aaron chavez
Co-founder and CEO at Swiftable LLC
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Swiftable LLC
Greater Denver Area
Co-founder and CEO
IBM
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Designed strategic solutions (combination of technology and user experience) for building custom models for Watson Natural Language Understanding.

Architected multilingual solution for Watson Discovery Service and directed development of support in ten languages.

Provided technical expertise to client teams for customers including Cisco, Thomson Reuters, Mubadala, SK Holdings, KPMG, and H&R Block.

Evangelized Watson capabilities and mission through internal and external speaking engagements and publications.
Denver
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Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Watson
IBM
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Denver
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Senior Architect, IBM Watson
IBM
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Scaled Watson Denver engineering organization from ten to twenty-five team members, and from one delivery team to four.

Provided technical expertise to client teams for customers including Cisco, Thomson Reuters, Mubadala, SK Holdings, KPMG, and H&R Block.

Patented four new technologies introduced to IBM as part of AlchemyAPI acquisition.

Fostered collaboration between delivery teams and other Watson teams in product and release management, engineering, research, and technical support.

Evangelized Watson capabilities and mission through internal and external speaking engagements and publications.

Integrated Alchemy technology into Watson Developer Cloud platform on IBM Bluemix.
Denver
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Program Director, IBM Watson
AlchemyAPI
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Advised technically potential investors and acquirers. Resulted in the successful acquisition of the company by IBM, at a substantially higher valuation than last fund-raising.

Directed all efforts of engineering organization including research, architecture, infrastructure, hiring, and operations.

Provided technical expertise in sales process. Worked with customers and prospects including Amazon, Hearst Media, Gallup, Microsoft, Fidelity, and ADP.

Advised Gartner analysts through technical deep dives, resulting in Gartner naming AlchemyAPI “Cool Vendor in Smart Machines” in 2014 and 2015.

Designed, built, tested, and released NLP features including sentiment detection, text classification, and entity extraction.

Developed in-house language-focused neural network framework in C++ from scratch.

Introduced both Agile and Lean software development practices, while maintaining an organization capable of meeting both short-term product goals and long-term innovation goals.

Mentored engineering team and directed development of both computer vision product offering and general question answering system.

Communicated externally through press interviews, webinars, and blog posts.
VP of Engineering
Kansas State University
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Graduate Student / Instructor
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Computer Science
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Kansas State University
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Monterrey, NLE
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NPI Strategic Sourcing at Tenere Inc.
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Los Angeles, CA
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$150Mil in online sales. $12Mil given to charity. Visit AaronChavez.com for info
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Miami, FL
Aaron Chavez
CFO/CSO at Hatch Compliance | Managing Partner at Argent Strategies
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New York City Metropolitan Area
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Huntington Beach, CA
Aaron Chavez
Partnering with Global Organizations on the design and successful implementation of their UC and Collaboration Roadmap
K-State Alumni Group
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K-State Computer Science Alumni
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