Entrepreneur, Technical Architect
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- CTO at Talk2Us
- Past
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- Technical Manager, Speech Engineering at Viecore Inc
- Senior Speech Recognition Engineer at General Magic
- Software Engineer at Indicast
- Senior Staff Engineer at Radius
- Education
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- University of California, San Diego
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Lukman Ramsey’s Summary
Lukman Ramsey’s Specialties:
Technical Architecture and Vision, Engineering Management, Speech Recognition, IVR Development, Java Development, iPhone Development, J2EE, J2ME, VXML, CCXML, SQL
Lukman Ramsey’s Experience
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CTO
Talk2Us
(Telecommunications industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Co-founder of a voice technology startup. Talk2Us is building a next-generation communications service.
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Technical Manager, Speech Engineering
Viecore Inc
(Privately Held; Computer Software 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. Built a $3m / yr services business unit in speech application analysis and tuning from the ground up, including designing and developing the technology, selling the need internally and externally, and building and managing a team of speech scientists, engineers and transcriptionists.
Also co-founded the Voice User Interface team.
Inventor and 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), Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines, AIG and Prudential Insurance. After Viecore's acquisition by Nuance this became the framework used by Nuance to deliver their IVR solutions. -
Senior Speech Recognition Engineer
General Magic
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2001 — July 2002 (11 months)
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Software Engineer
Indicast
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
October 2000 — August 2001 (11 months)
Software Engineer at a voice portal startup.
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Senior Staff Engineer
Radius
(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.
Lukman Ramsey’s Education
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University of California, San Diego
C. Phil , Computer Science , 1994 — 1999
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. , Cognitive Science , 1986 — 1990
- Activities and Societies:
- Sigma Phi Epsilon
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