Experience

TalkMeUp

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Jul 2022 - 1 year 6 months

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States



ElectrifAi

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director

  • May 2021 - Jun 2022

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Managed the engineering backend team to support new product development and the operational works for legacy products. Responsible for making product high-level and low-level designs, implementations, and growing team technical capacities. Led the team to design and implement the backend of the company's new product, a machine learning-based product for animal monitoring. Hired talents and reestablished the team in two months after significant attritions. Rebuilt a strategic… Show more Managed the engineering backend team to support new product development and the operational works for legacy products. Responsible for making product high-level and low-level designs, implementations, and growing team technical capacities. Led the team to design and implement the backend of the company's new product, a machine learning-based product for animal monitoring. Hired talents and reestablished the team in two months after significant attritions. Rebuilt a strategic customer's trust through transparent and empathetic communications. Fostered a customer-centric and CAN-DO team culture. Built proof of concepts for multiple clients and got very positive business results. Show less



TalkMeUp

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Aug 2019 - Sep 2021

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States TalkMeUp is an AI-backed product that helps people improve communication skills. Our goal is to disrupt the corporate communication training market by lowing the cost by 10x and providing clear ROI through quantitative measurements. The core of the technology is that we analyze live streaming videos and leverage multimodal signals such as facial expression, eye contact, gesture, voice pitch, volume, pace, and speech content to give the speaker holistic evaluations and provide practical and… Show more TalkMeUp is an AI-backed product that helps people improve communication skills. Our goal is to disrupt the corporate communication training market by lowing the cost by 10x and providing clear ROI through quantitative measurements. The core of the technology is that we analyze live streaming videos and leverage multimodal signals such as facial expression, eye contact, gesture, voice pitch, volume, pace, and speech content to give the speaker holistic evaluations and provide practical and personalized feedback. Built the product from zero to one, going through the whole journey from the proof-of-concept stage to production-ready. Improved the system scalability from tens of concurrent users to thousands by breaking down the monolith system to a fully decoupled microservice architecture. Set up the fully automated CI/CD process on the AWS EKS and Code Pipeline managed by Terraform scripts. Seamlessly integrated hybrid analytic engines (machine learning and deep learning models, signal processing method, and rule-based engines) with the product. Shortened the user waiting time by 90% by creating the live video streaming analysis mode. Extended the revenue stream from user license to multiple streams such as open API and LMS scorm/xapi package integration. Show less



LittleMoochi

• United States
• Information Technology & Services

• Co-Founder

  • Nov 2018 - Jul 2020

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Non-profit for social impact LittleMoochi is a free mobile-first product to help kids improve eating habits with an AI-powered digital pet. The app uses Deep Learning models to analyze the ingredients and nutrition from a picture of what kids are eating, and provides personalized recommendations through gamified elements to encourage kids to eat healthier. • Brought joy and health to more than 5000 children. • The Forté Power Pitch Competition (1st place and Audience’s Choice… Show more Non-profit for social impact LittleMoochi is a free mobile-first product to help kids improve eating habits with an AI-powered digital pet. The app uses Deep Learning models to analyze the ingredients and nutrition from a picture of what kids are eating, and provides personalized recommendations through gamified elements to encourage kids to eat healthier. • Brought joy and health to more than 5000 children. • The Forté Power Pitch Competition (1st place and Audience’s Choice Award), CASTP Entrepreneurship Competition (1st place, and the Most Marketable Solution Award), and McGinnis Venture Competition (2nd place). • Established partnerships with the FoodHelpers, Pennsylvania childhood obesity prevention program and a Pittsburgh children’s healthcare center; attended NSF I-Corp program, Ascender Incubator, and CMU project Olympus Incubator. • Led the team to build a cross-platform mobile app, multi-modal neural networks for food ingredients recognition, and personalized food recommendations. Show less



PwC Acceleration Centers

• Professional Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Manager

  • Jun 2017 - Apr 2018

  Shanghai City, China Major Responsibility: Establish PwC China SDC Enterprise Automation AI team from scratch Leverage machine learning and deep learning technologies to build and sell enterprise automation solutions Activities: • Develop the short-term and long-term team strategy, objective and execution plan. • Lead the team continuously building generalized enterprise solutions by leveraging AI techniques. • Continuously improve team technical capacity to face different… Show more Major Responsibility: Establish PwC China SDC Enterprise Automation AI team from scratch Leverage machine learning and deep learning technologies to build and sell enterprise automation solutions Activities: • Develop the short-term and long-term team strategy, objective and execution plan. • Lead the team continuously building generalized enterprise solutions by leveraging AI techniques. • Continuously improve team technical capacity to face different challenges. • Communicate with customers directly to understand customer detailed business cases and demands. • Design solutions at both architecture level and detailed level. • Lead the core part implementation of the solution. • Participate and support front line in biddings. • Provide technical consultant to other PwC membership firms to win more deals. Highlights • Ramp up PwC China SDC Enterprise Automation department artificial intelligence team from scratch to a 10 people • Define organization artificial intelligence strategy and roadmap • Led the team build several OCR, entity recognition, text mapping solutions by using natural language processing and computer vision technologies in tax, audit, finance areas. • Delivered a serial machine learning training courses (30 hours) to entire PwC China SDC organization and got many approbations Show less



Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineering Manager

  • Dec 2014 - Jun 2017

  Shanghai City, China Major Responsibility: Manage and lead HP Universal Discovery R&D team and its infrastructure team Activities: • Drive entire product R&D team engineering excellence • Drive agile transformation • Define product roadmap with the Product Management team • Drive collaboration with other R&D teams under company portfolios • Support field teams to enable product go-to-market strategy • Partnership with strategic customers to extend product reputation • Talent… Show more Major Responsibility: Manage and lead HP Universal Discovery R&D team and its infrastructure team Activities: • Drive entire product R&D team engineering excellence • Drive agile transformation • Define product roadmap with the Product Management team • Drive collaboration with other R&D teams under company portfolios • Support field teams to enable product go-to-market strategy • Partnership with strategic customers to extend product reputation • Talent growth and people management • Engaging globally distributed teams to improve collaboration • Driving Get-Well program to improve the product quality Highlights: • Achieved 60 times productivity improvement by applying a breakthrough machine learning innovation • Extended into 300M federal market by accomplishing product FIPS compliance • Optimized DevOps processes that improved overall efficiency by 3.2 times • Made agile transformation and successfully shortened complex legacy product release cycle every 3 months • Significantly improved product quality and got the product off the hot list after being there for 18 months Show less



HP

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Manager

  • Nov 2009 - Dec 2014

  China Major Responsibility: Manage R&D team focusing on developments in HP PPM Demand Management and Resource Management modules in product release cycles. Manage R&D Quality Assurance team focusing on the HP PPM and HP UCMDB product release quality. Activities: • Work closely with product managers, R&D managers to define the product roadmap • Drive initiatives to improve R&D excellence in terms of efficiency, quality, productivity etc. • Incubate new innovations •… Show more Major Responsibility: Manage R&D team focusing on developments in HP PPM Demand Management and Resource Management modules in product release cycles. Manage R&D Quality Assurance team focusing on the HP PPM and HP UCMDB product release quality. Activities: • Work closely with product managers, R&D managers to define the product roadmap • Drive initiatives to improve R&D excellence in terms of efficiency, quality, productivity etc. • Incubate new innovations • Responsible for people development • Drive customer engagement programs • Drive team release planning, execution, delivery and support Hightlights • Transferred the CMS QA group from Yehud, Israel and Odessa, Ukraine to Shanghai, China • Successfully completed many customer related programs (beta, customer oriental scenario testing etc.) and turned big accounts into strategic parters • Successfully turned HP ES as the biggest ever product customer and explored new up-sell channels through accomplishing $1million budget project • Significantly improved product end user experience by performing the 1st breakthrough surgery against 10+ years history legacy product interfaces • Turned off-shore R&D team from extension mode into independent mode with module ownership • Drove customer engagement program and turned back Deloitte to strategic partner • Increased test automation coverage by 1.5 times through new framework

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2005 - Oct 2009

  China PPM engineer joined a lot of activities - Troubleshooting customer reported incidents - Handling hot customer escalations - Closely work together with customers to develop special enhancements - Responsble to field RFP from RnD perspective - Enhance the overall product performance in Performance SWAT team HP OpenView Service Desk CPE team - Software configuration management for both SD4.5 and SD5.x. In charge of generating SCM plan, defining service pack develop… Show more PPM engineer joined a lot of activities - Troubleshooting customer reported incidents - Handling hot customer escalations - Closely work together with customers to develop special enhancements - Responsble to field RFP from RnD perspective - Enhance the overall product performance in Performance SWAT team HP OpenView Service Desk CPE team - Software configuration management for both SD4.5 and SD5.x. In charge of generating SCM plan, defining service pack develop process, branch strategy, hotfix delivering, product building, release process - Service Desk integrate with OVO. Take full responsibility of the bug fixing and testing of integration of Service Desk and OVO for each service pack