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Manalapan, Nj, Us

My role encompasses overseeing daily operations, driving data acquisition strategies, and leading the development of AI-powered solutions to enhance our estimating functionality. I spearhead product development and manage comprehensive sales and marketing efforts, including brand strategy, ad campaigns, marketing automation, and building out SDR teams. I am also responsible for customer acquisition, legal and compliance matters, and work closely with senior leadership to ensure strategic alignment and operational excellence. I take a hands-on approach to driving revenue growth, combining strategic leadership with direct involvement in key initiatives. My role is multifaceted, demanding deep involvement across the board, particularly in setting high-level sales and marketing strategies. I work to align product-market fit through rich analytics, customer-driven interviews, and advisory panels, ensuring our solutions meet real-world needs and market demands. By developing and executing data-backed strategies across sales and marketing, I focus on scaling the business effectively while fostering strong, long-term relationships with customers and stakeholders.

Manalapan, Nj, Us

PinPoint Analytics harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the bidding and estimating process for public works projects.Contractors in the $200B+ construction industry have long struggled to access and leverage the massive amount of valuable data buried in historical project bids and elsewhere in ways that would enable them to prepare more accurate competitive bids for infrastructure and building projects. PinPoint Analytics solves this challenge by using historical bid results and advanced algorithms to analyze millions of data points, enabling bidders, municipalities, and engineering firms to optimize their estimates with PinPoint precision.

Princeton, New Jersey, Us

Kinetix serves Capital Markets, Banking, and Industry Association customers with AI-driven software solutions designed to optimize their businesses. Its Idea Generation, Trade Management, Regulatory Compliance, Sales Analytics, and Intelligent Document Processing solutions are built on top of Kinetix’ modular platform, which includes pre-built and pre-trained components for AI and NLP, data management, visualization, and inter-op. Kinetix is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, with offices around the globe in London, Dubai, Warsaw, and Pune.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

This committee represents the largest association of engineers in the world before US Congress with regards to AI policy. It convenes to address current events and the emerging questions related to AI, and publishes position statements that reflect a consensus viewpoint of IEEE's U.S. membership, and which IEEE-USA staff will use to guide advocacy efforts within the United States. Specific uses include, but are not limited to, legislative advocacy, rule-making notice-and-comment letters, and advocacy efforts with the US Administration and federal agency officials.

Happiness is the first AI-native journaling app focused on childhood — a proactive AI assistant designed to make it easier to document your child’s story. Happiness learns as it goes, ensuring no two experiences are the same, just as no two childhoods look alike. Every family has its own personality and rhythm, so Happiness AI adapts to yours – providing intuitive, timely and creative suggestions to upgrade your memory-keeping without derailing your day.

Princeton, New Jersey, Us

Senfino upgrades the way investment decisions are made on the buy-side. We engineered a human-in-the-loop, enterprise-grade “Glassbox” AI that fingerprints and enforces bespoke investment strategies, increases alpha via idea generation, and surges productivity by optimizing the investment process for mutual and hedge fund clients.

New York, Ny, Us

Adweek Agency of the Decade: 2010-2019Ad Age Agency of the Year: 2016 Ad Age Agency A-List: 2010 - 2018Adweek Agency of the Year: 2012 | 2014 | 2016Cannes Lions Independent Agency of the Year: 2015 | 2016 | 2017Creativity Agency of the Year: 2007 | 2011 | 2015 | 2016 | 2019Fast Company World's Most Innovative Companies: 2013 | 2017 | 2019 | 2020During my tenure at Droga5, I fulfilled a senior technical role on the harley-davidson.com global relaunch and ecommerce re-platforming.

New York, Ny, Us

VaIue BIended is a digital innovation consulting firm specializing in advisory, design, and development services. We engage clients ranging from Start-Ups and Scale-Ups to Large Enterprise, and enjoy working on the cutting edge of AI and mixed reality.

New York, Ny, Us

Shopography is a product discovery and purchase platform for just about anything. We connect millions of products with millions of consumers in a fun, authentic way. Mobile shoppers come in to find, share, curate and discuss products and trends. They discover and explore new lifestyles through our network of trusted influencers, and get smart, personalized recommendations through our artificial intelligence. On top of that, we do the price comparison, so when shoppers find what they love, they can also buy it at the lowest price.Stack:Backend: ASP.NET, Neo4J, ElasticSearch, RedisAzure: Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Load balancers, Virtual Networks, API Management, InsightsBackend Integrations: New Relic, Cloudflare, Mandrill, MailchimpMobile Integrations: AppBoy, Mixpanel, GA, Apptentive, Smooch, Facebook, Twitter

Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Pl

StartBerry was a startup accelerator based in Warsaw, which I helped cofound and operate. We were backed by Microsoft and EY and famously had Satya Nadella, global CEO of Microsoft, attend our ribbon cutting ceremony and provide remarks. During my tenure, we advised 3 cohorts of startups, which had enough product-market fit to expand into US markets.

Piscataway, Nj, Us

IEEE is the world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology with over 500k members. IEEE's Entrepreneurship Committee was created as a public community for technology startups, young professionals, investors and venture capital organizations. This community will facilitate discussions regarding technology entrepreneurship, marketization, manufacturing, investment and beyond.

Portland, Or, Us

Responsible for integrating and growing a tech department in a creatively lead agency. Focused on building infrastructure, fostering relationships with creatives, tightening business affairs, hiring staff, and delivering world class projects for global brands.• improved communication between production and tech using tools like Slack, JIRA, and Confluence, which were not in use• moved all environments to AWS and trained team to fully leverage its wide array of services• tightened up all matter of financials, which lead to the best returns WK NYC's tech department had seen in recent history• improved the process of estimating, which resulted in WK NYC's largest tech project to date being delivered within budget• created a QA Automation team and hired phenomenal talent• experimented with newer tools such as Docker• created dialogue between global offices to foster consistency within the agency with an allowance for region-specific deviationClients: Gap, Delta, ESPN, Cooper Hewitt, Brown Foreman (Southern Comfort)

Responsible for day-to-day digital product development for major national media publishers. Focused on Flash (AS3, OOP) development and developing libraries to assist in team development.

Programmed algorithmic trading strategy in C#. Socket-based connectivity to low-latency market data servers in NYC with ultra-fast parsing and book sorting methods. Software rapidly buys and sells major exchange-traded equities over the electronic communication networks (ECNs).

Managed the official UM Law School newspaper. Responsible for attracting and contracting with advertisers as well as raising funding with the Law Activity Fee Allocation Committee of the Student Government. During my tenure, the distribution increased two-fold, the front cover went to color, and publication increased from twice a semester to once a month.

Project to aid law students at the University of Miami School of Law in their academic pursuits via a vast online data repository. Serves to provide users with vital professor-specific course outlines and reviews. Amassed over 1,000 users, provided over 40,000 downloads, and obtained hundreds of class reviews. Currently functions as a Facebook application. Plans exist to expand to other schools.

The purpose of the student group is to improve the law school experience by creating and maintaining a clear connection between legal education and transactional law practice. We guide law students in the implementation of their legal training by sharpening their business acumen.

Interned in Chambers for duration of summer break. Work revolved around researching, discussing, deciding, and writing on complex legal issues. Progressed from writing memorandums to orders. Sat in on hearings and deliberated with the Judge on the issues presented during oral argument.

Developed all advertising materials and marketing tools for AutoChina Limited, the exclusive international distributor for China First Automotive Group, the largest Chinese auto manufacturer. Involved in negotiating and establishing distributorships and repair stations in Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Latin America. Job required extensive travel to China as well as Europe.

Ba, Anthropology, Philosophy, Some Engineering

Juris Doctor, Law

Doctor Of Law - Jd