Born and raised in Queens, NY. I turn problems into ideas, and ideas into solutions. I like data science & analytics. I love success stories.

I am a highly motivated and open-minded technologist. I am also a humanist and believe that today's innovator is someone who is dedicated to improving the standard of living for those around him. I genuinely believe that people are meant to coexist, and that technological solutions should only be created to enhance those experiences. Whether you're creating technology to help folks find the right job, or to connect with long lost friends via social media, or maybe to find a local doctor - technology should help people connect. That's what I believe, and I'll never stop working towards my passion.

With formal education in electrical engineering and computer sciences, I started my career in software consulting. Since then, I've applied myself to working as a data scientist, as well as helping a company grow a business intelligence team from the ground up. I find the ability to combine a qualitative understanding of business with the quantitative truths that lie in data to be a very intriguing toolset.

Sometimes, I write.

Featured Media & Publications

Imgur: COVID-19: How Social Distancing Has Created New Digital Campfires & Ways Your Brand Can Get Involved

After years of being bombarded by perfectly manicured imagery and messaging, younger consumers are savvier than ever and can easily see when an influencer is behaving in a way that feels disingenuous.
Pockets of Decency: Episode 29, "Math is Hard"

How we measure success is entirely tied to an individual's goals. So while going to the gym 7 days a week may perceived as a positive habit, you have to ask yourself what is your goal? Improved physical health - then you're providing the right input. But if I wanted to strengthen my interpersonal relationships, I'm not sure going to the gym will have any effect on that goal. So, you can't find success without being dilligent about defining your expected outcomes up front.
Pockets of Decency: Episode 30, "Digital Distractions"

How can data science be leveraged ethically in a capitalist society?
NYIT: Alumni Spotlight

Product managers have such a unique career path. There’s no one road to it, and there are so many doors being a product manager can open for you. The key to being successful is an open mind, a touch of humility, and a ton of empathy.
NYIT: New Student Convocation, 2020

Embrace discomfort as it will help you grow, give more than you take, and treat everyone with respect.
MYNCCPOA: 55th Anniversary Celebration, 2015

MNYCCPOA, Metropolitan New York College Career Planning Officers Association, started from a small and local community of professionals who came together to discuss concerns that faced the career development field.
ACM Publication: "Toffee: enabling ad hoc, around-device interaction with acoustic time-of-arrival correlation", 2014

The simple fact that human fingers are large and mobile devices are small has led to the perennial issue of limited surface area for touch-based interactive tasks. In response, we have developed Toffee, a sensing approach that extends touch interaction beyond the small confines of a mobile device and onto ad hoc adjacent surfaces, most notably tabletops. This is achieved using a novel application of acoustic time differences of arrival (TDOA) correlation. Previous time-of-arrival based systems have required semi-permanent instrumentation of the surface and were too large for use in mobile devices. Our approach requires only a hard tabletop and gravity -- the latter acoustically couples mobile devices to surfaces. We conducted an evaluation, which shows that Toffee can accurately resolve the bearings of touch events (mean error of 4.3° with a laptop prototype). This enables radial interactions in an area many times larger than a mobile device; for example, virtual buttons that lie above, below and to the left and right.