Consulting and assistance in entering an international market, to a startup venture  focused on automated digital distribution channels (B2B, DTC) for Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturers and distributors.

Research & Biz Development (automated FMCG distribution)

Modal <> AI

Modal AI develops a core Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) Technology that enables guiding, overseeing and explaining human and technical actions, to support compliance, quality and reduced human error.

Founder

Intel Corporation

Lead KRR expert, established symbolic KRR choices within Intel's cognitive computing program

Senior Research Scientist, Intel's Strategic Technology Group

Melabev

Cognitive Exercising Gamification R&D for persons with moderate dementia / altzheimer

-	Lead UIX and Gamification R&D of a team of domain experts, including a scientific medical adviser (MD, PhD), occupational therapist, and gerontologist
-	Analyzed and Modeled, in collaboration with the team, Domain of Activities of Daily Living
-	Prototyped hands-on 20 cognitive exercising game screens using HTML5, JavaScript-based game engine, with about 20 persons with moderate to more severe dementia in the loop

Technical R&D Lead

Goal-Oriented Solutions

Aligning Business Goals and Software Solutions. Scroll down to Projects linked to this position.

(selected projects) 

-	Know-how mapping: Researched novel KRR-based technology to represent, capture and analyze engineering know-how in application domains. 
-	Risk management in Open Source Software: Researched State of the art in goal-oriented knowledge-based approaches for risk management in general and for open-source software in particular.
-	Data privacy for consumers: for a startup client of JBSTeck, an information development company, analyzed, mapped out, and distilled 33+ technological approaches to the positioning and development of new products and services in the consumer data privacy space.

Principal, Business & System Analyst, System Architect, Researcher

University of Toronto

* Teaching assistance for courses: Designing Information Systems and Information Systems for Knowledge Management (for several years)
* Lectured on goal-oriented software design for dealing with Accessibility during web user interface design 
* Literature review for information system design and knowledge management courses 
* Developed course material on Goal-oriented methods for dealing with Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), and delivered lectures to master’s students (for several years)
* Designed exams for graduate students, and graded assignments and exams submissions
* Developed Microsoft Excel based analysis tool to support the Goal and Scenario-oriented Non-Functional Requirements Development method, I had developed for Siemens Corporate Research. The tool was written in VB.NET as a plug-in to Microsoft Excel 2007

Research Associate

* Contributed to the development of an object-oriented analysis method and information models for the world –wide insurance industry, with a focus on business process and task management
* Consulted IBM Portsmouth in relation to business process and work flow management
* Developed educational material, and taught course to members of the technical Information Architecture staff at Generali Insurance Austria and Germany

Insurance Application Architecture Researcher, Consultant

* Integrated IBM workflow management with IBM insurance application architecture
* Contributed to ISO9000 Advisory product add-on to IBM workflow management product
* Experimented with advanced technologies to improve labs processes and products
* Tested multi-platform, multi-protocol workflow product on OS/2 and IBM AIX
* Installed, maintained, and administered heterogeneous networks, servers and individual development environments for 160 in-house software developers

Software Engineer

Softel - an IBM Established Company

Promoted high-volume Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system at CeBIT, Germany’s largest computer exhibition

Strategic Networking

Founder at Modal <> AI

Modal<>AI develops a novel symbolic AI based creator tool to describe and oversee human-machine actions.  With Modal<>AI's technology operations can cost-effectively automate compliance and quality, in particular, in unpredictable work domains, thereby significantly reducing error, rework and cost.

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