Jan 2007 – Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Very large scale data mining to provide insight of internet audiences. I am part of a team devising algorithms and data structures to analyze billions of records to produce the web analytics reports you can see on our web site: www.quantcast.com
• Quantcast owns powerful statistical technology to understand internet audiences. We help:
• 1) Web publishers of all sizes understand the composition of their audiences and attract higher advertising rates, and
• 2) Advertisers and agencies find elusive online audiences wherever they might be.

Nov 2005 – Jul 2006 · 8 mos

• Provide strategic innovation in the consumer experience of discovering and watching movies. Inventing and building the world’s best personalization software with some of the brightest people in the E-commerce arena. Our goal is to know our customers’ movie tastes well enough to create the perfect store, always presenting amazing titles just for them.

Oct 2004 – Oct 2005 · 1 yr

• Co-founded the company and secured funding.
• Participated to sale to customer.
• Hired part of the team.
• Contributed to deliverables (usability design for a large cellular phone manufacturer).

Sep 2001 – Jun 2004 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Invented and developed a new generation of smart text input for mobile devices, adapted to any language, device, and input modality. We signed a licensing agreement with Motorola and were in advanced discussions with other manufacturers. In 2004, Airtx was acquired by Openwave (OPWV).
• filed 2 patents and 14 disclosures;
• designed and built the product;
• sold Motorola's design group & management on the product;
• secured substantial portion of the company's funding;
• hired world-class talents in embedded software;
• Provided the R&D vision, product & testing architecture, and hands-on engineering leadership:
• user-centric approach led to 11-to-1 user preference;
• architected the product to satisfy continuously changing requests from multiple customers;
• developed web-centric, multi-platform automatic testing;
• delivered on-time and fully tested monthly releases to customer;

May 2000 – Aug 2001 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Product portfolio included technologies for speech, handwriting and predictive keypad input in more than twenty different languages, as well as multimedia messaging solutions.
• Led a team of 17 highly skilled engineers through the development of an entire product line of input methods for mobile devices.
• Shipped to 8 customers (inside and outside Motorola) on several tens of million cellular phones per year and half a dozen platforms.
• Implemented processes that have greatly increased the versatility and speed of development of Lexicus' core input technologies.
• Restructured the Engineering Department from a depressed and hectic group into a cohesive, very hard working team with a good spirit and focus.
• Established processes to both innovate and maintain high-tech, user-centric products.
• Invented a new handwriting user interaction and filed a patent.
• Established durable relationships with customers.