Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 5 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Data science, machine learning and GeoSpatial data analysis. http://www.moove.ai

Feb 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Consulting and research in machine learning and data science.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2018 · 9 yrs · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Designed and implemented a state of the art business intelligence system to lead company wide data-driven business decisions. This system was instrumental in growing company revenue to over $60M annually.
• Replaced a third party system for managing paid search campaigns on Google, Bing and other advertising platforms with a custom built solution that significantly reduced cost, while improving efficiency, gross profit, and gross margin.
• Determined engineering and software development features and priorities by working with the marketing, product, production, SEO, financial and executive teams.
• Built and lead the business intelligence software engineering team, and managed an outsource team in Hangzhou, China.
• Offers.com was acquired by Ziff Davis in 2016.

Oct 2008 – Jan 2009 · 3 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Bridged technology and business needs and priorities, resulting in increased engineering productivity and decreased operational expenses without sacrificing quality.

Apr 2008 – Nov 2008 · 7 mos · Shanghai, China

• ShangBy's European and US customers shopped on the web from the best stores in Shanghai, China. Using real-time video streaming from China to the US enabled a rich 2-way interactive experience, in contrast to prevalent static e-commerce sites.

May 2007 – Apr 2008 · 11 mos · Austin, Texas and Hangzhou, China

• gDev was an early-stage startup that leveraged a global network of outsource providers to deliver the highest quality software development – on time, to specifications, guaranteed. As VP of Technology, I was responsible for all of the technology infrastructure that differentiated gDev from the competition and enabled it to operate at scale.

Sep 2006 – Nov 2017 · 11 yrs 2 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Loanables (http://www.loanables.com) is an online community that brings together people who have worthwhile items to loan out and people who want to borrow them. It's a way for people to make back a little on things they have spent a lot on, or to save money if they are considering a new tool or toy. It's a way to help our planet by encouraging reuse.

Jan 2004 – May 2007 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Research and development devoted to finding software solutions to major challenges that plague the property and casualty insurance industry.

Apr 2003 – Jan 2004 · 9 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Developed data mining algorithms and data analysis techniques for the Sales Optimizer product, a software system that mines web site click-stream and shopping cart data to generate personalized cross-sell / up-sell recommendations.

Jan 2000 – Apr 2003 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Lead architect for the ConfigViews and Internet Configuration Server project. Responsible for designing and architecting a product that would allow Trilogy’s flagship configuration engine - SalesBUILDER – to be deployed as a web application or as a set of SOAP based Web Services. ConfigViews and ICS were used by Trilogy’s largest configuration customers IBM, Hewlett Packard/Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, NCR, Lucent, Nokia and Fujitsu and generated tens of millions of dollars of annual revenue.

Sep 1997 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Worked on Trilogy’s flagship configuration engine – SalesBUILDER. Designed and implemented ConfigViews, Trilogy’s first integrated desktop platform for configuration, pricing and quoting.

May 1989 – Sep 1997 · 8 yrs 4 mos · Houston, Texas Area & Austin, Texas

• Developed software for MAXIS, a large and complex real-time data acquisition system used for oil exploration. This system was the cornerstone of Schlumberger’s wire-line logging business and generated over $2 billion annually in revenue.

Jan 1983 – Jan 1989 · 6 yrs · Tompkins County, New York, United States

• Developed software for the analysis of data generated by the CLEO particle physics detector.