Paolo Messina, PhD, MBA
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Andrei Akaikine
First, I want to say how fortunate I feel that Paolo selected the role on my team in 2021. His contributions were instrumental to successful delivery on two important missions, Unified Search Platform and NextGen ML/AI capabilities development in Walmart's International Ecommerce organization. Thank you, Paolo! Secondly, a few words that you may treat as a professional recommendation. Here are some attributes that Paolo consistently demonstrates: Paolo has a unique product sense, especially in the AI/ML and digital data products space. His knowledge is comprehensive and deep. With his help and guidance we've developed a perspective on how to optimally leverage our data, our ML expertise and engineering know-how. Paolo has acute observational skill, he sees customer problems and tech solutions on the same plane, so that it is simple to connect the dots between Product WHAT and Engineering HOW. I salute, Paolo's dedication to quality. He leads by example to keep honest about what works well and where opportunities are. And finally, Paolo's drive for outcomes. In Paolo's case, recommendations like these may not be needed, - Results speak louder than words.
Mohammad H.
Dr. Messina is a brilliant data scientist. His expertise in the area of information retrieval & analysis is very very deep. Many of the tools and technologies that Dr. Messina has developed utilize best in class processes & protocols, as it pertains to image processing, deep learning, computational cognition, and natural language processing. I would highly recommend Dr. Messina's work as a technical executive, academic, and data science practitioner.
Andrei Akaikine
First, I want to say how fortunate I feel that Paolo selected the role on my team in 2021. His contributions were instrumental to successful delivery on two important missions, Unified Search Platform and NextGen ML/AI capabilities development in Walmart's International Ecommerce organization. Thank you, Paolo! Secondly, a few words that you may treat as a professional recommendation. Here are some attributes that Paolo consistently demonstrates: Paolo has a unique product sense, especially in the AI/ML and digital data products space. His knowledge is comprehensive and deep. With his help and guidance we've developed a perspective on how to optimally leverage our data, our ML expertise and engineering know-how. Paolo has acute observational skill, he sees customer problems and tech solutions on the same plane, so that it is simple to connect the dots between Product WHAT and Engineering HOW. I salute, Paolo's dedication to quality. He leads by example to keep honest about what works well and where opportunities are. And finally, Paolo's drive for outcomes. In Paolo's case, recommendations like these may not be needed, - Results speak louder than words.
Mohammad H.
Dr. Messina is a brilliant data scientist. His expertise in the area of information retrieval & analysis is very very deep. Many of the tools and technologies that Dr. Messina has developed utilize best in class processes & protocols, as it pertains to image processing, deep learning, computational cognition, and natural language processing. I would highly recommend Dr. Messina's work as a technical executive, academic, and data science practitioner.
Andrei Akaikine
First, I want to say how fortunate I feel that Paolo selected the role on my team in 2021. His contributions were instrumental to successful delivery on two important missions, Unified Search Platform and NextGen ML/AI capabilities development in Walmart's International Ecommerce organization. Thank you, Paolo! Secondly, a few words that you may treat as a professional recommendation. Here are some attributes that Paolo consistently demonstrates: Paolo has a unique product sense, especially in the AI/ML and digital data products space. His knowledge is comprehensive and deep. With his help and guidance we've developed a perspective on how to optimally leverage our data, our ML expertise and engineering know-how. Paolo has acute observational skill, he sees customer problems and tech solutions on the same plane, so that it is simple to connect the dots between Product WHAT and Engineering HOW. I salute, Paolo's dedication to quality. He leads by example to keep honest about what works well and where opportunities are. And finally, Paolo's drive for outcomes. In Paolo's case, recommendations like these may not be needed, - Results speak louder than words.
Mohammad H.
Dr. Messina is a brilliant data scientist. His expertise in the area of information retrieval & analysis is very very deep. Many of the tools and technologies that Dr. Messina has developed utilize best in class processes & protocols, as it pertains to image processing, deep learning, computational cognition, and natural language processing. I would highly recommend Dr. Messina's work as a technical executive, academic, and data science practitioner.
Andrei Akaikine
First, I want to say how fortunate I feel that Paolo selected the role on my team in 2021. His contributions were instrumental to successful delivery on two important missions, Unified Search Platform and NextGen ML/AI capabilities development in Walmart's International Ecommerce organization. Thank you, Paolo! Secondly, a few words that you may treat as a professional recommendation. Here are some attributes that Paolo consistently demonstrates: Paolo has a unique product sense, especially in the AI/ML and digital data products space. His knowledge is comprehensive and deep. With his help and guidance we've developed a perspective on how to optimally leverage our data, our ML expertise and engineering know-how. Paolo has acute observational skill, he sees customer problems and tech solutions on the same plane, so that it is simple to connect the dots between Product WHAT and Engineering HOW. I salute, Paolo's dedication to quality. He leads by example to keep honest about what works well and where opportunities are. And finally, Paolo's drive for outcomes. In Paolo's case, recommendations like these may not be needed, - Results speak louder than words.
Mohammad H.
Dr. Messina is a brilliant data scientist. His expertise in the area of information retrieval & analysis is very very deep. Many of the tools and technologies that Dr. Messina has developed utilize best in class processes & protocols, as it pertains to image processing, deep learning, computational cognition, and natural language processing. I would highly recommend Dr. Messina's work as a technical executive, academic, and data science practitioner.
Credentials
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Artificial Intelligence Product and Process Innovation
InnodemiaMay, 2019- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Mentally.ai
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder and Product Manager Lead
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Nov 2022 - Present
We believe Technology must unleash the human ingenuity. Finally…boost your creativity, dismantle boring tasks, eliminate costly errors, and build sustaining revenue. Design, Build, Deploy, and Operate powerful Ai digital workers 24/7, without increasing business costs, having fewer operational errors and empowerment to do meaningful work for your customers. We believe Technology must unleash the human ingenuity. Finally…boost your creativity, dismantle boring tasks, eliminate costly errors, and build sustaining revenue. Design, Build, Deploy, and Operate powerful Ai digital workers 24/7, without increasing business costs, having fewer operational errors and empowerment to do meaningful work for your customers.
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Innodemia
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United States
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E-Learning Providers
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1 - 100 Employee
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Founder, Instructor, Product Manager, Book Author
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Sep 2018 - Present
We believe that intelligent people ask deep questions. We believe that successful people seek answers to deep questions. Traditionally many businesses and entrepreneurs fail to capture value in new technologies because it is not apparent how to generate value or how to implement and execute on a plan to deploy a digital workforce that cuts costs, reduces errors and free energies to boost your business. Innodemia provides training and consulting services for innovators, entrepreneurs and small business executives that intend to leverage intelligent digital workers to boost their businesses to the next level. Innodemia produces also conferences and workshops on new technologies, trending technologies, exotic technologies and their applications to generate business value Show less
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Walmart Global Tech
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Consulting A.I. Product Manager| International Search Platform
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Sep 2021 - Present
Deploy unified e-commerce search service to several international markets across Americas and Africa. Leading innovation on machine learning improved search relevance and search personalization. Deploy unified e-commerce search service to several international markets across Americas and Africa. Leading innovation on machine learning improved search relevance and search personalization.
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Conversations in Artificial Intelligence
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E-Learning Providers
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Product Ideation, Content Marketing, Video Marketing, Founder
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Sep 2018 - Dec 2021
We are a media and marketing company that provides video content, video marketing and direct response marketing services to tech companies with artificial intelligence products or services globally. We have developed the expertise to design content for the top of the of the funnel and engage highly targeted micro audiences to move them into solution awareness and particularly your solution awareness and finally conversions. We create conversations with your prospects for b2b and high ticket b2c companies and guide your audience from cold to warm, to ready to engage. Our team has worked at major social media companies and his highly specialized around video, with total sales in the b2b and b2c exceeding $1B. Customers have included Dell, Netflix, Daimler and major youtube celebrities. Currently curate a Youtube Channel, providing information on artificial intelligence applications in business including: science, technology, product & strategy, marketing&adoption, talent management & recruiting, trends and education. We have covered several industrial sectors from healthcare, to energy, to industrial, constructions, e-commerce, quantum computing an ai, robotics, investments, ai strategy, ai in sales, ai in marketing and many more..... Show less
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Macy's
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United States
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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A.I. Product Management Consulting
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Oct 2019 - Jul 2020
Visual Search and Visual Personalization to increase engagement and conversion in the middle and bottom of the funnel. Visual Search and Visual Personalization to increase engagement and conversion in the middle and bottom of the funnel.
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Tabex
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder and CEO
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Jan 2014 - Dec 2019
I founded Tabex out of the simple idea that we are inundated with massive information such as web content, presentations, digital and printed documents. There are so many sources of info that often we either ignore them and re-work things like presentations, articles, marketing material, anlysis etc…. Most of the information can be gained quickly by human beings by looking at visualizations and visual graphics in general. Yet most software, including the most popular search engines lack the ability to cognitively understand data visualizations and visual graphics. Tabex tries to make it easy for individuals to repurpose visual graphics and for intelligent machines ( e.g. IBM Watson, Google Search, Quid Graph, Microsot Bing, Language summarization applications, Language generation applications etc..) to interpret visual graphics and generate higher level answers and interactive visulaizations to complex queries. We are also open to research on demand, we are able to assemble from scratch research and dev teams in Europe and Israel that can outperform teams in California at a reduced cost. We also look for opportunities to transact or sell our technology assets, including https://snapchart.co and http://pdfextractoronline.com and several prototypes in the field of layout recognition for document and the web. If you are a former entrepreneur, a business consultant, a business broker or simply a corporate development official and want to learn more please reach out to me, we do offer significant referral commissions for intro to decision makers. Show less
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Walmart
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United States
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Product Manager
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Aug 2016 - Sep 2018
Senior product manager on the content platform. Leveraging machine learning to deliver content on mobile and web at scale. I overview product strategy and product development in areas such as automated visual content enrichment and automated improvement of matching and grouping technologies. The teams I work with have patent-pending technologies and directly impact revenue streams by optimizing content contribution to the customer journey. Content and Last mile logistics are the areas of e-commerce with the highest opportunity for innovation and impacting people lifes. Show less
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SnapCHART
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Manager and Scientific Advisor
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Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
I was inspired by the opportunity to help students and academics around the world and help to shape the product and the technology end to end. SnapChart wants to help students, academics and various professionals including marketing and finance managers to make their points leveraging visual graphics they find in existing digital and printed media. A great number of charts and data are published today in journals, documents, and the web. These data often are useful to be inserted in a new publication or in a social media but they are static visuals and cannot be visually altered to the likes of the user. SnapCHART makes it possible to capture, digitize, repurpose and re-publish data from charts and visual graphics into a variety of social media outlets. Also, it makes it easy to virtually transform a picture of a Chart or a table in real data and download them to Excel or to Google Sheets. SnapCHART is a state of the art application of theoretical astrophysics data analysis and modern deep learning and other state of the art machine learning technologies. SnapChart is a patent-pending technology. Show less
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Innotelligence
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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Innovation Strategy Consultant
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Jun 2014 - Mar 2018
I write on topics concerning product and service design, operations and marketing innovation. I write on topics concerning product and service design, operations and marketing innovation.
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8x8
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Manager
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Mar 2014 - Jul 2016
At 8x8 I have worked and supervised a product from inception to successful delivery in the marketplace. I was inspired by the opportunity to help small and Medium company to become more productive, more modern and overall substantially save capital for their communication needs. I have worked at both the back end and the front end of an integrated Mobile Video, Audio interactive Collaboration Cloud Service. We launched a fully integrated collaboration cloud service that you can easily visualize as the sum of Whatsapp + Google Hangout for businesses. I learned a great deal of product management fundamentals including analytics strategies for product design, marketing launch, product quality and assurance and product lifecycle management. I was very fortunate to work with funny and engaging design and marketing crowd. Show less
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PDFExtractoronline
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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Product Manager (Co-Founder)
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Jul 2014 - Jun 2016
I was inspired by the will to help people around the world who are doing manual intense work. They are usually the ones that earn the least per hour of work put in. Some of them do jobs as data entry and data extraction. At its peak, PDFExtractoronline helped over 100K users per month to extract data from a variety of documents. We used unsupervised machine learning to understand the document layout and extract PDF tables. WE ARE INTERESTED TO SELL THIS SERVICE CONTACT WITH CONCRETE OFFERS. Our users around the world use PDFextractoronline to digitize or parse data from a variety of documents used in manual intense processes like: Invoices and purchase orders life cycle Financial statements Bill of Ladings and processes around logistics Construction and Civil engineering data tables. Data Tables in Educational and Research documents. Show less
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NewMedialytic
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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Product Manager ( Co-founder)
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Oct 2012 - Mar 2014
• Conceptualized product and service design, to bring to life a new paradigma in online TV, Social Video and Video Marketing. Executed in depth financial analysis and conceptualized market penetration strategy. • Launched online free service and directed digital marketing strategy and communication across multiple channels to achieve 100K users per month. • Designed interactive online and mobile video interfaces that create individualized experiences for users, delivering recommendations that accurately coincide with personal interests. • Designed and delivered an emotion based big data analytics engine focused on the Online and Mobile industry. Our technology is based on proprietary algorithms that can uniquely combine social media, viewers intent and viewers interactivity to discover valuable insights. Show less
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The Inovo Group
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Innovation, strategy and R&D consultant
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Feb 2012 - Dec 2012
• Led technical and business research in product opportunity discovery, systematically generated business innovation ideas in the form of data driven opportunity hypothesis to feed an interactive cycle focused at identifying new products. Developed quantitative algorithms and methods for determining market sizes from financial statements analysis and web data identification. • Researched worldwide experts in energy, software design, automotive and engaged experts in talks to propel the conception of new applications of carbon fibers methods. Likewise engaged experts worldwide in talks designed to propel the conception of new applications of Honeywell proprietary polymers. Ignited collaboration between customer and Ferrari performance commercial cars. Analytically and quantitatively tuned bass model parameters to predict product diffusion time. Show less
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PIMCO
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United States
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Investment Management
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Management summer intern (analytics)
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Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
• Researched the economic factors that can decrease long term performances of the high yield public private illiquid investment strategy and wrote a proprietary report. • Conceived tail hedge investment strategy optimizing long term returns. Built a matlab quantitative model to perform sensitivity analysis to demonstrate the strategy benefits. • Researched the effects of the 2008 crisis on the yield of PE and VC investments and conjectured possible applications of CDS macro hedging to illiquid investment pools. • Developed business intelligence on emerging social media and online financial retail technologies. Conjectured ideas on how to develop new online investment platforms and new business models. • Received training on topics of macroeconomics and derivatives finance. Show less
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Aetna, a CVS Health Company
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United States
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Wellness and Fitness Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Marketing Strategy Consultant
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Feb 2011 - Apr 2011
• Analyzed the company business value chain and built a model to describe the revenue stream impact factors. Conceived a proprietary social media marketing and technology strategy to increase customer retention and counter the industry commoditization trend. • Led emerging technology search and proposed adoption of state of the art technologies to enhance customers social media participation and facilitate the platform launch. • Studied topics of diffusion of innovation, market of new products and online marketing. Show less
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Lux Capital
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United States
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Innovation Strategist and Investment Analyst
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Feb 2010 - Aug 2010
• Researched and analyzed 20 start-up companies in energy innovation, nanotechnology and biosensors to provide the Firm with insights on early stage start ups; built and cultivated relationships with senior management and gained investment insights. • Conceptualized and prepared specific study on LED technology for industrial lighting, including study of technology components, value chain and market channel to determine the market viability of a disruptive technology. Delivered a research report. • Researching the status of competitive technologies to printed organic electronics in the sectors of RFID, LCD, Solar to help Polyera (Start-up company) understanding the technical barriers to adoption of its foremost organic semiconductor technology and possible opportunities in developing specific devices in high tech markets. • Helped start-up photonics’ sensors-defense company to identify strategic partners in the in-vitro diagnostic space, as well as in the biotech process monitoring space. • Structured and catalyzed Joint Venture between SDK Biotechnologies and the University of Illinoise to build joint research projects in parallelization of bio essays Show less
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huMannity Medtec
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United States
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Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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R&D Project Leader
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Dec 2008 - Dec 2009
• Led multidimensional experimental, quantitative, IP and market research in new product development. Based on statistical data analysis and qualitative analysis of other technical factors recommended investment directions in game changing product development. • Research Scientist-investigating possible medium term applications of nanoscience to medical devices rsearch. Explored avenues for Joint Ventures and R&D agreements with UCLA and Caltech scientists. • Research Engineer- worked on conception, design and development of advanced medical device for applications in remote sensoring. Technologies involved MEMS, Electrochemistry, Vacuum and RF. Show less
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Argonne National Laboratory
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United States
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Applied Physicist
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2005 - Dec 2008
• Proposed project, awarded $600,000. Conceived, designed and managed research projects with industry partners. Pioneered physics measurements in nano spectroscopy and built advanced instrumentation. • Conceived, structured and executed a international joint venture among Government and Industry partners to deliver state of the art physics instruments. • Explored surface chemistry innovation at the interface of self assembled molecular engineering and molecular magnetism. . • Proposed project, awarded $600,000. Conceived, designed and managed research projects with industry partners. Pioneered physics measurements in nano spectroscopy and built advanced instrumentation. • Conceived, structured and executed a international joint venture among Government and Industry partners to deliver state of the art physics instruments. • Explored surface chemistry innovation at the interface of self assembled molecular engineering and molecular magnetism. .
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Paolone Media
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Greater Chicago Area
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Product Manager (Co founder)
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Jun 2006 - Nov 2008
• Enjoyed the opportunity to create entertaining events inspired by the theme of converging art, science and fun. Enticed a crowd of international individuals with a sequence of captivating leisure events hosting 400+ crowd each time. • Designed and implemented product concepts and digital marketing strategy, catalyzed the assembling of team and lead operation execution. Provided continuing vision, love and passion to make each single event a success. • Enjoyed the opportunity to create entertaining events inspired by the theme of converging art, science and fun. Enticed a crowd of international individuals with a sequence of captivating leisure events hosting 400+ crowd each time. • Designed and implemented product concepts and digital marketing strategy, catalyzed the assembling of team and lead operation execution. Provided continuing vision, love and passion to make each single event a success.
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Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste
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Italy
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Research Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Visiting Research Engineer
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Sep 2004 - Dec 2007
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INSTM - Italian Consortium on Materiel Science and Technology
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Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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Scientist and project manager
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Apr 2003 - Sep 2005
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Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
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Germany
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Research
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100 - 200 Employee
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Research and Engineering Assistant
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Sep 1999 - Mar 2003
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Education
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University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
MBA, Major Finance, Strategy of growth and innovation -
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Master's Degree, Physics -
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics -
Northwestern University
Visiting scholar, NanoMedicine -
University of York
Master's Degree, Electronics -
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Master's Degree, Physics