Education
University of Washington
MS, Computer Science 1994-01-01 - 1996-01-01Stanford University Graduate School of Business
MS, Management 2002-01-01 - 2003-01-01UC San Diego
BA, Computer Science & Political Science 1990-01-01 - 1994-01-01Work Experience
Geeky Ventures
2019-06-01 - 2024-01-01
Geeky Ventures
Microsoft
2016-01-01 - 2018-03-01
Microsoft
Geeky Ventures
2009-09-01 - 2015-06-01
Geeky Ventures
Microsoft
2008-01-01 - 2009-04-01
Microsoft
Findory
2003-10-01 - 2007-11-01
Findory
Amazon
1997-02-01 - 2002-02-01
Amazon
Skills
Summary
I have thirty years of experience working in personalization, recommender systems, search relevance, artificial intelligence, machine learning, online advertising, online experimentation, and metrics. I have run large teams, built to massive scale, and founded startups. I invented Amazon's lucrative and now widely used item-to-item collaborative filtering algorithm. I have thirty-two patents in recommender systems, personalization, and search.