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Miami, Fl, Us

Mythological drama/thriller film, a compelling sequel to Homer's Odyssey.

London, Gb

AIXR is an industry group where AI & XR professionals can meet, learn, and do business, helping them do their jobs better and faster. I participate in the AIXR Advisory Group.

Glendale, Ca, Us

Building next-generation technologies for K-12 education.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

STI’s breakthrough situational intelligence applications help you make faster, more informed decisions, using real-time visual analytics to provide actionable insight into big data.- Led product management efforts within the big data and analytics domains.- Collaborated with all stakeholders to understand needs within these domains and worked closely with the data science and engineering teams to devise solutions.- Specified requirements for and launched the development of two new major product initiatives for the SI Suite visual analytics platform in real-time data visualization and analytics.- Participated in the process operating group and launched a new scaled agile product delivery process based on Scrum and SAFe.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Founded in 2013, Veloxity aims to disrupt the way mobile networks are monetized by matching the demand and supply for wireless network capacity in real time using analytics derived from mobile device generated data. - Led the product effort for developing telecom industry's first real-time location-aware contextual marketing solution powered by analytics based on streaming data from mobile devices.- Integrated Hadoop, Impala, Spark, streaming, and machine learning in the software stack, utilizing big data tools to scale the system to autonomously market plan add-ons to up to 100 million mobile subscribers.- Assembled an in-house development team at the company's first European office and executed the transition from outsourcing to in-house development, increasing development capacity by 200% within 6 months.- Implemented JIRA and Confluence based on agile methodologies to streamline the development, documentation, and support processes, resulting in a manifold improvement in collaboration efficacy.- Intimately involved in sales efforts as the product point man in closing the company's first deal with Vodafone.- Managed the pioneering implementation of the solution at Vodafone Turkey, guiding it through PoC in May 2015 and commercial launch in October 2015—breakneck time for rolling out any vendor solution at an operator.- Achieved 10% offer uptake ratio at get go against an expectation of 3-5%, and set the new bar at 20%.- Took active part as the product lead in furthering talks with Vodafone in expanding the solution to elsewhere in Europe and beyond in 2016, opening an avenue to potentially reaching 500+ million Vodafone subscribers.

Orinda, Ca, Us

Keiretsu Forum is a global investment community of accredited private equity angel investors, venture capitalists and corporate/institutional investors. Keiretsu Forum was founded in the San Francisco East Bay in California in 2000 by Randy Williams. Keiretsu Forum is a worldwide network of capital, resources and deal flow with 52 chapters on 3 continents. Keiretsu Forum members invest in high-quality, diverse investment opportunities. The community is strengthened through its involvement in social and charitable activities.

Costa Mesa, California, Us

Founded in 1991, Touchtone is an IBM Premier Business Partner, making enterprise software for IBM platforms. Wintouch CRM is a leading solution for businesses requiring deep integration to ERP systems on IBM server platforms.- As the product owner for the full product suite, managed P&L, and sustained a high level of profitability for Wintouch CRM in the face of stiff competition from rising vendors such as Salesforce.- Launched the Wintouch Web product to replace existing fragmented front-end options for both desktop and mobile, which in turn reduced customer issues reported based on client side software problems by 80%.- Released iOS and Android phone and tablet apps, more than doubling mobile use of Wintouch by customers.- Championed data science and added a business intelligence product to the suite, increasing the number of reports deployed by customers by more than 300%.- Created offshore teams and integrated them to the development team at home, effectively doubling the number of developers for Wintouch, while staying within budget.- Struck a co-marketing deal with IBM which contributed up to $2 for every $1 spent by Touchtone on marketing.- Set up Trac as the new issue tracking system resulting in the largest to date progress in team communication.

Costa Mesa, California, Us

- Engaged in overall software design and architecture for Wintouch CRM, oversaw work done by other software engineers on the development team, and served as an interface between programmers and management.- Architected and headed the development of Wintouch Mobile, the first front-end for the product that was designed for mobile use from the ground up.- Spearheaded efforts to promote the use of best practices among the software development team and facilitated significant improvement of the quality of the code developers produce.- Upgraded the source code control system, which reduced conflicts that require manual intervention by 60%.- Educated the team on the most effective ways to use the source code control system and the development issue tracking system.- Led the company-wide transition from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps as a side responsibility and cut email and calendar server costs by more than half.

Costa Mesa, California, Us

- Developed compelling Java based software modules for the Wintouch CRM product suite.- Worked on Wintouch Portal, the first browser-based front-end to complement Wintouch CRM's thick client and became the leading developer on browser-based UI initiatives within the team.- Positioned myself as an influential developer in making core architectural decisions.- Assisted fellow developers to switch to new software development environments and tools.- Developed Java software based on the Compiere ERP system.- Took part in numerous CRM and ERP software related projects including implementations for multi-national businesses.

Designed and implemented database-driven web applications utilizing a wide array of technologies and tools such as Java Servlets/JSP, XML, XSL, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, and Apache projects (Struts, FOP, OJB).

Mba, Concentration In Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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