Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Sep 2017 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• We're on a mission to build a health plan that takes care of *every* member like they were a member of our family. We do that through great technology, data, design, and most of all love. Check us out at Devoted.com

Aug 2020 – Jan 2021 · 5 mos

• Responsible for Technology Strategy & Delivery planning and policies, agency review teams, and appointments.

Apr 2018 – Aug 2023 · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area & Greater Boston Area

• Senior Fellow for Technology and Public Purpose Project
• Senior Fellow for Cybersecurity Project

Feb 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Appointed as the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist and established the mission of the office: To responsibly unleash the power of data for the benefit of the American public and maximize the nation’s return on its investment in data.
• Some of the things we were responsible for:
• Healthcare
• Entering the genomic era of medicine - Precision Medicine Initiative (announced State of the Union 2015)
• End cancer - Cancer Moonshot (announced State of the Union 2016)
• Electronic medical records, patients access to data and data interoperability
• Cybersecurity and the health ecosystem
• Ending suicide and improving mental health
• Criminal Justice
• Increase trust between law enforcement & citizens - Police Data Initiative - 44M Americans and 130 jurisdictions (launched by the President in Camden New Jersey)
• End the endless of cycle of incarceration - Data Driven Justice Initiative - 94M Americans, 141 jurisdictions and 10 States
• Big Data and Artificial Intelligence National Strategy
• All data courses must have ethics & security
• Ensuring data isn’t used for discrimination
• Data and improving the life for all Americans
• Using data to help local communities connect to opportunities - launched the Opportunity Project
• Addressing the drastic rise in traffic fatalities
• Increasing Federal capacity to be data-driven
• Helped establish ~40 Chief Data Scientists/Officers across the Federal Government
• Established the Data Cabinet and associated leadership group across national security
• Now data scientist is a career path in the civil service
• National Security
• Bring Silicon Valley & the Pentagon closer together - helped establish DIUx and the Defense Digital Service
• Encryption
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Jan 2012 – Dec 2020 · 8 yrs 11 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Founding board member from 2012 - Feb 2015 and then from Aug 2017 - current.
• Helping save lives through technology. Couldn't ask to work with a more passionate and dedicated crew. It's an honor.

Aug 2011 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• A hybrid between Entrepreneur in Residence and Executive in Residence where I get to think about the next great challenge and help out companies in the process.
• Some of the content that I've created during this time:
• University of Maryland Commencement Speech -- http://bit.ly/MMzW5r http://bit.ly/Qj7cQY
• Building Data Science Teams -- http://amzn.to/pgmVPa
• Data Jujitsu -- The art of turning data into product -- http://amzn.to/Si69zX

Jul 2011 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Applying data science to decision making.
• One of the original 3 Advisors with Bob Cohn and Bill Campbell from initial idea through launch
• VP of Product to accelerate the business & product development execution
• Acquired by Salesforce.com for ~$400M

May 2008 – Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Responsible for the following areas:
• Product teams on Data products
• Decision Sciences and Business Intelligence
• Fraud, Abuse, Risk, and Security
• Led and executed strategy for LinkedIn to (a) become a data driven company and (b) have a product portfolio of data driven products.
• Of all of our accomplishments, I’ve most proud of the team we built and believe that, pound-for-pound, it is the best Data Science and Engineering Team assembled. I can’t emphasize enough how much this was a team effort.
• Some of our products include:
• People You May Know (did you know this was invented by LinkedIn?)
• Who’s Viewed My Profile, Profile Stats, Who’s Viewed My Job, etc
• Talent Match (when you post a job it returns the best matched candidates)
• Jobs You May Be Interested In
• InMaps (real time interactive visualization of your LinkedIn network)
• Analytically driven email campaigns (Fortune called this the best email you’ll receive this year)
• Groups You Might Like
• Skills
• Many more…
• Some of the technologies that we had to invent to build these products:
• Voldemort
• Kafka
• Azkaban
• Responsible for LinkedIn’s push to implement Hadoop and become a center of excellence in the space.
• During my tenure Fast Company ranked LinkedIn as the 24th most innovate company for its data products and 2nd most innovative company in education for Career Explorer.
• Our Decision Sciences team led the development of large-scale implementation of new data access methods, company wide dashboards, monitoring, etc.
• Our Fraud, Abuse, Risk, and Security team went from me to a fully 24x7 team and charted new territory by building a number of new technologies to identify abuse via social networks. The rest of this paragraph has been redacted.

Jul 2006 – May 2008 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Principal Architect July 2006 – Sept. 2007
• Led strategy, product, and analytics for a technology platform that enabled integration for all for eBay Inc. companies (eBay.com, PayPal.com, Skype, StubHub, Shopping.com, etc).
• Founding team member and lead architect for core technologies. Responsible for products (federated services, identity management, payment gateways, cross–platform messaging, and API gateways) with 99.99% availability and a global operational presence in 7 locations.
• Established a program to provide Skype headsets to NGOs working in the developing world.
• Founded and led the Advanced Concepts Team at PayPal. Responsible for development of four major products, which resulted in $20M in savings in 2008. One of which was selected as the 2007 People’s choice Award.
• 8 patents filed in the areas of social network analysis, visualization, customer service support, human computer interaction, machine learning, risk assessment, and behavior insights.

Sep 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Advanced Systems and Concepts Office:
• •Project Leader – Threat Anticipation Project (to anticipate emerging threats using computational social science and social networks analysis)
• •Co-Chair – Independent Scientific Review of the Biological Weapons Proliferation Prevention Program – Cooperative Biological Research Program in the Former Soviet Union, Non-Russia
• •Co-Director – Iraqi Virtual Science Library
• •Advisor for Indian Subcontinent Policy

Sep 1996 – Jul 2006 · 9 yrs 10 mos

• Research areas include applications of chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics to predictability of physical events and other interdisciplinary problems.
• •Jointly developed a world-class interdisciplinary research program combining physics, mathematics, computer science, and meteorology to improve weather forecasts (data assimilation). The National Weather Service and the European Centre Medium Range Weather Forecasting now actively utilize this research.
• •Research highlighted in national news segments, a CNN documentary, newspapers, and magazines.
• •Established a partnership with IBM Watson Research Labs to apply research techniques to IBM’s supercomputer, Blue Gene.
• •Obtained more than $3.0 million in research funding.
• •Authored 20 papers and presented 13 invited and plenary lectures.
• •Member of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, whose members include a Noble Laureate, Fields Medalist, Japan Prize recipient, and two Wolf Prize recipients.