•	Joined as employee #11, playing a pivotal role to growing our company to a $1 billion valuation
•	Created the Product Team and led new initiatives around being a customer/product centered development cycle, which increased our revenue by 200%
•	Mentored the VP of Sales (Who has gone on to do great things!) on how to sell an unknown technology and build out the SE, CSM, and SR teams 
•	Established and scaled multiple early-stage functions (Product, Sales, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Legal, and Finance), hiring and onboarding 80+ employees to fill those positions
•	Led 30+ engagements with Fortune 500 companies, driving successful conversions (Capital One, Bank Of America, Goldman Sachs, NatWest, and HSBC)
•	Collaborated with VC partners (a16z, Greylock, NEA) and strategic partners (Microsoft, Nvidia, GCP, Oracle) to position company for success
•	Helped lead our Compliance efforts for SOC2, PCI, ISO certifications

Manager - Product Manager

• Built out our Premium Finance Team while also leading the product development across multiple business lines, including (Commercial Lines Rater, AI Chat Bot, AI Document Scanning, and Premium Finance)
• Grew a team from a single member to a multi-team while staying hands on and continually developing product lines
• Drove all of the features for our AI, SDK, ChromeApp, and backend infrastructure requirements.
• Onboarded 6 Vendors into our Premium Finance Product and grew our monthly premium to $3MM+ with pipeline
projects expected to double revenue in the next 6 months.
• Led our AI initiative and acquisition of strategic tools/partners to be the leading platform for AI solutions
• Built out our payment partners and new workflows for how payments are handled in our system

SVP Product for PremFi, Payments, and AI

•	Ran our EBC program for Senior Leadership of Capital One to meet with Startups to fulfill parts of their product roadmaps 
•	Led Enterprise Automation COE, developing holistic plan to automate manual tasks across the organization
•	Identified and implemented emerging technologies in data, ML, and automation
•	Built the first Graph Databases that tracked our internal transactions for all metadata
•	Developed Spark Data Pipeline for large-scale analysis and served as certified Spark Trainer
•	Progressed from Mainframe Developer to working directly with C-level executives on strategic initiatives

Data Engineering Manager

• Helped the team figure out how to bring:  Lambert (Layout Aware BERT) [  https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08087] and TILT [  https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09550]. our two deep learning models to market. 
• Identified use cases for these technologies and led engineering teams to create prototypes.
• Collaborated with customers for feedback and worked with sales and engineering teams to bring use cases to production.
• Focused on product specifications to ensure successful outcomes without over engineering
• Designed product solutions for highly regulated industries (Banking/Healthcare/Gov) unfamiliar with ML/AI/Deep Learning
• Delivered use cases that met business goals and adhered to partner companies' technology strategies for the adaptation of Deep Learning. 
• Helped companies understand how these new tools would impact hardware resources (GPU's available) compliance, and balanced MVP creation to deliver targeted results
• Worked with companies to overcome challenges adapting cutting-edge 

Vice President of Product Development  (Acquired by SnowFlake)

SVP Product for PremFi, Payments, and AI (Acquired by NowCerts)

-Joined as Employee #9 and Head of Product
-Built Parasail’s first public-facing platform from the ground up, including product architecture, billing, signup, credits, onboarding, documentation, and developer experience, starting from an early concept stage
-Led product strategy across Parasail’s core inference and infrastructure stack, ensuring compatibility with modern GPU and ASIC hardware and frameworks such as vLLM and SGLang, deployed globally on Kubernetes
-Member of the founding launch team that scaled revenue from near zero to over $2M ARR after our public launch
-Drove product prioritization and execution across early-stage experimentation, MVP delivery, and long-term roadmap initiatives
-Scaled the organization through key early hires and helped secure major customers, expanding Parasail’s go-to-market footprint
-Established a structured customer and developer feedback loop to accelerate iteration speed and ensure product direction aligned with real-world usage

Head of Product

-Director of Product Management for the Agentforce Platform helping developers take advantage of new agentic processes

Director of Product Management - Agentforce

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