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Lead product development for educational technology products utilizing generative AI to deliver efficient, effective, engaging learning experiences.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Phase Genomics uses a deep learning and other ML methods to analyze the three-dimensional structure of DNA, and thereby discover new drug targets, identify novel biomarkers, find new uses for existing drugs, and create new diagnostic methods in areas such as oncology and infectious disease. Our products also support a variety of basic research applications, such as discovering new microbial species and strains, connecting mobile elements such as plasmids and viruses with their microbial hosts, and assembling eukaryotic genomes.Following my eight-year tenure as CTO, I now serve as an advisor. In this capacity, I continue to provide advice on software engineering, artificial intelligence, genomics, management, and strategy.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Phase Genomics uses a deep learning and other ML methods to analyze the three-dimensional structure of DNA, and thereby discover new drug targets, identify novel biomarkers, find new uses for existing drugs, and create new diagnostic methods in areas such as oncology and infectious disease. Our products also support a variety of basic research applications, such as discovering new microbial species and strains, connecting mobile elements such as plasmids and viruses with their microbial hosts, and assembling eukaryotic genomes.I lead the design and implementation of our cloud-based (AWS) SaaS platform, implemented primarily in Python with bits of C++, Perl, and R, recruiting an elite team of software engineers, bioinformaticians, and data scientists in the process. On a typical day, our system processes hundreds of GBs of genomic data and performs thousands of hours of computation in order to analyze genomic structures and train machine learning models. We use a variety of house-built custom analysis software for this, mainly derived from machine learning/deep learning and graph theory, and use many standard bioinformatics tools as well.While I am in charge of all software development, data science, and bioinformatics, as with any startup founder, I do a little bit of everything - business planning, financial modeling, fundraising, negotiating, biz dev, recruiting, etc.

Over the years I've managed to put out a few side project too.Geonex is the Augmented Reality Canvas. Place digital content into the physical world around you, or hunt for fun and exciting content others have left before. Check it out in the iOS app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geonex/id1121546129?mt=8Lights Out Ultra is a new twist on the classic Lights Out game we loved in the 80's and 90's. Can you turn out all the lights on the intensely difficult 6x6 4-color board? Check it out on the iOS app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lights-out-ultra/id1111307362?mt=8GimmeSomeStuff.com: the place to buy some random stuff. Built mostly to create an homage to late 90's website designs (aka the "DerpWeb" aesthetic), it became a business where you can purchase a box of random, fun stuff. A "box of crap" if you will. Check out the site here: http://gimmesomestuff.com. It's loaded with Easter eggs too.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Form vision for the Microsoft Office engineering system, including development tools and practices, multi-device engineering strategy, build system, and Office-wide engineering cadence. Define key business success metrics and design features and systems to achieve business objectives. Responsible for strategy, product management, defining and prioritizing projects, driving their execution, and measuring success of results.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Manage a team of 3 program managers planning feature work for approximately 20 developers in the internal Office engineering problem space. Form vision for the Microsoft Office engineering system, including development tools and practices, multi-device engineering strategy, build system, and Office-wide engineering cadence. Define key business success metrics and design features and systems to achieve business objectives. Responsible for strategy, product management, defining and prioritizing projects, driving their execution, and measuring success of results.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Own and drive solutions to problems in the Office engineering system, ranging from efficiently performing builds of Office's several hundred million lines of code to coordinating release activities for major Office versions. Design software solutions to resolve engineering challenges in Office and increase customer satisfaction or reduce business costs.

Media Arts & Sciences

Computer Science