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Principal Consultant, Founder

INFOCOMET

Developing and deploying custom code AI solutions for document analysis and data transformation. Recently completed 1. A fully automated legal document data transformation into business legal rules for a leading payroll provider in the entertainment industry in Burbank, CA. 2. Automated data extraction of legal text in archived documents and extrapolated business insights in visual mode for executive decision-making at a global telecom infrastructure provider. 3. Instituted a near-real- time object detection system from images captured through surveillance cameras to detect, classify, and predict safety violations as well as theft at telecom towers in Africa. 4. Implemented a customer churn prevention approach for a telecom provider in Brazil by integrating sentiment analysis of dialogs between call center reps and customers

• NLP, chatbots, LLM, Generative AI, Python, SQL, Django, React, React Native

Adjunct Professor

CLARK COLLEGE

Teaches digital logic design, computer organization, and assembly language to computer science engineering students (ENGR 250 Digital Logic Design & CSE 370 Computer Organizations & Architecture). I extend the course material with insights on current trends, showcase retro and modern-day hardware, which I collect, and keep the material exciting and relevant for the next generation of geeky talents. I also advised the Clark College Computer Science Department with their recent rollout of their Bachelor of Science Computer Science program.

• ENG 250 Digital Logic, CSE 370 Computer Organizations & Architecture

Data Engineering VP

1010Data CORP

Led a successful implementation of a data analysis and visualization platform for 20 major US-based retailers. Instrumented a 99%+ accuracy daily data loading process with auto-correction for trillion data bytes of retail and capital markets data. Provided technical recommendations in artificial intelligence and data engineering as part of the company's recent acquisition.

• PowerBi, Airflow, Azure, Visualizations, Typescript, Kafka, Azure, AWS, Kubernetes

Senior Director IT

Banfield (Mars Inc)

Engineered the first IoT-based mobile hospital unit, integrated voice AI assistant as a POC in several hospitals, and rolled out a chatbot for telehealth workers during COVID. Led end-to-end development of an automated medical prescription ordering solution integrated with 3rd party suppliers and in compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and NIST.

• IoT, voice chatbot, ecommerce, AWS, Python, Oracle, Sage Maker, Azure Bot Framework

AI Labs Director

Thomson Reuters

Embedded an AI-based recommendation system into a learning management system for financial auditors and accountants. Supervised over 15 intern projects in AI, NLP, Blockchain, and virtual reality, supporting financial audit and tax assessment use cases. Cofounded the 1000+ member Dallas AI community group; mentored students on artificial neural networks and natural language processing.

• NLP, audit, recommendation systems, semantic search, Python, Google Cloud, Azure, AWS

Enterprise IT Associate Director

Verizon

Led the development of software tools for mission-critical operations throughout the years. The last two years, focusing on AI and lean six-sigma black belt process efficiency solutions for detecting fraudulent transactions. Developed an award-winning IoT-based parental control system, premiered a corporate-wide chatbot for 60k employees, and engineered an intelligent fault alerts system in data centers.

• lean six sigma black belt, data analysis, chatbot, operations management

BSc

American University of Beirut

Computer Science

MBA

University of Dallas

Business Management

PhD

Walden University

Management and Technology

• The dissertation included developing an AI system for identifying associations between public sentiments in social media and corporate financial distress at public-held companies.