May 2025 – Jul 2025 · 2 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• The CUNY Public Health Innovation Accelerator, the flagship program of Firefly Innovations at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy (CUNY SPH), is a nationally recognized leader in scaling entrepreneurial ventures that address critical public health challenges. Providing innovators with the resources, networks, and expertise to develop high-impact, scalable solutions that advance health equity and deliver measurable outcomes.

Dec 2024 – Mar 2025 · 3 mos

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Silicon Valley, CA

• > 2026 Finalist for the IEEE Humanitarian Technology AI4Good; NIH Bridge: Voice-2-AI
• > 2025 KPMG/Firefly Acc; TechCrunch Acc; 5 peer-reviewed papers, Microsoft & Anthropic CSO
• > 2024 Invited to Phase II SBIR; accepted SkyDeck acc. ; MVP#1 developed;
• > 2023 Successful SBIR Phase 1 - NIH - AI/ML for Health Resiliency
• > Engaged our R&D team with Lawrence Livermore National Lab on AI-generated content detection

Oct 2017 – Jan 2025 · 7 yrs 3 mos · Artificial Intelligence and Renewable Energy solutions

• Multiple peer reviewed papers in 2025 presenting at AAAI on Capturing & Dangers of Gen AI
• Nominated for the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2025
• Presented multiple talks and papers from 2019 to 2024 "AI for ESG".
• Presented at PVSC 2020 on the use of AI for enabling increased PV and Renewable Energy.
• Invited speaker at: California Public Utilities Commission telecommunications workshop March 4, 2020, San Francisco, "Micro-grids & AI/Machine Learning for Resiliency"
• Speaker at 2020 Intersolar NA (San Diego Feb 4) "The Critical Need for AI & Machine Learning to Optimize Non-Wire Solutions for DER: A Case Study Highlighting the Opportunities"
• Speaker at 2019 Internat'l Desalination Assoc. World Congress in Dubai. "Addressing the Solar-Water nexus by using solar for seawater desalination"
• Developed 10 week course on micro-grids for an introduction and technical development which has been utilized for on-line training by HeatSpring.
• Invited speaker & conf chairman: ACI’s Conference on Microgrids - Aug 29-30 in Spokane WA
• "A novel approach for using solar to drive desalination to achieve low-cost, scalable generation” Presentation at the 2018 WCPEC-7 (PVSC-45) June (2)
• Chairman/speaker at Renewable Energy World Power Gen Dec. 2018, Energy Storage & Micro-grids
• Invited speaker: IEEE PES "The upcoming developments in Battery Storage" Nov 2017, Santa Clara.
• Chairman/speaker at Renewable Energy World Dec 2017, Orlando, "Ideal micro-grid applications"
• Invited speaker at "International Microgrid Conference" Nov 2017, NY "Microgrids Market Forecast: Leveraging lessons from real-world experience"
• Invited speaker at "MicroGrids Convergence" Oct 25-26 San Fran.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 · 0 mo · Palo Alto, CA

Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs · 788 Palomar, Sunnyvale, CA - Silicon Valley

• Co-Founder of Advenira, Company Executive, Board of Directors
• Developed technology & implementation strategies. Defined successful Investor Pitch (resulted in multiple term sheets and then subsequent investment of $21M).
• Corporate Guidance and Strategy, Member of the Board
• Technology implementation

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs

• Technology implementation and strategy for a novel solar cell start-up

Jan 2007 – Jan 2024 · 17 yrs · Silicon Valley

• > 2019 Selected by DOE for AI/ML to optimize PV for dispatch-ability
• > AI research for optimization of Solar implementation 2020-2022
• > SolarVision Co. (SVC) provides a focus on ESG implementation and strategy.
• Working with start-ups to develop tech and strategy. (e.g. KeraCel Batteries, DualSun (PV), et. al.)
• Engaged with wide range of solar companies (e.g. REC, Huawei, Hanwha, Loral SST, SolarWorld, Peterson-Dean, SunEdison, Suniva, Stion, et. al.) as well as the financial investment community.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

• Program Director for Solar PV manufacturing line. Responsible for technology development & implementation with successful launch and execution of leading-edge PV system. Sr. Technologist for Thin Film Solar Cell Group.

Jan 1997 – Jan 2005 · 8 yrs

• Senior technologist for advanced development of key methodologies including AI and Neural Net. Engaged with key customers: Intel, TSMC, Hitachi, Samsung, IBM, etc. Responsible for extended matrix team at the Fab lines.

Jan 1994 – Jan 1997 · 3 yrs

• Manager of engineering team for advanced wafer inspection. Product marketing engineer for e-beam inspection system.

Jan 1989 – Jan 1994 · 5 yrs

• Performed basic and applied research on a variety of applications. Published research and developed patents.