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• Led cross-functional teams in developing AI-powered solutions on AWS and Azure, resulting in a 450% increase in digital product delivery and improved customer engagement.• Achieved a 200% increase in forecasted revenue by modernizing a legacy wholesale mobile and web-based sales platform, establishing a clear product vision, roadmap and go-to-market plan that resonated with customers; with a focus on data privacy, compliance and tech debt reduction.• Developed brand discovery and showroom activity tracking proofs-of-concept on AWS and Azure using generative AI and computer vision, enhancing customer engagement and product visibility.

• Directed 20+ digital innovation builds on AWS cloud, generating $8 million in revenue through advanced AI/ML deployments.• Developed technical assets, including visual storytelling and prototyping guides, to translate complex AI/ML solutions for diverse audiences.• Collaborated with partners and customers to deploy AI-driven data solutions, reducing time-to-market by 70%.

• Led the architecture and optimization of AI/ML models for various industry applications.• Supported private equity firms mergers & acquisitions activities, including creating best practices for Technical Due Diligence (TDD), cost optimization and post-transaction technical integration and value creation through AI/ML-powered innovation.• Led workshops on cloud architectures and AI/ML, data governance and cybersecurity best practices, increasing customer engagement by 70%, resulting in converting over 70% of digital innovation engagements to build, 200+ prototypes and $5 million in annual influenced revenue.• Produced comprehensive technical documentation and code samples to support customer adoption of cloud AI/ML solutions.

• Developed global-scale omni-channel innovation pipelines with Amazon, external partners, start-ups, NPOs, public-sector organizations, and enterprises; including owning support for 5 global enterprises and an additional 150+ specialized innovation engagements.• Created democratized entrepreneurship initiatives for underserved communities by launching the AWS We Power Tech and AWS Customer Hackathon programs, engaging directly with 1000+ builders resulting in $4 million investments across 30+ startups.• Developed full-stack prototypes and code samples to help developers get started quickly building AI/ML solutions on AWS.

• Led the transformation of Watson Health into a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, Infrastructure-as-Code model using AI and cloud-based technologies, maintaining regulatory compliance while enhancing scalability and efficiency.• Engineered an interactive, chat-enabled deployment pipeline providing real-time, visibility and metrics into workflows from business requirements and testing to service deployment.

• Developed an ecosystem of 200+ tech accelerators, start-ups, and global enterprise partners, creating new channels for product development and innovative tech solutions for wireless/LTE network-based use cases, with a particular focus on UAVs (drones), robotics and distributed databases.• Recruited, managed and trained a team of 10+ rapid prototyping engineers to build solutions primarily focusing on IoT, Robotics, Computer Vision and Machine Learning.• Invented a marketplace-based solution library with standardized documentation, architectures, code samples/repos, configuration files, implementation scripts and customer feedback mechanism for all prototypes, along with relevant marketing materials such as branding, sales decks, infographics, etc.

• Led the design and implementation of a DevOps infrastructure to support a virtual currency for Rakuten's global marketplace, enhancing deployment, testing, service orchestration, data reporting, and interactive dashboards for independent shop owners in the US and Japan.

• Delivered a medical e-learning system for first responders in sub-Saharan Africa, trained local support teams, and collaborated with governments across the continent to enhance public health data delivery and reporting via mobile devices, including in active warzones including the Congo and South Sudan.