Jul 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Harvard University

• Ranked #8 on iTunes charts recently, Masters of Blockchain is a podcast highlighting the work of the pioneers in the blockchain industry. As its host, I have interviewed the world's leading players in the space, including Tim Draper and Don Tapscott.
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Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos

• Expercoin is a protocol powering a decentralized network of marketplace economies called Republics. Incubated in Harvard Innovation Lab and backed by the blockchain powerhouse Consensys, Expercoin allows enterprises to white label and monetize Republics instantly. While Expercoin Republics come pre-packaged with an impressive suite of Dapps, developers can build their own Dapps on top of the Expercoin Protocol and also monetize them through Expercoin's App Store.

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 4 mos · Harvard Innovation Labs, Boston, MA

• Incubated in the Harvard Innovation Lab, Experfy is a Future of Work platform for building on-demand pools of pre-vetted talent called TalentClouds. Enterprises either bring their own talent or Experfy pipelines AI and engineering talent from its community of 30,000 experts. Experfy differentiates itself by having SMEs vet all candidates before they are interviewed by its clients. The Experfy platform is enterprise-ready with worker classification and background checks, while serving as an employer of record. To learn how Experfy can help accelerate your hiring of AI and engineering talent, visit experfy.com.

Jan 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 4 mos · Greater Boston Area

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs · Harvard Innovation Lab, Boston, MA

• Helped launch Academic Room and played an instrumental role in building a cutting-edge content curation engine using natural language processing and machine learning that led to the development of a multidisciplinary knowledge platform where academia and industry can build open communities. The platform dramatically reduces time to locate, both, credible scholarship and experts within a field of research. Academic Room was a finalist in 2012 Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX) Awards and 2013 EdTech Digest Awards Program for its ability to harness and broker resources and talent across its open communities.
• Managed a team of data scientists specializing in a range of statistical, natural language processing, and machine learning techniques.
• Designed and prototyped new and enhanced existing product features for the Academic Room platform leveraging natural language processing methods such as machine learning based text classification, probabilistic topic modeling, and semantic word embeddings.
• Designed cutting-edge image processing capabilities using a range of technologies.
• Led data science projects to extract relevant and meaningful information from journals and news articles in real-time.
• Built new NLP models for name entity recognition, disambiguation and syntactic parsing of social media, news sources, and journal articles.
• Designed and evaluated a wide range of models in the fields of data science, AI, machine learning, NLP and information retrieval.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2012 · 9 yrs · Boston, MA

• Championed "data as a strategic asset to the organization" to increase revenue, develop new products and services, improve management of risk, reduce cost and make informed decisions.
• Led Big Data, Data Platform, Analytics, BI, Data Security and Compliance efforts.
• Drove the development of data and information strategy, both from a technology and business perspective.
• Led implementation of enterprise data architecture, data governance and data stewardship practices.
• Repositioned Creative Stride as an analytics company.

May 2001 – Jul 2002 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Reported directly to Chief Operating Officer (COO), and headed Project Management Office (PMO) of a large multi-dealer foreign exchange portal that provides services worldwide. Also, in charge of relationships with key banks with an aim to increase trading volume and revenue.
• Established complete PMO infrastructure and enabled risk management functions for the organization.

Feb 1998 – Feb 2001 · 3 yrs · New York

• Technology administration responsibilities for Cybic, a large derivatives exchange seeking for-profit exchange status with the S.E.C. Aided development of customizable investment products to target high net-worth and retail customers.
• In charge of technology planning. Held reviews with CTO to assess progress of directors from Back Office, Product Development and Website Development groups within Cybic.
• Involved with architecture of infrastructure of a global multi-tiered, web-based electronic exchange needed to empower Market Makers and Retail Brokers to profitably offer and distribute their product offerings; responsible for managing development of a large transaction oriented n-tiered business solution; supervised design and implementation of Sun and Cisco based environments with exceptional emphasis on security architecture design.