Experience

Advisor and Cofounder, AdaptRM/ Rapid Prototypes Inc, Sunnyvale, CA Nov 2017-Feb 2018
• Advised re TimeMyLife, an automated time tracking and invoicing service.
• Advised re business and technology strategy.

Cofounder and Chief Product Officer, AdaptRM/ Rapid Prototypes Inc, Sunnyvale, CA Mar 2013-Nov 2017
• Created and maintained TimeMyLife, an automated time tracking and invoicing service.
• Oversaw product development and business development.

Lead Analytics Developer, FriendFinder Networks, Sunnyvale, CA June 2010-May 2012
• Led a team of analytics developers and data scientists.
• Built interactive visual analytics tools for making sense of information, and libraries and data pulling/pushing scripts to support analysis
• Answered business and community questions requiring programmatic data mining or data science.

Analytic Software Scientist II, FICO, San Jose, CA May 2005-Dec 2009
• Collaborated with team to design data visualization and interactive analysis tools in Java.
• Implemented graph, tree, clustering, link, and chart, table, and other visualizations and algorithms.
• Focused primarily on the areas of visualization, interactivity, and UI design. Also worked on algorithms development and implementation, software architecture design, and other aspects.
• Learned about information visualization, UI design, software design, data mining.
• Gained experience in project management and the full product development life-cycle.

Operations Manager, Diamond Games (now BetSoft Gaming), Santa Monica, CA Sep 2004-Mar 2005
• Managed Quality Assurance team.
• Managed product release schedule.
• Provided technical support for client base.
• Continued to fulfill duties of prior position (see below).

QA and Web Developer, Diamond Games (now BetSoft Gaming), Santa Monica, CA Aug 2003-Sep 2004
• Collaborated to produce innovative online casino-style games for clients including sportbooks.
• Managed website rollouts and product releases.
• Wrote specifications and site content.
• Tested our products and websites.

Clinic Team Member, Harvey Mudd College/United Devices, Claremont, CA Sep 2001-May 2002
• Participated in a unique capstone experience of solving a real-world problem for an industry leader.
• Collaborated with small team to convert bioinformatics software to a distributed architecture. Software was in C, Pascal, and Perl.
• Focused on documentation and document integration using LaTeX and CVS.

Technical Intern, Orincon Corporation, San Diego, CA May 2001-May 2002
• Applied game theory and artificial intelligence research to information warfare.
• Implemented artificial intelligence algorithms in Java. Used Javadoc and UML extensively.
• Assisted in the grant application process.

Associate Software Systems Engineer, JPL/Federal Data Corporation, Pasadena, CA May 2000-May 2001
• Worked with a team to develop new Java API for installation, JSR 38.

Patents

• US Patent 8,768,743: Product Space Browser
• US Patent 7,962,368: Purchase Sequence Browser
• US Patent 8,200,609: Construction of decision logic with graphs
• US Patent 8,312,389: Visualization of Decision Logic
• US Patent 8,266,090: Color-coded visual comparison of decision logic

Education

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Aug 1998 - May 2002 Bachelor of Science in Mathematics/Computer Science with Cognitive Science minor
• Computer Science coursework includes artificial intelligence, neural networks.
• Mathematics coursework includes game theory, operations research, probability.
• Cognitive Science coursework includes cognitive psychology, perception and cognition, cognitive anthropology, mind and language.

UCLA Computer Science, Los Angeles, CA Sep 2002 - June 2003 Graduate work in Computer Science.
• Computer Science coursework includes automated reasoning, reasoning with partial beliefs, pattern recognition, animats.
• Research: neural/computational model of psychological causation.