*Current focus areas:- GenAI and LLM evaluation and auditing- Creating Digital Twins via NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac Sim- Jetson GenAI at the Edge Customer obsessed technical executive with elite business acumen and expertise in the areas of Enterprise Business transformation (ERP, SCM, etc.) and automation (RPA) as an Interim/Fractional Chief AI Officer, CIO, CTO, or CPO.(IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Data, AI/ML). Also leads Security, Data Governance, Compliance, Privacy, Risk, & Audit assessments for IPOs, M&A’s, et al.

711 Ventures invests in founders with momentum who believe in solving hard problems at scale. We invest intellectual and social capital in their earliest stages, leveraging nearly 3 decades of experience in innovation, across business, AI, and tech in general. Some of the latest investments include:- Lambda Labs (Enterprise Cloud AI GPUs)🦄- LastMile AI (Enterprise AI LLMs for SMBs) - AudioMob (AI Gaming Audio AdTech)- SoloFunds (FinTech Lending) - Syrup Tech (Supply Chain AI) - Audioshake (AI Media & Entertainment)- ThreatKey (AI+Cybersecurity)- Mansa (Media & Entertainment) - StatusPro (Gaming + Spatial AR/VR) - Allara (Women’s Health) - FilmHedge (FinTech for M&E) - Boddle Learning (AI EdTech)and more.

Founding Engineering Compliance Product Leader for New Tech Introduction (NTI) & New Product Introduction (NPI) of GDC-H, a High Performance Computing (HPC) HW Infrastructure + Software Product with AI/ML throughout the stack for National Security, Intelligence Communities, and Department of Defense customers globally. Under my leadership, the GDC-H - lighthouse customer, US DoD (Aerospace JWCC mission), awarded Google a $9B IDIQ contract, after- also captured $100B+ in non-cancellable revenue contracts globally within 18 months of conception (FY22Q4), proving product market fit.Note: This was after 2 other L8 Directors failed to make any progressOther Notables: Product Leader that landed Google Cloud Anthos Multi-Cloud (an API into GCP) as a new category leader in Gartner MQ & Forrester.Addt’l Scope: Product leader for managed Kubernetes w/Vertex AI (+ portfolio of 30 Developer products)- Chief Evangelist for Google Cloud Certified Fellows (Google’s external Expert Developer Community by invite only)

Partnered with client CIO and CFO, while leading Product & Engineering teams (onsite & remote in India) across strategic customers’ business transformation initiatives in core engineering, finance, and AI data product, focused on:- Conversational Chatbot w/AI using Mosaic AI- AI/ML Ops (LLM, NLP, Robotics, Prescriptive Analytics)- Initial SRE and DevOps team (based on Hybrid Home Depot and Google SRE framework) using proprietary Mosaic AI DevOps platform- CI/CD (Jenkins, Mavens)- Data Science (Mosaic DS platform now Mosaic AI)- Robust Business Intelligence/Analytics (Tableau, Qlik, Informatica ETL)- Data Observability (Splunk, Apache Kafka)- Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Awards: Preferred Vendor

Member of the Elite Mercedes Benz Advisors Group providing product and GTM strategy for next gen consumer market revenue growth

- Partnered with client COO & CAO to design, develop, and Implement Executive Enterprise Analytics and Data Visualization Dashboard to meet regulatory compliance mandates.- Led a team of Sr Engineering Product Management leaders, Distinguished Software Engineers, Sr UX/UI designers and cross functional teams for integration of Lehman Brothers Wealth into Barclays Wealth IT Americas new product launch of a digital platform during M&A. - Led Wealth IT into compliance for Federal audit reporting post-merger.- Founding PM leader for Digital broker platform used to enter trades (decommissioned manual paper tickets).

Customer facing Exec onsite that led the Tyco/ADT digital transformation of the Sales and Marketing business functions and enterprise systems.Biometric scans and federal background checks required daily for entry.

Technical Deployment Lead for DirecTV National Digital Transformation in preparation for AT&T acquisition.

Custom role as a senior researcher providing decision sciences and data analysis support to the Sales Operations Support (SOS) team automating, standardizing and scaling the enterprise deal flow process.Created velocity efficiency in deal management increasing closed won deals by 2x.Other role: Tech Lead Managing team of Siebel application developers through major systems integrations for multiple M&A’s of enterprise Sales & Marketing systems for:- BellSouth Mobility- Cingular Wireless- Southern Bell Co

Startup founding Executive Leadership team member of a luxury live music event planning company. Developed and grew B2C product across market, generating multiple M&A offers. Responsible for $2M P&L. Negotiated contracts, hired/fired/promoted and managed workforce of 100 FTE & contingent labor.Co-Produced TV and Radio Ad spots w/major media brands. Managed all media planning.Headquartered in Atlanta, GA USAMedia: https://variety.com/2023/music/news/busta-rhymes-mona-scott-tribute-chris-lighty-1235685132/#!

Managed ISO certified call center team of 100+ technical systems engineers and hardware engineers.Acquired twice (Synavant acquired by Dendrite, then acquired by IMS Health) - Managed Services for Mobile, Software, Hardware (Builds, Asset Management, Remote Desktop Support)- Siebel CRM & Business Intelligence (Analytics)- Cybersecurity: Identity Access Management (IAM), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for Novartis, Eli Lily, and GSK Accomplishments: Designed and Developed Proprietary Knowledge Base platform

Accomplishments: - Project Lead on Coca-Cola's (The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Enterprise, et al) Token Ring decommission and network upgrade to Ethernet. - Progam managed Global Windows 2000 Server upgrade project.

Video Networks Inc. was Acquired by Pathfire- Recruited by former Equifax Sr. Director to join digital media distribution and streaming startup(essentially YouTube before YouTube) for News channels.- Broadcast Partners/Customers: Comcast, CBS, et al.

My team was a partnership with IBM as a prototype to evolve the internet. - Equifax’s Automated Data Systems (ADS) is an ISO/IEC certified data center inside of IBM, which uses Biometric [retina/fingerprint scans] for entry to protect 100s of millions of customers’ data.- Founding Product Manager for ePort (Equifax’s first ever eCommerce platform for Commercial Products, which is still widely used today.)- Siebel CRM Application Development- Tier 3 On-Call (Pager Duty) Network Support for Global Commercial Customers (i.e. GE Capital, et al)

My team was a partnership with Equifax Automated Data Systems, as a prototype to evolve the internet.

During M&A's, Strategic Technical Leader on multiple automation initiatives training and deploying early AI/ML (ie. Computer Vision for image capture, recognition, and processing) and NLP in Wholesale Lockbox for Treasury Management.

Under District Attorney Paul Howard, I assisted in pre-trial case management for select defendants before indictment. Accomplishments: Reduced DA's case volume by successfully negotiating plea deals to lesser charges, recommending a pre-trial intervention program, or completely dropping charges against the defendant(s) prior to any official indictment.