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     <ul>
         <li>Technical leadership and strategic, business-focused decision making.</li>
-        <li>Deep understanding of software development practice and operations.</li>
+        <li>Deep understanding of software and product development practice and operations.</li>
         <li>Growing of teams building meaningful products.</li>
         <li>Joy in shipping commercial quality products and services that customers love.</li>
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 	    <li>Open-source advocacy, community building, and contribution (See <a href="https://www.openlaszlo.org">https://www.openlaszlo.org/</a>, 
 	<a href="https://github.com/marklogic">https://github.com/marklogic</a>, and
 	<a href="https://github.com/eedeebee">https://github.com/eedeebee</a>
 	).</li>
+        -->
         <li>Hands-on when needed.</li>
-	-->
         <li>Experience in both start-up & large company environments, as well as consumer and enterprise markets.</li>
     </ul>
     <p>
-        I am a seasoned technology executive with broad experience
-        in Internet technologies, web applications, email systems, education technology, electronic-discovery, search, digital media, computer graphics, 
-        user interfaces, anti-malware, application security, open-source software, parallel, multi-threaded programming, and distributed
-        multi-user computing environments. 
+        With an extensive background in early and growth stage tech ventures, I currently serve as Notewize CTO, where we
+        are developing innovative tools in the music education space, including our native mobile app and AI technologies.
     </p>
     <p>
-        I have hired, managed, directed, and mentored managers and individual contributors through all phases of
-        software development. I have an attention to detail, a passion for shipping products, and a strong desire to
-        build software that makes people say, "Wow!"
+        Previously, I was the VP of Engineering and Head of Udemy Business Engineering at Udemy, where I led the development
+        and operation of Udemy's technology platform, application security, anti-fraud, media, instructor tools, enterprise features, and
+        native mobile applications.
+    </p>
+    <p> Throughout my career, I have hired, managed, directed, and mentored software developers and managers through all
+        phases of software development. I have also been an advocate and contributor to open-source communities and
+        projects.
     </p>
     <p>
         Mostly what I do is help others kick ass.
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 EXPERIENCE
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-<b><a target="_blank" href="https://www.udemy.com/">Udemy, Inc.</a></b>, San Francisco, CA.<p>
-<b>VP of Engineering, Head of Udemy Business Engineering</b>, Aug 2019 - present.<p>
+    <b><a target="_blank" href="https://www.notewize.com/">Notewize</a></b>, San Francisco, CA.<p>
+        <b>CTO and Co-founder</b>, Jan 2024 - Current.<p>
+        <b>Advisor</b>, Part-time Jun 2023 - Dec 2023.<p> 
+        <p>
+            Doing the 0 to 1 thing in music education
+        <ul>
+            <li>Delivered the 1.0 Notewize mobile application to Apple and Google app stores, including lesson video, synchronized audio and animating music notation, as well as AI-backed features to improve practice and student engagement. (The app also includes authentication, in-app-purchase, and subscriptions)</li>
+            <li>As part of this work, Notewize developed a proprietary model for real-time transcription of guitar notes and chords, that we use to run inference on live audio microphone input over 30 times a second in our React Native app.</li> 
+        </ul>
+        </p>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+<b><a target="_blank" href="https://www.udemy.com/">Udemy, Inc.</a></b>, San Francisco, CA. (March 2015 - Dec 2022)<p>
+<b>VP of Engineering, Head of Udemy Business Engineering</b>, Aug 2019 - Dec 2022.<p>
 <b>Senior Director of Engineering</b>, March 2017 - Aug 2019.<p>
 <b>Director of Engineering, Teaching and Learning </b>, March 2015 - March 2017.<p>
     <p>
 <ul>
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     <li>Grew team that develops Udemy's core teaching &amp; learning platform by one engineer per month in 2015.</li>
     <li>Reorganized staff and adjusted process so that teams reliably made their 2 week sprint commitments.</li>
     <li>Built the Udemy engineering team in Dublin, Ireland from near scratch.</li>
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             experience for students.
     </li>
     <li>Pivoted existing services infrastructure efforts to Kubernetes and services written in Python and Kotlin.</li>
-    <li>As head of Udemy Business Engineering, I led the development of Udemy's SaaS product, going from from $100K to $280M ARR over my tenure.</li>
+    <li>As Head of Udemy Business Engineering, I led the development of Udemy's SaaS product, going from from $100K to $300M ARR over my tenure at Udemy.</li>
     	<li>See <a href="https://about.udemy.com/">About Udemy</a> for sense of scale.  As of Jan, 2020: 
 		<ul>	
 			<li>50M students, 30M mins. of content. </li>
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     American Sociological Association (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.asanet.org/">ASA</a>),
 and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (<a
     target="_blank" href="https://www.smpte.org/">SMPTE</a>). -->
-Hobbies include hiking, blues, frisbee, racquet ball, bowling, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/eedeebee">raising twins</a>, 
+Hobbies include hiking, blues, frisbee, bowling, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/eedeebee">raising twins</a>, 
 cooking, and eating.  </p>
 <p>I run the <a href="https://www.drbeddow.com/">web site</a> for my wife, Dr. Isabell Beddow's medical practice.</p>
 <p>I made noise with my trombone as a member of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tribalbluesband/">Tribal Blues Band</a> from 2008-2016.</p>