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Mountain View, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Helping investment and portfolio teams make good decisions about AI and related technologies.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

I help this healthcare AI startup to define their product vision, technical implementation and go-to-market strategy.

Pleasanton, California, Us

Leading ~70 engineers across the Americas, Europe and India, who research, develop and deliver a broad range of Medallia products and systems, including: - Medallia Text Analytics, inc. Search, Question Answering, Summarization, Action Recommendation;- Stella Connect, Intelligent Agent Coaching;- Medallia Contact Center, Conversational Intelligence and analytics;- Monkeylearn/Athena Studio, Low code/No code ML workflows (whose acquisition I initiated and drove);- XStats, pain-free Statistical Analysis;- Voci Speech Intelligence, state of the art speech transcription and emotion analytics;- Sense360, consumer behavioral intelligence and benchmarkingwhich collectively generate more than $500M in revenue; as well as the Medallia's Tranquility Data Platform, and Athena AI frameworks, which simplify cross-product integration, and deliver in house Generative AI capabilities, respectively.As part of my work, I manage a budget of ~$10M; and spend a third of my time working with other Engineering, Product Management, Field, Strategy and Acquisition leaders, developing and communicating Medallia’s AI/ML strategy, to customers, analysts, and investors.

Refocused the roadmap for Kyper's Data as a Service (DaaS) platform, from “increasing inventory” to helping users to find datasets appropriate to their problems, then:• Created and managed an opportunity to integrate the DaaS business with an established data science platform.• Provided guidance on turning a stream of predictive analytics engagements for China-based component suppliers into a broad-appeal, demand-forecasting product.

Somerville, Massachusetts, Us

As Director then VP, at Basis, a leading provider of multilingual NLP technology in commerce and national security, I defined and drove the vision for the multi-product Rosette suite: transforming it from fixed components to "field trainable" systems with associated data and adaptation services, that customer teams could more easily use to deliver intelligent application features. • built an alliance from C-level to Customers around an 18 month roadmap - a first for the company. • collaboratively implemented a lightweight process for turning feedback into roadmap changes, using JIRA • listened to customers every day, in the US, Europe and Asia, to grok the experiences they wanted to deliver.• engaged CTO, VPE and product owners sprint by sprint to ensure we honoured our shared priorities• recruited and managed a PM, two PMMs, and a business analyst.• drove the creation of the Customer Success team and mentored its manager.• delivered quarterly strategy briefings, monthly use case-based training, and weekly customer-facing updates and speaking engagements.Founded and led a cross-functional team to deliver RosetteAPI, Basis' first SaaS offering. RosetteAPI connected us to new, demanding customers, allowed us to deliver improvements near continuously, and brought high scale experimentation to the company.Provided consistent, informed advocacy of novel machine learning techniques and data sources from recent literature and partners, focusing on representation learning, distant supervision and knowledge-graph construction.Delivered several state of the art NLP capabilities to market, including:• "massively multilingual" word embeddings• ultrafast entity linking for short, noisy text• entity level sentiment analysis• highly adaptable relationship extractionIdentified and evaluated acquisition targets to fill gaps in Basis' portfolio and improve our strategic position regarding, e.g. mobile platforms.As part of my role, I held a TS/SCI Clearance.

Westborough, Ma, Us

Working with the CTO and the Head of Services, I undertook around ten projects for this infrastructure and logistics leader, centered on virtualised infrastructure architecture and migration, storage system design and procurement, and business process analysis and design. These included:• Design and procurement of a 3PB storage facility that allowed Avoke's Call Analytics platform to record, index and archive all Medicare and Affordable Care Act calls expected 2014-2017.• Divestiture of real and virtual EHR business infrastructure from Sage, for Vitera, as part of a larger EMC team. • BC/DR and infrastructure audits of Glatfelter Insurance Group, ALCO Stores , Inc. and Belk, Inc., working with and presenting to the C suite or Boards of these companies.• Process maturity analysis of INETU as part of acquisition due diligence for BV Investment Partners.• Latency sensitivity analysis for Cricket Wireless.

Billerica, Ma, Us

Planned and managed the technology and services roadmap for this Storage and Virtualization VAR.• Helped grow revenue from $3M in 2008 to ~$6M in 2010, and increase average deal size and margin >20%.• Led successful efforts to become top tier certified resellers of, among others, VMware, NetApp, and Riverbed products. • Managed a team of four experienced engineers. Helped grow services revenue to around $800K in 2012, from around $200K in 2008.• Was the public face of the company at our own and partner events, focused on making the value of current and forthcoming technology easy to understand.

Edinburgh, Gb

Billerica, Ma, Us

Helped this Disaster Recovery startup to pivot into a profitable Storage VAR business.• Identified design flaws in the company's initial Archeon offering.• Managed a team of two engineers to deliver a roadmap of improvements.• Replaced homegrown backend with Equallogic/Riverbed Steelhead design.• Discovered strong demand for our approach to storage and replication, and drove Broadleaf to be among the first resellers in the US for both Equallogic and Riverbed.• Developed and closed equipment and services sales across New England.

I was hired by this Negotiation Training startup to establish an IT function, help them build a web-based training support system, develop web and print workflows, and to select and train them in the use of a Customer Relationship Management system. I negotiated and managed an annual budget of $30K. They expanded significantly in late 2004, and I designed and project managed the installation of a 20 station Windows-based data and telecom system in their new suite, including converged CRM/voice services, secure redundant networking/storage, etc.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Provided in house survey design and quantitative analysis services, for this Dispute Resolution think-tank. Managed an annual budget of $40K. Advised the management team on partnership proposals. More importantly, I received a comprehensive education in consensus building, stakeholder engagement and quantitative approaches to negotiation.

London, Gb

Led a team of four developers and econometricians in developing the specifications, roadmap and business plan for "SAMS", a web-based Survey Analysis and Management service (think, "Survey Monkey, with more guidance."), at this Economics think tank. I also developed and presented econometric models for various clients, inc. Swansea F.C., Corporation of London.

Hired by Oracle UK’s Director of Strategy to design and manage the development of the web-based learning management system that backed the Rivus executive education program.

ECS was a web-based system for conference promoters, organizers and attendees. It began as a directory of all professional conferences for the UK with an associated registration system. We built a prototype and developed a roadmap for the service, but didn’t get a second round.

Ma, Philosophy, Politics And Economics (Ppe)

Msc, Philosophy And History Of Science

Msc, Artificial Intelligence