Social Growth Branding Agency

Co-Founder

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Program Manager

United States Air Force

As a Senior Program Manager, I led a team of front line managers who oversee programs focused on aircraft inspections, equipment maintenance, and compliance issues. Facilitating human resource responsibilities, I handled all performance reviews, coaching feedback, culture setting strategy, and any disciplinary actions necessary. My entire responsibility encompasses managing 153 total employees, two aircraft maintenance hangars worth $36M, 11 programs, and $28M worth of equipment.

An achievement in this position includes:
●	Led a high-profile program focused on improving our qualification upgrade rates.

Senior Program Manager

In this role, I served as program manager at two separate locations, Dover Air Force Base and Ramstein Air Force Base. Leading a seven-member team, I focused the team’s efforts on flawless execution of the aircraft maintenance programs. Specifically, identifying and implementing process improvements that increased productivity and operational efficiencies within the aircraft wheel and tire work center saved the Air Force millions of dollars in cost savings. In addition, I liaised with senior leadership ensuring they were up to date on all aircraft and equipment statuses and concerns.

Some notable accomplishments in this role include:
●	Increased order efficiency by 150% via creation of database.
●	Secured alternative sourcing options for aircraft wheel bearings preventing nine-month supply bottleneck.
●	Delivered 6% cost savings through streamlined inventory and production processes.

While in Honduras, I oversaw all aircraft and helicopter related operations for Central American missions and ensured safe and secure operations of the region’s lone capable C-5 airfield. 

I did this while training and developing a two person crew as they executed the vision of the section. I was awarded a Commendation Medal for my efforts during that year.

Key achievements in this role included:
●	Collaborated with the U.S Marines to conduct three anti-trafficking operations throughout Central America.
●        Overhauled base’s tool accountability system, creating central checkout point and reducing waste by 27%

Operations Manager

I interacted with Wing deployment agency while ensuring that all personnel and equipment met 12 hour Operations capability timelines. I also ensured full-spectrum readiness of personnel and equipment, maintained mobility folders, and ensures mobility training requirements are met. I also deployed within 12 hours as C-5 and C-17 maintenance team member, while supporting TRANSCOM's global Joint Task Force-Port Opening (JTF-PO) mission with the Army.

I sustained worldwide Contingency Response Wing maintenance operations while being deployable within 12 hours. During this time, I executed bare base buildup, established personnel and equipment placement, and supported USTRANSCOM directed missions. As a mechanic, I maintained and serviced 18 C-5 and 13 C-17 aircraft and alleviated maintenance personnel shortfalls.

Contingency Aircraft Mechanic

During the beginning of my Air Force career, I performed scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on 18 C-5 aircraft valued at over $3.7 billion. I also performed aircraft inspections and servicing for daily training sorties, worldwide missions, and special taskings. I managed numerous programs and tracked accountability of test equipment, tools, and technical manuals valued at $1 million.

Aircraft Mechanic

Crowdbotics

Visiting Fellow

National Association of African Americans in Human Resources - Northern California

• Strategy development and oversight of its implementation, leading its strategic communications
effort to demonstrate NAAAHR value and impact

• Developing new components of the Chapter's strategy

• Lead the Chapters strategy development and oversight of its implementation including leading
the development of annual and longer-term goals, monitoring achievement of the goals, and
establishing metrics to determine successful implementation of the goals.

• Lead the Chapters innovation efforts including supporting the operation and the development of
new ideas for the Chapter

• Support the coordination of the organization’s knowledge management strategy setting up
systems to facilitate knowledge management between partners, networks, and other external
thought leaders

• Working closely with the Chapter President, Leaders and Board Members to develop criteria to
define key strategic partnerships in alignment with the Chapters strategic plan and work
towards implementing a plan to secure partnerships that support mission achievement

• Work with Chapter Leaders and Board Members to execute against ambitious goals, including
identifying, cultivating and soliciting funding from sponsors, partners, external foundations,
corporations, government sources and other community partners

• Steward existing and build new strategic partnerships that advance NAAAHR’s mission
achievement including identifying new partners to development for new programs and services
provided locally

• Use opportunities to deepen relationships with current partners and sponsors, and to advance
strategies to secure potential partners

Vice President of Strategy

Business Strategy | Data Analytics | Innovation | Defense Ventures Alum

As a visionary entrepreneur and LinkedIn branding strategist, I channel over a decade of experience into helping corporate professionals and startup founders carve influential digital identities. 

At the helm of Social Growth Branding Agency, I’m dedicated to transforming LinkedIn brands into powerful narratives that captivate, inspire, and drive engagement. Our mission extends beyond mere visibility; we strive to craft legacies that resonate across the entrepreneurial and corporate landscapes.

My journey is defined by a relentless pursuit of excellence and innovation. The combination of 14 years of military experience and an Executive MBA from Brown University and IE Business School on the horizon gives me a unique vantage point at the intersection of cutting-edge marketing strategies and transformative leadership principles. 

My expertise lies in identifying the unique value each professional and founder possesses, turning their experience into strategic assets that elevate their career and business trajectories.

Beyond this venture, I am an advocate and supporter for equity in entrepreneurship. My aspiration to launch a venture capital fund for underrepresented founders is a testament to my commitment to leveling the playing field in the startup ecosystem. 

Through mentorship, strategic advisory, and leveraging my extensive network, I aim to foster an environment where every aspiring entrepreneur can thrive.

In everything I do, my approach is characterized by a blend of creativity, strategic foresight, and a genuine passion for seeing others succeed.

Shawn Gregoire

Hireguide

• Designed, prototyped, and led execution of integrated organic and Lightcast skill taxonomies
• Led Gen AI strategy for creating interview scripts and transcript understanding
• Designed and built distributed task tracking system w/ redis in python, typescript, and lua
• Crafted Hireguide's ethical stance on use of AI in interviewing and hiring, 
• Led across legal, product, and engineering to build GDPR and SOC2 Type 2 compliance
• Built and led integrated organic and contract engineering team in US, Canada, and Poland

CTO & Co-Founder

Linea

• Coached leadership and team members on product, engineering, and hiring strategies at Linea in San Francisco.
• Conducted coding and design interviews for prospective hires to ensure technical proficiency and cultural fit.

Advisor

USENIX Association

Program Committee - USENIX SRECon

LinkedIn

Leading the development of our assessments capability at LInkedIn.  Our team is bridging both the job-seeker experience (you can't improve what you can't measure) while bringing improved hiring efficiency to our job posters.  Capabilities include skill assessments, screening questions, and video intro.

Director of Engineering - Assessments

Leading the Machine Inference Infrastructure team and serving as part of the leadership team for our Productive Machine Learning initiative.  In MII, we provide core capabilities for representing and inferencing over complex machine learned classification, scoring, and ranking models; we build the frameworks and libraries for serving these models in production; and we provide an engine enabling AI teams and their customers to build UI for following queries as they move from the front-end applications, through various blending and re-ranking mid-tier services, into the bowels of search, and back up the stack.

Director of Engineering - Machine Inference

Leading infrastructure teams providing online, streaming, and batched machine-learned scoring and ranking.  We develop and operate the blending and federation platforms for the LinkedIn homepage, search, and job recommendations.  In addition we provide state-of-the-art ubiquitously deployable machine-learned feature-production, scoring, and ranking systems driven by online, hadoop, and spark training pipelines.  We connect the world's professionals to the resources they need to succeed.

Senior Engineering Manager

Leading the design and deployment of state-of-the-art relevance infrastructure providing high throughput low latency scoring and ranking through feature management, stream processing, temporal feature aggregation and scoring, combined with search-driven candidate selection.

Engineering Manager

Designing and deploying data flow and machine learning infrastructure for offline model building--from data joins to model scoring and evaluation to publishing to production.  Enabling fast and efficient data science with minimal programming on Hadoop and Spark.

Staff Software Engineer

OpML is dedicated to operational machine learning and variants such as deep learning and reinforcement learning. The conference will focus on the final stage of deploying machine learning into production and managing its subsequent continuous lifecycle. Join systems and ML researchers and practitioners (e.g., data scientists, data engineers, system/IT administrators, and DevOps specialists) to develop and bring to practice impactful research advances and cutting edge solutions.

Co-Chair - USENIX OpML (Conference on Operational Machine Learning)

Steering Committee - USENIX OpML (Conference on Operational Machine Learning)

Brown University

Coordinate Brown University alumni in the Monterey Bay area to interview undergraduate applicants. Please reach out if you are a Brown graduate and you are interested in this great way to contribute back to your alma mater while networking with other graduates. Also, we are always interested in motivated interviewers. It doesn't matter when you graduated or from what program--we have extensive training materials to get you up-to-speed. This is an incredible way to get to know some incredible youth.  I will link you to the current area chair.

Alumni Interviewing Area Chair

Naval Postgraduate School

Taught  Department of Defence and foreign service officers in computer science.  Courses taught include digital forensics, artificial intelligence, analysis of algorithms and data structures.  Advised PhD and Masters level research in machine learning, natural language processing, and digital forensics.  Co-principal investigator for the Digital Evaluation and Exploitation Project.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Taught Department of Defence and foreign service officers in computer science. Courses taught include artificial intelligence, analysis of algorithms and data structures. Advised PhD and Masters level research in machine learning, and natural language processing.

Military Assistant Professor - Computer Science

Telecommunications leader providing communications and cyber capabilities to Air Force, DoD, and coalition forces throughout the world.

Cyberspace Operation Officer

Directed day to day operations for 540 person organization providing communications support for Yokota Air Base as well as long-haul support for forces throughout Japan.

Deputy Commander 374th Communications Squadron

Multiple positions culminating in acting Flight Commander of the Project Management and Systems Analysis Flight.  Other positions include Program Manager, Plans and Resource Flight, Element Lead, Future Plans, Chief of Rear Operations Support Center Communications, Lead Expeditionary Forces Experiment '98 (EFX 98) Langley AFB Site Engineer, and Chief of ACC's Systems Analysis Element. As EFX-98 Lead, led planning, engineering, procurement, and installation of all Langley AFB communications for Expeditionary Forces Experiment 1998.  Sourced $1.5M equipment budget from Electronic Systems Command (ESC) to build OC-12 ATM fully-connected mesh topology with satellite connectivity supporting fully encrypted telephone, VTC and IP connectivity.

Flight Commander, Project Management and Systems Analysis Flight

Iraq Assistance Group

Directed team of communications professionals providing support to general officer lead staff, over 1500 training team members embedded in the Iraq Army and National Police, and the Phoenix Academy.

J6: Director of Communications

Air Force Institute of Technology

Taught graduate courses in computer science to DoD and foreign service officers from across the world.  Courses taught included cryptography, analysis of algorithms, Java, Introduction to Programming in C++, Data Structures, and Discrete Math.  Advised thesis research in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Assistant Professor

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From my first job after graduating from WPI building test bank software and teaching manual camera ready for the textbook publishers to my time as a professor, I have been fascinated with the tools, the techniques, and the science of measuring human performance and aptitude.

After a full Air Force career and serving as a professor, I shifted to Industry in 2014 building LinkedIn's ML infrastructure.  In August of 2019 I shifted from infra to the top of the stack leading Assessments in LinkedIn's Talent Solutions organization. This was an amazing learning path with close involvement with external customers, marketing, product management, design, and both business and corporate development.

Along the way at LinkedIn I interviewed 550 candidates, personally hired over 50, led hiring committees for five years, and helped define and document LinkedIn's engineering interviewing and hiring processes.

Our work in Assessments and Skills Path opened the door to potential and skills-based hiring. However, it didn't address the problem with traditional interviewing processes using ad hoc interviews resulting in selection based on comfort and is-like-me decision making.  These processes bias against non-traditional candidates AND increase the likelihood of underperforming hires.

In the early summer of 2021 we founded Hireguide to address this gap.

Specialties: assessments, product engineering, machine learning infrastructure, scale-out, communication systems management, cyber operations, digital forensics, machine learning, text analytics, teaching, C++, python, java, Erdös Number: 3

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