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Peyvand is one of the original attic guys who has been with Conversay since 1997. He led the effort in the design and implementation of the first conversational applications for desktop, web-based, server and embedded platforms, was also involved in the development of Conversay's industry-leading Conversation Development Tools. As Director of Consulting for Conversay Professional Services, he guided the demonstration creation effort and presided over customer solution implementations. As Director of Technology Support, he directed all technology presentation activities and managed the Solutions Architecture effort. More recently as V.P. of Engineering, Peyvand s responsibilities have expanded to include overseeing program management of all engineering projects, outsourced projects and our major enterprise accounts. Peyvand received his BS in Computer Science from the University of Florida in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 1996, in the area of Computational Neuroscience. His thesis addressed simulation and modeling of cerebellar networks implicated in classical conditioning. He earned his MBA from the University of Washington in 1986. Prior to joining Conversay, he held a post doc position at Argonne National Lab s Math and Computer Science Department, where his work on computational differentiation of sparse matrices led to the 1995 Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. | 