Entrepreneur, Technical Architect
Greater New York City Area
Entrepreneur, Technical Architect
Greater New York City Area
Speech Recognition
(Telecommunications industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Co-Founder of a voice technology startup. Talk2Us is building a next-generation communications service.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2002 — January 2007 (4 years 4 months)
Founded and led the Speech Engineering team at Viecore, the leading professional services company in the speech recognition / call center industry.
Also co-founded the Voice User Interface team.
Architect of the Viecore Framework, the technical foundation for dozens of enterprise-level speech recognition applications, including 6 of 10 of the largest VXML deployments worldwide. Customers include GE Consumer Finance (live deployments in 8 countries worldwide), Delta Airlines, AIG and Prudential Insurance.
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2001 — July 2002 (11 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
October 2000 — August 2001 (11 months)
Software Engineer at a voice portal startup.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; RDUS; Computer Hardware industry)
September 1992 — August 1996 (4 years)
Lead engineer for several lines of graphics acceleration cards. Wrote firmware and system software patches.
Acted as engineering liason between Apple and Radius for Apple OEM board.
C. Phil, Computer Science, 1994 — 1999
B.S., Cognitive Science, 1986 — 1990