Founder, River of Talent | Conversational AI applied to hiring
San Jose, California, United States of America
Founder, River of Talent | Conversational AI applied to hiring
San Jose, California, United States of America
DEC 2014 - PRESENT · 11.8 years
Founder
OCT 2025 - PRESENT · 11 months
• River of Talent: Your Always-On Recruiting Assistant. • Our product is running now, contact us for a demo! • Developed this business as a member of the Fall 2025 cohort of Founder Institute startup accelerator.
Product Manager
DEC 2014 - MAY 2016 · 1.5 years
River of Talent matches people and jobs using an algorithm through a SaaS (software-as-a-service) product: • Built a product in Python running on Google App Engine cloud computing platform, and interfacing with Amazon Mechanical Turk, MailChimp’s Mandrill e-mail API, and Indeed.com’s REST API • Managed implementation of AI/ML model using scikit-learn in Python • Built and launched product that placed engineers in their dream job, and generated early revenue for the company • Gained credibility as a disruptor and innovator in the recruiting space within 2 years in the industry
OCT 2018 - OCT 2025 · 7.1 years
Maps Operations
MAY 2025 - OCT 2025 · 6 months
Business Entity Verification with AI
NOV 2024 - APR 2025 · 6 months
Fortunate to work with some of the most talented people in the world, applying Apple Intelligence to the problem of verifying businesses for Apple Business Connect within the Apple Maps organization.
Business Connect API
NOV 2022 - OCT 2024 · 2 years
Phone Number Resolver
MAY 2022 - NOV 2022 · 7 months
Mass Enablement API for messaging
JUN 2021 - APR 2022 · 11 months
Messages for Business / Apple Pay
OCT 2018 - MAY 2021 · 2.7 years
JAN 2018 - OCT 2018 · 10 months
Business Chat
JAN 2018 - OCT 2018 · 10 months
• Initiated OAuth2 Support team to ensure strong security compliance for insurance and financial industry customers • Built an implementation of Apple Business Chat in Python that served as the primary tool for internal testing and triage of customer issues • Managed dozens of field engineering issues contributing to successful launch of Business Chat in iOS 11.3
JUL 2014 - OCT 2014 · 4 months
Data Analyst
JUL 2014 - OCT 2014 · 4 months
Equo was an innovative real estate finance company offering people cash for the equity in their home. • Implemented Black-Scholes and other statistical models in Python. Also designed a test suite to validate code
NOV 2009 - FEB 2014 · 4.3 years
Product Marketing Manager
NOV 2009 - FEB 2014 · 4.3 years
• Played key roles in the launch of GlobalFoundries, now publicly traded (NSQ: GFS) • Analyzed, advised, and evangelized a valuation of the acquisition of IBM Microelectronics that resulted in a deal greater than $2 Billion more favorable than the original proposal • Presented directly to CEO on key account strategies and technology investment recommendations
FEB 2004 - NOV 2009 · 5.8 years
Program Manager
FEB 2004 - NOV 2009 · 5.8 years
• Awarded AMD Spotlight Award for product margin technique that unified engineering, accounting, and sales/marketing behind one margin metric that all groups could accept • Synthesized forecasts from engineering, manufacturing, and finance into a simple tool for viewing future product features (core counts, cache sizes, etc.). This tool was used by the teams negotiating AMD’s entry into supplying the processors to the console game market (serving Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation products). Entering this market contributed to $3B per year in new business. My participation was specifically requested from my boss by the CEO due to my cost model work • Computed and published the official market share metrics each quarter
JUN 2003 - DEC 2003 · 7 months
Project Manager
JUN 2003 - DEC 2003 · 7 months
• Contributed to historic 3-year ramp up from $4.0B to $9.6B revenue by managing numerous products at a time from R&D labs into high-volume manufacturing production • Presented Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data to hundreds of colleagues • Managed relationship with numerous vendors and implemented numerous cost improvement and quality improvement projects
MAY 2002 - AUG 2002 · 4 months
Marketing Communications Manager
MAY 2002 - AUG 2002 · 4 months
• Developed a marketing communication plan for supply chain software serving channel partners
FEB 2001 - SEP 2001 · 8 months
Visual Basic Developer
FEB 2001 - SEP 2001 · 8 months
• Built codebase for Sales automation tool by writing Visual Basic code and SQL queries
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