Designing Intelligence That Transforms — and Protects
25+ years architecting trust into enterprise AI
I build intelligence that endures — scalable, trusted, and human-centered. Across 25+ years at the frontier of AI, machine learning, and blockchain, I've helped global organizations embed governance, resilience, and constitutional protections into the architecture of their systems — so that innovation and accountability advance together, not at each other's expense.
Founder, CTO, and engineering leader across telecom, security and enterprise data.
Founder & CTO
4PIA
- Acquired by Ericsson — technology, team and methodology, after the platform proved out with enterprise customers.
- 20% increase in customer conversion from onboarding and product changes that shortened time-to-first-value.
- Built the data-quality control layer — analyses can't run on unvalidated data, and outputs derived from flagged sources are labelled automatically.
- Grew an integration partner ecosystem where partner revenue tracked customer outcomes rather than seat counts.
CEO & Founder
GrayCloud Technology & Navigator Technology
- Digital identity management giving individuals control over their data across Gmail, Search, Maps and Chrome.
- Navigator Technology acquired — second successful exit.
- 350+ TB data infrastructure supporting identity theft prevention, security and analytics workloads.
- Semantic search deployed for Facebook — validated the approach under production-scale load.
- Led 175 engineers across multiple regions, delivering a 132% improvement against team performance targets.
- Integrated blockchain, ML and NLP into a single production stack ahead of the wider industry.
Adjunct Professor & Co-Founder
Southwestern Law School & UC Berkeley
- Founded the JD in Technology program at Southwestern Law School, now a permanent part of the curriculum. Rated 4.8/5 · Read more
- Co-founded the UC Berkeley CITRIS Mobile Innovation Incubator, connecting student teams with working engineers and investors.
- Co-founded the UC Merced Mobile App Challenge, now an annual fixture. Learn more
Systems designed to become infrastructure.
Ventures & Systems Built
Governance embedded where decisions are actually made.
- Constitutional AI Framework — open architecture adopted across regulated industries (GitHub link to be added)
- Privacy-first intelligence — 4PIA algorithmic accountability system with real-time bias detection
- Trust infrastructure — Navigator distributed data governance
Speaking & Thought Leadership
I translate AI governance requirements for boards, C-suites and policymakers who need frameworks that withstand scrutiny.
- Board briefings — EU AI Act complexity into actionable governance roadmaps
- Executive forums — UC Merced Entrepreneur Series
- Standards leadership — IEEE policy engagement
- Full keynote, formats and booking — see the speaking page
Working Tools
The frameworks argued for here exist as software you can open: a governance dashboard, a data catalog, lineage tracking, ESG reporting.
- Live governance tooling — see the projects page
- Advisory engagements — how this becomes your infrastructure
Where I’ve done the work.
Strategy & Product
- Product lifecycle
- SaaS platform scaling
- Enterprise agile
- Roadmap & delivery
- Governance design
Technical
- AI/ML in production
- Privacy-preserving architecture
- Blockchain trust layers
- Enterprise data governance
- Network infrastructure & 5G
Leadership
- Regulatory translation
- Distributed teams
- Board communication
- Stakeholder alignment
- Standards & policy
Education & certifications.
Computer Science
Saint Catherine’s University
Juris Doctorate (candidate)
California State
Technical and legal training in combination — useful when the two sides of a room need an interpreter.
Executive Programs
- AI for Business — University of Pennsylvania
- Data Science — Harvard University
- AI & Law — Lund University (Honors)
- Web3 & Blockchain — INSEAD
Technical Certifications
- High-Performance Computing — CU Boulder
- Data Privacy Architecture — IBM
- 5G RAN Systems — Ericsson
- Cryptographic Integrity — CU Boulder (Honors)
Patents & filings.
20+ patents and applications in blockchain, AI and cybersecurity — 15+ granted US patents, plus PTAB Re-Exam, PCT filings at Ericsson and provisionals — spanning trusted data layers for machine learning, network intelligence and threat detection. Named inventor throughout.
IoT Blockchain DDoS Detection and Countermeasures
US 12,445,470 B2 · assigned to Ericsson
Detects DDoS launched from IoT devices by comparing traffic against a learned baseline, then quarantines attacking devices onto a dedicated frequency channel while healthy users keep their own.
Method for Transferring an Amount to be Paid
US 8,744,963 B1
Mobile payment transfer. Fourth patent in the electronic-transactions family begun in 1999.
Personal Alert System and Method
US 8,604,929 B1
Emergency response signalling built for latency and reliability under load.
Process and Device for Conducting Electronic Transactions Using Wireless and Cellular Devices
US 8,527,407 B1
Extends the transactions family onto wireless and cellular devices.
Global Text Messaging System and Method
US 8,385,897 B1
Cross-carrier messaging that worked around the interoperability gaps of the era.
Process and Device for Conducting Electronic Transactions
US 8,027,913 B1
Continuation of US 7,603,311.
Process and Device for Conducting Electronic Transactions
US 7,603,311 B1
Paying a citation online, filed in 1999. Claims confirmed on re-examination — tested against fresh prior art during multi-defendant litigation, and held.
Blockchain-Enabled Trusted Data Layer for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications
WO 2023/151829 · PCT/EP2022/062619
The customer registers datasets and compute; the vendor sends jobs to the data rather than extracting it. Governance enforced by architecture, not contract — this thesis, at the patent office.
Intent-Based Networking, Cyberthreat Detection and DPI for Encrypted Flow
P104537
Threat detection inside encrypted flows without decrypting them — the standing tension between privacy and visibility.
Method for Handling Network Parameter Recommendations
PCT/109625WO01
Machine-learned tuning of telecommunications network parameters, replacing manual configuration at carrier scale.
Writing.
- Constitutional Democracy in the Algorithmic Age — Springer Nature, Law, Governance and Technology Series, Vol. 83 (forthcoming)
- “You Deployed The AI. Now You’re Responsible For What It Does.” — Forbes (March 2026). On constructive knowledge, real-time governance, and the five questions every board should be able to answer with documentation rather than assumptions.
- “AI Governance: The CEO’s Ethical Imperative in 2025” — Forbes (February 2025)
- “Generative AI, 5G Network Slicing, and Blockchain for Next-Generation Networks” — IoT Consortium (2023)
- “Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Cognition” — Ericsson (2023)
- “Women Innovators: Intrapreneur or Entrepreneur” — Forbes / Committee of 200 (December 2022)
- “ML-Powered DDoS Attack Identification for Hacked IoT Devices” — IoT Consortium (March 2022)
- “AI-Centric Intent-Based Networking” — iPOP 2022
- More writing — essays on governance, game theory and strategy
Recognition & service.
NIST
2023 – presentTechnical Advisory Board & Generative AI working group.
100 Most Influential Businesswomen
Bay AreaSilicon Valley Business Journal.
Innovation Gold Medal
IEEE & the White HouseUC Merced Mobile Innovation Challenge.
Ericsson Key Contributor
2019 & 2020Consecutive years, for work that shipped and generated revenue.
City of San José Commendation
2019AI innovation leadership.
UC Merced
2021 – presentBoard of Directors, Gallo Graduate School.
Linux Foundation
OngoingVoting member, Technical Working Group.
Astia
OngoingInvestment Advisor.
TechWomen
2025Nominated — US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Learn more