Warren Friesner

Contact: ad2e7v@r.postjobfree.com

Portfolio: https://clearlightcorp.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warren-friesner-b61294/ RESUME

VITALS

EDUCATION

Cal, Berkeley – B.A.

Univ. of Miami – J.D.

EMPLOYMENT/ ENTREPRENEURSHIP

CEO, Language Hero, Inc. 2017–2022 (Smart Video Chat for 2nd Language Acquisition); CEO EZ Speak, Inc. 2022–present. Language Learning System implementing Language Hero Smart Chat Process. Equity Partner, Design/Dev. SuperBody, SuperBrain (E-commerce, Personal Training Website), 2014–2017

President, Clear Light Interactive Corp., 2000- present (Digital Design & Development)

Equity Partner & COO, NY Cravings, 1998-1999 (E-commerce–touch Screen Kiosks)

Operator, On The Rise Bakers, 1997–2001; Wet Paint Café, 1987–1989 Trial Lawyer, Various firms, 1982–1996

ABOUT

HIGHLIGHTS

After 10 years as a trial lawyer, Warren became COO for a tech startup. He pitched and received a $3M commitment for the business,. He co-founded Clear Light Interactive Corp., a design, marketing, and development firm, with Erick Kuo in 2000. Warren and Erick founded, designed

& developed all UI and UX for Language Hero (language learning via video chat) in 2016 and EZ Speak (p2p messaging language chat) in 2022.

SALIENT SKILLS

UX, Info Architecture, Chat GPT content and schema generation, Learning Schemas, Markov-chain-based

Curriculum Delivery/Front End UI/UX, Second

Language Acquisition Theory and Practice, Legal

Writing & Analysis, Project Mgmt., Product Dev.,

Writing, Presentation, Sales, Marketing, .

INTERESTS

Hiking, Teaching/practicing meditation, music, AI, Tech, Language Acquisition, Movies, Cooking, Travel. Thought Leadership

PANELS/WORKSHOPS/ PAPERS

Panelist, SXSW EDU, April 2018

Dual Language Symposium – Chinese

International School, Hong Kong, April 2017

International Conference on Internet Chinese

Education – Taipei, Taiwan, June 2017

2 Academic Papers on Implications of AI in

2nd Language Acquisition, pub. April, 2017

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

Organized Mini-Conference on the Advent of AI

in Second Language Acquisition at National

Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Presented at National Taiwan Normal

University to present on the topic of AI in

Second Language Acquisition

VOLUNTEERISM/MENTORSHIP

Selected as Judge and Mentor by MassChallenge.

Acceleration/Awards

INCUBATION/ACCELERATION

Nankang Software Incubator, Taipei

NYU EdTech Incubator, New York

Founders Space Accelerator, San

Francisco

AWARDS

Global EdTech Startup Awards –

Finalist (Finals on Jan 23rd, 2018)

Omni – Gold

MarCom – Silver

Webby – Honorable Mention

4

Pitches

4

Global Edtech Awards Finalist

Rise PITCH Competition AARP CES Pitch Finals

Miscellaneous

Yuan Ze University Foreign Engineering Students after testing App 4 Presentation at NCTU, Taiwan Interview at CES, Las Vegas With Taiwan’s Minister of Science & Technology

Links

4

GESAwards 2017 Final Event

https://www.globaledtechawards.org/

2017-winners

Language Hero Pitch– Rise Web

Summit 2018

https://youtu.be/V7OVHi5ZzgA

Taiwan Tech Arena - TTA 台灣科技新

創基地

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=

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矽 谷現場 備戰 CES 2020 台灣

新創團隊在矽 谷吸引創投 目光

https://bit.ly/3p9ny7d

AARP

https://bit.ly/3DXhWmJ

https://press.aarp.org/2019-01-03-

CES-Pitch-Competition

Taiwan Pitch Night Startup:

Language Hero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD

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RISE Pitch 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp

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THANK YOU!

Contact: Warren Friesner, ad2e7v@r.postjobfree.com

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