1995 — Present

Experience


  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.