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Stephen Ost
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About

Hi! I’m Stephen and I’m passionate about creating beautiful, innovative, and scalable enterprise software that solves real client problems. As a founding member and the first employee of Paradox, I currently serve as Senior Vice President of Product where I'm responsible for bringing our AI Recruiting Assistant, Olivia, to life. My unique set of Product skills and background in Computer Science allows me to take the complexities of building an artificial intelligence and create a simplified and beautiful candidate and recruiter experience. Prior to Paradox, I was recognized as a College Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneur Magazine and have built several software companies, with one leading to an acquisition.

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Experience

Companies

Companies

Paradox

Paradox is the leading Assistive Intelligence platform transforming global talent acquisition and candidate experience. Olivia, our flagship product, allows talent acquisition & human resources professionals to focus on what they do best, human interaction - while she focuses on experience, automation and intelligence. Olivia is empowering and assisting talent in more than 60 countries across the world, communicates in over 36 languages, and assists 200 talent-centric organizations such as McDonald's, Compass Group, Alorica, Staples, and CVS Health. For more information and to meet Olivia, visit https://paradox.ai.

Ufree

Ufree is a smartphone application that helps busy students find out when their friends are free to hangout, in real-time. Students sync their school schedules and are alerted when a friend is “free” and nearby, suggesting events that they can attend during their free time. Ufree was created in a time before Snapchat location sharing was available and filled a previous student need. The app allowed others to easily connect with their peers when trying to find general social interaction, as well as assisted in planning for group assignments and projects while accommodating everyone's schedules. Ufree gained rapid adoption in 2014-15 which led to its acquisition in 2015.

Witness

Witness was built to solve an evidentiary problem within the justice system. In almost all cases, video evidence is not admissible as it lacks a clear Chain of Custody and it’s very costly and time consuming to deliver. Witness created two patented solutions: a smartphone application for the general public and SaaS for police authorities. The mobile application allowed individuals to live stream to the police, with an option to remain anonymous. All video evidence was preserved with a Chain of Custody report to be delivered to court seamlessly. In 2015, the Tucson Police Department partnered with Witness to test the software in Tucson. They used the portal to view live videos being streamed and deploy police if needed to the geo-location of the activity. The opportunity to provide a similar bodycam type technology to protect the general public still exists. If this is something you’re passionate about, I’d be more than happy to share my knowledge with you: .

The Cup

The Cup is a product designed to utilize the software capabilities of newer beverage dispensing machines to prevent soda theft and limit soda consumption. Soda is extremely cheap to produce, however a restaurant’s cost is actually higher than the average consumer expects at around $0.25 per refill. The loss of potential revenue quickly adds up for the large chain restaurants as their staff is told to not confront customers taking advantage as it can harm their loyalty. The Cup solves this problem through its patented technology that embeds an RFID chip into a cup that communicates to a beverage dispensing machine. The machine remains in a water-only state and only when a purchased cup is placed underneath the dispenser, will it enable the beverage dispensing functionality. If you are interested in this technology, please reach out to me: .

My Patents

Patents

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My Patents

Smart container dispenser and tracking system
May 10, 2016

Smart container dispenser and tracking system

Beverage containers with attached or connected RFID tag. The RFID tag exciter is placed in or near the beverage dispenser for energizing the RFID tag and for discerning information therefrom.
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Systems and methods for secure collection of surveillance data
May 4, 2017

Systems and methods for secure collection of surveillance data

The present invention relates to systems and methods for the collection and sharing of Surveillance data. This includes capturing video and audio data on a device, and providing this
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Education

My

Education

My Education

University of Arizona

University of Arizona

Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science

MIT Sloan Executive Education

MIT Sloan Executive Education

Systematic Innovation of Products, Processes, and Services

Kellogg Executive Education

Kellogg Executive Education

Product Management Experience