Roles Held

• Data Systems Delivery Lead for the Private Bank demographics data team (20+ people), transitioning the Private Bank client database to a modern, scalable architecture with containerized APIs.
• Data Architect for Citi Wealth strategic data systems transformation.
• Faculty member of Citi's highest "Engineering Excellence" E4 program, mentoring the next generation of technologists.

Key Achievements

• Hired and led near-shore team delivering new cross-border Demographics service which delivered secure data orders of magnitude faster using a Graph database. Hired team, architected solution, set up CI/CD plan, reviewed code, defined stories, and performed agile ceremonies. (Patent pending.)
• Led team which brought a global real-time message bus (Kafka) to Citi for fast intra-day data transfer. Negotiated with vendor alongside acquisition team, architected solution, reviewed code, and resolved global security review issues.
• As lead Architect for Citi Private Bank during its transition to Wealth, established Architecture Review Board, and have remained a Data Systems Architect in the new organization, improving Citi's data systems quality, reliability, and scale.
• Mentored senior engineers, evaluated projects, and spoke at sessions as faculty for the Engineering Excellence "E4" technology program to show our best technologists how they can have firm-wide impact outside their immediate team.

Roles Held

• Founder/Chief Engineer of small business for the purpose of commercializing LLM and GPT for mobile and web consumer use, focusing on the expat/immigrant market.

Key Achievements

• Founded company in 2024 to bring AI/LLM to help people's personal lives, initially focusing on the expat/immigrant communities.
• Delivered iOS app which uses a mobile camera to scan postal mail, read it in any of 30 languages, and give a concise summary in 50+ languages. (Patent pending.)
• Built Google Cloud Run-based back-end on node.js which implements model decisions, prompting, guardrails, and monitoring.
• Implemented streamlined CI/CD pipeline with automated testing to enable me to scale as a startup.

Roles Held

• Delivery Lead for Negative News Screening (NNS) and Client Risk Scoring (CRS) initiatives in the Chief Compliance and Risk Organization (CCRO), integrating machine learning and natural language processing.
• Tech Lead for Digital Private Banking Americas (New York), leading agile transformation and improving deployment systems while building client-facing offerings for UHNW clients.

Key Achievements

• Redefined client risk evaluation with new web application which brings statistical modeling to user-friendly data acquisition, enabling fast and accurate risk evaluation.
• Led effort to apply big data analysis and AI to more than double Negative News Screening staff productivity; worked with near-short AI vendors to process news articles and evaluate potential risk.
• Increased release cadence from monthly weekend releases to weekly Thursday releases through TDD, CI/CD automation, and service architecture.

Roles Held

• Client Portal and Publishing Team Co-Lead for Institutional Portal Team tasked with modernizing the web infrastructure for secure and reliable information dissemination.
• Developer for firmwide resilience, publishing, indexing, and alerting solutions.

Key Achievements

• Designed a distributed document system for storage, search, and retrieval for high-volume trade idea publishing.
• Developed robust auto-failover system to ensure fast once-and-only-once client publications in event of data center failure.
• Co-Led the Institutional Portal Team, Goldman Sachs' client-facing portal for research, trade ideas, and news.

Key Achievements

• Designed and implemented new geospatial information visualization system for improved mapping and situational awareness.
• Proposed iterative R&D contractual structure which was adopted by US Army Research Lab for subsequent research.
• Led and personally developed results for research into usage of touchscreen interfaces in improved battlefield collaboration.
• Awarded General Dynamics' "Scientific and Technical Society Award for Technical Excellence."

Key Achievements

• Scaled custom manufacturing/design applications by two orders of magnitude, from startup to large-scale rollout
• Automated several manufacturing software systems to transform manual steps into distributed event-driven compute grid, enabling orders of magnitude of scale.
• Led rewrite of client-facing 3D internet plugin to dramatically simplify the product, bringing it to less-trained General Practitioners and multiplying the addressable market.

Key Achievements

• Developed methods to correlate page segments for a US Government research program investigating how to scan the world's newspapers for key information.
• Created optical character recognition systems with custom feature detection and composition capabilities to improve document web delivery.
• Implemented image security functionality for extremely high-resolution imagery using off-the-shelf computers (Used by US Post Office.)