I started my career at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory building optical and digital computers, fiber sensors, and developing neural network models to objectively assess cataract severity.

I then transitioned into the telecom industry at Lucent Technologies and then at Siemens Telecom working on semiconductor lasers and receivers, 1.6 TB/s optical long-haul systems, and managed a $100+ Million product portfolio, and an electronics/optoelectronics supply chain infrastructure.

I managed the development of large-scale satellite communications simulation models for several satellite systems at Lockheed Martin. It was here where I led the first efforts to find undiagnosed rare disease patients through the application of machine learning algorithms to healthcare databases.