High tech business builder based in LA and Joshua Tree, California. Seasoned technologist, entrepreneur and startup mentor with a proven track record delivering advanced, highly-scalable solutions across a variety of industries and business domains. An energetic, hands-on CTO possessing diverse skills and interests, including launching startups, fundraising, and building great teams. A polished public speaker and presenter with a passion for teaching entrepreneurs and helping startups during the most difficult stages of angel/seed fundraising and early-stage growth.Broad and deep experience in logistics systems, cloud/SaaS, mobile application development, analytics, e-commerce, and digital marketing. Strong domain knowledge of direct-to-consumer order fulfillment, storage, shipping and customer service. Skilled in recruiting, developing and managing high-performance I.T. teams; Agile/Scrum; object-oriented analysis and design; full-stack systems design, development and deployment; continuous integration/delivery; big data analysis; and information security. Well-versed in software patenting and IP protection with a unique background in large-scale metadata-based PaaS architectures.Pet projects have included experimenting with deep convolutional neural networks for rare cancer cell detection and protein profiling, as well as designing and patenting novel provenance models for the blockchain.