Albert Ho's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Sales & Trading Analyst (RMBS Desk) @ Banc of America Securities From June 2007 to August 2007 (3 months) 9 W 57th St, Fl 2, New York, NYCredit Risk Analyst @ Goldman Sachs From September 2005 to December 2005 (4 months) 85 Broad St, Fl 15, New York, NYInvestor @ Loom I was the 2nd investor to write a check. Fastest growing company in my portfolio (https://www.notalking.vc) San Francisco Bay AreaCo-Founder & Chief Technology Officer @ Soom Inc. I was the technical co-founder. I started and oversaw the development of Personal Media® and Catscan™, web-based products for smart print, packaging, and mail operations that scaled to 1,200 customers and several hundred thousand in Enterprise SaaS ARR. When deploying Personal Media®, I worked directly with big brand customers like Connections Education, Sylvan Learning, and Obama for America. I hired and managed 7 software engineers on highly effective Agile product development team. Our company went through the SP12 batch of the Betaspring startup accelerator program in Providence RI and subsequently raised a seed round. My work here won a National Science Foundation innovation grant (http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1315431) and patents that have been cited by Adobe and Facebook. From October 2011 to January 2015 (3 years 4 months) 95 Chestnut St, 3rd Fl, Providence, RI 02903Registered Patent Agent @ American Patent Agency Out of the hundreds of thousands of patent applications filed in 2011, one of my cases was the 7th fastest-issued patent in the United States (http://bit.ly/zBpC5H). As a registered patent agent, I advised companies in the US, Europe and Australia on intellectual property portfolio strategy and represented those companies before the USPTO in filing patents on their core technologies. My specialty, along with the other partners at American Patent Agency, is in leveraging the Accelerated Examination procedure to get patents issued in months rather than years (see Jan 18, 2012 article on IP Watchdog in which I was interviewed about this - http://bit.ly/12monthexam). From January 2011 to January 2012 (1 year 1 month) One Marina Park Dr, Fl 14, Boston, MASoftware Engineer @ KD Secure I joined as an early engineer on the KD Secure team right after graduating Cornell. At KDS, I co-invented and co-engineered the Watchman™, a product that combines asset management and accountability features in a user-friendly hardware and software package for the heavy construction market. The application ran on a rugged Motorola MC75 handheld device and the Windows Mobile platform, which we compiled using the .NET mobile framework. I was co-inventor on several patents on novel systems within the Watchman™ product - my work here has been cited by Honeywell to plan industrial plant execution systems. Additionally, I wrote an event generation system for a distributed event correlation engine in Java and Ruby, used by customers for real-time detection of tailgating on surveillance video, leading to a whitepaper that attracted interest from IBM. The company was acquired by Mainline Information Systems, where the patents I worked on are currently being licensed to companies in the IoT space. From April 2008 to December 2010 (2 years 9 months) 320 Congress St, Fl 2, Boston, MALead Developer on Founding Team @ Course Hero After helping launch CourseHero as an e-learning project for college students with a friend during my junior year at Cornell, we became one of three companies admitted to Plug and Play Tech Center's University Pavillion accelerator program in Sunnyvale, CA. I built the first version of CourseHero (at the time called TheCollegeFreeway), which was widely used by students at Cornell. The company has raised about $17M in funding to date and is profitable. As a shareholder, I continue to believe strongly in the CourseHero team and keep up to date on their progress as a leading social e-learning network. From December 2006 to December 2007 (1 year 1 month) 440 N Wolfe Rd, Sunnyvale, CASenior Product Manager @ Checkr, Inc. As a PM at Checkr, I worked with a unique combination of stakeholders in legal, sales, customer success, engineering, quality, investigations, and applicant support. I have made significant improvements to background screenings, driven high customer adoption of Checkr's analytics and positive adjudication services, led the implementation of an ML-based predictor for background report turnaround time, and designed and brought to market a completely new paradigm of background screening: subscription-based continuous monitoring.Checkr is a modern background check service powering 99% of the on-demand economy, backed by YC and Accel Partners. From March 2017 to December 2018 (1 year 10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector of Product @ Original Stitch When leading product at Original Stitch, I boosted site-wide speed by 75% and drove an 18% increase in cart to purchase conversion rate from implementing a newly-designed checkout flow. I recruited and managed 3 direct reports (designer, full-stack engineer, QA engineer) on a highly-productive agile team. I also launched Original Stitch Live™, an on-demand app for finding a stylist to design an original shirt for you.Original Stitch is an app for creating and ordering custom dress shirts, backed by NTT Docomo and Inspire Ventures. From October 2016 to March 2017 (6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaProduct Manager @ Teespring As a product manager at Teespring, I led cross-functional teams of people with very diverse skills across the e-commerce site to operations and fulfillment. I worked on the globalization of our supply chain and fulfillment systems during the acquisition of Fabrily, a competitor that gave Teespring advantageous penetration of the European market. I led a team to automate the suspension of infringing content through a machine learning based content reviewer system. I also led a team to bring the first non-apparel product lines (mugs and totes) into production.Teespring is a platform for creating and selling custom apparel, backed by YC, a16z, and Khosla Ventures. From February 2015 to October 2016 (1 year 9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCo-Founder @ Chaser YC W19. No-code app builder in private beta. Reach out if you want to waitlist to try. San Francisco Bay Area