Work Experience
Summary
I am interested in disrupting the market for international money transfers and payments. I bring more than 15 years of experience leading the design of scalable and beautiful software in science and finance. I have also experience raising more than $10 million for academic and startup projects alike. I believe that mobile technologies, along with the intelligent analysis of big data, can create disruptive products in FinTech.
August 1999 - Present
Associate Professor
University of Notre Dame
I teach and lead a team of Research Assistant Professors, Postdocs, and Graduate and Undergraduate Researchers in trying to fundamentally improve our abitlity to model and predict disease at the molecular level and to design new medicinal drugs and insecticides.
June 2012 - Present
Founder, Chairman, President and CEO
Oak Financial Software Corp.
Oak Financial Software Corp. wants to financially empower unbanked Hispanics in the U.S. and Latin America. Oak's flagship product, Chapulín ™, pairs an innovative reloadable prepaid debit card with a companion mobile app for iPhone or Android, supporting cross-border money transfers, mobile check deposit capture, bill pay, merchant-funded rewards, and other value-added services. Check it out at michapulin.com or oakpay.me
December 2012 - Present
Director
Computer Aided Molecular Design Core at Notre Dame
We provide modeling services to biomedical scientists. In particular, we can produce models of protein targets, drive virtual screening to identify lead compounds, perform atomic simulations, systems biology and cheminformatics
September 2013 - Present
Director of Entrepreneurial Iniitiatives
Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association
LISTA NorCal is a new chapter of LISTA trying to encourage Latinos to participate in the entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem in Silicon Valley
Redwood City, California, US