• Leading Gen AI Ecosystem/Partnerships for IBM Cloud including our GPU As a Service team• I lead IBM Cloud's product management and ecosystem strategy for Digital Assets & Web3, working across portfolio’s, Business units, and with Business Partners towards Central Bank Digital Currencies, Confidential Compute, Institutional Digital Asset Custody/Wallet Infrastructure, Tokenization, Blockchain Analytics/AML/KYC, Institutional Node Hosting/Validation, Decentralized Identity, and more in order build Institutional Infrastructure to bring banks and FI’s into Web3. - https://www.ibm.com/cloud/digital-assets-platformIf you're using Confidential Compute to secure your Blockchain workloads, or leveraging GenAI for sensitive workloads, reach out!• Product manager leading the creation of IBM Cloud Marketplace & IBM Cloud EcosystemUsage-Based Software on IBM Cloud Marketplace Launch -https://community.ibm.com/community/user/cloud/blogs/talha-khan/2024/06/04/sell-on-ibm-cloud-professional-services-on-ibm-clo?CommunityKey=dd1ee2bc-c83b-4afb-bd1c-9095ff0c3bc1Professional Services on IBM Cloud Marketplace Launch - https://community.ibm.com/community/user/cloud/blogs/talha-khan/2024/06/04/sell-on-ibm-cloud-professional-services-on-ibm-clo?CommunityKey=dd1ee2bc-c83b-4afb-bd1c-9095ff0c3bc1

I’m leading IBM Cloud's strategy for Digital Assets & Web3• I made this with the Quantum team, launching the very first presence of IBM Quantum on the IBM Cloud. https://ibm.co/3ed4PTe• I'm a Product manager leading the creation of IBM Cloud Marketplace • Lead cross functional teams (both dev and GTM teams) in order to iterate and improve the onboarding software for developers, partners, ISV’s, startups, and fortune 500’s, to sell their apps that run on IBM Cloud IaaS onto the IBM Cloud Marketplace, taking the marketplace from 250 to 415+ applications and streamlining time-to-onboard for software applications to 7 days.•Lead Cloud Marketplace Partner GTM from concept/market research to launch, creating net new Marketplace Seller GTM program and crystalizing how we do joint GTM with partners selling their software and services on the IBM Cloud Marketplace. Resulted in Marketing, Sales, and revenue growth of both IBM Cloud Marketplace as well as its partners selling their products on the Marketplace.• I also did this https://bit.ly/3EmRWAM , resulting in significant brand recognition, talent acquisition, 14k likes, 1M linkedin impressions, and a rejuvenation in the IBM Brand for generations of talent to come.

Investor:Stealth - (AI Infra),HiddenLayer - (LLM Security, $56M Series A, Led by M12 with participation from Capital One Ventures, Booz Allen Hamilton, & IBM Ventures),Co-Founded IBM Ventures Venture Scout Program. Pitch me if you’re building in Gen AI Applications, AI Infra or Data Infra. I work with IBM Ventures to help source deal flow and do due diligence for investments and partnerships.We have a $500m Enterprise AI fund - https://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-11-07-IBM-Launches-500-Million-Enterprise-AI-Venture-Fund

Digital Assets

I made AI's that watch the world for Dust Storms.•Crafted general purpose pipeline for AI model creation ranging from data processing, augmentation and generation, training, all the way to prediction and metrics.•Created Architecture and tuned UNET model with 98% accuracy, 75% precision, 75% recall, and 53% mean IOU for image segmentation in order to automatically detectatmospheric dust storms within satellite imagery; resulting in First author Oral Poster publication at AGU 2020 (American Geophysical Union. Largest International EarthScience conference in the world with 12.8% acceptance rate), 3rd author Paper Publication @ IEEE SoutheastCon 2021, Production level AI, mitigation of economic destruction, and lives saved.Developed Logistic Regression model to automatically detect atmospheric dust storms within satellite imagery.• Operated under Agile/Scrum workflow with GIT version Control, Python, Tensorflow, and Keras.• NASA interns Highlight - https://rb.gy/x9fzlr & https://rb.gy/ghw87m• 1 of 4 NASA interns out of 100+ to be selected for highlight on NASA twitter and Instagram pages. (50k+ & 300k+ followers)Developed Thresholding algorithms to automatically detect atmospheric dust storms within satellite imagery.

Rowdy Creators is a Tech startup incubator that brings cross-disciplinary students together to build startups and entrepreneurial ventures.• Onboarded and trailblazed a cross-functional team of 13 board of directors, serving as executive overhead in the interest of fostering project and community growth.• Spearheaded marketing by creating brand, graphic designs, social media advertisements, and presenting to over 700 students in person; resulting in recruitment of 40+ activemembers on projects listed on website and community channel reaching 200+ members.• Partnered with 2 Accelerators in the San Antonio area in order to expand accessibility of resources to all levels of student entrepreneurs• Catalyzed startup/entrepreneurial development throughout membership by creating and operating moderated brainstorming sessions, team building sessions, and businessmodel/plan sessions. Captured insights on user needs, market analysis, and product-market fit by executing beta-tests, user interviews, and surveys on moderated sessions,resulting in user pain point understanding and iteration of product design.• Oversaw development and launch of the website as Product Manager by driving product vision, wireframing, UI design choices, product roadmap, and go-to-market strategy.• Streamlined operational workflow within cross-functional director team by implementing Scrum and operating as Scrum Master for Agile organizational growth.• Scoped long term vision for Rowdy Creators through data-oriented KPI’s that demonstrate successful incubation, resulting in pivotal estimations of economic viability and longterm sustainability.•Built Sentiment Analysis Computer Vision model in Python and Keras in order to judge emotional status of people in images and live video streams.

NSF REUConducted research in human computer interaction using Unity and Oculus VR. Analyzing perception of VR Users and creating Applications that would make VR more natural.

• Increased CPE/EE student leadership from 5% to 15% and increased general meeting turnout for CPE and EE students by 10 times the previous year’s marking by leadingrecruitment efforts for underrepresented Computer Eng and EE students and presenting ACM to over 1000 UTSA students.• Won UTSA Presidential Inclusive Excellence Scholarship for $10,000 by fostering interdisciplinary recruitment from all majors associated with technology.

Jan 2019 - May 2019Conducted studies with the Cyberwell Research team using EEG headsets, heart rate sensors, Perspiration sensors, Unity, and Machine Learning, to identify and avoid CyberSickness in Virtual Reality.September 2019 - December 2019• Designed a deep learning GAN model architecture that generates life like furniture images with 80% accuracy by using data from Kaggle in Python, Tensorflow, and Keras within Google Colab.• Learned about the structure and implementation of UNET models and Pix2Pix Image to Image translation models in order to explore approaches for preserving privacy in live camera systems.