Product manager using data science, data mining, analytics, and machine learning to lead products, platforms, and organizations from R&D to customer success at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds.

Founded and lead the Data Mining and Analytics Group for Uber’s Self-Driving Car Project (ATG). Develop data mining, data science, and analytics platforms, workflows, and products that accelerate and improve development across a +700 person engineering organization including machine learning, autonomy capabilities, and the safety case.Launched performance improvement flywheels for:• Perception and Prediction: machine-learned models with comprehensive, diverse, and continuously curated training examples (improved precision/recall, decreased training time, decreased compute).• Motion Planning: capability development with scenario-based requirements (higher test pass-rate, lower intervention rate).• Labeling: targeted labeling jobs with comprehensive, diverse, and continually updated ground-truth data sets (improved label quality, accelerated label production speed, lowered production cost).• Virtual Simulation: tests aligned with real-world scenarios (higher test quality, more efficient test runs, lowered compute cost).• Safety and Systems Engineering: statistically significant specifications and capability requirements aligned with the real-world (improved development quality, accelerated development speed, lowered development cost).

Founded and lead a ML and big data analytics service that transforms raw consumer data into insights and functionality. Powers a total curation system consisting of list-making, analytics, and discovery solutions.Press• Forbes - "Unlocking curation data drives 'content first' community." - http://goo.gl/lVQyb0• CIO - "The results look striking... helps you see product segment interest." - http://goo.gl/kWKYG9• ReadWrite - Guest Post – What Made Google Great May Be Its Biggest Risk - http://goo.gl/jbhOQD• VentureBeat - Guest Post - Songza Has a Music Curation-Scaling Problem - http://goo.gl/VMUSyJ• ThinkAdvisor – “Shows… herd mentality among institutional investors” – https://bit.ly/3fJDdUz• IT World - "Seeing market trends... Curalytics does this automatically." - http://goo.gl/636zNB• Network World - "The tool…lets you curate the curators." - http://goo.gl/I6DDB7• Computer Sweden - "The tool lets you… see influencer groups." - http://goo.gl/I4sO7kOverall Achievements• Process and publish +1BN data points.• Invented, architected, engineered, scaled, and sold product.• Manage agile and scrum team of 5 across back-end and front-end development.Unsupervised ML Algorithm Development and Deployment• Identify clusters of similar curators and measure their “curator score”.• Lead interdisciplinary team of PhD and MA engineers on graph algorithm and deployment.• Scaled deployment in the cloud using Amazon Web Services.API• Engineered RESTful API using python.• Deployed on AWS using NoSQL database DynamoDB, compute service Lambda, and API-Gateway.• Developed javascript API interface.• API documentation here: https://curalytics.api-docs.io/v1/welcomeBusiness Intelligence Tools, Front-End Engineering, & Design• CIO.com called the dashboard “striking”: http://goo.gl/kWKYG9• Engineered and designed front-end. See here: http://curalytics.com• Visualize curation assets and empower strategic curation.

Acquired by By Light.Innovation unit within +$250MM/year technology service provider.Overall Achievements• Created vision, strategy, functionality, UX, and UI for SaraGEO iOS App.• $2MM acquisition.• Collaborated with Phacil co-founders and engineering team using Scrum and Agile.• See app screenshots here: https://goo.gl/photos/sMjLcEqRd7BsiXvw6• Marketing page here: http://sarageo.com/mobile/

Acquired by ION Group.Venture backed financial technology startup in high-frequency, algorithmic, foreign-exchange trading.Trading Platform• Worked closely with CEO, COO and a team of 9 C++ developers and a network engineer to develop SAAS trading platform.• Transformed market presence to communicate a simple, compelling product.• Studies: ECN relative latency study, ECN order execution latency study, ECN order fill study, FX vs. equities volume study• Modeling: FX trading fixed and recurring costs model, brokerage revenue vs. flat fee model, infrastructure costs, trading slippage calculator• Competitive research on FX exchanges, traders, prop shops, hedge funds and technology companies.Global Network• Built a low-latency trading network from Chicago, NYC, and London in collaboration with a network engineer.• Built data-center footprints in Chicago, NYC, and London in collaboration with a network engineer.Finance• Raised millions in funding with business analysis and presentation support: Series A, A2, and debt financings.• Finance: capitalization table, antidilution analysis, pro forma capitalization, common & preferred stock ledgers, warrants, options• Accounting Reports: financial statements, auditing, revenue recognition, employee incentive plans, org charts, ownership structure• Financial Reports and Modeling: sales, gross margin, volume, average price, revenue, sales pipeline, operating expenses, budget forecast, financial projections• Financial Position: cash, historical cash flows, accounts receivable, AR aging, fixed assets, equipment, leases, liabilities, funding maturing scheduleTeam Building• Strategically recruited new developers through word of mouth, career fairs, and professional recruiters.

Founded and lead a social curation platform. Algorithms connect similar users and make content recommendations.Overall Achievements• Millions of visitors.• Invented, architected, designed, engineered, and scaled product.• Lead inter-disciplinary team in agile and scrum: hired two teams of 6 technical employees.• Engineered and designed front-end.Algorithm R&D• Lead an interdisciplinary group of PhDs to design algorithms based on social science that identify taste groups and taste leaders in curation data.• Developed strategic partnership with a national laboratory to engineer algorithms.User Interface R&D• Developed innovative discovery UI. Gained over 10% of users through this interface.• See example here: http://topiat.com/home/ddi_looped/1796Curation Platform• Created curation functionality for websites, images, videos, music, places, and products.• API integration with Google Search, Google Image Search, YouTube, Amazon, and others.• Created a bookmarklet that allows users to curate content from their web browser.• Created ability to “follow” users, developed a “newsfeed”, and ability to “repost” content.• Integrated “Masonry” and responsive user interface. See example here: http://topiat.com/steffon/design/like• Created commenting system.• Created back-end administrative tools.• Developed statistics pages for users.• Developed “deals” that gives a free download in exchange for a review of the featured content.Game Mechanics• Curators earn points when they discover likable content before their like-minded peers.• Designed and implemented scoring algorithm.• See example here: http://topiat.com/networks?cid=256&uid=20“Find It For Me” Application• Users help their like-minded peers discover content.• Architected and implemented feature.• See example here: http://topiat.com/recommendation/openrequestsEmail System• System sends automated emails based on user activity.• Newsletter functionality for admins.

#1 most active angel group in the country with more than $45MM invested.• Performed analysis, market research and due diligence of early stage technology companies.• Forecasted revenue growth and performed break-even analyses for different scenarios.• Advised founders on the fund raising process and consulted on their presentations and financials.• Reported on investment amounts, timelines and companies to the director.• Assisted director with valuing portfolio companies and reported ROI by company and investor.