Stuff I am currently focused on:

#1 Bring new financial advisory products to market at Arta Finance. 

#2 Help anyone host engaging and successful events via Eventship.

#3 Help others with AI via GPT Hacks. 

#4 Help my youngest develop his soccer skills, my second work on her basketball game and my oldest shine like his sax.

#5 Spend more time with my awesome wife doing fun things in San Diego and around the world.

Hussein Yahfoufi

Opus Duo

Building a scalable, fair and equitable HRIS stack using cloud, ranking and matching algorithms, AI-driven workflows and gamification.

Head of Product

UC San Diego

- Support establishment of policies and key strategic objectives.
- Mentorship of engineering students at UCSD and support recruitment of students into local industry.

Executive Board Member (CAP)

ITS (UK) - Intelligent Transport Systems

Member, Board of Directors

Lead the Secretariat and Ambassador of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) to enhance the reputation and profile of ITS (UK) internationally to build networks, influence policy, support international cooperation on ITS and to create opportunities for the association.

Facilitated and hosted multiple international delegations, signed memorandums of understanding with global institutions and helped achieve year on year growth of the institute inside and outside of the UK.

International Director

Cubic Corporation

Lead international strategy, growth and program management across defense and commercial sectors for C2ISR, law enforcement and emergency services capabilities.

SaaS and e-commerce for commercial product lines. GTM for new product launches and P&L oversight.

Director, International Programs & Commercial Products

Building and driving strategic innovation capability and oversee diverse R&D portfolio of $55M+ (up from $43M in 2020) across transportation, defense training and secure communications, including SaaS platforms, AI/ML, cloud computing, simulation, mobile, payments and more, leading to revenues of $400M and customer co-development of $190M in 2021.

Management responsibilities:
- end-end innovation process and increased external partnerships with startups, universities and SMEs
global innovation team, innovation center, and mentorship
- R&D portfolio and financial progress measures
- investment reviews and linking innovation activities to business strategy

Director of Innovation

Supported President of Cubic Transportation Systems with 5 year business plan and strategy towards largest backlog in company history (>$3B) - relocated to San Diego for 3 months as part of assignment.

Responsible for delivering impactful innovation to the public transport industry specifically focused on mobile payments, user experience, accessibility, mobility-as-a-service, passenger flow management and security, creating IP and publications.

Lead project on future ticketing and gatelines with UK pilot in 2018, with successful funding from UK government entity and defense training projects around instrumentation and tracking.

Published paper on scaling biometric systems that has also been presented at a number of events globally (Paper DOI: 10.2495/TDI-V2-N2-166-175).

Senior Research and Development Engineer

- Lead innovation projects in the transportation and defense sectors
- Lead diverse teams ranging from software and hardware engineers to industrial designers and human behavioral psychologists
- Supported ~£1.5 million in funding from government (DfT)
- Accomplishments: CEO award, Innovator of the Year, 8 filed patents

Research and Development Engineer

Google

- Optimized digital growth strategies for SMB's in the Nordic region.
- Consistently drove innovation to benefit internal and external customers. Examples include creating a more efficient scheduling management tool and simplifying the billing process for Google Ads (globally), with the latter resulting in efficiency gains and clarity for customers and ultimately, less cases for Google to handle, directly impacting the bottom line. Consequently won award. 
- Supported project related to mechanics and optics (thermal dissipation) for the self-driving car.

Global Customer Experience Account Strategist

SPI Lasers

- Project management deploying new manufacturing line for laser products.
- Transformation of R&D concepts and processes into high volume manufacturing.
- NPI and cost reduction activities, savings >£1M realized from automation.
- Thermal management on optical layer through material science, testing, and creating mathematical models of degradation.
- Transferred internal repair processes for simplicity and cost reduction. Created working documents (including videos) and trained engineers and technicians to follow the processes.
- Key project: Thermo-Optical Characteristion of 1kW Capable CW Fibre Lasers

Manufacturing Project Lead

- Value-stream mapping to reduce cycle times, balance process and increase output capacity.
- Process improvement projects alongside operators.
- Procurement activities (cost reduction activities on components). 
- Robotics (fluid dispensing SCARA programmed and installed).
- Silicone development (reduced in-house processing)

Process Engineer

University of Portsmouth

Directed overall strategy, financial planning, daily operations, orchestrated staff recruitment, resulting in a notable accomplishment of surpassing 160 members and securing a record promotion to the 1st division, whilst achieving positive cash flow.

President

Financial planning, daily operations and strategy.

Vice President

Apollo Fire Detectors

Lead lean initiatives and NPI. Introduced automation to production and improved capacity management and implemented and lead cost reduction initiatives through supply chains and process improvements.

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