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Laurence Moroney

Laurence Moroney

AI And Machine Learning Leader - Technology Specialist - Keynote Speaker - Best-Selling Author
Sammamish,

Summary

Ambitious Technology Lead with 20+ years successfully aligning internal and external technical resources to provide consistent and reliable progress toward business goals. Proponent of human-centric management approach and owner of deep technological expertise.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Global AI Advocacy Lead

Google
Seattle, WA
10.2013 - Current
  • Led across multiple organizations to land successful developer offerings in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Owned industry-wide narrative around AI for Developers, including Generative AI, Large Language Models, Research-to-Production, Open Source Strategy and more
  • Regularly aligned stakeholders across all business sectors with clear technical goals
  • Directly managed 20 engineers, and drove virtual team of 100+,, with 8-figure budgets
  • Created and taught award-winning online courses with over 1M students, was 'face' of AI for Google internally and externally

Principal Developer Advocate

Microsoft
Redmond
10.2006 - 10.2013
  • Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases for cross-platform runtimes spanning Windows, MacOS, Linux and Web
  • Led Advocacy and design for multiple products including Silverlight, Microsoft WebMatrix, and Windows 8

Director of Technology Evangelism

Mainsoft
Lod
06.2004 - 10.2006
  • Served as primary decision-maker for technology advocacy, supporting strategy and guidelines for pre-sales teams to close deals with enterprise customers including authoring wide-ranging roadmaps, determining how technology would be integrated into customer business operations for maximum return on investment

Senior Software Engineer

Reuters
New York
11.2000 - 06.2004
  • Led development of multiple software products for financial analytics spanning web and desktop. Managed deployment and management of them throughout the Enterprise

Senior Product Manager

Vicon
Hauppauge
01.1995 - 11.2000
  • Owned entire product line of PC-based software to support large-scale CCTV and Alarm systems, including leading the development, and maintenance of a complete product line

Education

PgD - Systems Specification And Design

University of Central England
Birmingham, England
06.1992 - 10.1993

Bachelor of Science - Physics And Computer Science

University of Wales
Cardiff, UK
09.1989 - 06.1991

Advisory Boards

  • Fellow, AI Fund - Palo Alto, CA. Focused on advising early stage startups in Generative AI
  • Advisor, Board Member, AI Summit, London UK
  • Advisor, Board Member, Future Investment Initiative, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Authorship

  • Author of 20+ books, detailed at: https://laurencemoroney.com/writing/
  • Author of upcoming "Large Language Models for Coders" at O'Reilly
  • Winner of 'Outstanding Research' at CogX for my work on TinyML education
  • Teacher of over 1M students via online MOOCs: https://laurencemoroney.com/teaching/

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Quote

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Skills

Relationship/team building

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Timeline

Global AI Advocacy Lead

Google
10.2013 - Current

Principal Developer Advocate

Microsoft
10.2006 - 10.2013

Director of Technology Evangelism

Mainsoft
06.2004 - 10.2006

Senior Software Engineer

Reuters
11.2000 - 06.2004

Senior Product Manager

Vicon
01.1995 - 11.2000

PgD - Systems Specification And Design

University of Central England
06.1992 - 10.1993

Bachelor of Science - Physics And Computer Science

University of Wales
09.1989 - 06.1991

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