Operating Track Record

25+ years building and scaling technology at Fortune 500 companies, startups, and research labs. This operator experience informs how we support our portfolio companies.

Operating Experience

2025 - Present

AIKind

Founder & Principal, Revenue Systems & AI

Founded AIKind to architect autonomous, self-improving AI agents designed to bridge the gap between human needs and machine capabilities.

  • RevOps Strategic Roadmap: Developed commercial strategy with 15+ industry-specific POCs to validate diverse monetization strategies
  • Revenue Systems Architecture: Designed AI-driven lead-scoring and routing frameworks to improve Sales Velocity
  • Operational Scalability: Architecting vendor-agnostic systems and multi-model orchestration for complex operational workflows
Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLPrismaOpenAIAnthropicInngest
2022 - 2025

Indeed

Software Development Manager, AI & Outreach Platforms

Directed the engineering strategy for global messaging and outreach platforms, connecting millions of employers and job seekers within a business unit generating $7B+ in annual revenue.

  • Marketplace Optimization: Spearheaded generative AI integration to personalize high-volume interactions and optimize engagement metrics
  • Revenue Velocity: Established AI-first development lifecycle utilizing intelligent automation to accelerate engineering velocity
  • Platform Integrity: Developed defense systems to detect and neutralize malicious bot activity and AI-driven threats
  • Commercial Alignment: Aligned technical roadmaps with commercial objectives, transitioning prototypes into scalable services
ReactKotlinJavaSpring BootAWSOpenAI
2020 - 2022

GTRI

SEAL, CIPHER & EOSL Labs

Interim Branch Head & Senior Research Scientist

Led the Intelligent Systems Design branch, serving as primary lead for acquiring and securing multi-million dollar project funding for a diverse research portfolio. Active Top Secret Clearance.

  • Business Development: Primary lead for acquiring multi-million dollar project funding
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Managed team of physicists, electrical engineers, and computer scientists
  • Institutional Governance: Served on Promotion Committee, Awards Council, and as judge for Army RCCTO
  • Rapid Response: Architected secure, cross-platform systems for public health contact tracing during pandemic
Android/KotliniOS/SwiftRustC++FPGAsVivado
2014 - 2020

Broadcom

Symantec

Staff Research & Development Software Engineer

Built and scaled a distributed team of senior engineers for Bay Dynamics (Risk Fabric), leading to its acquisition by Broadcom in Dec 2019 as part of Broadcom's $10.7B expansion into enterprise security.

  • M&A Success: Led engineering team through successful $10.7B acquisition by Broadcom
  • Revenue-Driving Features: Developed 'Analyzer' flagship feature with custom columnar database and RFQL query language
  • Product Re-platforming: Transitioned products from AWS to GCP and cloud-agnostic technologies
  • AI Innovation: Designed Active & Deep Learning features for clustering and neural network classifications
C#KotlinPythonPyTorchSklearnElasticsearchKafkaDockerK8s
2015

HP

Innovation Lab

Senior Augmented Reality Mobile App Developer

Led Innovation Lab efforts at HP, mentoring engineers and spearheading the evolution of the Aurasma AR platform for global customers like Marvel.

  • Innovation Leadership: Led Innovation Lab efforts, mentoring engineers on emerging technologies
  • Platform Scaling: Optimized AR performance utilizing shared Computer Vision algorithms
  • Cloud Strategy: Supported transition of services to AWS cloud technologies
Node.jsObjective-CJavaC++AWS
2011 - 2014

Amazon

Fabric & AWS

Software Development Engineer, Manager, & Solution Architect

Head of technology for a virtual storefront, overseeing technical systems that directly drove consumer revenue. As AWS Solution Architect, optimized sales pipeline during period where AWS achieved $5B+ annual revenue run rate.

  • Revenue Systems Leadership: Oversaw technical systems driving consumer revenue and warehouse automation
  • GTM Enablement: Utilized Salesforce for managing leads and optimizing sales pipeline at AWS
  • Performance Excellence: Received performance ratings in the top 1%
  • Team Leadership: Led technical teams of up to 20 senior engineers
C#Java/SpringEC2S3CloudFrontSESRoute53
2008 - 2010

Andromeda Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Primary client was the Department of Defense, with commercial clients like Google & Boeing. Built complex web-based software solutions and collaborated with engineers from MIT and Harvard to develop optimization algorithms.

Web TechnologiesOptimization Algorithms
2010

Federal Reserve Bank

Atlanta

Web Developer Lead

Met with internal clients to spec, mock, and implement web based solutions. Headed up teams for process improvement methods using CMMI Level 3.

2008

Northrop Grumman

CDC

Software Engineer III

Contracted for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop and maintain widgets during the Swine Flu (H1N1) epidemic.

1997

NASA

Intern

Internship at NASA to assist with writing software in C that controlled the turrets that track the Space Shuttle launches.

C

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

4.0 GPA

M.S. in Computer Science

Completed 2020

AIMachine LearningNetworksOSInfoSecFFT/Graph Algorithms

University of Central Florida

B.S. in Computer Science

Completed 2005

Computer LogicDiscrete StructuresAlgorithmsOOP

Certifications

  • GCP (2020)
  • AWS Developer & Solution Architect Professional (2014)
  • ColdFusion 8/MX (2000)
  • CompTIA A+ (1999)

Publications

  • Portable Ultraviolet-C Disinfection Systems for COVID-19, 2020 IRAD & NIST 2021
  • Low Cost Swarm STITCHES Link 16, GTRI IRAD 2021
  • ABMS MeshONE Reference Implementation Lab Study, 2021
  • CoEpi: Community Epidemiology in Action, GTRI IRAD 2020

Speaking Engagements

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Atlanta Deep Learning Meetup

100+ Attendees • May 2017

Neural Network Architecture

Atlanta Deep Learning Meetup

100+ Attendees • April 2017

Cloud Configuration Management

COX Enterprises Private Event

100+ Attendees • August 2014

Areas of Expertise

Technologies and domains where we can add the most value to portfolio companies.

AI/MLFull-Stack DevelopmentCloud ArchitectureTeam BuildingTechnical LeadershipBrain-machine InterfacesWebGL/WebGPUIoT & SensorsQuantum ComputingBlockchainRoboticsGame DesignAR/VR/MRFunctional Programming