Experience

AI product work, venture banking judgment, and operating reality.

The order here is intentional: applied AI product proof first, then SVB venture/startup banking, public AI builds, and the restaurant operations origin story.

Aug 2025 — present

Founder

Dohos

A production voice agent taking live restaurant phone orders. Full telephony path on Telnyx — call lifecycle, signature verification, idempotent event handling, teardown on every failure mode — over a Pipecat media pipeline with AssemblyAI, neural TTS and Vertex Gemini behind bounded fallbacks. Architected so the model proposes typed edits while deterministic code owns catalog identity, pricing and confirmation. Public launch September 2026.

Telnyx telephonyDeterministic order statePCI-safe boundaryLaunching Sep 2026

Oct 2024 — May 2026

Co-founder & tech lead

FormIQ

AI intake for hospital fax, prior-authorization routing and clinical review. Ran a two-month live pilot in Yale Health's orthopedics department — 2,000 documents automated, 300 administrative hours recovered — and reached final-stage enterprise procurement at an academic medical center as a two-person team, clearing security and clinical workflow review. The engagement ended on vendor-maturity requirements, not product fit.

2,000 documents300 admin hoursFinal-stage procurementRust · Python · React

Dec 2024 — Aug 2025

Founder

ConsultX

A voice and retrieval practice platform for consulting interviews, with roughly 500 cases, live mock interviews and structured scoring. Built the voice and retrieval foundation I later carried into Dohos.

Voice + RAG~500 casesStructured scoring

Jan 2022 — Apr 2024

Associate, Global Fund Banking

Silicon Valley Bank

Managed a roughly $2B portfolio of PE/VC fund banking clients — capital call lines, management company loans, NAV facilities, portfolio company loans — owning underwriting, credit approval, covenant compliance and default workouts. Shipped covenant-compliance automation with the enterprise team that removed about 80 team-hours a week of manual monitoring. Held founder and investor relationships through the 2023 collapse and the First Citizens acquisition.

$2B portfolio80 hrs/wk automated$25M+ originatedThrough the collapse

Jul 2018 — Jan 2022

Manager, later advisor

Pizza Boli's

Ran daily operations for a 20-person team — order takers, cooks and drivers — while completing a full-time undergraduate degree. Negotiated supplier changes that cut core food costs about 8%, and redesigned phone-order coverage with VOIP and offshore staffing. This is the problem Dohos now automates.

20-person team8% food-cost reductionPhone-order coverageDohos origin

Education

Yale MBA plus finance and data foundations.

Yale School of Management

MBA program — completed 3 of 4 semesters

2024–2026. Left before completing the degree. Judith Bernstein (SOM '80) Memorial Award; Consulting Club, Impact Investing Club.

University of Maryland

MS Finance

2021. Smith School 'Plus 1' program.

University of Maryland

BS Information Science

2020. Cum laude, top 10%. Freddie Mac experiential program: loan-default prediction model, R² 0.92.