Greater Boston
• Founder at HighFens Inc., Consultancy & Services • Build large scale HPC / Big Data / AI / IoT solutions for the Speech Recognition industry • High performance, scalable, data storage and computing technologies • Cloud computing and cloud storage integration • Experience: Deep Learning clusters based on GPUs for Speech Recognition • Awarded the "2011 HPE Storage Customer Excellence Award"• Specialties: • Thought Leadership • HPC / Big Data/ AI / IoT Strategist • Highly scalable storage solutions (block & object) • Virtualization/ContainerK8S technologies • Hybrid & Public Cloud architectures • Linux, SGE (aka OGE), KVM, IBM Spectrum Scale, NVIDIA GPU
HighFens Inc. was founded in April 2016 to help technology companies build HPC, Big Data and AI environments performing at the highest level, scalable, reliable and cost-effective. We provide expertise and knowledge in the areas of storage, network and compute power with a strong background in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI (ML/DL).
Meet Frederic Van Haren, Senior Analyst and Practice lead at Evaluator Group. Frederic has over 20 years of experience in High Tech providing technical leadership in Telecom and Speech markets.
Owner of the High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment building AI-driven Speech models. Responsible for the growth strategy, architectural design, and deployment. Started out with 5 desktops growing to over 100 racks of equipment. Reporting to the CIO and with a capital expenditure budget of over $10 million per year.
Scansoft acquired the L&H Speech Group in December 2001. Scansoft changed its name to Nuance around September 2005. Held the following positions (in order) during this time frame: - Sr. Director, TTS Productisation - Sr. Director, Platforms & Integrations, Continued Engineering, and Technical Support
Held the following positions (in order) during this time frame: - Senior Speech Developer - Team Leader, TTS Telecom - Director, TTS Productization