Paris, Île-de-France, France
While others dream of a better internet, I will build it. Author of the “Ricardian Defense” Doctrine and the CARP Investment Model. I am a former laser physicist and network architect for the US military. Distinguished as a 3x "USAF Scientist of the Year" award winner, I am now working out of Station F - the largest startup campus in the world - developing the infrastructure necessary to satiate the ever-increasing global demand for high-bandwidth and low-latency communications. A Brooklyn boy and a romantic at heart, I've devoted my life to my passion of creating things for the betterment of society and challenging those who say it cannot be done. And like the avant-garde artists who moved to Paris in the Années folles a century ago, I am now among the community of avant-garde entrepreneurs here determined to recapture the innovative spirit we once had in America. When I'm not working, you can find me discussing the terroir of the various appellations of this beautiful country.
Building the next-generation global communications infrastructure to satiate the ever-increasing global demand for high-bandwidth and low-latency communications.
35th INSEAD Venture Competition Finalist
As an intermediary between our business development and operations departments, I matched revenue-generating opportunities with technology development roadmaps. I worked across disparate divisions to find synergies and developed a product-line development roadmap which fused disjointed marketing and developmental efforts into a cohesive strategy allowing us to enter into the US Navy command & control market. Furthermore, I established the RC5I strategic paradigm (Resilient C5I) which fuses command & control, communications, computer architecture, cyber operations, and intelligence (C5I) together in a resilient matter to deal with disparities in data transmission loads and available bandwidth. By aligning technology development roadmaps with the rollout of 5G communication technology, the defense industry can parlay inherently resilient wireless communication architectures designed to maximize transmission rates given available bandwidth for the commercial sector for the purposes of ensuring continuity of C5I operations in contested environments during military engagements.
I was the Director of Wideband Research responsible for devising the strategic planning of all efforts to collect and exploit wideband data from various USG remote sensing platforms using image processing and computer vision techniques. I also had a budget which I used to direct tasking orders to achieve my overarching long-term plan. As a Systems Architect, I built the first-of-its-kind database that uses big-data analytics to aggregate petabytes of data into meaningful and actionable intelligence products that is disseminated throughout the USG. This architecture will be a leading example for the USG to change from a "need-to-know" culture of information protection to that of a "need-to-share" culture of integration.
Personal assistant to the Combined Forces Air Component Commander, Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR, Italy and Allied Air Component Commander, Turkey. We were responsible for the full spectrum of Air Power Operations to include Air Policing and Air Command and Control for over 2.1 million square miles of airspace in NATO's southern region. Between Mar 2011 to Nov 2011, we led the air component of NATO's Operation Unified Protector in Libya where we enforced the no-fly zone, monitored the arms embargo, and protected civilians all in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolutions. This was the first and only time to date a coalition stood up to defend the UN's "responsibility to protect" (R2P) doctrine. Due to NATO reorganization, we also took the headquarters through an 18 month deactivation process and assisted NATO's new Land Command in standing up at Izmir.