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As a business-minded technology executive, I work with executive leadership to shape entrepreneurial visions, craft product strategies, and build innovative Data/Analytics/AI technologies through the critical innovation stages: Concept, MVP to Product/Market Fit (P/MF), and Growth. I have successfully navigated these stages in both privately held startups and publicly traded small-cap companies.Project HighlightsDayZero - FinTechMedosphere - MedTech

SaaS - MedTech: Medosphero is a HIPAA-compliant social media platform enabling healthcare providers to connect, educate, and engage with patients.My role is leading engineering strategy for this early-stage start-up, translating the founder’s vision into tangible minimum sellable SaaS products with clear product-market fit while overseeing technical and business operations to secure growth funding.-Collaborate with the executive team, founders, and investors to shape product vision and engineer technical roadmaps for a 0 to 1 HIPAA-compliant social platform utilizing React Native for a TikTok-like user experience. -Assist the founding team in securing $1M in seed funding for product development and business expansion. -Apply patent-pending digital rights management to enable medical professionals to create, copyright, and monetize educational materials under controlled access within a robust, highly secure, encrypted mobile interface. -Define technology architectures and formulated product strategies while building and leading a diverse engineering team delivering MVP solutions, including an official beta product released in 2024.

New York, New York, Us

SaaS - FinTech: DayZero is an accounting start-up offering affordable automated bookkeeping services for freelancers and small businesses.My role is overhauling engineering and product development for this SaaS start-up, directing technical architecture and engineering teams in successfully delivering a FinTech SaaS MVP within a compressed timeframe.-Rebuild core architecture, shifting from a monolithic general ledger to a microservices-based environment that leverages Java, Python, React, and Next.js to support API integrations with Stripe, Plaid, and other third parties. -Reduce the MVP launch timeline from one year to three months by assembling a new engineering team and implementing a rapid prototyping culture with clearly defined processes to support high-speed development.-Launch a free to low-cost bookkeeping, reconciliation, and automation platform capable of delivering AI-based insights, driving product-market fit, and go-to-market strategies to onboard 40 new clients in the first month. -Advise decision-making at the C-Suite level, influencing the strategic direction while managing key business areas, including technical budgets, team hiring, risk analysis, and artificial intelligence development.

Torrance, California, Us

SaaS - InsurTech. A start-up developing a SaaS platform to automate risk management assessment and recommendations for 20+ types of commercial insurance policies.Directed the development and deployment of the SaaS platform including deployment of ML models unlocking the expertise trapped in a highly skilled talent pool.-Collaborated with risk management talent to capture requirements, industry standards and client needs.-Improved accuracy and efficiency of insurance policy audits, reducing assessment workload time by 50%.-Built a 100% remote team and managed development and deployment of MVP in 6 months.

Westlake Village, California, Us

SaaS - FinTech: SRAX (NASDAQ: SRAX) is a financial technology company delivering investor intelligence and communications platform. As EVP of Engineering took operation from entrepreneurial idea with zero revenues and no client base and achieved a company evaluation $120M annual sales, 250 clients, and 6 patents. · Developed and directed execution of industry first retail and institutional investor intelligence platform achieving 0 to 250 clients in 18 months and cash flow positive in 23 months, by conceptualizing, architecting an event driven microservice architecture and building a team to implement, release and operate a system capable of data mining over 1M investors / month.· Created two additional lines of business leveraging institutional investor intelligence specializing in digital advertising and automated marketing for institutional relationships, diversifying product offerings while increasing profitability by 80%· Devised and spearheaded risk driven software development strategies to enable large teams (100+) to continuously identify and mitigate project delaying issues through all phases SDLC achieving 90% on time delivery at high quality. · Earned distinction for developing the R&D organization who earn 6 patents for developing industry differentiating core technologies related AI driven institutional investor classifier, computational shelf forecasting, and micro-coded financial scanners

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Safe Paths is a privacy-first, open-source solution for citizens and public health. We aim to flatten the curve of COVID-19, help restart the economy and build resilient societies. We are an MIT-led team partnering with Harvard, Mayo Clinic, Berkeley and public health authorities at WHO, HHS, and I-DAIR.

SaaS - AdTech: Directed team in the development of NLP solutions in natural language search in e-commerce. Developed fundamental NLP technologies such as tokenization, part of speech tagging, named entity recognition, semantic query translation to e-commerce product inventory and conversion of product inventory into semantic knowledge bases. The team created core NLP technologies with a focus on performance and utilize a variety of machine learning techniques to train and deploy models in conjunction with linguistic rule engine development.

Duluth, Georgia, Us

Led development of industry’s 1st global Internet of things machine-to-machine fleet management service delivery platform. Recognized in 2010 by American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers for Outstanding Innovations. This award marks a career first of achieving product of the year awards in two different market segments. Previous awards included Internet Telephony Product product of the year awards in 2004 and 2006.

Duluth, Georgia, Us

One of 20 employees globally (out of ~15,000) recognized every other year by AGCO's Chairman. Awarded for outstanding technology innovation and significant vision of the impact of cloud computing on precision agriculture. Introduced a digital transaction engine to enable the delivery of products and services to vehicle features and off vehicle applications by integrating those delivery channels through a centralized server. Resulted in 16 patents & recognition of AGCO as pioneer and leader in digital agriculture industry sector.

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As the director of product management of the telephony applications division I am responsible for the development budget, defining product roadmap, pricing, and directing the product through its life cycle. Under my leadership, our enterprise online communication software product lines achieved adoption in new emergent US markets. Twice these products have were awarded the Internet Telephony product of the year for enterprise software. (FY2004) & (FY2006)

Under my leadership as the VP of Product Management, our flagship product " Switchmaxx" was developed and deployed to over 20 customer accounts in the US. I was responsible for product strategy, development, and client and professional services teams which earned excellent revenues and reviews from clients. I participated in the successful evaluation of Coppercom who purchased the company in 2005

Identified company core competencies and defined product strategy.Discovered emergent markets and analyzed market opportunity.Positioned and promoted value proposition to strategic customers. Organized and managed cross-functional teams to execute product development and launch.Extract customer requirements and create product requirements.Chief system architect and product manager of development and QA.Maintain project timeline and budgets, and organize facilities and personnel. Organized and managed early field trails for each customer deployment.Code experience: JSP/Servlets/Beans, XMLXSL, ASP, and SQL-92 compliant DAL (JDBC/ODBC).

Milpitas, Ca, Us

Defined and executed technical product launch plans in global markets Created new product feature and manage development prioritizationDeveloped product rollout plans for nascent and established product linesMange alpha/beta OEM customer programs.Managed international OEM product rollouts.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Research Engineer Avionics Flight Termination Subsystem (Lockheed Launch Vehicle) (‘93-‘95)Coordinated and presented Flight Termination System Report (FTSR) to Vandenburg Flight Safety OfficerSystem liaison with internal teams and Vandenburg Space PortSupply Chain Management/Surveillance Fleet Ballistic Missile Program (A3, C4, D5) (‘89–‘93)Performed design and manufacturing verification and manufacturing on outsourced itemsCoordinated the requirements, QA, manufacturing and delivery of outsource items

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering