Mr. Zen graduated with an associate degree in enterprise networking from Cuyamaca College and a Master of Business Administration in artificial business solutions from Columbia University in 2022.
SPRING VALLEY, CA, November 26, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Preston D. Zen has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Mr. Zen is lauded for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity as the president and chief executive officer of his development firm, Kaizen Apps. With over a decade in his field, he has demonstrated exceptional software development and app Shopify plug-in expertise. Mr. Zen's work spans the medical, financial and health care industries, where he builds systems to read claims and connect them to attorneys, servicing clients nationally, primarily on the East Coast and in the Bay Area.
In addition to managing his company since 2019, Mr. Zen has been an artificial intelligence architect at Symation Inc. in San Francisco since 2023, leading efforts in pioneering AI-language model management systems as well as AI language, vision, and control systems. He has also been teaching as a cyber security instructor at Clarusway Corporate Education Bootcamp since 2024.
Before these significant roles, Mr. Zen was an AI and cybersecurity instructor at HackerU from 2022 to 2024 and 2U between 2019 and 2024. HackerU and 2U partnered with over 30 institutions including the University of California as well as Ivy League and state universities. Mr. Zen was also a specialist guest instructor at Columbia University for applied AI software systems. In 2023, he also served as a technology program specialist at Lighthouse International School and was a vulnerability auditor at EXZi. Among other roles, Mr. Zen was the red team lead and solution engineer at Cybertech Defense from 2019 to 2023, an artificial intelligence consultant for Google in 2021, a cyber security analyst at Emagined Security in 2019 and a network operations center technician at Burwood Group between 2016 and 2017.
Mr. Zen graduated with an associate degree in enterprise networking from Cuyamaca College and a Master of Business Administration in artificial business solutions from Columbia University in 2022. His education has been instrumental in his professional achievements, providing him with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in his field. Additionally, Mr. Zen garnered numerous credentials that have been instrumental in his career success, including as a Cisco-certified network associate in routing and switching, a cloud solutions architect through Amazon Web Services Inc., multiple Offsec certifications due to their hands-on nature and difficulty, and a Microsoft Azure data engineering associate.
In addition to his professional accomplishments, Mr. Zen has made significant contributions through his pro bono work as an avionics logistics coordinator for House of Ukraine, Inc., since 2022. He is also involved with various civic-minded organizations and has been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal and The Epoch Times.
A well-written writer, Mr. Zen's notable projects include co-authoring 'Eternabrain: Automated RNA Design Through Move Sets and Strategies from an Internet-Scale RNA Videogame' in 2019 and 'Theoretical Basis for Stabilizing Messenger RNA Through Secondary Structure Design' in 2020 in scholarly journals.
Mr. Zen has been featured in The Epoch Times for his contributions. He attributes his success to his natural inclination toward technology. He also notes his upbringing and his father, who sought stability after leaving a war-torn environment. This influence drives Mr. Zen's commitment to using AI to mitigate risk and create stability. Eager for the future, Mr. Zen aims to be at the forefront of technology in Asia and remains focused on staying current and proactive in the ever-evolving field of artificial intelligence as a tool to enable humanity as a species to begin space resource identification, aggregation, and processing as well as advanced robotics.
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