Systems architect and technology executive with extensive experience leading teams in high tech startups as CTO, Product Planner, Architect, and Technical Program Manager.
Currently serving as a project lead and scientist focused on the development of carbon offset/removal protocols to promote biochar production, co-composting, and field applications. I sponsor research through All Power Labs in Berkeley, CA and Modena, Italy.
Background: Over 14 years architecting cloud enterprise IT platforms to reengineer business processes. Subject matter expertise in intellectual property law, document processing, augmented cognition, and mechatronic systems.
Beyond my commercial work, I operate as an independent Civic Strategist, applying systems-thinking to public challenges. My goal is to identify structural optimizations in both legal frameworks and physical infrastructure.
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I lead the strategic and technical operations of Olivann, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to environmental restoration and humanitarian support. My role is strictly focused on:
Note: Olivann is a research and service organization. My work at Olivann is non-partisan and distinct from my independent civic strategy activity.
Visit Olivann.org →Executive Leadership: Led customer discovery and business development, earning a $10M product license and $4M in service contracts. Secured $1.75M in NSF grants as Principal Investigator.
Technical Architecture: Architected novel case management systems deployed into production at the European Patent Office (EPO). Proposed examination solutions for the USPTO providing rapid image display and semantic propagation between PDF and XML formats.
Managed engineering for a high-tech ceramics startup. Architected characterization systems requiring optical sensing, high-power electronics, and precision fluid metering. Directed in-house manufacture and testing of systems for international markets (Korea, Japan).
Founded a mechatronics research company specializing in human-machine interface design. Marketed novel automated haptic technologies to senior management at Panasonic and Omron (Japan). Guest lectured on robotics at UC Berkeley Engineering school.
Prominent contributor to the Capshare untethered, solid-state scanner. Transferred technology and implemented navigation algorithms as ASIC cores as part of a $40M development effort. Invented optical microscopy navigation systems later transferred to Microsoft & Logitech, used in billions of optical mice.
Inventor on 18 patent families across document engineering, mechatronics, and imaging.
Document Engineering & SemanticsMS, Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics) | Smart Product Design Lab
BS, Electrical Engineering | Computer Hardware
Co-founded initiatives to incubate academic research spinouts in collaboration with the National Science Foundation. Launched the "Real Startup" university entrepreneurship program and led initiatives bringing technology industry leaders to recruit at non-elite colleges and universities.