projects, portfolio, experiments
about
I am an innovative entrepreneur and technologist who has advised a wide variety of game-changing businesses and brands by lending my creative, strategic and technological vision.

With over 25 years of executive and technology leadership experience, I am a seasoned startup and open-source veteran, with domain expertise in large-scale distributed systems, earth observation analytics, space systems, and SaaS platforms. I have built award-winning technology and applications from the International Space Station to Times Square. I still believe technology can be a force for good, and that it can improve our world and our lives. That is what inspires me to keep creating technologies that enable lasting consumer experiences, and tools for change. I leverage my engineering expertise, and a focus on open source and cloud technologies, to harness imagination and entrepreneurial spirit.
I am passionate about earth data, drones, satellites, IoT, and using data science in large scale applications that have real outcomes, and real markets. I excel at partnering with leaders in government and global business communities to create and foster lasting relationships of value. I brokered partnerships with the world's leading organizations from the UN, DoD, NASA, Google, Pepsi, Heineken, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Resources Institute, Discovery Channel, NFL, Honda, and many others to harness technology in the form of data and analytics to enable organizations to enhance their decision making capabilities, and brand.
I provide technical leadership, strategy, engineering, product vision, and go to market for platforms, machine learning applications, APIs, and software as a service line of business to process and distribute petabytes of data on the cloud. I am also responsible for go-to-market, cloud operations, machine learning and computer vision R&D, IP management, and capital raising. I have built, scaled and lead world-class teams that shipped to market some of the world’s leading, award winning, and paradigm-shifting cloud-native systems, and digital platforms.
interests
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Industry expert and advisor to analytics, AI/ML, digital transformation, and aerospace companies
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Core contributor and founder of various Open Source projects
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Conference keynote speaker, guest panelist, and collegiate lecturer
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Applications and applied science
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Understanding infectious disease, non-proliferation, human trafficking, and illegal mining through EO
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Startup go-to-market strategy
speaker
Past speaking engagements technology in National Defense & Intelligence, Healthcare, Space, Geospatial, and AI:
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Web Summit
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NewSpace Nexus
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Space Mobility Conference
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International Aeronautical Congress
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North 51 Conference
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Space Tech Expo
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Smallsat Symposium
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Swissnex San Francisco
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University of California Berkeley
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University of San Francisco
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James Madison University
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University of Virginia
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James Martin Center for Non-proliferation
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State of the Industrial Base
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Stanford University Workshops
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Dcentral
patents
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US WO2015130365 A3
Systems and methods for earth observation -
US 9684673 B2
Systems and methods for processing and distributing earth observation images -
US 20170214889 A1
Systems and methods for processing and providing terrestrial and/or space-based earth observation video