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PhD

• Department of Medical Genetics
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MBA

• Technology Innovation Management

Independent Consultant — AI & Innovation Advisory

• Advise health and life sciences clients on AI product strategy, evaluation design, and responsible AI governance.
• Lead discovery and product definition for AI/ML initiatives from concept through MVP.

Director, Health Data Products & Services

• Senior product leader for an AI/ML platform serving Canada's largest pharmacy network (1,300+ stores, 10M+ patients).
• Owned the full product lifecycle — discovery, product specs, success criteria, and post-launch evaluation — for NLP, ML, and predictive AI features.
• Led and developed a 10-person cross-functional team (ML engineers, data scientists, product owners, clinical analysts).
• Contributed AI and analytics backbone to national pharmacy program launches with documented patient and commercial outcomes.

Founder & CEO

• Founded and ran a cloud-native AI company end-to-end — customer discovery, product definition, ML team leadership, and production deployment.
• First place, Syngenta AI Challenge; published ensemble ML methods at KDD 2017.

Innovation Consultant

Research Associate

• Led bioinformatics and genomic data analytics in pediatric oncology.

• SR&ED Canada Revenue Agency - R&D Award

• Next Canada - Pre-seed investment

• Syngenta AG AI Challenge - Soybean yield prediction (1st place)
• Xinova - Patent for ice generation technology

• IdeaConnection - Novel Antimicrobial Formulation
• Syngenta AG - Source-Sink Relationship Management in Ranunculus
• Syngenta AG - High-Throughput, High-Purity Cytoplasmic DNA Isolation