
Cone Technologies, Inc.
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Strategic Growth - Marketing + Emerging Technologies
I am technologist who has realized that getting marketing right is extremely important for the success of any product. In the process I have launched and advised multiple companies - each time taking valuable lessons with me. My strengths are not in optimizing any marketing tactic, but in thinking through marketing opportunities which often leverage multiple technologies.
I have bootstrapped my previous product startup to 10-employees over 7-years before raising funds from investors. I am currently bootstrapping my next one.
I have been building Voice Based Apps/Bots and helping my employers customers rethink their businesses around them. These include Alexa, Google Home, and smart phone based.
I have built multiple applications in NodeJS for employers. These include an analytics platform, an open-source framework, as well as a MEAN stack (Mongo Express Angular Node) based app.
Set it up for my companies as well as clients. The primary use case has been for marketing functions (including homepage and blogging) but has also included membership sites and basic commerce.

We want to transform how people learn, from ideas to action, from insight to practice. Our Expert AI™ empowers authors and creators to help readers act on their ideas.

Helping organizations understand opportunities for AI. Advising companies on adoption of GenAI. Leading and managing team to convert strategy to results.

Invited guest for GenAI workshops and panels.

Owned initiatives with emerging ideas in conversational and collaborative interfaces – with particular focus on voice apps, AI (LLM) powered curation and insights, digital meetings, and collaboration workspaces. Responsible for playing prototypes, thought leadership - internal and external, training and product advisory. Played CTO-role for AI-powered Digital Transformation Efforts for top customers (including World Economic Forum, GE Appliances, and others).

Built up and lead user-facing real-time analytics, data-warehousing, and data-science capabilities. Managed and grew advanced analytics efforts from 4 to 20 developers including 2 managers with over half in remote-offices. Reoriented teams and redesigned services for scale (100 million users) & maintainability.

Represented MHE's efforts for the creation of a new standard for increased semantic in learning analytics data (IMS Caliper). Recipient of Learning Impact Leadership Award. Engineering Lead on the development of an data-science powered applications, an analytics platform, as well as the first two products built on top of it. Drove initiatives regarding the usage of Angular.js, MongoDB, and Node.js/Sails.js.
Boutique AI services firm specializing in fixing failing efforts, growing AI-effort adoption amongst customers, and increasing organizational agility for AI product development. We provide services for prototyping, building, and user-driven refinement of experiences in AI apps. With 20 years experience our efforts often leverage both Classical AI (GOFAI) and Machine Learning.

Mobee provides real time intelligence via crowdsourcing on mobile devices. Responsibilities included: Starting process to hire technical leadearship. Helping clean up development process to manage team focus. Creating a test plan for entire technology stack and setup automated tests for core components.

Architexa is an MIT-Spinoff helping developers easily make sense of code. We provide an engine that analyzes codebases and creates Layered Architectural Diagrams in seconds. Developers can also create Class Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams to share them with one another, while the engine maintains the diagram to code connections. Application users were found to save 10+% of their time. Responsibilities include: - Building prototypes, and ensuring rapid product iterations to meet customers needs. - Mentoring development team, manages the architecture of the product line, resolving performance challenges, and integrating different systems. Experience with: - Client-side technologies on the browser with ActionScript, Javascript, JQuery, and Backbone, and on the Eclipse platform with PDE, GEF, OSGi, EMF and GMF. - Server side development using Jersey/JAX-RS, Lucene, JPA, Log4J, on top of OSGi, Google App Engine, and Amazon Web Services.

The Haystack project at MIT is work to make it easier for people to collect, organize, find, visualize, and share their information. It is an interdisciplinary research group blending approaches from human-computer interaction, social computing, databases, web infrastructure, information retrieval, artificial intelligence and the semantic web. My role involved investigating intelligent techniques for helping users find information in semistructured data.

Built prototypes to analyze large codebases and show useful information to developers.
Developed a system to support transparent IP-tunneling between multiple disjoint networks.
Designed and implemented the core of an instant-messaging based auction platform. Managed a team of 5 developers in building a rich client application with data provided by multiple servers.

Implemented functionality to do lossless image manipulation in Microsoft Office. Added functionality to increase accessibility for selecting objects in Office Art.

Researched various Web Technologies to convert a tax management package to a Web-Based implementation. Re-architected and implemented a hierarchical data storage provider.

Gained extensive experience in debugging gate-level models of devices in Verilog HDL for PowerFault-IDDQ. Automated various tasks in debugging models using Perl.

Took part in the test design, plan and scripts execution to find bugs in the system. Wrote scripts in C for simulating messages sent by mobile radios to a real-time application in a site controller.