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Board Member @ Twelvefold Media From March 2011 to July 2013 (2 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaResearch Assistant @ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Developed IT distribution and support strategy for NCSA Mosaic for X windows, CERN WWW, and NCSA HTTPd, for 6 UNIX platforms. Ported the first web server to Apple A/UX. Developed search engine...

Board Member @ Twelvefold Media From March 2011 to July 2013 (2 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaResearch Assistant @ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Developed IT distribution and support strategy for NCSA Mosaic for X windows, CERN WWW, and NCSA HTTPd, for 6 UNIX platforms. Ported the first web server to Apple A/UX. Developed search engine delivered on what would become the Fermi intranet. From September 1992 to September 1995 (3 years 1 month) Greater Chicago AreaChief Product Officer @ Kinetic Social Lead Product Management for this top 10 Social DSP. Additionally responsible for product, engineering, and data science for the Spectrum Platform Company operating division. From June 2016 to January 2017 (8 months) Greater New York City AreaCTO @ Zest AI Zest's ZAML software uses state-of-the art machine learning technology to help lenders make more effective credit decisions, safely, fairly and transparently. Founded by Google CIO Douglas Merrill and backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed, Upfront, Flybridge, and Baidu, Zest works with finance companies worldwide to help more people access fair and transparent credit.I lead our world-class data science, engineering and product management teams. We are hiring! Greater Los Angeles AreaCTO @ Twelvefold Media (Acquired by Kinetic Social) Machine learning for content modeling and improved advertising performance. Responsible for engineering, product management, product marketing, and R&D/data science. Helped grow ARR 5x over 2 years at 65% gross margin. Delivered a web-scale index of 18 months worth of content consumption data from 16T ad auctions on 2B URLs enabling advertisers to precisely target 750M monthly unique users.Twelvefold uses a deep understanding of content consumption at the page level to find specific audiences at the right moments. We purchase real-time exchange traded media using algorithms that leverage our unique content consumption signal. Advertisers benefit from increases in brand recall (20-40%) and engagement (40-60%) vs. the competition according to 3rd party measurement services.• Re-engineered technology platform resulting in increased stability, operational efficiency and dramatically improved accuracy. Eliminated $1M/year in costs related to legacy platform.* Grew team from 5 to 26 engineers, data scientists, and product managers. • Established data science team and successfully deployed and scaled machine learning systems for content analysis and campaign performance optimization.• Delivered interactive analytics platform for the web’s exchange-traded advertising impressions. The system processes 100B data points/day (350,000 TPS @ 2ms, 1TB+/day).• Tapped to oversee advertising operations and improve performance where, in 3 months, we went from 30% of campaigns exceeding customer KPI benchmarks to 90% of campaigns exceeding benchmarks. • Manage key supplier relationships ($10M+/year) working closely with CFO. Support strategic sales.• Completed integration of specialist software development company that we acquired.Clients include Citi, Ford, Fiat-Chrysler, GM, AT&T, Verizon, GSK, NBCUniversal, Best Buy, Microsoft, Canon, HP and Tyson Foods. From July 2013 to June 2016 (3 years) San Francisco Bay AreaFounder and CTO @ Intellext Intellext, Inc., was the developer of the Watson search assistant, the first AI-powered intelligent assistant for the enterprise.Watson would read your open documents in real time and find relevant and timely information from your company's knowledge management system, your hard drive, the web, and research libraries as you worked. It would present its findings in a sidebar interface next to your application window. Watson won multiple awards including the Chicago Innovation Award, was certified for Microsoft Windows and distributed by Microsoft as an add-on to Windows Live Toolbar and by other widely-used desktop software tools. Intellext was named EContent Top 100 Copmany in 2005 and 2006, and Watson was deployed by customers including: AOL, Motorola, AT&T, Reed-Elsevier, Boeing, Gartner, Nuance, Ford, and HandySoft Intl., among others.Our founding team invented the core IP, raised the initial funding round, hired the executive team, and I hired and managed the product development and applied R&D teams.Watson was the subject of my dissertation work at Northwestern University. From June 2003 to May 2007 (4 years) Greater Chicago AreaResearch Assistant, Intelligent Information Laboratory @ Northwestern University Developed first real-time contextual meta-search engine (Watson). Filed 2 patents. Founded Intellext, Inc.Developed and studied new AI and machine-learning enabled applications for ecommerce, media consumption and access, entertainment, and office productivity. Published numerous articles and papers and spoke at the W3C, the Amer. Assoc. for Artificial Intellingence, CSCW, and the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. From 1998 to 2003 (5 years) Greater Chicago AreaResearch Assistant, Intelligent Information Laboratory @ University of Chicago Developed natural-language question answering system for The 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. We shipped one of the first search engines on the web that could answer questions in English. Ask Jeeves launched in June 1997. From 1995 to 1998 (3 years) Greater Chicago AreaCTO @ Perfect Market (Acquired by Taboola) Content monetization for publishers. I led the company’s new product and R&D efforts; architected all revenue generating products; helped attract $15 million in top tier VC investment; secured 9 issued patents; and spearheaded a new product initiative that grew audience to 140M monthly uniques and grew revenue 5x within 6 months of launch.Perfect Market, an idealab company, helped high quality, premium publishers generate more revenue from their large content libraries. The company's patented technology drives traffic to the highest quality and most valuable content and dramatically improves PPC ad targeting and yields.Customers include Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, NBC News, Business Insider and 200+ other publishers. Perfect Market was ranked #16 Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2013 Technology Fast 500, and attributes its 12,223% revenue growth since 2008 to the rapid adoption of Perfect Market’s Digital Publishing Suite. From November 2008 to July 2013 (4 years 9 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaFounder and CTO @ Media River, Inc. (Acquired by Perfect Market) MediaRiver provided AI-powered content recommendations for publishers and advertisers. By reading a page in real-time and responding with related content, advertising, and other media, MediaRiver smart ads and content widgets powered highly efficient traffic driving programs for The Motley Fool, Revolution Health Group, and ePals Inc., among others. From May 2007 to October 2008 (1 year 6 months) Greater Chicago Area