STRONGEST AI

Strongest AI is a cloud-based platform and toolkit for building best-in-class fitness apps.

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Founder & CEO

Built Technologies

In what was a highly operational role, I had the remarkable opportunity to lead the broader Delivery Team that spanned nearly fifty people across Product, Engineering, Implementations, and Support.

I collaborated daily with the CEO and other key leaders to establish strategy, define operating principles, and refine plans that impacted nearly every aspect of the company during an intense period of substantial growth following Series A funding.

In what was one of the most impactful years of my life, the team substantially grew revenue, increased headcount, and improved the cloud based technology that is transforming a multi-trillion dollar global industry.

Chief Technology Officer

O'Reilly Media

I've independently authored several books for O'Reilly Media (Dojo: The Definitive Guide, Mining the Social Web, 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter, and PayPal APIs: Up and Running (2e)) and consulted on numerous efforts ranging from technical review of titles such as Programming Collective Intelligence, Algorithms in a Nutshell, and JavaScript: The Definitive Guide to internal data mining and web app development projects.

Author & Speaker

Zaffra, LLC

Zaffra is a boutique consulting firm that I used for advising early stage companies and providing consultative support on special projects.

Managing Partner

Digital Reasoning

I lead technology, data science, and intellectual property strategy for the company.  Our software products transform everyday sources of human communication into rich contextual graphs of knowledge that can be queried to answer questions about entities and relationships in time and space.

I managed a software development process and lead a team of 20+ talented engineers and scientists, and together, we have built and shipped multiple versions of Synthesys, an unstructured data analytics product that transforms raw data into queryable knowledge. The current version of Synthesys resolves the identities of entities and relationships across hundreds of millions of documents on scalable commodity hardware in a computationally efficient manner.

Vice President, Engineering

I was originally hired into Digital Reasoning to productize research efforts, and several key aspects of my work helped lead to the inception of an unstructured data analytics software product that combined natural language processing, named entity recognition, and semantic noun clustering into an integrated software development kit. The maturation of this product later became known as Synthesys.

Director of Research Solutions

Dojo Foundation

I authored Dojo: The Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly Media in Jun 2008, and worked closely with core contributors and committers to smooth out API wrinkles, update documentation, and fix bugs. Dojo: TDG was the first book of its kind and set the standard for many books to come on JavaScript toolkits.

Open Source Contributor

United States Air Force

As an active duty Air Force officer, I supported the 789th Communications Squadron (Andrews AFB, MD) as a Program Manager.  

As a reservist, I supported the Defense Intelligence Agency (Bolling AFB, Washington DC) as an open source researcher on advanced web development technologies that could be used to modernize application development across the enterprise.

Communications Officer

Sun Microsystems

As a consultant at Sun Microsystems, I provided subject matter expertise and advised the Sun Convergence team on web application development with Ajax development patterns in order to upgrade the client side code for the Sun Convergence product (See http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunConvergence/Home).

Principal Software Engineer

Parsons

During a transition period, I worked briefly as a senior software engineer at the Parsons Corporation where I assisted the company with deploying a sensitive project for the Department of Homeland Security at various security checkpoints owned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Senior Software Engineer

White Oak Technologies

At White Oak, I led the development of a classified software project that was built from scratch to solve a strategic problem. As part of this role, I deployed to central Asia to learn more about the problem we were solving, collect requirements directly from users, and accelerate the adoption of the project.

Computer Scientist

I’m obsessed with optimizing human performance: body, mind, and soul.

I believe that entrepreneurism is a spiritual journey.

One of my favorite mental models for life is framing it as a multi-objective optimization problem.

I’m learning to be satisfied with the outcome when I’ve truly given my best effort.

I appreciate clear thinking, especially first-principles thinking.

I’m too skeptical to willingly outsource my thinking to others.

I’m a builder, and I enjoy the grind of putting in a good day of work.

I tend to get grumpy when I don’t exercise, and I believe that barbell medicine is some of the best medicine.

I’m creating a platform for fitness creators that is the beginning of something great.

Matthew Russell

Autodesk

For all customers to benefit from the Autodesk platform, we must work effectively across the intersection of products and industries towards joint outcomes. My team ensures that every stakeholder has access to the information needed to make the best decisions and accelerate the delivery of our platform capabilities.
Our organization covers technical program and portfolio management, M&A integration, data analytics, agile coaching, and cloud supply chain management.

•Lead a global 80+ people organization focused on technical program and portfolio management, M&A integration, data analytics, cloud supply chain management, and agile coaching responsible for shaping the platform and security development and execution for Autodesk.
•Set planning and execution cadence for >3000 engineers, product managers, program managers, executives, and the Autodesk board.
•Develop regular platform operations meetings, enabling independent execution and ensuring that outcomes are achieved within budget, on time, and with the expected customer benefit. 
•Established a companywide steward program rallying Autodesk to build on shared cloud and desktop capabilities.
•Built a data analytics pipeline processing billions of data points for business analytics and smart insights.
•Manage a 40M+ annual budget and 7-figure companywide royalty and cloud contracts.

Senior Director, Programs and Business Excellence

Director, Programs and Business Excellence

•Act as an advisor to the CTO and PSET leadership on matters of strategy, execution, and operations.
•Shape the annual strategy cycle for the PSET organization ensuring the outcome fully reflects the team’s vision, priorities, and constraints.
•Plan and facilitate CTO Staff meetings and a regular C-Staff forum focusing on the platform future.
•Develop and support Board as well as employee communications.

Chief of Staff to the CTO

Director, Technology Centers Network

•    Together with my team I catalyze relationships and create connections across industries, organizations, and teams to reimagine what it means to design and make. 
•    I lead a team of seven industry experts passionate about innovation and creating a better, more sustainable future. With years of experience in industry and academia, we work with our residents to shape ideas into tangible projects that push boundaries - of design, of making, and the space in between.
•    Expanded the teams scope from lead generation to strategic program planning and execution.
•    Manage the full Technology Center budget and responsible for various other team-wide operational functions.

Senior Engagement Manager, Technology Centers

•    Created a new organizational structure and build a high-performing, diverse team of 10 very talented and engaged superstars that are distributed across the US and Canada. 
•    Developed business process automation utilizing modern web tools, APIs and Microsoft systems automating ~2000 tasks a month, to allow my team to support, track and amplify the activity of up to 400 technology center resident teams per year.
•    Broadcast the joint impact of Autodesk and our diverse community of industrial, academic and entrepreneurial residents on practical innovation to internal Autodesk audiences and external key opinion leaders. Together, we foster radically open innovation to shape the future of architecture, engineering, and construction.

•    Architected and implemented a new strategic initiative to connect research activities to product and business teams. Working across organizational boundaries and with a complex network of stakeholders I facilitated the process from inception to execution including buy-in from both C-level executives and individual contributors.

Senior Manager Global Business Operations, Technology Centers

•    Create a strategic alignment of the Technology Center with the global Autodesk strategy and craft appropriate objectives and key results for our teams.
•    Manager our resources, scale and secure IT setup, and digitize processes to streamline operations for all Autodesk Technology Centers globally.

Technology Center Operations Manager

•	Directed design and development of the Life Sciences BioCAD tool “Genetic Constructor” to transition from a research proof-of-concept to an enterprise product with a $3M pipeline by developing a feature set utilizing user interviews of industry experts and market analysis.
•	Spearheaded marketing and communications efforts that led to negotiations with three global, multibillion-dollar enterprise clients within the industrial enzyme space.
•	Managed day-to-day activities with a can-do attitude in a fast-paced work environment and motivated the team to solve complex problems within tight timelines. 
•	Interfaced with industry-leading scientists and senior leaders of target client enterprises, gathered requirements and led cross-functional design and development teams to translate customer expectations into product features.

Product Manager

Constructor University

Shape the strategy of the University. Ensure fiduciary rigor and stability. Identify, recruit, and appoint Board members. Drive connections into the local business and academic ecosystem and build connections to international supporters.

Board of Governors & Board of Trustees

Transcriptic

•	First scientist on the team, second employee overall.
•	Managed the product from market fit to technical implementation.
•	Successfully acquired pilot customers, delivering customer support and experimental design and execution; creating our annualized recurring revenue (ARR) stream.
•	Specified requirements for hardware design and device integration into Transcriptic’s automated services, managing device research, implementation, and quality control for 12 distinct device classes.
•	Supported CEO in $9M budget management, strategizing business decisions and fundraising efforts.
•	Developed hiring strategy and planned healthy team structure and growth plan (3 to 36) for the company.
•	Selected and negotiated the lease of an office space, designed the lab, sourced all materials, hired contractors, and, facilitated the transition of an entire company to a new space with only 4 hours of downtime.

VP Science

Cornell University

•	Designed and executed two separate studies from hypothesis through data analysis and mentored three junior graduate students throughout their research projects. 
•	Led the computational bioinformatics analysis for several genome studies.
•	Maintained a BSL-2 facility.

Graduate Scientist | Postdoctoral Scientist

LADR Der Laborverbund Dr. Kramer & Kollegen

•	Performed sample preparation, DNA extraction, genotyping by PCR, data analysis and manuscript preparation that resulted in an invitation to speak at the 2nd WOREAL 2007 "Polymorphisms of the GSTM1 and GSTT1 genes are not associated with metal allergies."

Industry Internship

emp Biotech GmbH

•	Optimized three parameters of a new chemiluminescence detection method for DNA probes by adjusting conditions to increase efficiency.

High performing, diverse teams bring out the intelligence of everyone. I love being part of these teams and strive to create them wherever I am. With over 10 years of experience in life sciences, software product development, and business strategy I now fuel platform development across Autodesk.
I come to work energized every day to work with a brilliant, and diverse team of analysts, engineers, and software developers and work on exploring the possibilities that lie ahead of us. Together, we roll up our sleeves to get things done so we can do more and work towards a better and more sustainable future.

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