Summary
Product leader and AI engineer with 15+ years delivering enterprise collaboration and AI products. Hands‑on with LLMs, computer vision, RAG, and edge AI; experienced in roadmaps, user research, and GTM. Developer‑first communicator who ships clear docs/demos and drives cross‑functional execution.
Founder & Product Lead (part-time)
Beacon Safety Co.
Sacramento, CA • Jan 2014 – June 2016
- Defined vision/roadmap; led edge prototyping on Jetson/Raspberry Pi; managed vendors and budgets
- Built a LiDAR-based hazard-detection prototype; won Startup Weekend Sacramento (2014) in the hardware category
- Incubated MapMe.io (real-time device detection analytics) and BikeBus.app (cycling social). Conducted user research, shipped MVPs, defined metrics
Additional Experience (Condensed)
Apple • Purple Communications • Sutter Health • J4 Systems • State of California
- Apple (Elk Grove): Ops Lead; process governance and collaboration tooling
- Purple Communications: Ops Coordinator; BI dashboards (Power BI, Python/React)
- Sutter Health: HRIS/SharePoint; Tier‑3 support; portal migrations
- J4 Systems: Lead SharePoint Dev for client projects
- State of California: Developer/Trainer; reduced manual process from 1000 to ~6 hours/week via VBA automation
Selected AI Side Projects
Dronevade — On‑device drone detection (YOLO, CV, Edge)
Computer Vision • Edge AI • Security
Custom‑trained YOLO with on‑device deployment; avg inference ≈ 2.3 ms; accuracy ≈ 94.2%. Defined eval metrics; iterated with user feedback to improve precision/recall.
BicycleRadar — Predictive collision avoidance (Sensor Fusion, ML)
Predictive AI • Safety • IoT
Predicts closing speed/distance with ~96.8% accuracy; ~3.2 s advance warnings for riders. Led UX iterations for HUD/display and audible alerts.
LiveCaptionsXR — Real‑time captions anchored to speakers (Android XR)
Accessibility • XR • Real‑time
On‑device speech + spatial placement for Deaf/HoH; XR‑ready prototyping and UX research.