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I led a talented team of engineers, data scientists, product managers and program managers focused on Adobe Sensei, Adobe's unified framework for artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as search technologies for Adobe's Creative, Document and Experience Cloud businesses. My team developed platform technologies as well as specific AI and ML product features and solutions with a focus on deep learning for content understanding and computational creativity.

I'm leading a disruptive effort to bring search to Adobe, with aggressive goals and executive support at the highest levels. And I'm hiring! Looking for top notch search engineers and product managers at all levels. Keywords: architecture, indexing, Elasticsearch, Lucene, SolR, relevance & ranking, data mining, machine learning, data analysis & metrics, query processing, multi-lingual search, search UX. This is an opportunity to make a huge impact in a fast-paced, startup-like environment in a great company. Flexible locations. If interested or have any referrals, please get in touch.

San Jose, Ca, Us

I was responsible for managing a large team of product managers overseeing the end-to-end buyer experience for ebay.com and eBay's global marketplace sites. My role covered all buyer facing site flows, including homepage, search, product/item pages, registration, sign-in, merchandising, SEO, loyalty, site advertising, personalization features, and editorial content. A strong data-driven approach delivered significant lift to key financial and behavioral metrics in each year in each market. Additionally, I led the largest set of site changes in a decade to drive engagement and attract new customer segments.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

I was the General Manager of the Powerset Division of Bing. I managed a team of 60 developers and program managers responsible for multiple product features, including captions/summaries of search results, reference answers, and query processing using natural language techniques. These projects involved data mining, machine learning, classification, natural language algorithms, query analysis, entity extraction, metadata extraction from web pages, UX feature design, A/B testing, metrics development/data analysis, and scable and performant infrastructure engineering.

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At Powerset I reported to the board of directors, and was responsible for managing the entire team of 80 people, including the engineering, product management, operations and finance teams. In my dual role as head of product, I was responsible for developing the core product and marketing strategy, and overseeing product design. As GM, I was intimately involved in the company's fund raising and the acquisition by Microsoft in 2008.Powerset's vision was to bring semantic search technology to the masses, and we are now integrating the technology and vision into Bing.

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Animated Speech Corporation is a language learning software and technology company, now merged with TeachTown. Animated Speech developed technology for visualizing speech articulation using 3D animated models, with language acquisition applications for special education students and foreign language learners. I managed the development, marketing and sales of the company's product line.

Headpedal was a spinout from the Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory specializing in enabling online interaction with animated avatars for customer service, online marketing and e-learning applications. I was responsible for raising Series A and B financing, and all aspects of business operations, from day-to-day functions to long-term strategic plans. Actively involved in managing software development, developing marketing strategies, identifying sales opportunities, and managing key clients, such as Sprint PCS, FMC, Palm and Fuji-Xerox.

I managed a research team that developed interactive avatars for completing tasks through spoken dialogue. We built systems that included fully articulated 3D humanoid characters with speech recognition, vision, dialogue and task models, as well as models of non-verbal dialogic cues (gestures and facial expressions) for turn-taking. This projects and associated patents were spun out into a startup called Headpedal.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Media Arts And Sciences

M.S.E / Ph.D., Computer Science

Bs, Applied Mathematics (Computer Science Track)