Background
My current role is Chief Product Officer for Explore Digits, where I define product technical vision and strategy, identify opportunities, assess risks, and make strategic decisions around technologies used in products, create product technology roadmaps, lead a team of data scientists and software engineers to execute on roadmaps, and analyze customer feedback for continuous improvement.
I have spent most of my career in systems and software design and development, was a startup founder or co-founder for three companies (Avant Technologies, Embedded Toolsmiths, BrightApp), and an early stage employee in several others (Cadre Technologies, Measurement Systems, Network Appliance, Panzura). I have an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Computer Science/Machine Learning both from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
I have a wide range of experience across many computing disciplines from embedded systems to enterprise storage, networking, virtualization, AI/ML, and web and cloud architectures. Part of my career has been in the role of hardware and software engineer, developing microprocessor-based systems such as electronic instruments and kiosks.
Quick facts
- Education: B.S. Electrical / Computer Engineering; M.S. Computer Science (Machine Learning)
- Professional: Senior Member, ACM • Member, IEEE
- Focus: AI/ML • Cloud • Storage • Networking • Virtualization
Selected roles
A condensed view of roles and projects. (Full details available on request.)
Define product technical vision and strategy for healthcare AI/ML solutions; lead teams across architecture, delivery, DevOps/MLOps, and customer-driven roadmaps (U.S. + India).
Partner enablement for AWS AI/ML: workshops, Immersion Days, PoCs, and Well-Architected guidance; executive briefings and conference speaking on operationalizing AI/ML.
Designed and implemented cloud storage systems and customer architectures; guided deployments and performance/capacity planning.
Built and delivered customer software across desktop/web/embedded; led teams and shipped solutions across multiple industries.
Designed and shipped a network-attached JTAG embedded debugger probe; PowerPC firmware using ThreadX/NetX and end-to-end product delivery.
Developed embedded firmware, drivers, and Windows applications supporting microprocessor-based electronic instruments and related tooling.
Pre- and post-sales engineering support; built an SNMP-based monitoring application for customer environments.
Systems engineering and development for customer solutions; supported deployments and technical delivery.
Systems engineering work spanning customer environments and technical delivery.
Software engineering supporting propulsion launch sequencing (RL10).
Internship work in electrical engineering and applied research.
