Experience

01/2025 to 11/2025

Solutions Advisor (Enterprise Pre-Sales)

Bria AI

Owned technical pre-sales for global brands including P&G, Publicis, and Getty Images, from discovery and solution architecture through executive presentations and POCs to production readiness. Partnered with Product and Engineering to turn customer requirements into roadmap priorities.

  • Architected GPU-accelerated inference pipelines that improved latency and throughput by 65% for enterprise generative AI workflows.
  • Established AI governance frameworks covering brand compliance, responsible AI controls, prompt management, and content moderation.
  • Engineered Grafana benchmarking dashboards with real-time inference metrics, shortening technical validation to ~2 weeks.
11/2023 to 01/2025

Solutions Engineering Manager

Rockwell Automation

Directed 8 Solutions Engineers delivering discovery, POCs, and executive demos for strategic enterprise accounts, while serving as hands-on technical lead on the largest pursuits. Designed solution architectures linking plant-floor and enterprise data across brownfield and greenfield sites.

  • Supported $16M in pipeline and 14 closed deals by personally owning POC design and delivery on the largest pursuits.
  • Authored the SE playbook from scratch, standardizing discovery, demo, and technical validation across the team.
  • Coached SEs on discovery, storytelling, and solution design to raise consistency across engagements.
06/2022 to 11/2023

Smart Experiences Technical Manager

Rockwell Automation

Headed a team of 3 engineers creating AR and real-time visualization experiences in Unity, Vuforia, and Emulate3D for executive customer engagements, partnering across Engineering, Product, and Sales.

  • Integrated smart manufacturing demos with PLM, ERP, and MES systems to showcase end-to-end operational workflows.
  • Translated emerging technology capabilities into business-aligned narratives that supported industrial transformation initiatives.
03/2018 to 05/2022

Principal AR CoE Field Engineer

PTC

Served as technical advisor to enterprise stakeholders evaluating cloud, IoT, AR, and connected-worker technologies, designing solution architectures that aligned PTC SaaS platforms with AWS and Azure environments.

  • Delivered 30+ enterprise workshops, demos, and technical validations for global manufacturing customers.
  • Converted technical evaluations into production deployments through needs analysis, solution design, and ROI cases.
  • Applied machine learning models for predictive maintenance and anomaly detection in IoT environments.
04/2013 to 03/2018

IoT Senior Technical Sales Engineer

PTC

Ran executive demos, technical discovery, and POCs for C-suite and VP stakeholders on ThingWorx IoT, translating platform capabilities into business outcomes.

  • Supported strategic opportunities through solution architecture, POCs, and customer workshops.
  • Enabled internal teams and partners to scale technical selling across the region.
04/2006 to 04/2013

Technical Sales & Support Engineer

Axeda (acquired by PTC)

Presented product demonstrations and technical sessions at customer sites and industry events, converting complex customer requirements into practical platform solutions.

  • Resolved high-priority escalations across firmware, BIOS, kernel, drivers, and application layers for connected-device customers.
  • Developed internal tooling that improved issue resolution speed and support efficiency.
12/2025 to present

Founder & Developer, Maintain-it & ChefMeThat (AI-Powered iOS Apps)

Independent Work

Own the full product lifecycle for production iOS/iPadOS/macOS apps built on LLM APIs, from strategy and UX through backend, API orchestration, App Store release, and analytics.

  • Launched AI-driven maintenance scheduling, reaching 1,200+ downloads and 25+ users.
  • Implemented RevenueCat subscription billing, VIN scanning, and Carfax integrations.
  • Created a generative AI storyboard and campaign app for the Bria FIBO Hackathon (2025).

Products I built

2025 to present
Live on the App Store

Maintain--It

Home and vehicle maintenance tracker, founder and sole developer

I took it from idea to production: product strategy, UX, mobile and backend development, LLM API orchestration, monetization, App Store releases and customer acquisition.

  • Share a whole home or vehicle with others. Owner and editor roles, task assignment, and a record of who completed each task and when.
  • Due dates sync to Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and Outlook through a subscribed feed.
  • AI maintenance guidance served through a Firebase Cloud Function so the model key never reaches the device.
  • Subscriptions through RevenueCat, VIN scanning, Carfax integration, multi-property support and a gift-code channel for real estate agents.
  • Versioned cloud backup, over-the-air updates, and analytics that track onboarding and retention.
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Firebase
  • Cloud Functions
  • RevenueCat
  • LLM APIs
2025 to present
Live on the App Store

ChefMeThat

AI cooking and nutrition app

Turns what is in your kitchen and your dietary goals into recipes and nutrition guidance.

  • React Native
  • Firebase
  • LLM integration
2025

Bria FIBO Hackathon entry

Generative AI application

Built an application for storyboard and campaign creation to explore practical uses of generative AI in creative workflows.

Also building

Tovali, WOD-It, Shalom Hebrew, AppReady Studio

Family caregiving · CrossFit gym management · Hebrew learning · App Store asset tool

More iOS apps and web tools in development or early release. AppReady Studio builds App Store screenshots and listing assets in the browser.

Highlights

Selected
  • Influenced multimillion dollar enterprise pipeline across AI, SaaS, IoT, AR and digital transformation platforms.
  • Delivered 30+ workshops, technical validations and POCs for global customers.
  • Advised CTO, CIO, CMO and VP Engineering stakeholders on AI governance, enterprise architecture and transformation.
  • Built repeatable discovery, demo and POC methods that scaled sales execution.

Expertise

Pre-sales
Technical discovery, executive value alignment, POC and technical validation, executive presentations, SE leadership
AI
LLMs, VLMs, generative AI, machine learning, MCP, agentic AI, n8n, ComfyUI, Hugging Face
Cloud and data
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, REST, OAuth, SAML, SSO, SQL, Grafana, Power BI
Industrial
PLM, ERP, MES, IoT, ThingWorx, Cognite, Kepware OPC-UA, digital thread
Build
Python, JavaScript, Java, Node.js, React Native, Git; Unity, Unreal Engine, Vuforia, Figma

Education

 

University of Cape Town

Marketing Management and Information Systems

Microsoft Certified Professional · Oracle Certified DBA · Languages: English, Hebrew