Strategic thinker specializing in taking projects from zero to one. I gain insights early and fast and am able to work with people to implement a vision. Hard drive and no nonsense approach means I am best suited to places that are dedicated to performance and results. Currently interested in solar / battery / microgrids, crypto / metaverse, decision making tech, food tech and helping startups.
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Co-FounderEveryonecounts.World Apr 2023 - PresentColorado, United StatesThe Netflix of Self-Help; That's what we're going for. Much much more to come. -
Product ManagerGoogle May 2012 - Mar 2023Mountain View, CaLaunched twelve products across Google Search, Google Ads and Google Cloud, serving as either Product Manager or Project Manager. Every product was launched from scratch. Work involved extensive engagement with teams outside of my immediate org and ranged from highly tech to pure product. Several products have grown to hundreds of millions of daily active users and one product has grown to 1 billion daily actives.Originated ideas and saw through completion of a research project on graph-based history data structures resulting in a paper in W3 conference.Assisted with countless other efforts and projects, including mentoring, giving and organizing presentations and participating in small efforts.Awarded two patents and many project bonuses. -
Partner / EngineerEncompass Technology Nov 2010 - Apr 2012St. Louis, MoAn Engineering Design House specializing in analog, digital, and software designs built around flexible FPGAs with embedded soft-processors, providing complete engineering services from initial architecture to final integration.Worked on a system to control and monitor the charging phase of battery manufacture for a large battery supplier. Design involved FPGA, Software and Hardware components and was delivered to spec and on time.
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Consultant: Games And Media TechnologyAlai Media Jul 2006 - Nov 2010St. Louis, MoWorked numerous projects, including:• Designed and developed of products and business strategy for a small business leading to tripling of sales, and major expansion of company customer base. Consulting service ranged from actual product design to brainstorming on approaches for marketing, sales and business strategy.• Researched and developed digital printer product for a small company leading to rapid prototyping and assimilation of knowledge of complex systems, including a full integration and evaluation of mechanical, electronic, and fluidic components. Consulting involved evaluating suppliers, electronic design and business strategy.• Technical direction for a major art exhibit at a museum, with opportunities to try out radical technical solutions and alternative approaches to engineering problems.• Numerous small projects involving business development, safety issues, software and hardware development, each leading to novel approaches and breakthrough solutions.
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Stay-At-Home DadStay-At-Home Dad Jan 2002 - Jun 2006Denver, Colorado And St. Louis, MissouriStayed at home to raise my daughter, but also engaged in voluntary work for a religious organization, took classes at two universities, and conducted several small software engineering consulting projects.
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CeoCantv 2000 - 2001Denver, CoFounder and CEO of television company, producing and distributing half hour news shows on consumer gadgets. • Recruited, developed business strategy, created financial plan, raised investment, and undertook sales, marketing.• Developed procedures for producing quality shows with drastically lower production costs than industry norms, enabling shows to break even at much lower advertising rates. • Drew out a plan for growth and profitability, mastering the intricacies of broadcast advertising industry. • Gained distribution in 17% of the US television market. -
Vp EngineeringLearn2.Com 1995 - 1999Denver, CoCo-founder and Vice President of Engineering. • Recruited and led a team of seventeen engineers to develop best in class multi-media streaming technology for the Internet. • Organized team on a unique consultative approach, leading to much higher productivity than industry norms. • Implemented one of the first streaming presentations on the Internet in 1994. • Received patent (no. 5,995,091) for streaming technology.• Developed unique and new compression technologies.• Led team to develop new methods for highly automated production leading to much lower production costs.• Participated in numerous sales and strategy sessions to delineate companies approach and market. • Presented technology to diverse group of clients and investors, resulting in considerable increase in sales. • Closed sales reaching in the millions of dollars to large corporations including IBM and EDS.
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Producer & Technical DirectorMammoth Micro Productions 1992 - 1995Golden, CoWorked in startup company as co-producer of Pagemaster game for Turner Broadcasting (now a Time Warner Company), turned around a project months behind schedule, recruiting and directing a team of ninety individuals to deliver working product on time. The project was also one of the first multimedia PC games on the market.As technical lead for multimedia project for Hearst (Country Living Magazine) developed production method and procedures that ensured on time and within budget delivery of a first in class multimedia product. Work involved working closely with client, artists, and technical team to lay down interface design and technical production.Work on other projects involved closely collaborating with management, technical team, and artists to devise unique approaches to problems that were always first in their class and never tried before, each solution involving a unique set of innovations in the face of many unknown technical variables.
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Technical Team LeadLogica 1987 - 1992London, Uk & Fort Lauderdale, FlWorked in the United Kingdom on teams both large and small, as team member and team leader, learning hands on the intricacies of organizing and delivering complex software projects. Projects involved pioneering technologies using Artificial Intelligence techniques (and Prolog), multimedia products, and real time systems. Mastered new technologies in a matter of days to rapidly develop solutions to complex problems. Clients included the BBC, ITV and Reuters.Worked in the United States at IBM to deliver the multimedia portion of the OS/2 2.0. As software quality assurance team lead my work involved design reviews and feedbackto developers. As a result of my recommendations many changes were made to software design to both simplify and streamline development. -
Intern StudentStandard Telephone & Cables, Plc Jan 1984 - May 1987London, United KingdomWorked on TAT-8, the first transatlantic optical fiber communication cable, developing electronic design and automated test bed for lasers.
Safa Alai Education Details
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Electrical & Electronic Engineering
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