Working on something shiny ✨ in AI 🤖

Running the multi-device experience for Alexa. Synthesizing strategy, vision, execution; leading cross-functional product and engineering teams at the intersection of voice interfaces, AI, and machine learning technologies.

Crypto / Blockchain meets security.Advise and invest in blockchain and Ethereum-based early stage startups.

Senior Advisor to fast growing digital finance FinTech fund investing in peer 2 peer marketplaces leveraging use of data science, product and engineering strategy and implementation, and advising their team of developers.

* Worked closely with technical visionary / creator of Swagger - the widely popular open source tool for APIs spun out of Reverb - and a distributed engineering team to commercialize Swagger.* Focused mostly on product marketing (pricing / packaging), business development, and sales to large marquee customers. * Brought in first revenue using customer validation / discovery "lean startup" mechanisms.* Swagger was an open source technology developed at Reverb, and was sold to SmartBear Software.

* Target Market: Consumer Mobile / Internet and Publishers* Built next generation social and content discovery experiences for the consumer internet and for online publishers, leveraging machine learning and natural language processing technologies* Ran product management at Reverb, owning vision and execution of products, including personalized news reader. * Launched iOS consumer news discovery app - Featured by Apple, and also hitting #1 in the app store in news and overall* Launched various web-based products for consumers and publishers, boosting engagement for their properties* Managed team of product managers, designers, and mobile iOS and backend engineers (for iOS notifications). * Programming: Wrote some of the Objective-C production code (along with prototypes) * Design: Deeply engaged with design of product using in house and design agencies (PunchCut / Ammunition)* Metrics / Product health: Built first metrics system using Python/AWS, then brought full time FTE then off the shelf solution (first Flurry, then MixPanel) * Iteration: Track, iterate, evolve products across key metrics such as: Acquisition (paid / organic), Activation, Retention, Engagement, Viral / Referrals, Revenue, Measurements / cohort analysis on key features* Branding: worked with Cronan - who named / branded Kindle, TiVo and with Susan Kare - who designed the Mac icons* Performed customer validation / discovery across publisher segments (including in- person interviews) to test hypotheses* Worked closely with executive team and board* Reverb was sold to Inform, Inc.* More info about Reverb products here: https://www.youtube.com/user/HelloReverb/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0

* Target Market: B2B - Enterprise and SMB Cybersecurity* One of the founding / earliest employees at cloud security, machine learning leader, and helped grow it from tiny idea to a public company.• Master storyteller, shapeshifter. Various product management and built/ran product marketing efforts, including positioning, pricing, packaging, competitive analysis, messaging, strategic marketing, Go-To-Market launches, sales enablement, etc.

• One of the founding / earliest employees at cloud security leader, Proofpoint. Conceived, built, launched awesome big data and security products that blocked the bad stuff out of Global 2000 and F500 organizations, while guarding their most trusted data.

* Target Market: Consumer Mobile / Internet* Founded Pomogo, a mobile (iOS) company, developing social discovery apps and games. 10 consumer facing apps developed apps (social discovery, games, photography). Top titles have hit #1 in certain geographies and stayed in top 50 for multiple months. * Projects include - ZombieCam, HolidayCam - similar to Snapchat filters but several years prior to their introduction: Used OpenCV C++ with iOS SDK and Social features - Faves for Facebook: Semantic mining of Facebook friends'​ profiles to identify key interests (movies, etc.)* Heavy use of the social graph, Twitter Developer APIs and Facebook Connect APIs.

• Evaluated, sourced business plans and conducted detailed due diligence of startups across a range of industries including media, internet, security, bioinformatics / genomics for MDV, a top-tier venture firm.• Hands-on work / mentoring with seed-level startups and brilliant entrepreneurs.

• Worked on financial modeling and product planning for cable broadband business unit.

• Worked with tiny, bootstrapped DARPA-funded startup specializing in document analysis software doing producty things.

• Worked in some of the most remote and exotic locations around the world (Madagascar, Thailand, Alaska, to name a few) on mobile and satellite communication projects for public company manufacturing mobile and satellite equipment / products such as DirecTV and other equipment sold to Telcos.• Did a variety of roles from managing a team of a dozen field engineers to working in customer support to designing, deploying multi-million dollar mobile / satellite networks (data/voice) in remote parts of the world.