Wells Fargo

Data Science Consultant, GenAI and LLMs

Flute and Feather

Interactive GenAI, ed-tech platform for young children to learn and have fun:

flutenfeather.com

Co-Founder & CTO

Data Dam

• Offer custom analytics, informatics and data science services with a core focus on Customer Experience AI. Present and past clients include:

- Diversigen
- Loop Genomics
- Black Onyx Management
- Oplytix
- Infinity Systems
- FEI

• Previously, led product and business development efforts of an AI-powered, question-answering platform using large language models (LLMs).
Identified and developed several use cases in biotech, pharmaceutical, finance and CPG industries.

Co-Founder

1865 Analytics

Sabanto

Brief stint exploring some projects related to analyzing bag files, image segmentation, and tractor route planning calculations.

Lead Data Scientist

Microsoft

Worked on NLP and CV projects to support Flip(grid): an ed-tech product empowering millions of learners across the globe.

Senior Applied Scientist Manager

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Analyzed gene variant and clinical data from Genomics England Database to inform rare disease strategy.

Bioinformatician

Near Wellness LLC

Started and sold a dropshipping e-commerce business. Learned everything about digital marketing, Shopify, and online sales—only to realize that making money in e-commerce is way harder than it looks. Didn’t make much, but walked away with a crash course in running a business.

Founder

Eaton

Built data science models and analytics tools to help optimize commercial operations.

Data Scientist, Business Analytics

Genentech

Worked in the RnD department to support bioinformatics and computational biology projects related to biomarker development.
Worked in Marketing Science department to support commercial analytics operations.

Bioinformatics/Data Science Roles

AI, engineering, data science, and cloud infrastructure experience in biotech, manufacturing, software and banking industry. Always up for a new adventure. Hit me up at: 

ali[dot]faruqi[at]datadam[dot]io

Ali A. Faruqi

Kerby Kuykendall, CSM, CSPO

Helping Microsoft adopt the Fluent Design System broadly.

Principle Product Manager

Flip empowers learners to share their voice and respect the diverse voice of others.  I lead a multi-disciplinary team of Software Engineers, Product Managers and Technical Program Managers who are accountable for the Customer (Community) Experience (CX) for Flip on both mobile and web in addition to the e2e Trust & Safety pipeline and operations.

Director, Customer Experience & Trust (Flip)

Flip empowers learners to share their voice and respect the diverse voice of others.  Trust + Safety helps keep our community and their data safe.

Principal Head of Trust + Safety (Flip)

Principal PM Manager - Flipgrid

I lead a team of PMs in Xbox. I'm accountable for Xbox Assist and the support website features, functionality, Customer Experience and their impact to the business and customer pain. We help eliminate that pain by creating proactive, personalized and actionable experiences powered by smart technologies.

Principal PM Manager - Xbox

I lead a team of PMs in Xbox.  I'm accountable for Xbox Assist and the support website features, functionality, Customer Experience and their impact to the business and customer pain.  We help eliminate that pain by creating proactive, personalized and actionable experiences powered by smart technologies.

Lead Program Manager - Xbox

Program Manager owner of Xbox Assist!  A predictive, actionable and personalized support experience for Xbox One.  I also represent the Xbox business regarding features and functionality bringing the best customer experience to support.xbox.com.

Sr. Customer Experience Program Manager - Xbox

Going back to my roots, I left Windows for Xbox.  In Xbox I managed the content relationships across the business with a focus on support and was held accountable for the customer experience, content effectiveness, tools and processes we used around the support website.  In time, my scope would grow to include support properties for both Surface and Band, a team of 15 with a significant personal investment in quality assurance and process efficiencies.

Sr. Content and Process Program Manager - Xbox

In Windows, I managed a PM team in Windows dedicated to developers.  My team managed our presence on MSDN, in social media and planning for the next big thing.

Lead Content Project Manager - Windows

MSDN site managers facilitate the publishing of information and supply the analysis of traffic for site stakeholders including the product groups, community managers, the subsidiaries and most importantly the developer audience.  I built some of the most compelling developer experiences on MSDN during my tenure and edified a number of key relationships with the developer languages teams.

Lead Site Manager - MSDN

MRM Worldwide

As part of one of the worlds largest marketing networks, McCann Ericson works with clients from around the world.  I was asked to manage a multi-million dollar Microsoft engagement as a local member of their leadership team.  I worked on infrastructure (technical data reporting) and strategy (tools and playbook) for my Microsoft team (Office PMG) while representing the larger McCann network as a single point of client contact and managing the local McCann resources in the field.

Interactive Strategy Director

elephants & ants/Paperless Business Systems

As a senior member of the staff for e&a I was relied upon to manage our largest ongoing projects.  My experience with online commerce and technical depth was leveraged for new business engagements and ongoing client consultancy.  I worked on everything from building and delivering new business pitches to writing technical specifications and was always happy to roll up my sleeves and code if it helped the team!

Senior Technical Project Manager

The WebForge LLC

I founded the WebForge LLC,  creating a company on a virtual office model that could scale with customer demand while delivering intelligent web applications that met our customers business needs and delighted their customer base.

Over our five years of operations we developed hundreds of projects for Microsoft and other companies in the Puget Sound area and beyond, driving ROI, Customer Satisfaction and deep customer intelligence.

Founder & Webslinger

Fluent Communications (TPD Inc.)

Fluent Communications was a traditional, custom publishing firm which also did interactive development for a great portfolio of companies large and small.  In the three years I was employed at Fluent I grew through progressively larger scope and responsibility beginning as a front-edge engineer and culminating in the technical team manager position, reporting directly to the Technical Director.  Fluent was bought by the MRM (IPG) network of companies who would recruit me many years later!

Technical Team Manager

Fusion Interactive

Web Developer

I’ve worked on the front-edge of the web since its inception as a viable platform in the 90's and bring with me a unique, long-lensed perspective of both web and application development across platforms.  Early on, I developed my career from designer to web engineer, to technical team manager to ultimately found my own web development firm. Later, I held Senior Technical Project Manager roles in small consultancies and a director position at the world's largest advertising firm.  Throughout, I've been responsible for new business pitches and trusted with the largest most delicate client relationships.  I have deep experience in corporate leadership and operations, having successfully grown a remote company's presence in a local market. 

Currently, I am the Head of Trust & Safety for the Learning + Marketplace team which includes both Flip and TakeLessons! I transitioned to this role where I built a complete moderation pipeline, processes, policies and operation for both ML and human moderation after leaving Safety in Xbox, and my previous role as a PM Manager in Xbox Product Services managing a team of Program Managers.   I am accountable for Xbox Assist application and services across Microsoft Gaming and support.xbox.com.  Most recently I've driven the strategy for support workloads driving towards support and help experiences that are intelligent, proactive and actionable.

I feel the Trust & Safety space is truly impactful, protecting children and our broader community. I love gaming and technology of all types.  I'm a 4x Ironman finisher, multiple marathon finisher, bike racer, scuba instructor and have the discipline and drive to succeed. 

My Specialties: Agile methodology (Certified Agile product Owner), Leadership and people management, Internet development/marketing strategy and tactics, new business start-up, project & feature program management, vendor/client communications, scheduling and budgeting, stakeholder mediation, functional specification writing, public speaking, photoshop, html/CSS/JS, asp, SQL, system administration (Windows/Unix).

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Kerby Kuykendall, CSM, CSPO

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