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Ari Smith

Ari Smith

CTO & Co-Founder

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    CTO at Hypereon Labs

  • Education

    • University of Washington

      1992 - 1994

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

      1994 - 1998
      Computer Science

  • Experience

    • AlertWire Corporation

      Sept 1999 - Aug 2002
      CTO & Co-Founder

      Founded an MIT startup that built the AlertWire Mobility platform for the delivery of next-generation Web services targeted to the mobility needs of the legal, medical and financial industries. Lead visionary, strategist and hands-on technical manager. Managed technology team consisting of 11 engineers. Oversaw contract and vendor agreements, project implementations, technical hiring, budgeting, training and administration of $1.3MM R&D budget. Developed the technical and functional specifications for the platform, provided mentoring and software development training and directly wrote the code responsible for large portions of the security, communications, integration, network proxy and GUI systems. Invented and authored six patents covering business methods as well as technology. Show less

    • Microsoft Corporation

      Aug 2002 - Aug 2005
      Solutions Architect

      Key member of the executive technical sales team responsible for Microsoft’s single largest account worldwide. Lead pre-sales principal and technical architect managing numerous multi-million dollar deals covering many solutions including .NET, service oriented architectures, web services, enterprise application integration, enterprise program and project management, portal and content management services, software migration, mainframe integration, computer-telephony integration and much more.

    • MR Financial

      Aug 2005 - Jul 2008
      Senior Vice President Of Technology

      Primary leadership force over strategic business development operations, including: - pre and post sales engineering - technology consulting services - global client implementations

    • Hypereon Labs

      Jun 2008 - now
      Chief Technology Officer

      Hypereon Labs is a software engineering firm specializing in deep machine learning. We partner with industry leaders to create ML-powered joint ventures designed to bring innovative products and services to the market faster, cheaper, and with a built in network of clients, vendors, channels, and credibility. I oversee the technology team which consists of world class mathematicians, data scientists and software engineers.

    • Fincross International

      Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
      Chief Technology Officer

      Chief Technology Officer at Fincross International. Fincross is pioneering a world-first in investment banking; creating the bridge between the traditional banking world and digital banking, including the use of distributed ledger technology. I led the team that designed and built a number of Fintech solutions, including a suite of AI Deep Learning cryptocurrency engines (market pair prices, volatility, and sentiment analysis), a custom distributed banking ledger, blockchain analysis tools, cold and hot wallet storage backends, and integration into multiple core banking systems. Show less

    • Yonsei University

      Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
      Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Research

      My focus this most recent semester was on teaching students how to practically apply AI models and strategies to a variety of industries. The first half of the semester the students were taught AI fundamentals and their utilization. The second half of the semester the class was divided into teams and competed to win an entrepreneurial AI business plan competition where they have to conceive of and build a prototype of an AI-oriented app. The teams presented their prototypes at Google's AI campus in Seoul to an esteemed group of venture capitalists and business owners who voted on the winner. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Ari Smith
      1st prize, GeekPark International AI Olympiad GeekPark Jul 2016 The Singularity Innovation Olympiad was a 2 day international AI competition held in Shanghai. The challenge was to design an AI-based diagnostic roboadvisor. I was the team captain and along with 3 of my fellow team member we won the competition. The prizes included numerous gifts, awards and a private dinner with the competition judges, which included the Director of Technology for Tesla, the CTO of Hyperloop, and the head of Stanford University's Advanced Longevity Studies department.
    • Awarded to Ari Smith
      Award - Top Sales Team by Revenue Worldwide Microsoft Dec 2004 The technical sales team, of which I was the leads Solutions Architect, was issued an award as the top performing sales team by revenue for the company worldwide. We closed the largest deal in Microsoft's history at the time - a $117.3M fiberoptic to the premises deal with Verizon and Verizon Wireless. I oversaw all technical aspects of the deal including the integration architecture and legacy migration strategy.
    • Awarded to Ari Smith
      Semi-finalist, MIT 100k Enterpreneurship Competition MIT Nov 1998 I was the team captain of a group of MIT student's who participated in MIT's 50k (now 100k) entrepreneurship competition. This company was funded by an investment firm and named AlertWire.
    • Awarded to Ari Smith
      NASA Science Olympiad NASA May 1992 Awarded a gold medal in NASA's Science Olympiad in the field of Biology.