Over 27 years of leadership in artificial intelligence, knowledge systems and UX design. Architect of the first intelligent assistant for the Apple platform called Open Sesame! and founder of the Aminda rule-based trading system partnership. Designed a patented trading strategy platform for Fidelity, the TeamThink best practices system, and enterprise knowledge systems for KnowledgePlanet, MassMutual, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Lazard.

Over 19 years of experience in AI/UX research and product design. Worked on NLP and Computational Linguistics at Lernout and Hauspie, design the NIST-funded “Physician’s Assistant for Continuous Transcription” (PHACTS) speech recognition system, and digital platforms for Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Upromise, Jackson National Life and Moody’s. M.A. in Computer Science from Brandeis Univ., Ph.D. in Psychology & HCI.

In addition to more than 24 years of full product life-cycle and software development leadership, his expertise includes machine learning, fingerprint and facial recognition, security and identification, and large scale database mining. Michael was technical founding member of Viisage (IPO in 1996), VP Engineering for L-1 Identity Solutions, Chief of Technology and Program Delivery for MorphoTrust, and most recently VP Products for Authentix.

Full-Stack Developer with expertise in both front and back-end technologies, messaging channels, and Intelligent Assistant APIs. Java/J2EE, Node.js, PHP, MYSQL, Moodle, JavaScript, HTML5, Python, C/C++/C#, DB2, mySQL, Oracle, IBM Integration Bus, ESQL , WebSphere MQ.