As Marchex VP of Engineering, William drives digital marketing product development and innovation with cutting-edge cloud, AI, and big data technologies. Senior technology executive, currently the VP of Engineering at Marchex, Inc, leading conversational intelligence strategy and product development. Before that, he served as Director and Architect in DoubleClick, Microsoft, Inspur and other companies managing multiple engineering groups. He founded and led R&D divisions, AI Labs and Innovation Centers to drive artificial intelligence innovations. He recent work also includes Big Data mining, Computer Visions, Natural Language Processing research with a wide range of business applications. He is also a founding member of IEEE Computer Society STC on Autonomous Driving, and a current member of Forbes Technology Council member.