Heading up the Vision Engineering team at ThinkIQ. We're bringing Atollogy's industrial machine vision and data acquisition capabilities to the ThinkIQ platform - Think chocolate and peanut butter.Tech Stack/

Founding engineer and member of executive management team accountable for the development of a industrial machine vision platform targeting use cases in manufacturing, logistics, and heavy industries focused on human-machine interaction, worker safety, and workflow instrumentation solutions.- Designed and built a python based multi-tenant industrial machine vision data extraction pipeline and event processing platform for images/videos and other sensor data supporting per data-source process graph steering spanning edge and core compute for: activity isolation mechanisms, media selection, visual feature extraction (TensorFlow/OpenCV), and tertiary result processing producing individual and composite data elements, data aggregates, and complex data constructions (flows) across time and place. - Led agile software engineering process running 2-4 week sprints integrated with long-term roadmap. - Worked with product management to establish running cadence where one quarter of detailed sprint plans was maintained along with the 12 month development roadmap. - Led team development of new functional (OpenCV) and deep learning (TensorFlow) image and video feature extraction processes using markers and other basic vision methods, OCR/LPR, and people/object detection & classification inference mechanisms with integrated active learning components.- Led team to transition monolithically supported functional (OpenCV) machine vision functions to AWS Lambda serverless functions to improve operational costs, software quality and development velocity.- Developed Linux edge device data acquisition system supporting image and sensor data capture using BLE beacons and RSTP cameras. Development spanned integrating ~10 IP camera vendors and various BLE beacon data sources, edge processing capabilities, Ubuntu OS image curation, configuration and provisioning, automation tooling, and containerized software/model deployments.

Member of senior management team responsible for DevOps tasked with the greenfield buildout of an 3rd party Android App Store with an integrated mobile payments platform focused on real money gambling applications for non-US markets. Betcade’s infrastructure operates as a PCI compliant hybrid, multi-cloud deployment (AWS, Azure, datacenter) providing a unified mobile user experience utilizing Betcade’s mobile App Store application seamlessly blending user acquisition, application discovery, game play and payment transaction processing. Betcade ceased operations in January 2017 when our funding was pulled.

Manager of DevOps and Operations for an AWS backed consumer storage platform delivered as a white label service offering for telecom service providers and consumer device manufactures. Bitcasa ceased operations in April 2016 due to a lack of funding.- Reduced AWS costs from $600k to $350k per month utilizing monthly instance reviews, instance right-sizing and region selection cost optimizations- Refactored 6 partially implemented naming conventions and multiple automation tool into a single unified framework simplifying provisioning logic and reducing metadata overhead required for deployments by 80%.

Led cloud service architecture and DevOps with a team of 9 engineers. Developed containerized hybrid cloud orchestration and automation framework (puppet, python, docker/lxc) that supported running the stack fully collapsed in single instance, in service clusters, to full cloud scale-out using any combination of bare-metal, VMs, or HP cloud instances. The stack was comprised of Tomcat, Cassandra, MongoDB, Elastic Search, ActiveMQ, and Consul running on RHEL 6.5.

Managed online operations and IT for one of the largest independent, cross-platform app stores, and one of the largest distributors of Android apps outside of the Android Market. With more than 2 billion downloads and some 150K+ applications, the company was evolving away from the old app store/distribution model to one focused on application discovery, incentive based advertising coupled with virtual currency and in-app monetization.

Director level role managing global network operations and IT for the first company to provide WAN optimization as a service. As an over-the-top service provider, Aryaka’s production network delivers WAN Optimization and application delivery services to customers from 17 POPs worldwide.- Implemented AWS VPC on-ramp service aggregating customer connections over multi-gigabit direct connect links into Amazon attached data centers in Sunnyvale, Ashburn, London, and Singapore

TuneUp makes an incredibly useful mp3 collection utility/plugin for iTunes, WM Player, etc that correctly labels songs, gathers album art, tells you when your favorite bands are coming to town, and collects a personalized news feed for music you like and listen to. I ran Internet operations and IT for the company. If you have a chance, check out the application - it really is cool. www.tuneupmedia.com.

Global responsibility for all data infrastructure, IT strategic vision, architecture & design, implementation, operations, and support for this 375 employee broadcast television and Internet media organization. In this leadership role, developed and implemented the core production network and systems to support video post-production, play-to-air TV broadcasting, and Internet operations. - Facilitated company growth from 1 to 3 TV channels, 125 to 375 employees, 17 to 65 million subscribers and $75M+ in annual revenue.- Starting with a team of 3, successfully developed and grew a world-class, IT operations and engineering team of 16 (3 directors, 13 subordinates) supporting video post-production, broadcast infrastructure, and Internet operations. - Restructured and rebuilt core infrastructure without major incidence or prolonged disruption of time on air. Uptime moved from being measured in days or weeks to 99.95% uptime worldwide. - Working in concert with post-production and broadcast engineering, developed an all-digital workflow designed and integrated around approximately 1 petabyte of Isilon clustered NAS that simultaneously supported 80+ video editors and the direct-to-air play-out of the TV broadcast. - Managed international growth to the UK (07) and Italy (08) expanding the team and leading the IT build out of new facilities and data center locations. - Delivered infrastructure for Current’s Milan, Italy based live TV production facility and Rome broadcast delivery site, in 100 days from project approval.

Working in collaboration with Digital Outpost and their client, the California Police Officer Safety Training (POST) organization, developed the software for a distributed, digital video repository and media management playback system that would deliver video based training to 650+ California law enforcement agencies. Developed a DVR-like client UI with TV remote control based navigation, client-server media management functionality, and integrated assorted open source software components using Ubuntu Linux, wxWidgets, and python.

Founder providing overall business and technical operations leadership as network architect and marketing lead. Principal developer of the network routing and switching architecture to provide metro Ethernet transport and wireless last-mile service delivery infrastructure - integrated equipment from Juniper, Extreme, Motorola, and Western Multiplex into a network architecture that lowered service activation costs by 80%.

Highly technical role managing a multiprotocol director-class SAN switch product with Fibre channel, InfiniBand, and Ethernet interfaces, multi terabit capacity, fully redundant non-stop operations, and SAN interworking. Executed requirements, product, and pricing analysis helping to build consensus, and gain board approval to alter the initial (founding) product strategy away from ultra-high capacity multi-protocol SAN directors to smaller modular systems that maximized total addressable market. • Defined feature sets and requirements for system software and the 5-chip ASIC family (backplane, fabric, and packet forwarding), device configurations, and software functionality for FC, GE/IP, and InfiniBand internetworking, gateway/protocol conversion, redundancy, availability, security, and management.

Accountable for the Summit Layer 3 fixed-configuration Ethernet switch line (40+ SKU’s across three product groups). Over a 2-year period, significantly contributed to growth increasing product line gross revenues from $90M to $225M, shipping 80K+ unit volume and ~7.5M Ethernet ports representing approximately 50% of total company revenue. - Successfully transitioned and launched Summit48i, the next generation of the company’s highest volume product (representing 30% of total revenue @50K units/year) achieving revenue goals, unit volumes, and target inventory levels without complication.

Managed the ExtremeWare SNMP network management and policy-based networking software portfolio. Advanced the business case and help design Extreme’s policy-based network management framework, successfully projecting Extreme’s vision in the market for directory enabled networking (DEN) and policy-based management.

Provided expert knowledge on core products to key global accounts, press/trade testing, and marketing. - Delivered exceptional results in competitive publication testing winning top honors/editors pick for 85% of events entered. - Represented the company as member of the Interop NOC team helping build the 1st InteropNet Gigabit Ethernet backbone.

Lead/Corporate Systems Engineer• Engineer responsible for west coast technical marketing activities for Ethernet and ATM products. Primary contact for competitive trade publication testing of hardware products.Senior Sales Systems Engineer• Provided pre- and post-sales support for ATM and Ethernet products.

• Primary contact for competitive trade publication testing of hardware products.• Supported technical marketing activities for FORE’s Ethernet and ATM product lines. • Provided pre/post sales support for four bay area sales managers. The team was #1 in sales two years in row.

GTE Ventures funded Imagitrek a company focused on content creation for interactive TV platforms. Company became GTE Entertainment after everyone learned that there was no money in interactive TV in the mid 90's. GTE Entertainment focused on pc and console games.- Led a team of 5 in support of IT, datacenter, and network operations Implemented 622 Mbps asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and switched Ethernet network supporting broadband content development, and video postproduction.