Technical leader of search and shopping initiatives for Coupa, the SAAS leader in business spend management.- Search subject matter expert- Leader of AI initiatives for search aspects- Java, Python, Ruby on Rails- Elastic, Kubernetes, AWS, pySpark

RESPONSIBILITIES: As CTO, I led the creation and implementation of the core real-time search features in the innovative Aquiire real-time procurement system. I also have responsibilities for the labs function within Aquiire including research and implementation of machine learning and natural language processing(NLP) technologies. I also have primary technical responsibility for the Aquiire patent portfolio.CORPORATE PROFILE: Aquiire is a privately held procurement solutions company that provides innovative eProcurement shopping technologies and services for both buyers and suppliers. Spend Matters named the Aquiire Solution as a Top 50 Company to Watch for 2016. Aquiire is a Vora Ventures company, named Technology Company of the Year in 2015 in Cincinnati.

Along with small team, designed and implemented Zakta, a patented large scale social search website for finding and sharing information.With Zakta, you can find information more efficiently, make searching more purposeful by keeping what you find and share and collaborate with others you trust, and benefit from the search effort of other Zakta users. Zakta (http://zakta.com/) is now open as a public beta.

Provided expert consulting on large scale harvesting and processing of social media data throughout the world

 Designed and implemented large scale systems for collecting and monitoring consumer generated media such as blogs and boards. Lead designer and engineer of Intelliseek’s BlogPulse.com, a Java based public search engine for blogs Lead designer and engineer of Intelliseek's BrandPulse-Self Service, a Java based ad-hoc analysis tool used internally and externally to analyze trends in consumer generated media.