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Seattle, WA, US

• I’m a trusted partner to global brands, driving emerging technology programs and co-innovation technology partnerships to improve business operations and generate new revenue lines.Recent non-confidential clients.
• Client BP: Senior Solutions Consultant on a Azure digital twin platform, designed to reduce cost of ownership, time to value metrics, and supporting net zero goals for a global energy producer.
• Client SoFi Stadium: Drove the partnership strategy & technical program creation of a 25+ system, 600+ 3D model, 145,000+ asset and 100,000+ live data point, Azure based digital twin.
• Client SoFi Stadium: Led the vision and solution strategy of a 3MM sqft Unity based VR digital twin, built to improve planning and design collaboration for a 70,000sf LED video board. Client SoFi Stadium: Defined the.
• Client LA Rams: Partner development and technical program lead for a RFID (e.g. location, speed) ETL data management pipeline (Azure Data Factory) for player training and event simulation.
• Client Disney Media & Entertainment: Developed the R&D program vision & partner co-innovation strategy w/Unity to migrate digital production pipelines from linear to real-time rendering.

Executive advisory, solution architecture and technical evaluation of AI use cases. Focused on the intersection of graph data, RAG and simulated technologies (NVIDIA Omniverse).

London, England, GB

Senior digital twin services architect and partner co-innovation consultant reporting to the portfolio head of digital twins, IoT and geospatial solutions. Advised and assisted in the design of a multi-tenant digital twin solution intended to reduce total cost of ownership and in service of BP's global carbon and net zero sustainability targets. Solution.

Mountain View, CA, US

Senior IoT R&D consultant for a smart buildings initiative.

Inglewood, California, US

The first hire by the CTO, tasked with developing a portfolio of digital solutions and partner development strategies across emerging platforms, ranging from Azure based digital twins for real-time data insights and building operations to real-time 3D (Unity) based digital twins for design & pre-planning use cases.Smart building programs were in service to.

Agoura Hills, CA, US

A trusted partner of the CTO, tasked with identifying technologies and developing programs designed to improve IT operations. Designed co-innovation programs ranging from Azure Data Factory ETL for gathering player performance data (e.g. RFID telemetry used to evaluate player recovery) to Xamarin apps (e.g. mobile scouting app).

Burbank, California, US

Partnering with the CTO, tasked with developing co-innovation partnerships to evolve the storytelling capabilities of Disney Television Group. Role included defining the original solution strategy, identifying key platform partnership(s) and delivering platform partnership technical due diligence (inc. solution ROI).One program delivered to the CTO, was.

San Francisco, CA, US

Incubated a smart stadium (IoT) experience designed to bridge the digital and physical gap in fan personalization, improve fan ingress and provide sponsorship analytics for venue operators. Lead partner development with the NBA, MLB, MLS, NCAA and venue operators.

Redmond, Washington, US

Mentor to Microsoft Ventures Connected Home and the Internet of Things (IoT) accelerator, a partnership with American Family Ventures.

Seattle, WA, US

Series A investor and advisor to technology leadership on the implementation of mobile solutions to improve the consumer e-commerce experience and grow revenues.

Seattle, WA, US

Advisor to co-founders of a mobile location services startup. Artifact developed a geofenced content management system to enhance live event experiences.

Plano, TX, US

Co-founded Active's mobile strategy and product management teams, post acquisition of the MobilePromote platform. As a direct report to SVP Engineering Operations and Product Strategy, defined mobile strategy and experiences across Active's health & fitness businesses.

Auburn Hills, MI, US

Designed mobile solutions for Cisco, Oracle and Salesforce. Our mobile event marketing platform was deployed across our clients largest live events ranging from 20,000 to 150,000 attendees. MobilePromote clients & IP was acquired by Active Network in Oct 2010.

Directed the product strategy of a content-based image recognition, machine learning and visual search platform. Capabilities included OCR, biometric similarity and object detection. Integrated CV/ML solutions to media (Disney Parks) and agencies (Publicis). Eyealike IP was incubated within London-based mobility solutions provider, Datatec.

Designed a mobile event marketing platform, MobilePromote. Licensed platform to Salesforce, Oracle, Cisco and IBM. Active Symbols IP was incubated out of London-based mobility solutions provider, Datatec and acquired by global experience marketing agency GPJ, in Oct 2008.

• Directed product management, engineering and design teams responsible for delivering cross-platform consumer experiences for SquareEnix and its digital media partners. Built experiences over 30+ global operators and.
• KDDI Mobile, the first graphical operator storefront.
• NTT DoCoMo's Plala HiKari-TV, a fiber based IPTV service.
• ESPN and Disney Mobile MVNO embedded clients.
• Cross-platform apps for Amazon IMDb, PGA TourCast and Consumer Reports.
• Mobile multi-player games including Trivial Pursuit and Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia.

San Diego, CA, US

Acted as Disney and ESPN's mobile advisor to Qualcomm's BREW division. BREW was Qualcomm's Mobile platform including app stores, SDK's and 3GPP / MPEG 4 streaming experiences (mobile broadcast TV trials of Flo TV).

Dallas, TX, US

Acted as Disney and ESPN's mobile advisor to AT&T's mMode data services division. mMode delivered experiences across m-commerce, micro-payments, interactive SMS and J2ME app platforms. mMode was AT&T's version of NTT DoCoMo's successful service, iMode.

• Co-founder of Disney Mobile (N.American) Platform Shared Services group. Direct matrix reports to SVP & GM Mobile at ESPN and SVP Engineering at Disney. Directed multi-tenant services for mobile web, native apps and.
• Directed mobile operator integrations and managed technical relationships.
• Product and technical mobile advisor to senior Disney executives.
• Implemented the first mobile micro-billing service for Disney and ESPN.
• Designed the first mobile ad campaign and analytic tools for ESPN.
• Created the first cross-platform apps for ESPN, Disney and ABCnews.

Bristol, CT, US

• Co-founder of ESPN Mobile (pre-MVNO). Directed the first product management, engineering and platform strategy, across mobile web, application platforms and SMS messaging environments.
• Direct product and platform lead for ESPN's OEM and mobile operator partnerships.
• Product, technical and strategic mobile advisor to ESPN senior executives.
• ESPN Bottomline was the first live data app in the US (J2ME MIDP 2.0 on iDEN).
• Launched ESPN first apps: Bottomline, NFL, MLB, NBA and Soccernet Gamecasts.
• Launched ESPN Alerts platform (native SMPP MO & MT) across global operators.

Seattle, WA, US

• Starwave was acquired by Disney in April 1998 and is the foundation of its digital divisions.
• Launched the live streaming services for ESPN, NBA, NFL, and NASCAR.
• Managed CDN partners AT&T, Akamai, Broadcast.com, Excite, RealNetwork & Yahoo.
• Built early ecommerce solutions for NBA (NBAStore.com) and NFL (NFLShop.com).
• Integrated the first live 360º interactive video at XGames '99.
• Created site applications and managed live event content publishing for NFL Draft, Superbowl, NBA Draft, NBA Finals, ESPN XGames and '96 & '98 Olympics event coverage. Starwave was a Paul Allen startup, launching.