The team that designed the First Centaur of Artificial Intelligence included: Pete Bourchard (IBM Watson), Mehrdad Yandazi, PhD (Meta), Syrus Nemat-Nasser, PhD (Stanford), William Lennon, PhD (Microsoft), Hans Geiger, PhD (Max Planck), and Benjamin Speaks (Virginia Tech).
About Me
Summary of Qualifications
- Exited Cofounder.
- Co-creator of the Centaur Model of Artificial Intelligence.
- UX Researcher and Manager with 15 years of experience working with enterprise companies like Toyota, Exxon Mobil, and SCE, as well as startups like Akinox, Valutrades, and Construction Journal.
- Conducted more that 500 user tests - lab and remote - using mixed research techniques including surveys, interviews, and focus groups across a variety of industries including higher education (Penn Medicine), technology (Microsoft) and healthcare (Humana).
- Responsible for the Enterprise Information Architecture of Exxon Mobil Worldwide - an activity that took 18 months and over 200+ card sorts with interviews conducted in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
- As a startup cofounder, drove a product from inception to $5 million in sales within two years. Developed and executed the research roadmap, uncovering three pivotal insights from continuous discovery that propelled the company to achieve product-market fit.
Mixed Research Portfolio
Affinity Diagramming: Or as it is more commonly known "Card Sorting"
Basic card sort used to develop the information architecture of an e-commerce site.
Chelsea's Shield Foundation iOS Application
What happened to Chelsea was horrible, and I delivered the design (including the written content) to educate law makers, citizens, and news reporters through fact based but emotional story telling. I had to deal with numerous constraints including only having a few weeks to develop the content (completely on my own) and wireframes. Interestingly, the visual design is simply the wireframes with colors applied. This was a deliberate decision.
