2019.03

Head of Product
San Francisco, CA. 2021 to present
Expanding access to private equity in real assets.
"Shopify for private investment."
Building the core platform, executing strategy, ensuring compliance.
Reg D, Reg CF, Reg A+, NFT, KYC/AML/Bad Actors, Stellar
Lead Fullstack Engineer
San Francisco, CA. 2019 to 2021
Tech Lead & IC on MealHero: Discovery and Curation team.
Increased user-retention through ML recommender features.
Led, designed, and advised on performance, core services, experiments, and analytics architectures, and on total app rewrite.
Defined, executed, and evaluated team OKR, agile planning, and feature-experiment processes.
Developed individual career SMART path plans against engineering matrix and product roadmap.
Mobile, Database, Cloud/Server/Serverless, Optimization, Experiments.
TypeScript, React, React Native, Redux, CI/CD, RxJS, Angular, Python, Flask, GCP, Firebase, Sentry, Segment, Optimizely, Storybook.
Founder, CEO,
Principal Engineer
San Francisco, CA. 2015 to present
Built Ventri.io, a multimedia business intelligence and sensemaking platform.
Drove relationships and secured agreements with executives and senior leadership across Fortune-50 and SMB for-profit, academic, and non-profit/aid & development sectors.
Trained and guided project teams to design, implement, and report on evaluations, studies, immersions, and cultural probes.
Mobile, Web, Desktop, Database, Cloud/Server/Serverless, Multimedia, Distributed, GIS.
Objective-C, Javascript, PHP, SQL (MySQL, Sqlite, DynamoDB), Backbone-Marionette, React/Redux, Node.js, Electron, D3, ffmpeg, AWS, S3, Lambda, Cognito, Transcription.
Senior Engineer
San Francisco, CA. 2014 to 2015
Designed & implemented core platform content management system and cross-platform mobile framework.
Implemented platform apps Samsung Kids, Cricket, and Highlights.
Led rewrite/migration to Backbone-Marionette framework.
Designed and implemented platform API.
Led engineering hiring.
Open-sourced Backbone.Marionette.Composable
Mobile, Web, Database, Server.
Objective-C, Android, Java (server), MongoDB, Javascript, React Native, Backbone.Marionette.Composable, CSS, HTML5.
Senior Engineer
San Francisco, CA. 2012 to 2014
Implemented web and mobile versions of "behind-the-music pop-up-video for Spotify & YouTube" social listening/viewing platform.
Mobile, Web, Multimedia
Objective-C, Javascript, Backbone/Marionette.js, Less CSS, HTML5
Senior Mobile Engineer
San Francisco, CA. 2011 to 2012
Managed and led mobile engineering team.
Collaborated with Product on new features including Credit card wallet & Driver's license, multi-car location map display, Carkey, Search filtering, and Rental reservation scheduling.
Led engineering hiring.
Implemented Agile planning and processes including daily standup and user-story-driven development and release tracking.
Mobile, Server, GIS.
Objective-C, Python, Google App Engine.
Co-Founder, Principal Engineer
San Francisco, CA. 2010 to 2012
Architected and implemented Helium, a collaborative personal and team productivity management SaaS platform that turned email and notes into automated task workflows.
Mobile, Web, Desktop, Server, Database, Distributed, Integrations.
Objective-C, PHP, Javascript, SQL (MySQL, Sqlite), Adobe AIR, Actionscript, IMAP, Outlook-Exchange, Evernote.
Senior Product Consultant
Whippany, NJ. 2007 to 2009
Technical implementation, validation, process, and training expert for pharma and biotech regulatory team customers on core Image Solutions offerings.
Led business process analysis, optimization, and implementation projects.
Trained teams and execs on FDA and EMEA documentation and content management requirements and systems.
Requirements & Corpus Analyst
San Francisco, CA. 2005 to 2007
Led teams of lawyers and linguists to design and train models for hybrid-AI search for highly conceptual targets in extremely large document sets.
Designed, implemented, and managed automated sampling and metrics analysis and reporting systems at the heart of the hybrid-AI process.
Datawarehousing & Web Apps Developer
Chicago, IL. 1999 to 2005
Architected and implemented SaaS automated workflow platform Active Collaboration.
Architected and implemented SaaS survey platform Feedback Management.
Wrote front-end for private social networking site eWoFF.
MA, Social Science.
Focus: Linguistic Anthropology, semiotics, similarity, meaning creation
BA, Justice, Peace, and Conflict Studies.
Minors: Mathematics, Economics
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