Innovative Transformations LLC.

Consultant for Long Island Manufacturing Extension Partnership at Stony Brook University.  MEP provides subsidized funding for Nassau and Suffolk county Manufacturers through the Dept of Commerce’s MEP-NIST.  LIMEP assists small to medium-sized manufacturing companies to develop business growth and increase competitiveness through optimization of their manufacturing processes and products, training and workforce development.

Consultant for LIMEP

Helping Connecticut businesses realize their maximum potential via Operations Transformation

Connecticut Manufacturing Ambassador #500

Our mission is to deliver exceptional sustained value to our customers by teaching leaders at all levels how to continuously deliver breakthrough results with strategic kaikaku and innovative breakthrough kaizen.

CEO and Owner

Data Device Corporation

Director Of Operations

Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions

Sr. Production Manager

United Technologies Aerospace Systems (Formerly Hamilton-Sundstrand)

Implemented mixed model production line for all legacy products, incorporating all of the latest ACE elements.   Achieved and maintained the ACE Silver level for Air Management Systems Operations Business.

Continuous Improvement Manager

MTU AENA

•	Led MTU’s HPC Component Integrated Product Team (CIPT) for the NGPF partner program with Pratt and Whitney.
•	Presented engineering changes to the Systems Integrated Product Team (SIPT) for approval on behalf of the Munich HPC Module Team
•	As an ACE council member and lean transformation expert, led MTU AENA to achieve ACE Gold on August 25, 2010.  Identified the gaps and worked the closure plans.  Revamped the company’s approach to QCPC, Quality Clinic Process Charting to bring them into full compliance with ACE Gold requirements.  Developed and then delivered the advanced training and administrative and software support systems required to achieve gap closure.

NGPF, HPC Deputy CIPT Leader

Goodrich

•	Managed entire shop operations in a union environment for the production of gears, shafts, bearings and valves for hydro-mechanical pump assemblies.  Responsible for a team of 62 employees (4 production supervisors who supervise a total of 50 union employees, 7 manufacturing engineers and one materials manager),  budgeting, delivery, manufacturing engineering, quality control, tooling and other related operations.
•	Main responsibilities included managing customer expectations, delivery performance, overall operating costs and budget, inventory, quality, methods and personnel associated with lean manufacturing.  
•	Utilized strong leadership background in lean, operations and supply management to improve performance in on-time delivery, work order velocity, first pass yield, product cost and to continually drive out waste in order to generate capacity for organic growth.

Director of Manufacturing

Sikorsky Aircraft

Outsourced the S-76 helicopter to Keystone.  Drove a 40+ member team with weekly meetings and aggressive schedule.  Plan was executed flawlessly in 3 months, 3 months ahead of schedule.

Drove the rapid recovery of the main gearbox to support the production build schedule.  Utilized daily support at production meetings and kaizen events in underperforming areas and suppliers to pull all late parts into plan.

Recruited by Goodrich in December 2006 to join their leadership team.

Transformation Manager

Pratt & Whitney

2 year assignment to develop lean leadership at the executive level of the company.  Delivered quarterly report outs to P&W President and his executive team.

Prior to this role, held many different roles at P&W:  Manufacturing Engineer, Tool Designer, Design Engineer, Continuous Improvement Specialist, Supply Chain Specialist and Supply Chain Manager.

High Impact ACE Team Leader

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Nicole Snurkowski

Sahand Sojoodi

I am a software entrepreneur with a multitude of experiences founding and leading software product teams.

As Managing Director of Integral Consulting, I work with clients on transform their business using software, data and AI (using OpenAI, Groq, etc).

Previously, I have assembled digital product teams at larger enterprises such as TD Securities, Equitable Bank; I have co-founded a couple of companies: sales-enablement SAAS company named Gopher Leads and Extreme Innovations, a "venture studio" that created technology startups; I have architected, programmed and shipped products in varied industries (Manufacturing, Banking, CRM, Wealth Management, Insurance, Education, ...) and varies stacks (semiconductor, desktop, mobile, web, enterprise web, and AI).

If are interested in Software Application Strategy, Architecture or Software Development please connect.

Managing Director

A full service software engineering firm specializing in building elegant and lasting software systems.

Recent Engagements:
EuroLine Windows - Manufacturing:
implementing CRM and workflow management SaaS solutions: cutting operational cost (time) by a factor of 8 in sales management & forecasting as well as order-processing.
We are building a modern business workflow system to streamline transparency and data-driven decision-making, targeting to reduce operational friction by 2-10x in all areas of business.

Irpinia Kitchens - Manufacturing: we are helping streamline operations via investments in modern technology including financial management tools, ERP-CAD integrations (resulting in reducing time and cost of order processing by 10x).

InsureTech Startup: we implemented an online, could-based file-processing platform to enable secure operation of 10,000s of documents per month.

APG - Pharma Online Retailer: we advised on due-diligence preparedness for a major M&A transaction. We implemented a tech-acceleration strategy in the way software was developed. We created a systematic and scripted dependency-management and resolution approach. Employee onboarding, code generation and code-merging was accelerated by an order of magnitude.

Today’s the day!

This evening, we’re bringing together a group of exceptional software builders to compete in our 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧, focused on creating tools that help software teams build better.

The selection process in December was highly competitive: we accepted about 12% of applicants. I'm personally ecstatic to welcome and meet everyone.

We’re excited to partner with Cerebras, who are providing all participants with fast inference on leading-edge open-source models, along with some great prizes. Huge thanks as well to Backboard.io for not only feeding everyone, but also offering free credits for their memory API.

Looking forward to spending time with Nish Sinnadurai and Ben Yoskovitz, my fellow judges, who will help select the winners tomorrow.

And finally, I’m deeply grateful to my co-host Caitlin Carter from Highline Beta, along with many of my fellow Members of Technical Staff from 8090 Solutions, who will be around tonight and tomorrow supporting teams.

Let’s build! 🚀

My job posting broke LinkedIn yesterday! 

So, I had to make a new one. Sorry if this is a repeat, but it’s a greatly important one.

We are hiring for a 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧 role at 8090: Technical Product Management.

Have you 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 enterprise software products from the ground up? Have you built non-deterministic software, AI/ML or data-driven products? Do you draw energy not only from talking to customers about their problems, but from turning those problems into live, working software?

It’s a demanding role, and we’re deliberate about the bar. But it’s also one of the most impactful positions at 8090, working directly with our clients, shaping real systems, and driving outcomes from day one.

If this sounds like how you already operate, we should talk.

♻️ Please repost this to help me with this role.

📌 link to apply in comment.

We are hiring for a 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧 role at 8090: Technical Product Management.

Have you built enterprise software products from the ground up? Have you built non-deterministic software, AI/ML or data-driven products? Do you draw energy not only from talking to customers about their problems, but from turning those problems into live, working software?

It’s a demanding role, and we’re deliberate about the bar. But it’s also one of the most impactful positions at 8090, working directly with our clients, shaping real systems, and driving outcomes from day one.

If this sounds like how you already operate, we should talk.

Excited to share that Backboard.io is sponsoring meals for our upcoming 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 Hackathon this weekend. Backboard is an API that gives teams production-grade memory, state, and tooling without having to build infrastructure from scratch.

Big thanks to the Backboard team (Rob, Jonathan, team) for generously supporting the builders joining us this weekend. See you in the arena on Saturday!

Appreciate partners who invest in builders and the community (8090 Solutions, Highline Beta, Cerebras, Backboard.io) 🙌

8090 Solutions was founded on reimagining how enterprise software will be made. The vision: help enterprises run more efficiently as AI drives down the cost of development.

So we built a platform to build software for our Fortune 500 clients, basically a factory for custom software. It worked so well internally that we launched it this week.

If you want to help us build it or build with it please talk to me.

We're #hiring across engineering and product as well as looking for partners to build with!

"Work at a growing company which gives you tons of autonomy"

Great conversation with University of Waterloo students who came our last night and joined our AMA with Chamath Palihapitiya; sharing this recap for those who couldn’t make it.

Chamath framed today’s AI landscape using an analogy to the OSI model for the internet:
• Silicon layer: training and inference hardware is the new foundation (e.g., NVIDIA, Groq) and there are few large players there
• Foundational Model layer: LLMs, vision-language models, again dominated by large players right now
• Application layer: this is where differentiation happens and there are two main themes: software-native AI and physical AI, where the real world becomes the constraint.

One memorable detour on physical AI: turns out trying to light a match with your hands after numbing them in ice is a very hard task, the physical world constraints are a hard problem.

He also spoke about how AI is fundamentally changing how software is built, and how we’re rethinking that end-to-end at 8090 through our Software Factory, treating software creation itself as an industrial system to be engineered.

The Q&A stood out. Students asked thoughtful questions like:
• 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐈 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫? growing rocket-ships which give you tons of autonomy.
• 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞? absolute candour.

Thank you all who came out and met with our team last night.

We’re hiring aggressively and always excited to meet students who want to build at the frontier of AI and software.

If this resonates, please apply through WaterlooWorks and come build with us!

Love the builder attitude here! 

One team has achieved AGI! I saw this on a whiteboard, it’s being planned! More news to come when winners are announced tonight 🚀

#BuildForBuilders

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I met such a tremendous group of talented builders right here, 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨!

This hackathon was a great success, so much so that we will be organizing the next one before my original target date. The judges already chosen, it's going to be super fun again, so stay tuned!  I’ve set up a mailing list for people who want to participate (link in comment).

Thanks to all the participants who shared your Friday night and Saturday with us. I don't think our wifi had ever been battle tested with as many tokens passing through!

And thank you my co-conspirators and volunteers in hosting and judging this event. Nish Sinnadurai, Ben Yoskovitz, Megan Chun, Caitlin Carter and all of my Toronto team at 8090 Solutions and Highline Beta. Last but not least thank you Cerebras and Backboard.io for sponsoring this event with us!

Until the next one, keep building!

📌... and sign up (in comments) for being informed about future events and hackathons.

On January 16&17, we brought together an exceptional group of builders and judges (Nish Sinnadurai, Sahand Sojoodi, Ben Yoskovitz) alongside 8090 Solutions for our Build for Builders hackathon. The level of execution, creativity, and collaboration exceeded expectations.

We’re excited to officially announce the winners:
🥇 First place
 Mihajlo Micic and Razeen A. — FlowGuardian
🥈 Second place
 Alexander Zidros — DevFlow
🥉 Third place (tie)
 Anirudh Anil  — Agora
 Alexander Apostolu, Ali Rezaei, and Girish Sujethan — OminBoard

Thank you to everyone who participated and contributed (Cerebras, Backboard.io), built late into the night, and showed up ready to ship. And a huge thank you to our judges for their time, feedback, and thoughtful evaluation.

This is exactly the kind of builder energy we love to see.

“Iran is experiencing its most significant unrest in decades and 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞’𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. As protests spread, authorities are deliberately shutting down the internet to cut communication channels, isolate people, and hide the truth from the world. When voices are silenced, when videos can’t be uploaded, when families can’t reach each other, violence happens in the dark.”

💚🤍❤️

Entrepreneur • Investor • Board Director

The people of Iran have never stopped fighting for dignity, rights, and self-determination. This bravery is part of our history, and today, it lives on in the streets, in homes, and in voices the regime is trying to silence across the country. For the first time after 1979 revolution, the people have made the country #Ungovernable !

This time, Iranians are demanding true democracy and real freedom.

This movement comes from within—not imposed by foreign powers, not forced by other countries. Not empty promises. Not forced ideology. It is a demand for a future where people can speak freely, choose freely, and live without fear.

Iran is experiencing its most significant unrest in decades and once again the regime’s response is repression and silence. As protests spread, authorities are deliberately shutting down the internet to cut communication channels, isolate people, and hide the truth from the world. When voices are silenced, when videos can’t be uploaded, when families can’t reach each other, violence happens in the dark!

Internet shutdowns are not about “security.” They are about control. They are meant to break coordination, stop information from spreading, and prevent the world from witnessing what is happening on the streets of Iran.

World, hear us! 

Silence helps the oppressor, never the oppressed! 

We ask international media, journalists, human rights organizations, and governments: cover what is happening in Iran. Don’t look away. Don’t let internet blackouts erase people’s suffering. Amplify Iranian voices while they are being forcibly muted.

Please don’t scroll past the links below:

Shirin Ebadi: https://lnkd.in/gf-MxDtv

https://lnkd.in/g-f6npRG 

https://lnkd.in/gW_Nw83G

https://lnkd.in/ghbbSXtW

https://lnkd.in/gAUa_Muz

Please share this post. Help keep the communication alive when the regime tries to shut it down. Visibility can save lives. 

https://lnkd.in/g45AkdtB

#WorldHearUs #FreedomForIran  #Iran #LetIranSpeak #StandWithIran

Open article: Daughters of Persia on Instagram: "As protests spread across the country, access to the internet has been cut nationwide. #iran #iranprotests" by instagram.com

Daughters of Persia on Instagram: "As protests spread across the country, access to the internet has been cut nationwide. #iran #iranprotests"

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