May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Santa Cruz, California, United States · Remote

• Thynkfuel is a full-service marketing, technology and AI agency built by entrepreneurs who’ve launched, scaled, and exited multiple 7, 8 and 9-figure companies—repeatedly.
• The world has changed! As CTO, I focus on our Technology Vision, Strategy, and Execution -- Leveraging the latest in AI technologies to build and scale Teams, Products, and Companies to launch new billion-dollar lines of business for our Clients and Portfolio companies.

May 2024 – Mar 2025 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for Champion Venture Partners’ tech vision and portfolio strategy, tech due diligence and sourcing, raising capital from strategic investors, and ensuring the success of CVP’s portfolio companies. Given rapid advancements in AI technologies and CVP’s focus on sports technology, health and wellness, and scale, we are uniquely positioned to accelerate and enable our sports-tech portfolio companies to thrive.

Oct 2020 – May 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Co-founder of Nike’s Tech Innovation Office (TIO) responsible for next-generation Technology Innovation Strategy and Development, focusing on AI, Coaching, Sports Science, Health and Wellness, Smart Apparel, Smart Cities and Environments, Smart Retail, Manufacturing, and Personal Data Privacy. Delivering modern tech solutions to enable new billion-dollar revenue streams, leveraging Nike’s core footwear and apparel businesses.

Jul 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Los Gatos, CA

• Developing large scale, innovative, security solutions to help partners worldwide secure their streaming devices. Device security for hundreds of millions of devices globally, Netflix Security Verified (NSV) program for all major SoC vendors, partner device security reviews, and industry security roadmaps and influencing.

Jan 2016 – Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Private Aviation B2B and B2C marketplace. Delivered AI/ML PoCs with 94-97% prediction accuracy to the largest US Private Aviation operators, 40%+ of all US private aviation operator schedules and 40+ data feeds acquired and integrated into real-time SaaS AI pipelines, Automated AI model building & deployment pipelines, MVP & Production roadmaps and releases, and hands-on development of all software systems and development processes.

Sep 2010 – Mar 2015 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Cupertino, CA

• Global Consumer Electronics product innovation and development. Multiple Moonshot Projects including Amazon Alexa/Echo, Echo Look, Echo Show, and FireTV. Over 3 dozen patents awarded. Pioneered Agile Sprint Teams for Hardware, Software, Product Design, and Operations.

Mar 2007 – Sep 2010 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Cupertino, California, United States

• Acquired by Tata Communications, Awarded 2 core patents, Prototyped and Delivered core global CDN, and Live Broadcast products.

Aug 2006 – Mar 2007 · 7 mos

• Technology acquired by BitGravity. Global-scale, rapid application development platform.

Sep 2005 – Aug 2006 · 11 mos · Santa Cruz, California, United States

• Contracts and R&D. Miradia Micro-Mirror Projection Display Engine. Distributed Systems and scalable e-commerce web properties.

Oct 2001 – Sep 2002 · 11 mos · Santa Cruz, California, United States

• Contracts and R&D. Network offload and acceleration engines. Distributed Systems and Thin Client R&D.

Sep 2002 – Sep 2005 · 3 yrs

• Multi-gigabit network offload and acceleration appliances, thin clients, and SPARC v240 class servers in a laptop form factor for public sector clients. Technical customer relationship management (General Dynamics, Army/Navy/Air-Force, Broadcom) ¤ current and next-generation product definition and roadmaps ¤ project/program management ¤ device driver and embedded software development ¤ performance/failure analysis ¤ engineering management ¤ IPMI system engineering ¤ Corporate IT (Cupertino, San Diego, Reston offices)

May 2001 – Oct 2001 · 5 mos · Los Gatos, California, United States

• Gigabit PCI card network offload and acceleration engines. Responsible for Velobahn (PPC based PCI card) embedded system development and analysis ¤ product definition ¤ research

Sep 1999 – Apr 2001 · 1 yr 7 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

• Global online calendar service with over 1 million registered users. Closed $750k white label contract and negotiated a $20m buyout offer. Day-to-day engineering management ¤ product development and roadmap ¤ data center design and implementation ¤ partnerships and company direction ¤ enterprise system sales ¤ whitepapers ¤ IT

Jan 1997 – Jan 1999 · 2 yrs · Sunnyvale, California, United States

• Acquired by SAP. Massively scalable, real-time multi-media messaging platform. Responsible for Wayfarer 4.0 Desktop Client ¤ Wayfarer 4.0 Site Pilot ¤ INCISA/Solaris Distributed Application Server ¤ QuickServer/Solaris Distributed Application Server

Jan 1994 – Jan 1997 · 3 yrs · Sunnyvale, California, United States

• Acquired by IBM. Developer tools and test products. Responsible for the Internal Developer Tools group ¤ technical due diligence for acquisitions ¤ the Diablo test harness ¤ the PureLA License Advisor ¤ PureTestExpert development ¤ product definition and customer feedback integration ¤ build and release systems

Jan 1990 – Jan 1994 · 4 yrs · Sunnyvale, California, United States

• UNIX for System/390 mainframes, kernel and compiler development, tool development, build and release systems