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Crans Montana, Ch

Kaiterra provides a complete air quality monitoring and optimization solution for healthy buildings and workplaces. Leveraging our hardware, software, and a team of experienced professionals, Kaiterra helps workplace leaders and healthy building pioneers assess and improve their indoor air quality, with the end goal of providing a better workplace experience and healthier built environment. Kaiterra’s solutions can be found in many of the world’s most iconic buildings and workplaces, such as the Empire State Building and the Burj Khalifa.

Irvine, California, Us

Parcel Pending provides a comprehensive, automated solution to the growing package management problems facing multi-family housing communities and other vertical segments. The company's smart locker system eliminates the need for management to handle residents' packages and enables residents to pick up their packages 24/7 at their apartment community.

Irvine, California, Us

• Product ownership and execution for a leading Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform. Drive roadmaps, lead advanced technology and innovation efforts, and partner closely with developers in a fast-paced, Agile environment.• Guide product and technology vision, strategy, and architecture, and lead a highly-collaborative PM organization which delivered successful software and hardware products with outstanding user experiences for global Fortune 50 companies, nailing the details that matter most.• Developed services software and user experience for web and mobile, including machine-learning network analytics, consumer apps, voice user interfaces, Wi-Fi mesh, and augmented reality.• Frequently called upon to help land critical customers and speak at industry events.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Led development of the world's largest and most advanced "people search" platform: a search engine aggregating people date from social media and non-public databases. Indexed several billion profiles and sustained 100+ million queries per day.• Created the first search engine that applies feedback from users to improve search results, leveraging social signals and user input such as tags for search and information discovery. 24 patents granted worldwide which sold to Pinterest in 2017.• Executed numerous major product improvements including a 95% reduction in index preparation time and industry-leading techniques for identity matching.• Grew corpus size by 10X and coverage by 4X, increased query throughput by 100X. Reduced index preparation time from weeks to hours by establishing a Hadoop MapReduce environment. Implemented industry-leading techniques for identity matching. (originally joined small startup Wink.com, which was acquired by MyLife.com.)

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Managed the Connected Home, Desktops, & Displays product line worldwide for Gateway and eMachines brands and Pan America for Acer brand. (Gateway was acquired by Acer)• Delivered a widely-praised line of highly-differentiated products (multiple “Product of the Year” awards) and established Gateway as a leading retail brand in North America. • Developed a highly-innovative, online system for product planning of configurations and costs, dramatically streamlining product development and sales and resulting in cost savings of over $60 million.

• Managed marketing, branding, and product management for well-funded startup developing a massively-scalable Internet server platform (software and hardware).• Created ground-up brand identity, including company renaming, product names, logos, industrial design, sales collateral, and design of corporate web site. (Archway Digital was acquired by Arima).Director of Marketing & Business Development, Arima Computer• Launched Arima’s server and workstation business in North America and Europe, building Arima’s brand from an unknown in the U.S. market to a highly-profitable #1 position in its market.

• Directed the redesign and reengineering of the AltaVista.com web site, transforming the site from an unfocused broad “portal” content provider to a sharply-focused search site.• Launched innovative advertising programs and partnerships, including the largest single revenue deal in AltaVista's history, and new high-performing ad units.• Delivered multiple breakthrough product innovations long before Google, including universal search (blending images, news, and structured data into search results), the world’s largest multimedia search index, a revolutionary comparison shopping engine, advanced spam prevention, and a keyword advertising platform.Director, Business Development• Developed strategic new businesses and partnerships, including leading the creation of the Comparison Shopping product which evolved into a 300-person business. Selected technologies, business partners, and defined our implementation of search-related products such as multimedia search, power search, and natural language.

• Managed team of evangelists and engineers providing support to 3rd-party video game developers for Rendition’s cutting-edge 3D graphics chipsets.• Secured custom-development support from most major top game publishers. Delivered the world's first 3D-accelerated mainstream PC game, Quake, in partnership with John Carmack and id Sofware. Other major partners included Activision, Ubisoft, Take-Two, THQ, Square, Bungie, and Ubisoft.• Managed company’s presence at major tradeshows, created partner marketing programs and website presence, and developed bundling and co-marketing programs.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Identified a new market opportunity: high-performance PCs designed for gaming. Successfully pitched the concept, then developed a marketing plan and led product development of the industry’s first Gaming PC. Led worldwide launch activities and formed strategic partnerships with leading PC game developers. Strategic Planner• As the strategy lead for Compaq’s consumer Internet & Online Services initiatives, conceived of and negotiated the largest partnership revenue deal in company history.

Cupertino, California, Us

• Key member of a team that launched Apple’s first entertainment software direct-distribution business, overcoming the barriers of retail software distribution and successfully landing an “A-list” of software partners.• Designed and implemented commercial pilot of new CD-ROM title direct marketing, distribution & fulfillment business. Developed business plan, then managed business launch and operation. (Half-time during business school and summer internship)

• Managed IT organization for rapidly-growing leadership training and consulting firm, launching the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and associated programs.• Built information systems department from ground up as company grew from 30 to over 300 employees. Managed eight-person technical staff. Received extensive training in leadership and management.• Designed and programmed multiple custom internal client-server applications.

Mba, Marketing, Strategy

Bs, Information Systems