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Acoustic intelligence ASR for high-noise environments

Software studio for startups

Rebuilt the identity platform’s architecture for scalability and modularity. Hands-on: personally designed and coded the majority of the system.

Public record: interview with the CEO on the company’s identity-data platform for lenders (Oct 2022)

Architected and deployed scalable microservices that integrate with multiple third-party APIs and external enterprise services.

Co-founded and led all technology for a Bay Area voice AI company. Hands-on across every part of the platform, including deployments for the US Coast Guard and DHS in environments where standard ASR fails, and the radio interface hardware that let the software key a transmitter.

Public record: company announcement of a research agreement with the Department of Homeland Security (Sep 2024) · Federal Register notice of a proposed US Coast Guard research agreement (Sep 2025) · trade-press report on the software offered through Kenwood radio dealers (Jul 2024) · push-to-talk-over-cellular partnership announcement (Mar 2025) · earlier-stage technical partnership announced by the partner (Dec 2020)

Hands-on architecture across mobile clients, desktop, firmware, API/SDK, and server. Designed and coded a large share of it personally.

Public record: company patent application for an in-ear utility device (published Nov 2017) · investor portfolio page

Acquired SmartChannels, expanded into prediction markets. Company dissolved in 2014.

Designed and built an integrated CMS / CRM / project collaboration / personalization / web publishing platform. A lot of the features that defined the social networks of the next decade, ~10 years early.

Dot-com era consultancy. Clients including AirTouch Cellular, The Sci-Fi Channel, Tales from the Crypt, Preston Gates & Ellis, Interwest Bank, Onvia, EProject, Girvin Design. Products: Mortar Maker (Warheads SE), CoreBA animated graphics format, RUM challenge-response spam solution.

Web-enabled a manual flexible-benefits portal. IIS, VC++, ADO, ASP, MDAC, SQL Server.

Their on-call for whatever they couldn’t staff in-house: fixing and extending existing apps and sites, standing up and troubleshooting servers, building complete solutions from scratch.

Migrated them from mainframe to PC. Designed the main database — 100+ tables, 600+ stored procedures in SQL Server.

The company that shipped "Internet in a Box" — one of the earliest commercial on-ramps to the Web. Code-based testing plus a small experimental beat where I wrote a web crawler, an NNTP crawler, and internal tools. Spry sold to CompuServe for $100M.

Mostly tested PageMaker.

Tested games, mostly the Bright Star Technology titles.