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United States

Hillsboro, Oregon, Us

Strategic partner for leading outsourced near-shore development team, bridging between knowledgeable engineering staff with deep experience and North American companies with complex problems to solve. o Strategic executive, managing go-to-market and commercial market partnership opportunities.o Business development leadership for leading near-shore software staffing firm in the United States. o Darwoft leverages over 500+ software engineers on enterprise-class projects in North America. o Software projects delivered include end-to-end systems with a focus on scalable sustainable MVP and AI in new and emerging technology domains.

Human intelligence in the age of AI

Portland, Or, Us

o Raised funding for 3 years of runway. Moved tech-only company from negative ROI to real products, actual customers, revenue and profitability. o Expanded into multiple geographies, multiple countries. Our systems now serve thousands of retailers worldwide, as well as 5 million consumers, and have tracked over 50 million individual events. o Rebuilt team after pandemic attrition, hand-selected diverse team leaders from across the country.o Acquired competitor: managed successful merger between competing teams, products & processes.o Our technology successfully licensed to Disney, Baskin-Robbins, Shell, Red Bull, & Wyndham Hotels.

New York, Ny, Us

Leadership of cross-functional customer success team in delivering AI-native systems that deliver paradigm-changing automation and work efficiency solutions to solve some of the world’s largest and most complex problems. Co-leader of internal AI and Ethics group. Management of executive relationships at client accounts.

Portland, Oregon, Us

o Growth and transformation leader recruited to assist merger for biometric company in transition. o Led team that landed nationwide deal with UPS to place SureID systems in all UPS storefronts. o Ownership of all product and engineering for 50 state deployment. Partnered directly with the FBI. o Successful retention and transition of team from SureID to Sterling Identity. Sterling IPO 2021.

Santa Clara, California, Us

o Leader of Intel Identity cloud services teamo Leader of Intel Context Sensing team, deployed on 150M devices worldwide (Dell, Asus, Samsung, etc.) o Product visionary who led team across multiple years to deploy product line in identity and sensor frameworks. o Manager of multiple teams across three divisions. Managed international teams in Korea, Japan, China, Russia, Germany, Poland, Argentina. o OpenVINO customer tech team leadership. Smart camera and computer vision technology leader, led product technical service direction. OpenVINO: Winner of Embedded Vision Product of the Year. o Drove Dell collaboration to win CES Innovation Award for "Awake" system.

Santa Clara, California, Us

o Delivery of multi-phased product lines, and all product management functions for Intel’s contextual intelligence system. o AI system validation, AI-powered context awareness, sensor frameworks, device-to-cloud (IOT), data modeling and predictive analytics. o Cloud services delivered by our team includes Intel Cloud Identity Provider, Assured Identity, IOT Retail SDK, Context Sensing SDK, and the Intel Cloud Services Platform (CSP).

Palo Alto, California, Us

o Led key team at famed Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) – PARC invented Apple’s graphical interface. o Directed product team that created new semantic and artificial intelligence (AI) platform.o Delivered groundbreaking Android, iPhone, Windows, Outlook products on time and on schedule.o Created new patentable IP with diverse team for new social media & artificial intelligence (AI) platform.o Led product management, marketing, public launch go-to-market plan, VC pitch strategy.

Sherman, Texas, Us

Founded innovative new company with exclusive AT&T and Verizon data contracts to prevent identity fraud and secure communications. - Designed technical system, business model, and directed customer engagement.- Raised funding at seed round level, hired team and delivered first products to market. - Board member for early OpenID Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange (OIX).

Seattle, Wa, Us

o Raised funding directly from Paul Allen, created pitch for multiple funding rounds across 5 years. o Product definition for new mobile phone platform directly for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. o Ownership of product naming, market testing, brand definition, product go-to-market with AT&T. o Global coverage of our product line in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Wired.

Wrote 2 books. Studied philosophy, theology, post-humanism, and ethics at UC Berkeley Graduate Theological Union, Luther Seminary and Seattle University School of Theology & Ministry. Focused on Alfred North Whitehead's groundbreaking philosophical work. Worked for non-profits and faith-based organizations.

Redmond, Washington, Us

o Collaborated closely with Microsoft business partners, OEMs, and ISVso Delivered secure environments within Windows Vista and Windows 7 environments. o Created strategic brand engagements with customers and partners as part of ongoing customer requirements evaluation work. o Partner relationships included Fortune 100 banks, Adobe, Corel, Sun Microsystems.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

o Product definition for XML and content creation product lines. o Strategic evaluation of market opportunities and tactical delivery of new products for those markets.o Leadership of product and program management team.

San Jose, Ca, Us

o Senior Product Manager in Advanced Technology Labs / Internet Products Group o Collaborated with senior engineering team to plan for Adobe's future product lineo Market research nationwide - focused on mobile, multi-modal and next generation advanced products.

Seattle, Wa, Us

o Managed client relationships for largest independent Web services company on the West Coast. o Analyzed market space and customer needs, presented new products and services. o Delivered ground-breaking new websites such as the first version of "Magic Online," CSPAN.

Seattle, Wa, Us

o Led product direction and online software development project direction for many Web software projects.o Clients included Wizards of the Coast, BP, Amazon, Microsoft Careers, Mid-America Exec. Search, VoiceStream Wireless, Continental Savings Bank, Washington Mutual, etc. o Part of the team that first brought the PGA Tour and C-SPAN.org online.

Graduate School Of Business Executive Education

Graduate Studies In Ethics, Philosophy And Ai

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Creative Writing

Ma, English

B.A., English Magna Cum Laude