My Short Story
In the 90s I was the kid building websites for fun, some with 100,000 users. I didn’t know it could be a career until I found the harder version of the problem: building digital solutions people will pay for in markets where the rules are strict and mistakes are costly.
Building and selling in healthcare. Around 2012 I was recruited out of school as the first Entrepreneur in Residence at Project LIFT, a Miami health tech investment group. I went from investing in startups to joining one. Our team built two health data products, Tesser Health and PxSource, took them to market, and sold both to larger companies.
Scaling into government. I started civic tech meetups in Miami that grew into a nonprofit, Code for South Florida. Government needed what healthcare needed: people centered, modern data tools that could pass strict rules. I co-founded DataGovs to sell into that market and it was acquired. That track record got me recruited to Microsoft.
Bringing it to AI. I have designed and manage digital services and data products for orgs taught me how to engineer solutions and b ring them to market at scale. Before AI was on everyone’s mind, I did a lot of the dirty “data” work. It’s something I continue to do. I even did a fellowship at Stanford University on civic AI policy and my TEDx talk on ethical data use.
Today I’m still obsessed with community, investments and using technology to solve hard problems. I help various business, organize meetups, and focus on helping deploy the best solutions for teams.
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