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An outcomes focused product manager, systems engineer, and designer with a successful track record of bringing research to market @ enterprise scale by efficiently combining vision, people and capital. Developed conversational AI products for Lockheed Martin's F-35s & autonomous drones(Skyborg Program), Ford Research & Advancement, Ford Advanced Manufacturing, Epic Games, Unity, Chick-fil-A, GTRI, GM Autonomous Vehicle, Mitsubishi Electric, Education First, ZeroLatency, Nissan, ZF, Honda Research institute, Barclay's, US Bank, OCBC Bank, USAA, IsBank(Turkey), Genesys, Poly, Stryker, Olive, Walmart, CDW, Amazon Business, Universal Forest Products, and Weight Watchers. Co-founded several tech companies in the product marketing and design space. Started a non-profit summer camp program to provide easier access to technology and creative applications to kids from low-income families that have limited access to creative tech in an effort to eliminate the "digital divide". Lived in East Africa to enhance micro-finance systems for country wide poverty alleviation in Burundi. How I Add Business Value: Specialized in adding value to the world in the problem spaces of autonomous systems, product management, and user experience. Specialty Capabilities: - Building and executing product roadmaps - Raising venture funding ($65 million) and establishing product market fit - Creating and executing strategies for taking products into new markets - Creating systematic ways to drive feature prioritization - Working with clients to understand problems, formulate requirements, and facilitate collaborative solutions across many cross-functional development teams, investors, and the market stakeholders - The dark art of bringing AI research to market - Deploying end-to-end AI pipelines and integrating into enterprise systems (high accuracy, low latency, high throughput) - Giving presentations that drive consensus (close deals) - Product marketing strategy - Solution architecting by configuring core platforms to solve specific use cases - Facilitating workshops with technical and non-technical c-suite stakeholders to frame core problems, explain value prop of potential solutions, and create executable plans with investment options - Designing, building, and maintaining complete business systems and logistic pipelines that drive scalable organizational growth - Building systems to measure the performance of executing successfully on the roadmaps - Negotiating -- contracts, resource models, partnership deals, and vendor deals Outcomes: ( See Resume Below )