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I’m a seasoned product and growth executive and former founder with over 15 years of…
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Packaging is a hidden growth lever Too many product teams obsess over features but neglect packaging. Packaging is one of the most underrated growth…
Packaging is a hidden growth lever Too many product teams obsess over features but neglect packaging. Packaging is one of the most underrated growth…
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🧩 Debating individual features wastes energy. Elevating the conversation to product domains creates alignment. Domains group features into…
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📊 The Kano Model is criminally underused. It’s been around for ages, but it is so little known or leveraged 😕 Kano helps you classify features as…
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Experience
Education
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MIT Professional Education
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The design of AI-based products, and the fundamentals of machine and deep learning algorithms. The application of AI technologies and insights to solve practical user and business problems.
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Activities and Societies: Graduated #1 in the class. Competed across 3 universities to be selected for a 1-year technical internship at Omron, based in Tokyo, Japan.
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Founder
Highground Hackers
- 1 year 4 months
Social Services
A group of civic minded developers and entrepreneurs working to connect engineering talent with non-technical experts in different fields of public concern. Organized multiple hackathons and developer weekends that resulted in applications being deployed for organizations such as Cure Violence, one of the top 50 NGO's in the world.
Patents
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Integrated circuit with multiple functions sharing multiple internal signal buses according to distributed bus access and control arbitration.
Issued US 5,774,684
An integrated circuit (IC) includes multiple circuits and functions which share multiple internal signal buses, three physical and five logical, according to distributed bus access and control arbitration. The multiple internal signal buses are shared among three tiers of internal circuit functions: a central processing unit and a DMA controller; a DRAM controller and a bus interface unit; and peripheral interface circuits, such as PCMCIA and display controllers. Two of the physical buses…
An integrated circuit (IC) includes multiple circuits and functions which share multiple internal signal buses, three physical and five logical, according to distributed bus access and control arbitration. The multiple internal signal buses are shared among three tiers of internal circuit functions: a central processing unit and a DMA controller; a DRAM controller and a bus interface unit; and peripheral interface circuits, such as PCMCIA and display controllers. Two of the physical buses correspond to two of the logical buses and are used for communications within the IC. The third physical bus corresponds to three of the logical buses and is used for communications between the IC and circuits external to the IC. Arbitration for accessing and controlling the various signal buses is distributed both within and among the three tiers of internal circuit functions. Maximum performance is thereby achieved from the circuit functions accessed most frequently, while still achieving high performance from those circuit functions accessed less frequently. The IC may provided with a processor core with features that support In-Circuit Emulation (ICE).
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Bidirectional parallel data port having multiple data transfer rates, master, and slave operation modes, and selective data transfer termination
Issued US 5,710,939
A bidirectional parallel signal interface for providing a parallel data interface between a computer and an external peripheral device includes an interface circuit with command registers for communicating commands and data, a first-in, first-out (FIFO) memory for communicating data between the computer and the peripheral device, and host and slave state machines for receiving commands from the command registers and in accordance therewith controlling communication of data between the FIFO and…
A bidirectional parallel signal interface for providing a parallel data interface between a computer and an external peripheral device includes an interface circuit with command registers for communicating commands and data, a first-in, first-out (FIFO) memory for communicating data between the computer and the peripheral device, and host and slave state machines for receiving commands from the command registers and in accordance therewith controlling communication of data between the FIFO and peripheral device and communicating control signals to and from the peripheral device. The communication of data between the FIFO and peripheral device is effected in accordance with data communication rates which are controlled by the host and slave state machines in accordance with the commands from the command registers. The communications of control signals by the host and slave state machines are responsive to their control signals with such responsiveness being controllable in accordance with the commands from the command registers. The communication of data from the FIFO to the peripheral device is halted by the host state machine in accordance with its commands from the command registers. The command registers include a status register for storing data from the peripheral device representing a number of status states of the peripheral device.
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Honors & Awards
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LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
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► Keynote Speaker at Product Management & Innovation 2018
► Speaker and Panelist at Microsoft Ignite 2017
► Keynote Speaker at Velocity 2014: “Building Self-Adaptive Autonomous Infrastructure”
► Social Media Marketing Instructor for 2010 semester at UC Santa Cruz, CA
Languages
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Japanese
Professional working proficiency
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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French
Limited working proficiency
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