Created the AI strategy and led implementation on over 10 AI products developments
Selected AI Investments and consultation (product, AI, financing support)
Pickle (pickleai.com). Built the conversational AI software for sales and customer engagement.
Resemble (resemble.ai) Clones voices to create dynamic content on the fly in a natural voice.
Built Outdone.io deep neural network for a brand recommendation engine.
I founded an engineering team of 50 in India.
Established the AI/ML division in Pakistan associated with #1 ranked Lahore University of Management Sciences
Note: I am not a programmer. I use my statistical/mathematical background to connect the business strategy to lead the engineering team
Formed Pickle (pickleai.com), a conversational AI software for outbound sales teams integrated with services such as Zoom, Salesforce, Ring Central, and Outreach.
As CEO at Convirza created the First-to-Market strategy with an artificial intelligence product that automated natural language processing for an advertising feedback loop into marketing automation, content efficacy, and systems integration.
Knowledge of how to use Jira, GitHub, Python, Postman, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Google Colab, NLTK, BERT, and spaCy.
AI Investments and consultation (product, AI, financing support)
Sentry AI (smartsentry.ai) Computer vision AI applied to millions of security camera videos.
My Role: Developed initial model architecture with another engineer for a client trading platform.
Models: Advantage Actor-Critic (A2C), Reinforcement Learning, LSTM Recurrent Neural Network.
Libraries: Keras, quantstats, BS4 (Beautiful Soup), NumPy, pandas, matplotlib.
Tools: Python, PyCharm, Yahoo Finance data sets, Interactive Brokers Integration, Alpaca Integration.
Brand gift recommendation engine: Model provides a recommended brand for a gift recommendation using demographic input provided by the gift giver.
My Role: Directed a team of 4 engineers in developing the architecture, strategy, and methods.
Models: Evaluated the latest recommendation engine approaches including Collaborative Filtering, Graph Convolutional Network, Graph Attention Networks, Deep Neural Network, Graph Convolution Matrix Completion, and K Nearest Neighbors with various optimizations with hidden layers and embeddings.
Libraries: pandas, NumPy, sklearn (MinMaxScaler, Naive_Bayes, NearestNeighbors, matplotlib, RandomForestClassifyer.
Tools: Python, PyCharm, AWS Sagemaker, AWS Lambda, AWS S3.
Inbound Phone Call Intent Classification: Model provided 32 different intent and activity classifications
My Role: architect the end-to-end model. Ran daily scrum meetings and coordinated with product and QA. Also identified and implemented Automatic Speech Recognition.
Models: Transformer models using Bert, RoBert and ran initial tests on GPT-3, Convolutional Neural Networks with significant adjustments for data imbalance.
Libraries: scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy, NLTK, glove, matplotlib.
Tools: Python, Tensorflow, PyCharm, AWS Sagemaker, AWS Lambda.
Lead quality scoring and sale prediction: Model provides a lead score a recommended action (e.g., callback)
My Role: Integrated dataset and led project with 2 engineers in developing the architecture, strategy, and methods.
Models: Multivariate regression model initially and then added natural language data to measure intent using Convolutional Neural Network with GloVe (Global Vector of word embeddings)
Libraries: pandas, NumPy, NLTK, glove, matplotlib.
Tools: Python, Tensorflow, Google Data Studios, Google Colab.
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"Through his extensive experience in tech various roles at tech companies over the years, he has a keen understanding of the metrics for evaluating and running SaaS companies and has a thorough knowledge of the life and stages of start-up, product development, growth, etc.
I can't recommend Jason highly enough and am grateful to have him as not only a former boss and mentor, but a great friend."
Bryan Pocock
MBA, JD | Transformational COO/CFO providing operational and financial leadership