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New York, NY, US

At Maslow AI, we're at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge AI and ML technologies with bespoke AI infrastructure development, ensuring businesses not only meet but exceed their operational and strategic goals. Leadership: Guided a multidisciplinary team through complex AI projects, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.Innovation.

New York, NY, US

Oversight of technology and AI strategy aimed at enhancing product experience in a sports tech startup environment. Directly responsible for implementing a range of machine learning models to deliver personalized, dynamic user experiences.Leadership: Direct the technology team and shape the company's technology roadmap. Spearhead efforts to secure pre-seed.

• Fem-tech beauty innovation firm partnered with Swarovski™, specializing in proprietary, patented nano-thermal cooling technology aimed at providing relief from hot flashes for women undergoing menopause.
• Leadership: Contribute extensive technical leadership and business expertise to steer the company's growth and strategic direction.
• Innovation: Leverage my passion for AI and technology to foster continuous improvement of Fria's innovative products. Instrumental in the development and application of the patented nano-thermal cooling technology.
• Collaboration: Engage in strategic collaboration to drive technology applications and market expansion efforts, contributing to the enhancement of customer quality of life.
• Strategic Thinker: Provide invaluable insights into strategic business planning and technology applications to meet consumer needs and open new market opportunities.

St. Louis, MO, US

• $5B construction firm with 5K employees. Hired by CIO to assist with cross-functional structure and scale.
• Leadership: Enabled a culture of continuous improvement and effective resource planning by streamlining processes and maximizing resource utilization to increase productivity that improved the bottom line.
• Innovation: Leveraged design thinking to craft an AI proof of concept to continuously update documents on project initiation, safety, and quality that contractors must follow by helping Spanish-speaking contractors.
• Collaboration: Improved collaboration and understanding between technical teams and decision-makers by rolling out project management best practices on frequent communication and information sharing.
• Strategic Thinker: Delivered BI reports with improved quality to executives and decision-makers, bridging the gap between technical teams and business technology managers by using Design Thinking strategies and Agile.

• Art and entertainment startup. Hired by CEO to take the concept to market, managing 10 resources and $650K budget.
• Leadership: Increased productivity 40% of an offshore team by establishing clear goals and objectives for each individual tied back to the business while fostering a culture of improvement and innovation.
• Innovation: Tuned into market insights and data science to develop new products and services that made a significant impact on the top line, increasing revenue by 35%.
• Strategic Thinker: Improved customer retention and social media effectiveness by implementing a data-driven product and marketing strategy, leveraging Google Analytics and other data points to identify product.
• Collaboration: Increased Broadway Dance Center’s mobile app user retention, engagement, and 5-star rating satisfaction by conducting extensive user research and collaboration sessions to resolve pain points.

• CBD products and education startup. Hired by CEO and investors to replace existing CTO. Reported to the CEO, managing 5 resources and a $450,000 budget.
• Leadership: Established a remote offshore team to lower labor costs, hire diverse specialized talent, and enable scalable operations to support growth hacking.
• Innovation: Improved content efficiency and ranking on Google in a crowded CBD space by creating quality content and training a GPT2 model with scientific sources, using KPIs to improve content.
• Collaboration: Secured budget approvals from the CEO and investors to rebrand and productize a social network platform for CBD and information exchange by applying Design Thinking and Branding expertise to build a new.
• Strategic Thinker: Achieved 70% growth in the first year after leading the strategic planning to reposition the product via an innovation roadmap based on insights gained from user feedback and market analysis.

Seattle, WA, US

• Public Fortune 500 online travel shopping firm (NASDAQ: EXPE). Hired to manage acquisition infrastructure programs. Reported to VP of IS, managing 15 to 20 global resources, $10M budget and a portfolio of 16 projects..
• Leadership: Successfully decommissioned 10,000 Windows 2003 servers in mission critical legacy systems that saved the company $1M in annual support costs.
• Innovation: Drove a cloud and DevOps strategy with infrastructure and security teams by implementing a more robust setup via a hybrid migration to AWS that improved uptime, agility, and business continuity.
• Collaboration: Enabled a smooth infrastructure transition of the Orbitz acquisition into Expedia by working with Stakeholders, Legal and other teams early and often on plans, progress, roadblocks, and concerns.
• Strategic Thinker: Optimized the service delivery pipeline by identifying the root cause to the bottlenecks by tracking end-to-end delivery data points to gain visibility on where the pipeline was slowing down.

Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

• $105.7M clinical trials firm. Hired by President to help build their Infrastructure to comply with FDA, DEA, and Pharma regulations. Reported to CEO managing 3 resources and an $850K budget.
• Leadership: Established a high bar and assessment program for recruiting new operational talent that attracted the suitable onshore and offshore candidates needed to support the new strategy.
• Innovation: Deflected data breach and compliance penalty costs by using best practices and cybersecurity trends in standard operating procedures and infrastructure for security, backups, and compliance.
• Collaboration: Delivered 45% in technology cost savings by renegotiating vendor contracts.
• Strategic Thinker: Gained buyin and resources by championing a new IT Operations strategic plan that closed gaps in business continuity, cybersecurity, spending, and innovation.

• Built firm to address a market gap in the insurance actuary software space that saved processing time and improved data analysis capabilities. Managed 3 resources and a $250K budget.
• Leadership: Drove a customer-centric culture to build solutions with the end user in mind that minimized complexity and improved user adoption.
• Innovation: Implemented a Big Data Framework to enable scalability, distributed computing, and fast, efficient data processing, delivering reports with parallel processing and optimized actuarial models.
• Collaboration: Empowered non-hierarchical decision-making by establishing an offshore and onshore teaming structure that drove efficient development.
• Strategic Thinker: Replaced existing slow solutions by developing a new product that significantly improved the speed of running reports, reducing the time from 72 hours to under 10 minutes.

East Windsor, NJ - New Jersey, US

• $100M pharmaceutical firm. Hired to run the IT. Reported to the CEO, managing 5 resources and a $1.5M budget.
• Leadership: Established the first IT department, fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability to align with the company’s mission, implementing mission-critical platforms.
• Innovation: Launched internal hackathons to proactively identify security issues and recruit new talent, maintaining 99% uptime by addressing new threats and no security breaches or IP theft.
• Collaboration: Reduced project timelines and improved data tracking accuracy in drug development by closing communication gaps between IT and R&D.
• Strategic Thinker: Set the department’s vision and system implementation strategy that reduced downtime, improved IT security, and achieved ongoing regulatory compliance.

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Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

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