Summary
Award-winning strategist, evangelist, and technologist with 14 years of expertise driving innovative solutions from inception to market; in collaboration with such entities as Intellectual Ventures, Singularity University, and the artist Anish Kapoor.
Passionate about emerging technology via the execution of innovative user oriented design through interplay between digital and physical environments by leveraging experience with computer vision, AI, 3D printing, generative design, AR/VR, industrial design, medical devices, sculpture engineering, UX design, and architecture.
Education
Art Center College of Design: Grad ID, 2012 (attended)
Washington University in St. Louis, 2005
BS Architecture / BA Technical Theater
Strategic Leadership Skills
Founded and raised $5M+ for two award-winning start-ups leveraging a lifetime of experience in 3D technology:
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LexSet, agile computer vision solutions for AI
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MetaMason, scan-to-fit 3D printed respiratory masks for sleep apnea
need/path finding: identified opportunities with execution vision
pitching/raising: won 7 pitch competitions, raised $5M+
project mgmt: GANTTs, managed agile team sprints (wrike/trello)
finance: created/managed P&L, budget, and forecasts
recruiting: sourced necessary team members to execute vision
branding/pr: developed product identity & media campaigns
3D Content / Emerging Tech Expertise
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Computer Vision AI/ML
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AR/VR/XR
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3D Scanning, 3D Modeling, 3D Printing
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Industrial Fabrication & Automation
Co-Founder & President
LexSet, 2017 - present
LexSet is building an agile development platform for Computer Vision systems. We create synthetic data training data for ML in near real time and train and host the models they support. We simulate real-world objects with 3D content. This allows us to generate unlimited amounts of training data and precisely tailor the composition of a dataset for a given use case; customizing camera position, lighting, occlusions, and materials while allowing for infinite iterations that can be adjusted in real time.
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Recruited by Intellectual Ventures as Entrepreneur-in-Residence to commercialize portfolio of 38 patents in object recognition, with inventors including Bill Gates and Satya Nadella
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Accelerated by XRC Labs (‘18), Plug N Play’s Brand & Retail (‘18), and the RLab Spatial Computing Accelerator
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Set the vision for the company, hired and led team of experts across product, operations and engineering
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Launched a suite of cv products offering 15+% improvement in common vision ML model accuracy upto 99%
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Within first six months to market, identified and closed $275K in deals from industry leaders across robotics, furniture and industrial applications, including iRobot, Herman Miller and Epiroc
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Won three pitch competition awards: DataConLA (‘19), GS1 Connect (‘19), and Augmented World Expo (‘19), as well as placing in the top 10 of the EPiC HKSTP international elevator pitch championship
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Named a Top 10 finalist in the Verizon Built on 5G Challenge, and being voted the People’s Choice Winner of the O’Reilly Media Emerging AI Pioneers Showcase
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Press features including being named one of the 10 fastest growing companies in retail by The Silicon Review, O’Reilly Media, AR Post, Venture Fizz, Furniture Today, FutureTech, Trend Hunter, Forbes, TechCrunch
Founder CEO
Metamason, 2013 - 2017
Metamason’s healthcare-focused Scan·Fit·Print™ process integrated 3D body scanning, algorithmic design and 3D printing to create the world’s first truly custom respiratory mask for CPAP therapy (Fortune). Exploring the limits of combining 3D scanning, generative design, and 3D printing; we authored four utility/design patents for the company around the printing of silicone and generative design from 3D scans to create personalize products.
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First company founded by the ArtCenter / CalTech Design Accelerator (founded while in grad school at ArtCenter’s GradID Industrial Design program)
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Member of Singularity University Labs program,SU Faculty Member
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Raised over $3.8M in venture funding funding
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Invented process for 3D printing medical grade silicone in partnership with 3D Systems
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Filed and granted 3 patents on additive manufacturing and scan-to-fit medical devices
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Oversaw execution of successful clinical trials, n of 10 study
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Won three pitch competition awards: 3D Heals (‘16), Inside3D Printing (‘15), Plus Yoo Innovation Forum (‘14)
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2 SxSW Interactive Innovation Award Nominations (‘15) (‘16), Singularity University Global Grand Challenge Award Nomination (‘15)
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CES Innovation Award Honoree (‘18)
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Press features including Fortune, Huffington Post, Slashdot, Reason
UX Design Intern
zSpace, 2013
Holographic UX development on a hardware platform for the purpose of digital creation and education. Areas of responsibilities included representing the cad needs of industrial design professionals to the product, in it’s ability port existing cad software to a holographic environment. Designed a UX taxonomy for working in true 3D. Coordinated development needs from the Biz Dev team and the UI/UX teams. Assisted in the UI tool kit within the SDK.
Mechanical Designer & Sculpture Engineer
PSI (Anish Kapoor), 2018-2011
Mechanical design team lead with performance structures inc, contract steel fabricator of world famous artist, designer, and sculptor Anish Kapoor. Responsibilities included process design, project management, tooling design, machine tool design, and drafting; as well as 3D modeling & rendering, class a surfacing & continuity analysis, and 3D digitizing & surface analysis. Worked on projects which include "Cloud Gate" aka the Chicago Bean, "Turning the World Upside Down", aka the Jerusalem Hourglass, "C-Curve", "S-Curve", "Spire", and "Dented Box".
Additional Strengths
design thinking, strategy, product design, public speaking, need finding, project management, financial forecasting, marketing, graphic design, evangelizing, information design