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Redmond, Washington, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

In a leadership role, lead a multi-discipline team to establish DocuSign’s first Data Processing and Data Science/ML/AI Insights and Training Platform centered on Product and Customer data generated by customer interactions with DocuSign products.• Established DocuSign’s first Data Platform and Insights Strategy and Architecture to meet DocuSign’s internal customer use cases and integrations with DocuSign products. Reviewed across company and aligned cross-organizational efforts.• Led a multi-discipline team in the development, and subsequently placed into production, DocuSign’s first Data Lake based on “Lambda Architecture” paradigm for data processing layered on security and data management foundations. • Implemented and placed into production secure “sandboxes” for Data Scientist and ML/AI Engineering staff to perform analysis, model training and deployment using CI/CD into production. Solution based on Amazon AWS, open source and third-party products and technologies that include: Amazon AWS Lambda, Kinesis, Simple Storage Service, EMR, Spark, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Glue, Athena, SageMaker, Airflow, Redshift, Okta Integration and Snowflake.

Seattle, Washington, Us

DefinedCrowd offers an intelligent cloud-based platform that provides high-quality training data (voice, text, image) to help global Enterprises with Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) roadmaps reach their markets with better quality and speed. The products and platform enable machine learning engineers and data scientists to collect, structure and enrich high-precision training data (named entity extraction, text variant collection, text validation, sentiment tagging, semantic annotation, speech collection, speech-to-text transcription and validation) through a combination of human intelligence, automatic tools, and Machine Learning (ML). A few of our customers include Amazon, Apple, IBM Watson, Sony, Mastercard, BMW, Yahoo, Microsoft, EDP, Voicebox and Randstad.In a new Product Leadership role, hired and led Product, UX Design, Engineering teams and architecture that spanned several products that include a customer-facing Cloud-Based Enterprise SaaS solution and Development Platform consisting of REST APIs, a cloud-based near real-time data processing platform, Vision, Speech and Quality Measurement Machine Learning (ML) products and, Web and Mobile (iOS and Android) crowd-sourcing solutions - Microsoft Azure based.Established new SaaS-based Subscription models. Created a new revenue stream by uplifting DefinedCrowd’s Enterprise SaaS Product (UX and architecture) and re-architecting REST API’s to support partner integration with IBM Watson enabling IBM Watson Studio users to collect, enrich and structure high-quality voice, text and image data for training ML and AI models at scale.

Seattle, Wa, Us

In a new Engineering leadership role for Starbucks, was responsible for establishing and driving a Digital Transformation Product and Platform Strategy and the implementation of the tools, platforms, and services that comprise Starbucks’ Marketing Technologies, Personalization and Loyalty products that are used on a daily basis to reach and engage Starbucks customers digitally (mobile, web and on-premises). This includes extending the collection of customer behaviors (signals) across mobile, web and store, the utilization of personalization and recommendation solutions within digital solutions and physical points of presence globally to grow our customer base and maximize revenue.

New York, Ny, Us

In a new Product Engineering leadership role for HBO, charged with defining a digital transformation strategy and its execution towards extending HBO to a new digital business model with a focus on the Products and Platform technologies needed to support Digital Marketing and Digital Relationships with HBO’s customers. Platforms integrate with and support HBO’s Digital Consumer products, Digital Marketing, and Content Distribution Organizations. Designed and built in a way to enable HBO to quickly enter new markets and support speculative opportunities.• Hired and managed a multi-discipline Product and Engineering team with cloud and distributed systems experience in New York City.• Created Amazon AWS Cloud-based data lake (Big Data), products and solutions that support and integrate with Data and Analytics, Data Science and Digital Marketing needs spanning across multiple digital marketing channels for HBO. Solution included ingesting and integrating data from application endpoints, 2nd and 3rd party data (Kinesis, Airflow, Spark, Lambda, Matillion, Redshift, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Snowball). Data Science products and integrations of outcomes with the overall solution.• Established HBO's first Customer and Product Telemetry schema and collection platforms.• Established HBO's first Customer Data Platform (CDP) - Customer 360, Digital 360 and Finance 360• Oversaw strategy execution, platform development and delivery across engineering and marketing organizations.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Member of a team that was responsible for establishing leadership positions, and the application of, new Microsoft cloud-based products and technologies to a diverse set of opportunities.Created and executed the first Machine Learning (ML) workshop based on the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning platform and integrated workshop with Microsoft’s Azure for Research program. Executed workshop to PhD candidates and Researchers at leading research universities in Europe. Workshop was replicated and presented across the world.Established and developed studies applying Machine Learning algorithms to predict hospital emergency room visits (capacity and type of emergency) based on weather events for Norway's Ministry of Health and Care Services.Led Nokia M&A activities in the following areas:• Integrated Nokia’s “Life of the Customer” platform with Microsoft’s Customer Membership Digital Platform providing a deeper consumer and marketing connection through the use of data, analytics, machine learning and services. Platform produced targeted email and in-product messaging (push) - cross device and web.• Integrated Nokia’s Data and Analytics services onto existing Microsoft services hosted on Windows Azure and Cosmos and, migrating services hosted in Amazon AWS.• Lifted and shifted three Nokia Mobile telemetry solutions onto modern cloud-based platforms.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led the multi-disciplinary team responsible for UX design and the development of a cloud-based solution used for monitoring, data modeling, and managing earth's natural environments and species that inhabit the earth. Supports methods of visually, iteratively searching scientific Big Data stored in the cloud across three axis’s - temporally, geospatially and structurally - in single user experience.Featured in Fortune Magazine article "Could these 5 big data projects stop climate change?".

Redmond, Washington, Us

Charged with defining, developing, driving adoption and supporting distributed services that are part of the Bing Search and Microsoft Azure Platforms. Increased machine availability across Bing by 5.2% by establishing an automatic machine replacement service that also enables machine functions to be dynamically distributed across fault domains.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a team member of the organization incubated a portfolio of products that utilized technologies developed by researchers within the Microsoft Research division. Led initiatives and feature development across program management, engineering, content, and digital marketing teams to rapidly scale customer adoption and business models.• As a member of a product team, created and incubated product called Microsoft Tag (www.microsoft.com/tag), around the vision that most objects in the physical world have a digital representation behind them and the mobile phone is the gateway that enables people to go between the physical and digital world. Established a ML-image based POC using advertisements as a trigger for image-based search lookup. Exceeded 5 million mobile application (iPhone, Android) downloads.• Delivered an application of social analytics on Twitter feeds for various Enterprise and Consumer scenarios. Oversaw a portfolio of custom Machine Learning algorithms. Integrated into the Microsoft Bing product.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Within the office of the CTO, launched a cross-company program that resulted in the development of a 3-year innovation strategy to help shape engineering priorities, product and portfolio plans for cloud computing, entertainment and devices, search, and other areas. Partnering with Microsoft Presidents, CTOs, Distinguished Engineers and Technical Fellows:• Established programs to creates and promote global forecasting in areas such as hardware and silicon advancements, socio-economic, and business models.• Partnering with Microsoft Distinguished Engineers and Technical Fellows, developed strategy papers, formulated and hosted internal technical strategy conference and peer reviews of strategy papers for 1,000 technical executive staff.• Improved efficiency by conducting first-ever R&D “trend” learning seminars to 20,000 employees.• Created / ran / presented special technology strategy review and recommendation session for MS Executive team (CEO, Presidents, Board).

Redmond, Washington, Us

In a Product Leadership role, established a new Enterprise V1 Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics software product that supports performance management functionality, including dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, and analytics.Defined market opportunities, product scenarios, feature sets, architecture, release strategies, and framework. Led multi-location program management and engineering through product development to product launch.Supported M&A technology integration of ProClarity Analytics product lines.Achieved product placement in Gartner’s Corporate Performance Management Magic Quadrant. Keynote Speaker at product launches.Delivery of MS PerformancePoint Server resulted in the generation of $100M new revenue per year.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Served as member of leadership team in establishing a new product development organization for the Microsoft Dynamics Axapta product spanning Copenhagen, Denmark and Redmond, Washington.Responsible with evaluating and integrating products and technologies from acquired companies. Supported M&A activities. Built new development organization. Hired, trained, and led program management, release management and software development teams.Migrated Axapta development functions from Denmark to US.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Established new product group and led development of new Enterprise V1 Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics software product.Completed market and competitor research and developed product strategy resulting in funding. Responsible for the scenario and feature set definition, architecture, product scenarios, user experience, platform integration opportunities and feature sets.Worked within a 22-person engineering team creating product and platform through the complete product development lifecycle and launch activities.Contributed to positioning product in Gartner Leaders Quadrant for Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms.Delivery of MS SQL Server Reporting Services resulted in the generation of $450M new revenue per year, currently utilized by more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Defined scenarios and feature requirements for Exchange Local Store platform and developer offerings.Led team through the planning, development and integration of the Exchange Local Store with Microsoft Outlook. Support launch activities - keynote speaker.Exchange Local Store was designed as Microsoft first-ever client-side database and cache to compete with Lotus Notes.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I was responsible for the adoption of various Windows-based advanced technologies that include OLE DB, OLE DB for OLAP, MSMQ, MTS and COM. Partnered with ISV’s and supported Field and Partner engagement.Established business, marketing and evangelism programs. Created and hosted system design reviews and technology briefings. Keynote speaker at numerous conferences.Led and fostered a global team of technical evangelists, sales and marketing individuals and managers.

Toronto, On, Ca

Senior Product Development Manager responsible for the architecture and software development during the full product development life cycle and global launch of the GLOBEX, the first 24-hour-a-day mission critical computerized automated matching system and service for real-time global trading of futures and options on the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Marché à Terme International de France Exchanges. Over two billion transactions have been processed since launch and approximately 70 percent of total volume at the CME occurs electronically on this system.Led an innovation team in the application of new and emerging technologies to create prototypes of new market opportunities in the distributed trading and transaction market space. A new trading business in South America that is based on a distributed trading system that enables clients to submit bond trade requests to Market Makers using mail facilities over a global private network was established as a result.Implemented a worldwide company development strategy that exposed functionality that was resident in several Reuter’s products using Component Object Model methodologies and technologies. Result of efforts saved the company approximately $10M in development costs.

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Created the user experience and symbology of all primary display systems (heads-up, multi-function and data entry unit displays) and hardware used to manage all systems in the F-14D fighter jet aircraft. Applied ergonomic and human factors practices to the development and the design of the F-14D fighter jet throttle and joy stick controls.Developed and executed human factors studies to determine Human Machine Interface parameters and designs in flight simulation, physical jet and aircraft carrier environments.Primary liaison between Grumman Aerospace and the US Navy Aircrew Systems Advisory Panel during the development of display systems and hardware in the F-14D fighter jet aircraft.Developed simulators of F-14D displays using Silicon Graphics, Microsoft Basic. Performed education and training to Navy on Aircraft Carriers and Naval Bases.

Graduate Work, Computer Science

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

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