PFM Consulting

President & Founder

April 2015 - Present

 We live in an amazing time where society is bursting at the seams with innovation. Be it apps, services, designs, algorithms, or even a Squatty Potty, everyone is beginning to innovate the world around them and generally, for the better.

 As someone who jumps in with both feet I tend to get excited about everything so I started a consulting firm whose goal is to create a diversified portfolio of clients across many verticals, including 3D Printing, Web Design & Architecture, Database Systems, Machine Learning, Education, Genetics, Healthcare, and Electronics, and help push these industries toward the future via an agile, test-driven, consulting framework. Working with clients in so many fields means our success becomes tied with theirs so it becomes important to match the right consultants with the right projects.

 PFM Consulting is a platform where talented people can get exposure to various industries through consulting, and companies gain access to a curated list of talent to accomplish tasks that take them further along their roadmap. A lovely jam.

EverlyWell

Senior Software Engineer

March 2018 - July 2018

 EverlyWell believes that health tests shouldn’t be hard to get – or hard to understand.

 The EverlyWell experience is simple. You order one of our kits online, you collect your sample from home and return it via pre-paid mail to one of our fully-certified partner laboratories. A board-certified physician in your state will review and validate your results before you get them. EverlyWell provides a complete, easy-to-read results report online in just a few days.

 Our comprehensive test kits measure key biomarkers through dried blood spot, urine or saliva samples that are collected in the comfort of your home.

 EverlyWell empowers individuals by providing easy access to health data. We are proud to offer a suite of direct-to-consumer, regulatory-compliant tests…without a lab visit.

Addis Clinic

Lead Architect & Engineering Consultant

April 2016 - February 2018

 Access to healthcare is a dire need throughout the world. However, it is a difficult and expensive endeavor to provide “boots-on-the-ground” healthcare support to certain areas. Addis is tackling that problem by creating a virtual healthcare support system.

 Starting in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa, the Addis Clinic has already provided hundreds of patients with the healthcare they needed by connecting them to Western doctors, most of them located in Boston. My role consists of designing and implementing our telemedicine platform, leveraging the open source communities of Sana and OpenMRS, to connect Western doctors with our patients in need.

 I’m looking forward to seeing Addis Clinic grow and partner with more hospitals in Africa and South America. I’m happy to be a part of this group of selfless individuals who really are helping people.

HBX, Harvard Business School

Senior Engineering Consultant,
Course Platform & HBX Live

Nov 2015 - May 2016

 Have you ever wanted to experience a “day in the life” at Harvard? Possibly be a part of a business program that’s over 100 years old? Well the future is now and we are bringing Harvard’s MBA experience to you!

 With direct exposure to Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty, education, community, and their famous “HBS Case Studies,” we are building a platform that encapsulates the HBS experience and interactivity and delivers it to a global student body. With over 10,000 students that have matriculated through our platform we have made a serious educational impact on the wold as a whole and continue to do so.

 My role consisted of architecting and building our Data Warehouse and analytics in addition to designing and implementing our new HBX Live service which brings an authentic, real-time classroom experience to both the faculty and students, despite being thousands of miles away. I feel honored to work with a team in helping to define the future of education and creating a platform that genuinely empowers the students that use it. It’s all about truth: Veritas.

Tamr

Solutions Architect, Customer Success

May 2015 - January 2016

 Does a rainy day in July affect the sales of cars in Madrid? Can the suppliers of a nine-department, eight-location Fortune 500 Company be consolidated company-wide? Wouldn’t you love to have a unified view of your customers across all services, products, and accounts? These are the questions Tamr is answering, bringing to life 100% of company data.

 As a startup, Tamr allowed me to play the role of a Renaissance Man: selling, developing, recruiting, supporting, analyzing. I was exposed to many different use-cases, clients, and technologies. I worked with some of the best people I have ever met, developing and contributing to a product that I foresee as a near-term ubiquitous tool. As a Palmer-Stonebraker company, we’re out to solve problems!

Addgene

Data Architect Consultant: Search, Tags, Infrastructure
Senior Software Engineer

March 2014 - September 2015

 Curing cancer? Building glow in the dark fish? Revolutionizing gene therapy and genetics? Addgene leads the industry in sharing both plasmid DNA and plasmid data. A non profit repository for plasmids - think Github for DNA - Addgene provides scientists many services and products to facilitate biological research.

 My role consisted of implementing and maintaining infrastructure as well database design, website redesign, APIs/datafeeds, lab management systems, long term research projects in curation, analytics, and automated grouping/tagging. Rocking as a Django/Python shop, I utilized many technologies such as backend and frontend frameworks as well as various database implementations.

 Now I won’t say that I’ve cured cancer but when that cure is finally discovered - doubtlessly using our products - I’ll wear a private smile knowing I was able to contribute!

Bio Inspired Design - MIT Media Lab

Software & Electrical Engineer

February 2013 - May 2013

 Imagine a worm wrapped in a cocoon of silk: protected, safe, secure. Almost two kilometers of silk are woven into a predetermined structure intrinsic to the worm. Now imagine several thousands of worms spinning silk into one very large cocoon-like structure. We did this to create a pavilion made of silk, built by worms, to demonstrate how natural processes can lend to architecture and design.

 My role was to design a system to track the worms in realtime as they spun silk. I designed and built an intelligent visual tracking system for small scale tracking and a harmonic radar system for large scale tracking.

RedStar Ventures - Vinely

Entrepreneur-in-Residence

May 2012 - August 2012

 We all have tastes; tastes for art, tastes for fashion, tastes for food. We also have tastes for wine. Some like sweet tastes and others like fruity tastes. However, people are scared away by wine, thinking the learning curve is too steep. At Redstar, we sought to prove this was not the case.

 I developed algorithms to determine taste profiles based on preliminary data from in-person wine tasting parties. Through data manipulation, I was able to create a wine taste profile that piped into a custom built recommendation engine to present and recommend new wines to our users. Additionally, we would partner with local wine distributors and handle fulfillment.

 Originally named Winedora, we changed the name to Vinely. Check it out and sip some wine. Cheers!

StartLabs

Co-founder, Vice-President, Advisor

April 2011 - August 2012

 Founded with three other classmates, Start Labs was an experimental nonprofit student company. The goal was to better equip universities with a curriculum to emphasize creativity and leadership. Using the tools of entrepreneurship and various other resources like networking events, accelerator programs, and hands-on mentorship, we created an entity that inspired student creativity and innovation, helping students turn ideas into products or services, and coaching them on marketing, developing, and managing a company.

Apple

iTunes Software Engineer

June 2011 - August 2011

 Have you ever wanted to listen to your music on your mobile device but couldn’t because all your music was stored on your computer? Wouldn’t it be nice to have access to all of your music no matter what device you’re on? I helped develop the iTunes Match system to make this happen.

 We developed algorithms such as meta-data comparison and audio sampling to identify the contents of your music library. Once identified, any of your devices had the ability to download any song, album, or playlist in your library via the Apple servers. This was a lot of fun and we solved some pretty interesting problems.