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Entwine is a platform for winery NFTs that create a new type of tokenized community to fund production, create a built-in market, and deliver the insider experience that millions of wine enthusiasts crave. Entwine takes the stuff that really works in wine - think tasting rooms, wine clubs, winemaker investment and events - and combines that with NFTs, DeFi.

Bunch is the smart shopping assistant for wine. It evaluates thousands of wines from top retailers to discover the most interesting, highest rated, and best value wines 100% customized for your style and budget. It's like your very own wine club.

Personal side-project: global crowdfunding platform for wineries that build direct relationships with consumers, who in turn make large scale group purchases of wine ($20K - $100K+ purchases). Cruzu provides global logistics support that allows any winery in the world to sell directly to US consumers. In 2022 launched the "self-buying" wine project which.

Multiple natural language processing projects including general conversation and task-based chatbots. Implemented and integrated one-shot grammatical error correction into voice chatbot workflow. "Yahoo Finance for auctions." Auction analytics and portfolio management system including distributed data crawling and integration, image processing for content.

San Jose, CA, US

Virtual sales agent for consumer products. Responsible for product ideation, product management and engineering management for natural language-based sales tools that combine deep learning with sales psychology to persuade users to make complex purchase decisions. Deployed to multiple retailers, including a $4B wine retailer to over 120,000 MAUs. Built.

An "intent matching engine" that connected counterparties around structured needs and capabilities. Goal was to create an efficient, internet-scale alternative to the trillions of dollars spent on traditional marketing and shopping. Built network service and beta mobile app.

Founded the world's largest urban winery. Grew company to $10m+ in annual revenue, 70 employees and a 50,000 sq ft facility in San Francisco with operations in Bordeaux and Japan. Drove the development of a vertically integrated wine production, fulfillment, marketing and compliance infrastructure and launched Crushnet, the first social network for.

Restarted company that combined machine learning and data integration to provide automated sales guidance for banking and insurance advisors. Responsible for product management, product marketing and corporate marketing, including a complete redesign of the product. Sold large-scale implementations ($500K+) to institutions such as HSBC and Deutsche Bank.

"SWIFT for the rest of us." Company commercialized internal messaging infrastructure from JP Morgan to create a Transaction Delivery Network that delivered high-value messages between financial institutions. Founding team member instrumental in raising over $30m and growing to over 70 employees in 18 months. Coordinated over 50 employees in product.

Business intelligence and analytics applications suite. Spun off company from Sybase and grew to $12m annual revenue. Raised over $60m from top-tier investors. Responsible for all marketing and product management. WhiteLight was used by banks such as Barclays and Bank of America for large-scale risk analysis and CPG companies such as Unilever for category.

Responsible for third party technology evaluation for M&A activities, resulting in several acquisitions. Strategic partner interface between ISVs and Sybase. Key driver of Sybase's business intelligence strategy, including the ideation, funding and spin-off of the "Highgate" OLAP product that became WhiteLight Systems.

Implemented modern reporting systems for line maintenance using Mac and NeXTSTEP platforms. Every day 500 airplanes across the world were inspected and sometimes repaired using slow and error-prone mainframe systems. Built "Famous AMIS" - an ad-hoc query tool on top of the FAA-mandated systems that provided realtime access to airplane incidents to all.

Worldwide, OO

Built numerous strategic financial planning, budgeting and manufacturing cost accounting systems that resulted in a multi-billion ag business merger, the exiting of a $50m low-profitability canned foods business by a large CPG firm, among many smaller operational improvements for a range of industries.