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Sacramento, Ca, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Advisor to CEO. Recruiting, placement, transition, career guidance and coaching platform serving returning special-ops veterans. Define & guide technology & business strategy, architecture, implementation, product management; recruit & mentor engineering team. (Over 1 out of every 12 US workers is a vet)

Develop advanced data systems utilizing multiple AI technologies: symbolic & logic processing, machine learning, NLP & LLMs integrated via semantic knowledge graph. Projects include creating update service pipeline for large US Government agency (~30 million elements per month RDF triple store database; Lisp, Python, Linux, etc)

Austin, Texas, Us

Lead accelerated development and on-time launch of new agile data governance suite including customer-configurable business-process workflow engine and data enrichment automations. Also lead operation of enterprise-scale advanced SaaS data pipeline serving ~150 billion-edge knowledge graphs using Scala/Spark EMR in AWS cloud in collaboration with company’s largest customer. Held expanded responsibility to direct additional teams including core data catalog platform, APIs, EU ops expansion, analytics etc as needed by senior leadership. Responsible for planning, budgeting, staffing, engineering, ops, technical customer support, etc.

Redwood Valley, California, Us

Lead the technology team developing innovative supply chain, manufacturing and distribution systems connecting diverse small, decentralized, sustainable cannabis farms into the California market. Report to C-level (CEO/CFO/CPO) coordinating operations and integration for IT, regulatory, financial, planning, production, logistics, sales & marketing, websites and APIs, data analytics, tools and other business information systems. Introduced metrics-driven tech ops service and enterprise architecture perspectives. Mentor and develop people & process, lead/coach agile development and facilitate cross-departmental teamwork and strategy.

San Francisco, California, Us

Lead reboot and growth (quadrupled headcount) of world-class data engineering & analytics platform team, reporting to VPE, CEO and CTO. Reduced infrastructure spend by over $1 million annually. Addressed significant immediate reliability, stability and privacy (GDPR). Lead new data architecture initiatives. Chartboost handles tens of thousands of requests per second from hundreds of millions of mobile devices worldwide, totaling several billion events per day, backed by petabyte-scale data warehousing. AWS cloud data technology stack environment incorporates Python, Java/Scala, SQL, EC2, Spark (incl. streaming), EMR, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Impala, Cloudera, Qubole, Pepperdata, Tableau, S3, MySQL, Redshift, DynamoDB, Glacier, Postgres, MongoDB, Airflow, Jenkins, Puppet, Spinnaker, Datadog, Pagerduty, Sqoop, Kakfa, ELK, and other modern technology components.

Austin, Texas, Us

JASK.ai’s vision is to evolve autonomous cybersecurity, by delivering advanced software systems supporting Security Operations Center analysts through C-level decision makers. Reporting to CTO & VP Engineering, building and managing a great engineering team at SF HQ, groups spanning core application product development, data science/AI insight, DevOps and security domain experts working in a modern cloud technology stack (AWS/Scala/Python managed services etc). Strategy, team facilitation, organization, people.

Ca, California, Us

(subsidiary of Pandora/to be acquired by Eventbrite) Manage Platform core engineering chapter (Spotify-like agile matrix org model). Lead teams contributing to development of company’s core ticketing engine, AWS cloud platform, permissions infrastructure, external APIs and traffic management technology and other strategic and tactical technology projects. Implementations in Scala (functional actor paradigm) evolving from a Grails/JVM app. Mentoring and career development.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Architecture, design, development and production deployment of extensive sophisticated robust highly scalable microservices and online data platform infrastructure, empowering and bridging our large internal partner Data Science and core application Engineering client teams: including recommendation algorithm framework, rule engine for CRM and BPM, metadata systems for survey data management and CMS, time series and other development & BI tools & analysis engines, A/B testing systems, etc. Stack leverages Python, Java, Scala, Spark, Elastic Search and a variety of Amazon Web Services and other modern cloud technologies.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

BandPage maximizes the monetization from connecting bands with their fans. It provides a merchandising and content management framework used by over 500,000 artists, including the biggest names in the music business, and connects them with their hundreds of millions of fans through the top music and e-commerce services. Primarily responsible for leading the backend development team, which develops and maintains the core RESTful APIs, microservices and related subsystems and data content, coordinating with the front-end, data science, infrastructure and QA engineering and Product management teams and providing extensive support for customers, partners and business development initiatives. Currently refactoring the core system’s database-oriented click-and-conversion persistence model into a performant and modern streaming lambda architecture. All cloud-based, Amazon Web Services, Java, chronos/mesos, marathon, dropwizard, etc. stack.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Vungle is an online AdTech service focused on delivering video ads on-demand to mobile games and other apps. Vungle also operates an online real-time bidding exchange marketplace for advertising content and placement. Reporting to VP, responsible for about 15 ICs and one manager grouped into four “core” software engineering teams: Ad Serving (complex multi-function cloud/server stack), Mobile Client Developer SDK (Apple iOS & Android platforms), Dashboard (web-based admin & customer tools) and Data Engineering, Architecture & Infrastructure (internal systems data mesh, interfaces to Data Science & reporting subsystems, etc). Brought in modern Agile development & planning processes, improved practices (eg unit testing) and laid groundwork for modern methodologies such as integrated QA/test, Continuous Integration and automated deployment and monitoring. Key initiatives for increasing quality, reliability, availability and scalability (to one billion ad requests daily); initiated integrated full architecture documentation effort. Organizational development, growth, Tech Talks and other thought-leadership.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Responsible for all Search technology, new development and high-availability (HA) online operations for Tagged.com, a Top 10 profitable social discovery site with 300 million members and 20 million monthly users (comparable to LinkedIn or Google+). Over 3 million Daily Active Users generate more than 500 million search engine transactions per day. Architected and implemented a unification of 16 diverse application-specific search tiers within a new modern RESTful API framework, enabling eliminating client spaghetti code, hardware and software cost reductions and new revenue-generating search-powered web and mobile products and features (also soon to be launched as an open-source project).Manage architecture, software, platforms and infrastructure for high performance Solr Cloud clusters and distributed services layer supporting diverse client tiers across research, testing development, stage and production environments.Lead teams (including off-shore) in ongoing operations and development of integrated Search-As-A-Service (SaaS) REST API microservice platform and associated Advanced Data Services (including “big data” elastic, cloud, graph, natural language (NLP), machine learning (ML) & semantic search, algorithms & prototyping) for innovative and profitable new Product, Social Discovery, Relevance, Security, Analytics and Quality objectives.Contribute experienced project management (Agile/Scrum), software engineering best practices (including domain-driven design, TDD/FDD/unit test, iterative agile development, algorithms, build-quality-in) mentoring, growing team and technology vision, strategy and delivery.

Galanta, Slovenská Republika, Sk

Director & Principal in Fixpoint Inc., a consultancy delivering advanced software engineering and management services to from mature organizations through start-ups. Developed enterprise deployments and web services based on commercial business rules systems, OWL/Protégé, and other semantic web technologies. Client engagements included Wells Fargo Capital Markets, Hoovers (D&B) and stealthy start-ups. See also Publications section for original mathematical research references.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Direct a stellar team of Scientists and Engineers in the Advanced Product Development group for Dynamic Media (video, audio, web, animation) with focus on the product-after-next, and beyond. Director-level responsibility for innovation pipeline for products. In parallel, Principal Scientist grade indicates top 5% technical track, Architect-level etc. Work areas include next-generation video, audio and animation technologies ranging from broadcast and motion picture through desktop and consumer. R&D in: enterprise-scale and cloud-based media production, democratized broadcasting, image content analysis, search, monetization, media metadata, semantic web, stereoscopic 3D, codecs, software CPU/GPU architectures and advanced programming technologies. Team filed several dozen patents, includes Oscar and Emmy winners for technical achievement, Internet pioneers, software gurus and other high-impact talents. Internal consulting resource, mentoring, organizing distinguished speakers programs, corporate technical summit activities, etc.

Us

Develop algorithms and tools for massively parallel distributed indexing pipeline for disruptive new natural language search engine. Involved Java, JSON, Ruby-on-Rails RESTful resources for Amazon EC2/S3 cloud system, Hadoop, map-reduce, test-driven-development.

Galanta, Slovenská Republika, Sk

Principal in Fixpoint Inc., a consultancy delivering advanced software engineering and management services to from mature organizations through start-ups. Developed native Java (J2EE) constraint engine for object-oriented business process management in finance, mortgage and insurance, as well as deployments based on commercial business rules, semantic web, configuration and 3D graphics packages. Client engagements include Resonant Software, Tavant / Ameriquest, Ilog / Network Appliance and stealthy start-ups.Also Principal in Adozu Inc., developer of active-RFID based asset-awareness and real-time location systems (RTLS) and web services.

Austin, Texas, Us

Advanced technology "guru" with responsibilities ranging from architecture to hands-on code development (primarily C++). Originally reported to CTO with pure technology charter (no management duties) to incorporate AI capabilities into Siebel's SFA and CRM business software systems. Accomplished a range of assignments as company grew from 100-emloyee pre-IPO start up to 8000-employee global public company, including architecting all major releases of product configurator engine and modeling system. Also wrote company's first automated test suite in Visual Basic that took online product definition database and generated full external coverage sequences.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Clients including Sonic Solutions Inc (interim-management assignment reporting to CEO, responsible for hardware and software development) Protozoa Inc, Asymmetrix Inc and Franz Inc.Implemented powerful, easy-to-use, net-enabled, compiled, object-oriented Visual Basic "clone" for developing web applications...pre-Java![NB: there is a California Corp. also named "Blue Dot"--this was a Delaware Corp. consulting partnership]

Reported to CEO. Responsible for all product development and technology worldwide (offices in Amsterdam, San Francisco & Hong Kong)—from ~$1M list price "virtual set" (VR/AR) graphics supercomputer & video broadcast systems, through 3D graphics & animation products on multiple workstation platforms (SGI, Sun, HP etc) & new electronic delivery & production-flow management products & patents.

Reported to VP R&D. Directly supervised ~35 positions with overall responsibility for remote site (Madison WI) ~70 total employees including software engineering, QA & documentation, service. Deliverables: Desktop Conferencing & Network Presentation Product for Windows, Graphic Visualization Engine for Windows, Word Processor (off-shore development) for DOS and Image Cataloging Product for Windows.

Consultancy specializing in management services, development, multimedia titles and emerging technologies. Included interim VP R&D for McAfee Associates, reporting to President/COO, responsible for all engineering of public software company. Reorganized R&D into functions and product groups; established QA, documentation and technical operations; initiated product management and development processes. Deliverables: Electronic Software Catalog & Distribution for DOS & Windows and Anti-Virus Suite for DOS, Windows, OS/2 & Novell Netware. Independenly designed Educational/Creativity Game for SEGA Genesis, released Fall '94. Patent prior-art consulting in digital signal processing.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Reported to President/CEO. Supervised ~30 positions, including software designers, developers & documentors, product and business managers, marketing and telesales, academic interns, company librarian & professional and strategic services staff. Annual budget US $3M. Actuals managed within 1%. Diverse deliverables included: * Multimedia / Hypertext—multi-platform (DOS, Windows, Mac, Unix) authoring package, * Virtual Reality— (VR) C++ class library (& 600pp documentation) & product plan, covering features, marketing, pricing, channels, support 3rd-party program etc.* Retail Educational Software Product Line Titles. Responsible for marketing (advertising, telesales, etc) and P&L—exceeded revenue targets by >50%. * Future technology evaluations: Scenarios (Global Business Network methodology), demonstration prototypes, research projects, new business analysis.* Corporate R&D Services: builds, technical library, print, media & online databases, Technical Forums.

Singapore, Sg

Reported to VP/Division General Manager. Responsible for delivering all hardware and software up to color windowing system, including first commercial HDTV intelligent framebuffer including 3 semi-custom ASICs. Publicly showed working prototypes 6 weeks after power-up at SIGGRAPH. Also developed hardware, firmware and software for board-level graphics accelerator and proprietary array processor.

Singapore, Sg

Dual report to Vice-President, R&D and Vice-President, Operations & Finance (CFO). Opened company's first field office. General hardware and software product development, sales support, customer service and cross-functional responsibility to top management. Supported record-setting computation of pi.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Xerox Corp. Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CAApple Computer, Cupertino, CA (first Macintosh research software developer)Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MAArtificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CADymax / People's Computer Company, Menlo Park, CAPortola Institute, Menlo Park, CAIndependent writer and programmer.Systems programming and microcode support to researchers in AI, Cognitive & Computer Science, Advanced Architectures (robotics, "connectionist" research, supercomputers), mathematical applications (numerical library for S-1 supercomputer for Lawrence Livermore National Lab), real-time signal/image processing, digital typography (spline & raster algorithms). Helped found, edit and/or contributed to: Dr. Dobbs' Journal, CoEvolution Quarterly, Computer Music Journal, People's Computer Company Magazine and others. Founded and ran public-access non-profit educational computer centers.

Education record

Education record