Somml Health

Kurt co-founded Somml Health in 2016 after a family medical crisis opened his eyes to the frustratingly segmented nature of the current healthcare system. His vision of a Digital Health Neighborhood is quickly being realized as providers, payers, patients and families all find value in the collaborative, scalable platform.

Co-Founder

The Jeremiah Group

Kurt Lozier is a Principal Consultant with a focus on developing and executing patient and family-centric digital health goals for healthcare organizations. With expertise in digital transformation, product management, strategy, business development, and digital marketing, Kurt is skilled in all areas of digital health, including patient engagement through social media, digital marketing, and communication.

Principal

Dow Jones

Dow Jones Local Media Group
DowJones.com

As SVP Digital, Kurt led a digital based growth strategy to maximize the potential of existing franchises by capturing the accelerating shift to digital of audiences and advertiser marketing solutions by launching new businesses and products that broaden the traditional concepts of product and audiences.  These include a full service digital agency, multiple mobile products for iOS & Android phones and tablets, a email marketing unit and the first group-wide metered paywall in the marketplace.

SVP – Digital

Dow Jones Local Media Group
DowJones.com

As Director, Digital Revenue Development Kurt led a portfolio wide initiative that transformed the technology, content offerings and revenue streams of the local franchises’ digital products.  In addition new product, sales and support training was deployed which combined resulted in the strongest digital revenue growth rates to date.

Director, Digital Revenue Development

Olive Software

Olive Software, Inc.
OliveSoftware.com

Olive Software is the leading provider of digital edition and digital archiving solutions for the publishing industry. Olive’s solutions enable content publishers to cut printing and distribution costs, boost online traffic, create new markets and revenue streams.

As VP Sales, Kurt led new business development and sales within Olive’s product line, including product marketing, specifications for new and customized local online advertising products.  While leading sales Kurt established new distributors and resellers alongside building a structured, professional sales team with systematic pipeline development and sales forecasting.

VP Sales

PowerOne Media

PowerOne Media, Inc. (PowerAdz.Com, LLC)

PowerOne Media, Inc., pioneered SaaS / Cloud based platforms for local media companies providing digital publishing and marketing platforms including a highly configurable CMS plus automotive, employment, classified, yellow page and targeted advertising product solutions.

As Co-Founder and VP, Product Management & Business Development Kurt led the product teams and business development to a market leading position of 1,800 local media customers with 20M+ monthly uniques.

VP - Product Management & Business Development

Laboratory MicroSystems, Inc.

Laboratory MicroSystems, Inc. established the concept of a robust LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) deployed on a PC - Client Server architecture with it’s LabVantage product for laboratory informatics.  LabVantage was the first fully configurable LIMS / Laboratory Informatics product that leveraged networking laboratory instruments, testing and reporting enabling organizations to redefine and optimize the way their laboratories conduct business significantly reducing the cost of laboratory automation.

Starting as Finance Director, then later with a dual role leading product QA/QC resulted in a promotion to VP Professional Services where Kurt led the US and European teams responsible for deploying LabVantage products and providing consulting services to clients.

VP Professional Services

Controller / Project Manager

A congruent series of professional positions with increasing and more diverse responsibilities.

Controller

As a successful serial B2B, B2B2C product manager & product owner (0-1, 1-1000) Kurt’s career as a digital executive spans healthcare, media, laboratory automation, product management & development, digital transformation, strategy and digital marketing. His first start-up, PowerOne Media, was focused on the cutting-edge online media space. At PowerOne Media, Kurt led the product teams and business development to a market leading position of 1,800 local media customers.

Kurt co-founded his latest venture, Somml Health, in 2017. Somml Health is a Digital Health Neighborhood that optimizes care delivery through connected data and communications between the patient, their family, and health care teams, in real-time.

Through our highly scalable platform, Somml creates quantifiable opportunities for better health and more efficiencies in care delivery by elevating personalized care, and connecting daily insights and family support to enable early intervention. We believe whole person health takes a community, connected.

Expertise in: Digital Health, Patient Engagement, Innovation, Strategy, Product Management, Project Management, Mobile, Digital Marketing, Audience Development, Content Marketing, Content Distribution, Analytics, Search, Digital Media, Monetization, Business Development

Kurt Lozier

DeGirum

AI Engineer

Manning Publications Co.

Technical Author

traversaal.ai

- Building End to End enterprise level LLM powered Co-pilots and RAG systems.
- Deploying Opensource LLMs such as Mistraal on Multi-GPU systems 
- Utilizing Huggingface frameworks such as Deepspeed, DPO, RLHF and Bits&Bytes for finetuning LLMs

AI Researcher Co-op

Packt

Technical Reviewer

Santa Clara University

Role and Project:

Position: Research Assistant at Santa Clara University.
Project Goal: Automate fetching insights from syllabus PDF to help faculty in optimizing syllabus planning to maximize student performance through better syllabus structuring.

NLP Techniques:
Implemented NLP techniques.
Tasks: Entity recognition, keyword extraction, text embedding.

LLMs Integration:
- Finetuned Llama-2 and Falcon 7B LLMs using PEFT and QLora on custom dataset
Purpose: Enhance syllabus insights and correlate with student performance.

Research Assistant - TailorED Project

Teksun Inc

1. Role and Responsibilities:
   - Position: Machine Learning Engineer at Teksun Microsys Pvt Ltd.
   - Focus: Developing and implementing end-to-end AI and ML pipelines.

2. Lane Detection Algorithm:
   - Developed a State of the Art lane detection algorithm for an autonomous assisted driving system.
   - Techniques Used: Gradient filter, perspective transform, and custom image segmentation in PyTorch.
   - Result: Achieved a 96% pixel accuracy for assisted driving mode on Indian roads.
   - Client: Japanese Car manufacturing company with 80,000+ customers in India.

3. Video Classification Model:
   - Designed a lightweight video classification model.
   - Architecture: CNN-LSTM.
   - Application: Accurate detection and counting of repetitions for 40 different gym exercises.
   - Deployment: Implemented and deployed on Nvidia Jetson nano.

4. Object Detection for Hazard Detection:
   - Implemented YOLOv5 Object Detection for hazard detection in commercial buildings.
   - Contribution: Played a role in building incremental learning pipelines.

5. ML Orchestration and Monitoring:
   - Implemented ML orchestration and monitoring using Airflow DAGs.
   - Application: Qualcomm 625 based commercial product.
   - Clientele: Served numerous B2B clients in India and the US.

Machine Learning Engineer L2

HypeTeq Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Role and Responsibilities:

Position: Junior Software Engineer (AI/ML) at Hypeteq Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Contribution: Actively involved in the development of energy prediction systems.
Wind Energy Prediction Project:

Project Focus: Wind energy prediction.
- Implemented custom Time-series based stacked machine learning boosting model.
Performance: Achieved a remarkable Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 1.40%.
Benefit: Improved resource utilization in the energy production process for seimens based wind-farms across Western India.

Junior Software Engineer - ML/AI

Software Engineer trainee

Udemy

I am an online ethical hacking trainer at Udemy learning platform and share my hacking skills that are highly in demand. I am on my way to make technology a better and a safer thing to dwell with.

Online Instructor

Authored a book on ethical hacking and cyber secuirty that aims to make technology a better and a safer thing to dwell with by spreading awareness about cyber crimes and threats to information assets.

Book Author - "Hack yourself before someone else does"

As a passionate AI practitioner, I have a strong hold over various AI frameworks, including NLP, computer vision, and machine learning. With over five years of industry experience as an AI Engineer in both India and the United States, including roles at early-stage startups in Silicon Valley, I excel at bridging business challenges with data science methodologies. My expertise lies in connecting business problem with comprehensive end-to-end AI solution architectures and executing them effeciently.

I am a tech author and speaker. I have been invited to speak at World's No. 1 MSBA course at UCLA. I was also invited to judge AI Hackathon at UC Berkeley. I spoke at events like MLOps Community event and Founders tech weekend about LLMs and Enterprise search. I am currently authoring a book on Enterprise RAG with Manning publications. I have also served as a teaching assistant on Maven's top selling LLM course with Prof. Hamza Farooq.

Key areas of experience:

- LLMs : Huggingface Transformers, Mistral, Llama, OpenAI, RAG, VectorDB, Langchain, LlamaIndex

- Computer vision : Tensorflow, PyTorch, YOLO, pose estimation, object detection, CNN-LSTM, GANS, Pix2Pix models

- Edge AI : OpenVino toolkit, Nvidea ONNX, deploying models on Rpi and Jetson Nano

- NLP : LLMs, Abstrsctive Text summarization, Entity extraction - NER, SPACY, BERT, Hugging face models

- Timeseries models : ML based stacked regression model, Adaboost, XGBoost, SVR

- Cloud : Deploying models on AWS EC2, building ECS clusters, load balancing using AWS ELB 

- Model deployment : Flask web apps, fastAPI, Streamlit, edge/cloud, Gradio.

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