Experience

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  Walmart Global Tech

  • Los Angeles County, California, United States

  • Head of Engineering, Merchandising Systems

    • May 2022 - Present
    • Los Angeles County, California, United States

    At Sam’s Club:Responsible for Item Assortment Decisions, Management and Catalog systems; and application of AI to those areas, that helps drive Sam's Club's $70B+ business to new heights.Engineering governance lead for cross enterprise rollout of modernized item structure.Led Merchant portal unification, space planning, private brands product development systems.

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  Epsilon

  • Los Angeles County, California, United States

  • Vice President of Research and Development

    • Mar 2020 - May 2022
    • Los Angeles County, California, United States

    Cross Product Audience Segmentation Builder Initiative and Technology Lead – Oct ’20 to PresentEpsilon PeopleCloud 2.0 Platform Re-Architecture & Consolidation Leader – Mar ’20 to PresentRetail Media Network Technology Direction & Selection Leader – Dec ’20 to Feb ‘20Data Lineage and Data Catalogue Technology Selection Initiative Lead – May ’20 to Sep ‘20Connector Technology Selection Initiative Lead – Mar ’20 to Oct ‘20

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  Publicis Spine

  • Sherman Oaks

  • PUBLICIS COSMOS Global Head of Engineering

    • Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
    • Sherman Oaks

    COSMOS is an AI-driven Customer Data, Marketing Personalization Platform.Responsible for a product management, UX, data science, data engineering, and web development team and the creation of a multi-tenant SaaS management portal that provisioned Azure based secure data-privacy boundaries, within which ran our universal identity / entity resolution algo's, data pipelines, video/audio/text cognitive services, customizable marketing ML models, marketing campaign process flows, audience segmentation toolsets, BI & ML-friendly data marts/data graphs, outbound processing and campaign monitoring/optimization features

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  Sapient

  • Los Angeles, California

  • Senior Director Of Technology

    • May 2003 - Apr 2018
    • Los Angeles, California

    PUBLICIS COSMOS AI Platform Engineering Lead - Aug '17 to Apr '18Toyota – AI strategy & 9 yr roadmap development, built the 1st initiative, a conversational state-aware chatbot – Jan ’17 to Jul ‘17Artificial Intelligence (AI) Practice Technology Leader - Feb '16 to Jul '17Research Affiliates - Public Research Portal Modernization Lead - Aug '15 - May '16Capital Group - Mobile Application Capability Launch, Financial Research Collaboration app - May '14 - Aug '15Western US Trading and Global Markets Business Development - Apr '14 to Jul '17Citadel Front/Middle/Back Office, Compliance, Risk, Mortgages, Energy/Commodities, Product Lead (25% of Citadel's IT staff) - Jan '12 to Jan '15Citadel Global Middle & Back Office Lead - Jan ‘08-Jan'15Citadel Mortgage Origination Lead - Sep '07-Jan ‘08Business Process & Systems Assessment for ConAgra Trading - Aug '07Physical Operations Scheduling System for BP – Aug ‘06 to Aug ‘07Market Making Systems Analysis for TD Options – Jun to Jul ‘06Global Mobile Phone Portal Migration for Motorola – Sep ‘05 to Mar ‘06Web portal capacity upgrade for BP – Jan ‘05 to Sep ‘05Enterprise Data Collection & Warehousing for Essent – May ‘03 to Dec ‘04

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  Streaming Productions

  • Chief Technology Officer

    • Sep 2000 - Feb 2001

    Designed and marketed the cost model and infrastructure to deliver a new interactive experience utilizing interactive streaming video browser technologies. Business applications included music videos, educational programs and corporate trainingTechnology design included Real Player technologies, Quicktime, WAP, iTV, Flash, video production software, content management systems, eCommerce engines

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  Sapient

  • Senior Architect

    • Nov 1993 - Sep 2000

    Global Extranet for Schroders Plc – Dec ‘99 to Sep ‘00Shopping Portal for S&H Greenpoints – Nov ‘99 to Dec ‘99Enterprise e-Commerce Capability for Mellon Bank – Sep ‘99 to Nov ‘99Chemical Exchange Design for Chemconnect.com – Aug ’99 to Sept ‘99Pipeline Management for Williams Corp – Aug ‘98 to Aug ‘99Contract management for Dun & Bradstreet Inc – Aug ‘97 to Aug ‘98Data Warehouse, DSS and Wargaming for US Marines – Jan '97 to Aug '97Automated Work Management System for PSE&G – May ‘94 to Dec ‘96Sales Compensation Portal for Sprint – Nov ‘93 to Dec ‘96

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  Bridge Technology

  • Product Architect

    • 1990 - 1993

    Performed all aspects of product functional and architecture design, development, documentation, sales and support for two OS/2 products: BRIDGE/SNAPSHOT – Managing scheduled downsizing of data from IBM Mainframes to OS/2 database serversBRIDGE/MONITOR – Collected usage statistics from a network of OS/2 servers, featuring multi-threaded central monitoring, storage and analysis toolsTechnologies included C, LEXX/YACC, DB/2

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  MIT

  • Developer

    • Aug 1988 - May 1991

    Participated in forming the initial concept and future direction of a WYSIWYG Lecture Authoring system, allowing all levels of computer literates to create on-line courseware. Developed various X windows modules.

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  Systems Center

  • Developer

    • May 1990 - Nov 1990

    Developed new features for DB/2 database query tools on IBM mainframes utilizing C and Assembly languages

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  Intel

  • Developer

    • May 1989 - Aug 1989

    Designed and implemented error handling algorithms for Intel’s massively parallel iWarp architecture including up to 1024 separate processorsDesigned and implemented test harnesses for IEEE 32bit and 64bit floating point mathematical library

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  MIT Media Lab

  • Developer

    • Aug 1987 - Aug 1988

    Developed voice recognition software to analyze whether someone was asking a question or making a statementDeveloped font recognition software to parameterize digital characters and their scaling characteristics for auto-generation of new fonts