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Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• My team owns a $30M+ business unit for fraud prevention and identity verification API products that covers Verizon's full 114M+ person subscriber base.
• Identify and build new API products that leverage Verizon’s unique value as a teleco and create strategic roadmaps to best ensure product-market fit.
• Drive efforts to create and deploy industry leading AI/ML models for real time fraud detection. These models are used both internally and externally across a variety of different fraud prevention products and user.
• Partner with Verizon's enterprise sales teams to lead business development discussions with enterprise customers, driving paid trials and larger commercial contracts.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Drove enterprise product innovation by scouting and partnering with companies across industries to build early products that leveraged 5G and edge computing. Led research discussions with enterprise customers to.
• Created 30 POCs per year with start-ups and large companies globally to lead prototype product development efforts that leverage 5G and edge computing to solve challenges for enterprise customers.
• Partnered with the Verizon Ventures team to lead an investment into an IoT start-up focused on enabling the future of real time sports analytics for use cases like AR/VR, real time sports betting, and player health.
• Lead a cross-disciplinary team of engineers, data scientists, and designers to create new SaaS products that leverage the latest in IoT, computer vision, AI/ML models, and real time analytics for use across industries.
• Authored an internal paper on 5G connectivity and the electric grid to initiate collaborations with national research labs focused on building real time solutions for distributed energy resources and demand response.
• Partnered with the Verizon Grid Wide team to explore cloud-based IoT data feed enhancements to their AMI platform for their utility customers.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Drove a digital transformation across Fios on the Fios digital consumer product team. Spearheaded agile development implementation across the larger team to more quickly test/grow products aimed at enhancing the.
• Built and scaled Verizon Fios’s Smart Home accessories business growing it to a team of 5 product managers, yielding >20% YoY revenue growth, and tied it to promotional tactics for customer acquisition and retention.
• Developed and scaled a Network Health team growing it to 3 product managers, aimed at improving the digital self-help UI/UX experience to reduce the customer pain points and resulting call-in rates.

New York, NY, US

Sourced, assessed, and vetted early-stage student-started companies for a student-run venture firm backed by First Round Capital. Areas of interest included Internet of Things, privacy, energy, security, and enterprise SaaS platforms.

Albany, NY, US

• Worked closely with key industry stakeholders to drive market adoption of clean energy products and technologies.
• Built, managed, and advised a $12M portfolio of New York State’s investments aiming to commercialize and drive market adoption of technologies like energy storage, EV charging infrastructure, and solar panels.
• Led the Cleantech Open Accelerator program across Upstate NY by partnering with 5 cleantech incubators to bring in out of state resources like mentorship, legal, and financial support to the existing start-ups.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Brought the Cleantech Open (CTO) into Upstate NY by partnering with 5 existing cleantech accelerators and leveraged the CTO's national reach to provide added support for early companies and communities.
• Developed partnerships with service providers, angel investors, VCs, and multi-national companies to provide mentorship and help to grow early-stage companies.
• Created and designed workshops to increase collaboration between early-stage companies and experts with a focus on driving resources towards Upstate NY.

Half Moon Bay, California, US

Led due diligence, financial modeling, and market assessments for energy and chemicals companies. Partnered with banks/DOE to conduct technical and market due diligence for IPOs and other loan guarantee programs.

Novi, Michigan, US

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Mba

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biological And Environmental Engineering