Experience

Kin AI

• Denmark
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Artificial Intelligence

  • Sep 2023 - Present

  Lisbon, Portugal I am building AI 🧠 that is private to you. 🔏 Your data and privacy are yours so that you can trust AI to help you make better choices and facilitate your life in new ways. 🦾 More coming soon...



Stealth Startup

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant TTS/LLMs/Conversational AI

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  United States Part-time consulting and implementation work for companies who are interested in building comercial solutions related to Speech Processing like Text-to-Speech (TTS), Speech-to-Text (STT/ASR) or Large Language Models (LLMs).



QuintoAndar

• Brazil
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Data Science

  • Nov 2022 - Sep 2023

  Lisbon, Portugal I led teams who specialize in Computer Vision, Search and Ranking as well as Recommendations and Personalization to give Quinto Andar clients an impressive experience when searching for and considering a new home to call their own. 🏡❤️



Defined.ai

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director of Machine Learning Engineering

  • Mar 2020 - Nov 2022

  Lisbon Metropolitan Area Machine Learning includes the research and production of machine learning products, specifically in our core areas of Speech, Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision.

• Head of Speech Sciences

  • Sep 2019 - Feb 2020

  Lisbon Area, Portugal Head of all things which have to do with Speech Processing (speech recognition and synthesis). We are global leaders in research and productization of speech data and models for the AI Industry.



SiDi

• Brazil
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant/Technical Manager

  • Mar 2019 - Sep 2019

  Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

• Chief Software Developer/TL/Coordinator

  • Sep 2017 - Mar 2019

  Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Technical leader of Bixby (Samsung virtual assistant) Speech Solutions team



Samsung Electronics

• South Korea
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant/Technical Manager

  • Mar 2019 - Sep 2019

  Campinas Area, Brazil

• Chief Software Developer/TL/Coordinator

  • Sep 2017 - Mar 2019

  Campinas Area, Brazil Technical leader of Bixby (Samsung virtual assistant) Speech Solutions team



Auglaize county ESC

• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teacher

  • Jul 2010 - Jun 2019

  Wapakoneta, Ohio Taught virtual classes at a distance for secondary education, mainly to at risk students. Most of them were unable to continue in the traditional brick and morter setting. A challenging and incredibly rewarding experience. Subjects: German and Spanish



SpeechTera

• Founder and Principal Researcher

  • Apr 2015 - Jul 2018

  São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil Founded a start-up company under the PIPE program, an accelerator for small businesses in the technology sector by FAPESP, São Paulo's main academic funding organ for Reaseach and Development in the area of Speech Technologies, specifically automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis. A number of products were created and made available to the community including speech corpora for Brazilian Portuguese, grapheme to phoneme convertors as well as text normalizers. Other projects in the… Show more Founded a start-up company under the PIPE program, an accelerator for small businesses in the technology sector by FAPESP, São Paulo's main academic funding organ for Reaseach and Development in the area of Speech Technologies, specifically automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis. A number of products were created and made available to the community including speech corpora for Brazilian Portuguese, grapheme to phoneme convertors as well as text normalizers. Other projects in the private sector include the development of ASR engines and speech datasets. Show less



CPQD

• Brazil
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Speech Engineer

  • Nov 2014 - Sep 2017

  Campinas Area, Brazil Developed automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis software for Portuguese, Spanish and English. Principal Contributions: Research and Development of the first Deep Learning techniques for speech technology at CPqD, Multilingual Linguistic Module; Speech Corpora, Tools for Automatic and Manual Speech Segmentation.



Vocalize Solucoes Em Tecnologias Da Fala E Da Linguagem

• Brazil
• Software Development

• Speech Researcher

  • Oct 2013 - Nov 2014

  Campinas Area, Brazil Developed automtic speech recognition and speech synthesis software for Portuguese, Spanish and English. Principal Contributions: Multilingual Linguistic Module; Speech Corpora; Automatic Prosodic Chunker; Automatic Diarization.



CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

• Brazil
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Doctoral Researcher

  • Jan 2012 - Oct 2013

  São Paulo, Brazil Researcher in the area of Speech Recognition and worked with a group of scientists and linguists to build corpora, webcrawlers, g2ps, phonetic balancers and tools to build new and large scale corpora. We released all of these tools on our laboratory homepage: http://www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/nilc/index.php/tools-and-resources We also built our own neural network models from scratch and battled the vanishing gradient, experimenting on top of the current HMM models and corpora as deep… Show more Researcher in the area of Speech Recognition and worked with a group of scientists and linguists to build corpora, webcrawlers, g2ps, phonetic balancers and tools to build new and large scale corpora. We released all of these tools on our laboratory homepage: http://www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/nilc/index.php/tools-and-resources We also built our own neural network models from scratch and battled the vanishing gradient, experimenting on top of the current HMM models and corpora as deep learning became possible but there were no toolkits available. Show less



The Ohio State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• NLP Research Intern

  • Feb 2007 - Jun 2010

  Columbus, Ohio Area Natural Language Processing Developed components for an online tutoring system, called Merk Mal, including a PoS Tagger and Stemmer to automatically diagnose errors for students of German.



Schmidt's Hospitality Concepts

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Waiter

  • Oct 2005 - May 2009

  Columbus, Ohio Area

• Dish Washer

  • Jun 2005 - Oct 2005

  Columbus, Ohio Area



Arby's

• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Front Cashier

  • Jan 2001 - 2005

  Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States