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California, United States

Sweeping redesign of software language, architecture, persistence, and security, as well as organizational structure, to enable faster development and higher-level thinking for deep learning architectures.

San Jose, California, US

• 150-person startup focused on autonomous mobile robots. Acquired by Zebra Technologies.
• Led cloud development group for robot fleet; 25 people across 5 teams.
• Transformed Fetch team from startup stage to high-performing maturity without missing a beat in development.
• Co-designed Data Dragon, innovative state management and communications layer for IoT.

• 11-person technology startup applying machine learning to support active lifestyles, beginning with running.
• Co-invented translation-based computing (TBC), a first-principles architecture to integrate deep learning and procedural programming for reduced complexity and cost.
• Designed and built backend core (Java) for business logic and real-time integration of 6 deep learning networks (Python), training data, catalog feed data, frontend (Vue) and order processing (PHP).

• Personal and corporate retreat center for the application of shamanic techniques and principles to nurturing ikigai.
• Hosted C-level clients for ideation, design, and personal growth to support mission critical projects.

San Francisco, California, US

• In 2016 the world’s most well-funded AI technology company with a mission to solve the world’s most complex problems.
• Grew and managed a clowder of academic cats into an 18-person team of engineering professionals.
• Achieved consistent on-time and on-target delivery of complex, deep-learning-based services.
• Received feedback from multiple sources that we had the best morale of any team at Sentient.
• Co-developed backend to Sentient’s enterprise deployment on customer sites (Java, AWS).

San Francisco, CA, US

• 40-person tech startup for music industry content syndication. Sold to Google.
• Recruited, hired, and led new data team.
• Drove data team technology and architecture decisions: (e.g., FERN, Cascading, Hadoop, Neo4j, RedShift).
• Co-created FERN, a data abstraction, ETL and analysis platform that was so flexible and easy to use that over time much of the BandPage’s business logic was handled by the data team (Java).
• Successfully applied FERN to business intelligence, ad-hoc analysis, and probabilistic reasoning for large scale entity matching and disambiguation even as the data sets, metrics and BandPage’s business model rapidly.

San Jose, CA, US

• Dedicated research and development group within eBay Inc.
• Performed data mining, analysis and algorithm design for merchandising and catalog research group.
• Sole designer & developer of new category recommender that increased purchases per week by 30% at eBay.

• Energy medicine partnership providing client sessions, classes and international journeys.
• Co-founded Mann Partners in hand-built cabin and grew practice to over 100 clients in 2 years.
• Lead 3 custom group journeys to Peru, Cambodia, and Thailand. Participants reported life-changing experiences.

San Bruno, CA, US

• 20 person startup developing dedicated Assisted-GPS chip for cell phones. Sold to Furuno.
• Lead software architect for second-generation eRide GPS chip (embedded C).
• Primary driver of complete architectural overhaul for increased consistency in both design and performance. (C)

• 40-person startup with 20 PhDs developing DSP-based Assisted-GPS solution. Sold to SiRF Technology.
• Member of core team that developed the world’s most sensitive commercial GPS solution (Java).
• Co-developed concept for industry leading anti-multipath triangulation algorithm, a key contributor to sale valuation.
• Identified fundamental flaw in proposed approach on second day of work, leading to new architecture.
• Managed relationships with 6 partner companies for mission critical aiding data and antenna solutions.

Boston, MA, US

• Technology, design and strategy services firm. Employed from 300 person, pre-IPO startup to 2,000-person web powerhouse.
• Lead architect on 3 projects totaling 43 person-years of effort and $12M (Java).
• Cut Gordian knot on project-killing issue involving ATM cash delivery schedule during first week of work.
• Solved critical problem to categorize half-million-page website with world’s first software Mechanical Turk. (Java, SQL)
• Acting Head of People Strategy for 300-person San Francisco office for one year.
• Openness Award, "Unwilling to let grumbles continue as destructive undercurrents, Wallace recognized the situation and transformed it into a forum to deal with the concerns, and we are all better off for his efforts".

Phd, Computer Vision

Master Of Science - Ms, Engineering Economic Systems

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

German Language And History