About
As an advisor, coach, and fractional CPO/CTO, I work with early-stage startups and founders, helping them to build their product development organizations. I also work with investors and corporates, performing technical due diligence for investments and acquisitions. I am a product and engineering leader with 30 years of experience as a software engineer, systems architect, engineering manager, product manager, technologist, founder, advisor, mentor, consultant, and investor. My technical experience includes architecting, designing, and building massively scalable, highly reliable server systems and implementing Internet protocols and database query processors. My technical interests include semi-structured databases, distributed systems, and digital identity infrastructures. My business experience includes raising funds, organizational design, recruiting, establishing and maintaining high-level partner relationships, due diligence for acquisitions, preparing companies for sale, intern…
Experience
Cpo/Cto
kea · Delray Beach, Florida, United States
Present
AI Voice Agent for Quick Service Restaurants.
Advisor
kea · Mountain View, California
Advisor
Present
"Vaire Computing’s near zero-energy chips promise advanced AI at a fraction of the energy cost with an architecture that can scale for decades."
Advisor
Present
ZaiNar (“zye-nar”) is a real-time local positioning technology company. Our proprietary mesh network technology provides a versatile solution for positioning that is far more scalable, cost-effective, and accurate than existing alternatives to GPS/GNSS such as WiFi positioning and enables location tracking for cellular phones (including the latest LTE and 5G standards), radio frequency tags, embedded IoT devices, vehicles and UAVs, and other wireless devices and standards with over 200 meter range and sub-meter accuracy.
Advisor
Streetbeat · Palo Alto, California, United States
"Beat the Street" with advanced investment strategies, based on data-driven algorithmic trading of stocks and crypto.
Advisor
Building a global marketplace for software engineers, because talent is everywhere and opportunity is not.
Co-Founder, Board Member
Holonic builds product development teams for startups. We meet the resourcing needs of product and engineering leaders with fully cohered and aligned squads of product developers. Our team of experienced engineering, product, and people leaders has codified decades of team-building experience into a repeatable process for forging a group of software engineers into a high-performing product development team.
Cpo
Sight Machine · San Francisco, California, United States
Sight Machine revolutionizes manufacturing operations to achieve continuous breakthroughs in productivity, profitability, and sustainability. We change the game for people who make things so they can improve people’s lives, their communities, and the environment. Our goal is to unlock the next level of efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability for a large part of the global economy.
Advisor
ALICE Technologies Inc. · Menlo Park, California
ALICE combines a first-of-its-kind construction planning platform with a powerful AI engine to help you digitize your firm's "way to build" and save big on any construction project.
Advisor
Yotascale · Menlo Park, California
Yotascale, a leader in cost management for AWS, provides intelligence and proactive, actionable insights to cloud operations, optimizing the infrastructure to meet business needs. Yotascale software uses AI to optimize cloud operations for reliability, visibility and cost savings. By using proprietary machine learning algorithms to process millions of data signals, Yotascale is providing contextually relevant, cost anomaly detection and recommendations that can be acted upon immediately.
Education
Pathwise Leadership Development
Psychology
Hoffman Institute
Psychology
University of Hertfordshire
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
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