1995 — Present
Experience
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May 2019 — Present
Cogmento
Vice President of Engineering · San Francisco, CA
CRM SaaS provider: reach every customer where they are with AI tools — email marketing, voice, and SMS built into one platform. No add-ons, no enterprise price tag.
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Mar 2017 — May 2019
RETINA-AI Health, Inc.
Vice President of Engineering · Houston, TX
Architected a novel AI platform for Diabetic Retinopathy using TensorFlow and the Google Healthcare API, leveraging DICOM, FHIR, and HL7. Quality-engineered an FDA-approved SaMD and led engineering activities in an FDA patient clinical trial.
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Sep 2008 — Mar 2017
Telesocial, Inc.
Vice President of Engineering · San Francisco, CA
Built and led a telecom API platform and dozens of mobile and desktop apps with social networks. Integrated our hardware and software platform with Level3, Deutsche Telekom, and Vodafone.
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Oct 2006 — Sep 2008
Kadoink
Chief Technology Officer · San Francisco, CA
Instant group calling: gather up to nine people on a live call immediately. Built for real-time triage — fill a grid of contacts and ring their phones directly, no apps or logins required.
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Nov 2003 — Oct 2006
Toyota North America
Senior Director of Engineering · San Francisco, CA
Led all production systems management and network operations for Toyota.com, Lexus.com, and Scion.com, including the migration from IBM-hosted facilities to the Toyota datacenter, plus release, QA, and 24/7 support across multiple data facilities.
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Jan 2000 — Nov 2003
Wells Fargo Bank
Senior System Engineer VI · San Francisco, CA
Lead systems engineer for the Production Systems Group, the bank's highest-level on-call engineering team — performance and availability across all platforms at the world's largest internet bank, including transaction systems for PayPal and Authorize.Net.
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Apr 1997 — Jan 2000
Kaiser Permanente
Director of Human Factors · Oakland, CA
Designed user test scenarios, ran doctors and nurses through usability tests, and re-architected application iterations alongside a 250-person development team.
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Sep 1995 — Apr 1997
Kaiser Permanente
Webmaster · Oakland, CA
Led design, development, hosting, and maintenance for Kaiser.com — one of the largest healthcare networks in the United States, with over 5 million daily visitors.