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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
NASA
Intern
Internship at NASA to assist with writing software in C that controlled the turrets that track the Space Shuttle launches.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
4.0 GPAM.S. in Computer Science
Completed 2020
University of Central Florida
B.S. in Computer Science
Completed 2005
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.