tabled page structures to newer, faster CSS layouts, improving site speed and flexibility.• Supervised and trained student assistants, helping them learn and grow in their roles.

Topeka, Ks, Us

• Designed and developed financial intranet applications to help with risk-management tasks like risk tracking, credit exposure, receivables, payables, and stress testing for credit exposure.• These applications were later bought by StoneX Group Inc (Nasdaq: SNEX, #87 on the 2022 Fortune 500 list).

Uc Berkeley Executive Education, Digital Transformation

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science