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VirtuosicaChief Data Scientist
Jul. 2021 - Apr. 2023Los Angeles, California, United StatesThe world's most complete live music marketplace, launching in the Spring of 2022.
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OpenAIMPAdvisory Board Member
Oct. 2020 - Apr. 2023Dayton, New Jersey, United States
AI REVPartner
Sep. 2020Wellington, Florida, United StatesArtificial Intelligence (AI) Consulting
know.capital LLCChief Data Scientist
Sep. 2020 - Apr. 2023New York City, New York, United StatesA social investment fund created to advance and create economic and societal opportunities for a wide spectrum of diverse populations.
SkillsoftAuthor
Apr. 2020 - Apr. 2023Wellington, Florida, United StatesI create/deliver advanced AI and Machine Learning computer-based training courses. I currently have 9 Skillsoft courses available in the following areas:
- AI Enterprise Planning
- Explainable AI
- Elements of an Artificial Intelligence Architect
- Leveraging Reusable AI Architecture Patterns
- AI in Industry
- Evaluating Current and Future AI Technologies and Frameworks
- Using Intelligent Information Systems in AI
- Using Apache Spark for AI Development
- Extending Amazon Machine Learning
GODZIN AICo-Founder/CIO/CTO
Aug. 2019 - Apr. 2023Wellington, Florida, United StatesApplying AI/ML to Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics, Risk Management.
Visit https://godzin.ai/ for details.
Kanayma LLCFounder and expert in Generative AI
Sep. 2016Wellington, Florida, United StatesAs a leader of Kanayma's consulting services group, I focus on: - Generative AI, creating custom chatbots for various industries (e.g. retail, healthcare, finance, insurance) combining local databases, using chatGPT and other LLMs, LangChain, Pinecone, and prompt engineering
- Contact Center Management using genAI capabilities with Google CCAI, Gemini, and Vertex AI.
- Implementing predictive/prescriptive/security analytics using deep learning, machine learning, time series analysis, and principal component analysis
- Applying AI, Explainable AI, NLP, recommender systems, model training (distributed training and model parallelism), and other technologies to enhance data analytics
- Providing enterprise architect-level consulting for fintech companies, major banks and insurance firms
- Using AI to drive digital transformation of the enterprise
- Advising on applying AI to data strategy, governance, compliance, and risk management
- Offering interim CIO, CTO, CDO, CISO, Chief Data Architect, and Chief Enterprise Architect services
- Designing and executing cloud strategy, migration, and architecture for AWS, and Azure. Technologies: Generative AI, chatGPT, LLM, OpenAI API, LangChain, Pinecone, BERT, AWS (S3, IAM, Glue, SageMaker, Redshift, Step, Lambda, Airflow, Lake Formation, CloudFormation), Azure (Serverless, Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, MS SQL, ML Studio, Functions, Databricks, Data Lake, HDInsight, NoSQL, Microservices, Docker), GCP (Google Analytics, BigQuery, Data Studio), Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, pySpark, Hive, HDFS, Cassandra, Kafka, Scala), Snowflake, DevOps, CD/CI, REST, Git, GitHub, AI/Machine Learning (Python, R, Tensorflow, keras, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, pandas, SciPy, NumPy, Matplotlib), Tableau, Power BI, Java, C++.
ExperfyData Science / AI / Advanced Analytics Advisor/Consultant
Aug. 2016 - Apr. 2023A Harvard Innovation Lab Company in the Greater Boston AreaConsulting in the following areas:
- Artificial Intelligence (Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding)
- Data Science (Data Analytics, Unbiasing, Feature Analysis, Algorithm Design, NLP)
- Advanced Predictive / Prescriptive Analytics in Healthcare / Sales / Financial Services
- Big Data and IoT (Architecture, Development & Implementation)
- Cybersecurity and Blockchain
OracleDirector of Consulting Services, Solutions and Cloud Sales / Chief Data Scientist
Apr. 2012 - Sep. 2016Director of Technology and Enterprise Architecture / Chief Data ScientistManaged Cloud and Database as a Service (DBaaS) Sales for Latin America. Drove Go-To-Market strategy. Introduced new AI and Data Science solutions into the sales process, using NLP, predictive/prescriptive analytics, data mining and machine learning to predict best selling/cross-selling opportunities, increasing success rate 6x more than traditional methods. Also worked as chief data scientist with our Oracle Big Data Sales and Consulting teams in Latin America doing innovative projects for clients. As Head of Consulting Solutions for Middleware, Data and Enterprise Architectures, and Enterprise Agility (GRC and security), led strategic and technical support of Oracle sales and consulting teams, partners, and clients in Latin America, including mentoring and training. Also, as Head of Consulting Solutions for the EXA Systems, led strategic and technical support of Oracle sales teams, partners, and clients in Latin America for all Oracle Engineered Systems (EXA Products, including Big Data), Cloud and Enterprise Architecture solutions. Speaker at Oracle Open World 2013, "SOA Integration Best Practices: Oracle Consulting Customer Insights." Technology: EXADATA, Spark, Scala, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Kafka, Flume, Cassandra, R, RStudio, ITIL, NoSQL, Cloud (Oracle, AWS, Azure), Azure ML, Python, Oracle 12c, OIM, Tableau, Neo4j, scikitlearn, TOGAF, pandas, TensorFlow, keras, CNN, RNN, LTSM, Java.
CGIExecutive Consultant / Senior Data Scientist
Apr. 2010 - Apr. 2012Led management consulting engagements with large corporate financial services clients in North America and Europe, such as Daimler Financial (enterprise and data architecture), JP Morgan Chase (data quality center of excellence), and CIGNA, as well as international manufacturers like Novelis, pioneering the use of process mining and machine learning. Member of CGI's US Emerging Markets Business Intelligence & Analytics Sales and Technical Consulting Group. Won 2011 HITEC 100 award for leadership as Executive Consultant at CGI. Named as one of the "Top 200 Influential Hispanics in Technology" by Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine in 2011. Technology: WebLogic, Java, SQL, Oracle 11i, ODI, OIM, SAP, R, RStudio, RapidMiner Studio, Hadoop, HDFS, ERP, MDM, CRM, TIBCO, ERWin, IoT, Machine Learning algorithms, Eclipse, Cloud (AWS, Azure), MS Project, Java, Perl, Excel.
NYC Department of EducationHead of Enterprise Architecture / Senior Director of IT / Chief Data Architect
May. 2009 - Apr. 2010Brooklyn, New YorkHeaded all architecture groups, with the directors of application/middleware, data architecture, and business intelligence, analytics, BIG DATA and data mining groups as direct reports. Responsible for information management and architecture, business architecture, SOA, web services security, cloud technology, and new/emergent/mobile technologies across the enterprise, as well as IT strategy and business alignment, program and application portfolio management/optimization, governance, compliance, risk management and best practices associated with those areas. At the NYC DOE, we pioneered the use of social networks, business intelligence, analytics, data mining, MDM and cloud computing in education, using Java, .NET and Apple (iPhone) technologies. Reported directly to CIO / CTO. Won 2010 HITEC 100 award for leadership as Head of Enterprise Architecture of the New York City Department of Education. The NYC Department of Education (1.2M+ students and 1500+ schools) is the largest school system in the United States, with a diverse IT staff of more than 200 employees and contractors and an IT budget in excess of $80M for capital and expense programs. Technology: Hadoop, HDFS, MDM, Oracle 11i, Java, SQL, Cloud, Complex Event Processing (CEP), Mobile.
Wipro LimitedPrincipal Consultant / Chief Enterprise Architect / Chief Data Architect
Mar. 2008 - May. 2009Orlando, FloridaAs a consultant for Wipro Consulting Services, architected Ally Bank, Ally Financial's (former GMAC) new end-to-end e-Bank platform based on Oracle WebCenter Suite, Omniture and Fidelity Xpress in 7 months. Headed team of 20 onshore/130 offshore architects. Delivered an IT enterprise portal strategy for Ally Bank in record time thus ensuring that client received $6.5 Billion of TARP money from US Government, helping Ally Financial save millions of dollars in development and deployment costs. Advised Wipro’s major corporate clients on IT strategy and cost reduction using application portfolio rationalization, legacy migration, SOA and business intelligence and analytics strategies. As a consultant for VoxXpress, designed a complete, highly scalable, state-of-the-art point-of-sale (POS) portal and LAMP-based back-end system to provide remote support for local delivery fulfillment for small businesses. System included extensive business intelligence and analytics functionality. Advised client management on technical and business strategy using this new service delivery model. Based on SOA and REST principles, the POS system allows for extensive human resource sharing between client businesses, thus significantly decreasing delivery costs. Technology: Oracle WebCenter Suite, Omniture, Fidelity Xpress, Oracle DB 10g, Project, Data Center.
Houghton Mifflin HarcourtCTO / Chief Architect / Sr. Director of Enterprise Architecture, Security & Risk Mgmt.
Oct. 2006 - Feb. 2008Orlando, FloridaAs CTO, successfully led IT strategy, alignment and planning, roadmaps, cost reduction efforts, SOA, enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, data center planning/consolidation, operations, content and document management, e-commerce, business intelligence and analytics, governance, compliance and risk management, standards, monitoring, ERP, SCM, vendor and outsourcing partnerships, while mentoring a top-notch CTO team. The heads of security, governance, compliance, risk management, content management, business intelligence and analytics were direct reports. As CTO, reported directly to CFO and CIO. Oversaw IT impacts / planning / logistics of Harcourt's sale to Houghton-Mifflin, the sale of its Assessment unit to Pearson, and its separation from parent company Reed Elsevier, resulting in a timely and successful merger with Houghton-Mifflin. Harcourt's C-level executive team was not retained after the merger. Instrumental in identifying and realizing 25% of all IT cost reductions in the 2007-2008 IT budgets, working closely with CIO, CFO, Comptroller, and all IT Senior Directors and their groups. Won 2009 HITEC 100 award for leadership as CTO of Harcourt. Technology: WebSphere, SOA, IBM Content Manager, Oracle 10g, Apex, C#, Excel, Project, Data Center.
CitigroupVP of Enterprise Architecture & Design
Aug. 2004 - Oct. 2006Long Island City, Queens, New YorkAs Vice President of Architecture and Design for Citibank North America, was responsible for IT Enterprise Architecture Strategy, IT Banking Standards and Best Practices, the Enterprise Reference Architecture, and the Enterprise Security Architecture. Served as interim Chief Architect in charge of IT Strategy for Citibank North America, responsible for articulating CBNA's Architecture strategies for SOA, web services, and security, as well as heading enterprise architecture reviews of major projects, including M&As. Mentored members of Enterprise Architecture group through difficult management transition period. Redesigned Citibank's debit card processing architecture and workflows to optimize customer and operator experience. Used SAS for predictive analytics to suggest new bank products to clients at branches. Created and implemented best practices to manage and maintain large numbers of business rules across all the enterprise systems. Technology: Dreamweaver, SAS, Java, WebLogic, WebSphere, SOA, Security Plug-ins, SSL, Blaze Advisor, Virtualization.
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of AmericaEnterprise Technology Manager
Apr. 2003 - Jun. 2004Manhattan, New York, New YorkEquivalent to a CTO, managed overall strategic IT direction of the company in the areas of enterprise architecture, compliance and standards, web services management, content management, business process integration and management, Siebel/CRM architecture, disaster recovery and outsourcing initiatives, reporting directly to upper management. Managed and mentored the Enterprise Architecture Group, turning it into an SOA Center of Excellence (CoE) serving all other IT groups and business units at Guardian. As speaker at Stellent's Crescendo 2003 national user conference in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, presented results of our transformation efforts in content management across the enterprise. Led successful completion of the Enterprise Architecture Framework, Java and .NET-based, at 16 million dollars the company's largest project, on time and 4 million dollars under budget. Technology: WebLogic, Java, Web Services, ACORD, J2EE, UML, SSL, Rational Studio, Eclipse, Primavera.
VerizonSenior Enterprise Systems Architect
Jan. 1998 - Dec. 2003White Plains, New YorkAs a consultant, architected, designed and lead implementation and testing of two large-scale enterprise applications, including a real-time/high transaction rate application with reporting and business intelligence capabilities, the first ever Java/J2EE applications at Verizon, saving the company over 10 million dollars in costs per year. The first application, TESS, was a pioneer instance of IoT. Architected, designed, implemented and tested B2C and B2B e-commerce and Security architectures for Verizon's Wholesale division using SOA and PKI before they became industry buzzwords. Obtained US patent on new functional enterprise bean (Patent #7086065), a precursor to SCA (Service Component Architecture), filed in the year 2000. Technology: WebLogic, Oracle 9i, J2EE, Java Enterprise Beans, Complex Event Processing (CEP), IoT, Perl.
Business Transformation Design, IncVP of R&D / CIO / CTO
Jan. 1993 - Dec. 1996Stanford, CTAs CIO / CTO of an IBM spinoff specializing in management consulting in the business process transformation area, led BTD's strategic technical direction as well as product, methodology, and services design and development. Designed BPM tool based on an chat-bot interactive interface using NLP and AI. Led consulting engagements in business process design and management with several of IBM's major clients, developing unique expertise in combining business and technical know-how at enterprise level, resulting in multi-million dollar annual savings in process cycle time and resource utilization for large corporate clients such as Prudential Insurance. Recipient of HCG Inc.'s "Outstanding Technical Contribution" award in 1996, for the architecture, design, and implementation of their ad publishing system. BTD Inc., its tools and methodology were highlighted in the book "Adaptive Enterprise" by Stephan H. Haeckel, 1999, Chapter 8, Note 1, page 258. Technology: AI, BPR, BPM, Process Mining, Automated Planning, Smalltalk, Expert Systems, Prolog.
IBMSenior Technical Architect / Project Manager
Jan. 1991 - Apr. 1998Hawthorne, New YorkAs a consultant at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY, architected, designed and managed the implementation of infoSAGE, the world's first web-based, personalized news search/categorization engine and content push-based distribution service, in 1994. Received "IBM Technical Award" at its launch, and three US patents for its novel distributed architecture, search and text analytics algorithms that have been cited over 280 times to date. It did automatic news analysis/classification using natural language parsing (NLP), machine learning (ML) algorithms and fuzzy logic, using C++. Architected, designed and managed implementation of a complete business process design tool and associated business process automation and runtime system, and actively consulted for several of IBM's clients on business process design and reengineering for several years. Designed BPM tool based on an chat-bot interactive interface using NLP, AI in Prolog. Worked with IBM Fellow Alan L. Scherr on business process methodology and design, and worked on the tool's user graphical user interface with Edward Tufte (a world renowned authority in graphic design) and Norm Cox, who "was the visual designer at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and a member of the Xerox Star team that developed the first graphical user interface for computers." Designed integration layer for IBM's Financial Marketing Workbench, a sales deal tracking system. FMW won Computerworld / ObjectWorld's "Category 2: Best Use of Object Technology to Integrate Legacy Systems" award in 1995. Created several voice-driven interfaces for financial applications in trading floors. such as Dow Jones/Telerate. Experimented with hidden-layer CNNs (Convolutional Neural Networks) to recognize hand written signatures. Technology: CNN, RNN, C, C++, Prolog, Smalltalk, Perl, TCP/IP protocol, EHLLAPI, X86 Assembler, ViaVoice.
Cognitive Systems, Inc.Senior AI Engineer
Jan. 1988 - Dec. 1990New Haven, ConnecticutDesigned and wrote an object-oriented, automated news retrieval system for the New York Stock Exchange that automatically extracts company and personal name information from wire services to better detect and monitor insider trading. And did it all in Lisp/CLOS and C using AI and NLP with 64K of code and 64K of data! Wrote communication protocol layers and trained a Case-based routing program to automatically categorize and route bills of lading from a VAX/VMS to an IBM mainframe/CICS application at Chase bank, using Lisp/CLOS and AI and NLP, with an APPC LU 6.2 interface. As a consultant, designed, wrote, installed and maintained a client portfolio management system and an automated stock trading system for a major broker in the New York City area. Wrote system in Lisp/CLOS and C using AI and NLP techniques. Technology: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Understanding (NLU), LISP, CLOS, C, APPC, LU6.2.
Ashton-TateProject Architect / Project Manager
Jan. 1986 - Dec. 1988Westport, ConnecticutLed the design, development and testing of Draw Applause, at the time the most advanced presentation graphics design program available for the PC, the PowerPoint of its day, on time and under budget, while successfully managing an outsourced remote development team. Technology: C, X86 Assembler, Graphics Algorithms
Compu-Teach, Inc.Software Development Manager / AI Engineer
Jan. 1983 - Dec. 1986New Haven, ConnecticutSupervised the development of company's entire product line. Designed and wrote a dozen graphics-oriented educational games, including the bestselling title series "ABScenes" and "Once Upon a Time," as well as "Studymate: The Grade Booster," "SignPlay," and "Pictionary." Led in-house team of programmers and graphic artists. Wrote the complete graphics and sound libraries in Assembler and C used in most of Compu-Teach's PC products. Created compression algorithms to fit game graphics into the 160K 5.25" floppy disks of the time! Supervised the design and development of a fully animated, graphics-oriented, touch-screen-based user interface system for an experimental CitiBank ATM machine. Worked directly with Roger Schank's (a world-renowned authority on artificial intelligence, head of Yale's AI Department in 1983-86) group at Yale. Designed all programs based on AI and Cognitive Science principles. Technology: UI Design, C, X86 Assembler, Graphics, Sound and Compression Algorithms, Game Engines.
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