Twenty-nine years of building systems that hold.
I started in tech in 1997 and never stopped shipping. I helped launch the original Xbox and Xbox 360, led teams through six AAA game launches, and hold a patent from the Xbox SDK — born from watching a playtester die over a hundred times on one level while I couldn't convince the designers it was too hard. So I built a tool that made the problem impossible to ignore. That instinct — make the invisible visible, let the data do the convincing — became the through-line of my career. I've run organizations of 120+ people and budgets north of $12M, from director to co-founder.
The through-line was never a single technology — it was systems thinking. How do you take something fast, messy, and new, and turn it into something a team can depend on? That question took me from console launches to connected hardware (a CES Innovation Award at Kinoo) to a Web3 startup I co-founded, and finally to where the question is most alive today: artificial intelligence.
Since 2022 I've gone deep — not as a researcher training models, but as an implementer making them useful. I built a local LLM stack, a cross-AI memory system, and a personal agent that runs my days. Now, through Velocity Partners, I help organizations do the same: move AI from impressive to dependable.
Everything I do points at one idea: helping people and organizations operate at the intersection of AI, autonomy, and resilience — more capable, less dependent, standing on their own.
Most teams come to me wanting to move faster, and assume the answer is more tools — usually AI. It rarely is. AI on top of a broken process just amplifies the broken process. So I start unglamorously: map what's actually happening, find where the handoffs break, define what "done" means. Get the process working — then AI accelerates something that already works.
AI as executive function
Using AI to work with an ADHD brain, not against it.
I'm building — and living in — a system that externalizes memory, makes time visible, and reduces the friction between intention and action. Corvus captures and triages; daily briefings surface the one next thing; AI handles the mechanics so attention goes where it matters. It's resilience at the scale of a single mind, and it's becoming a framework I want to teach.
I have an ADHD brain, and for most of my career I compensated with sheer effort. AI changed that. The same implementation skills I bring to organizations — externalize memory, make state visible, reduce friction between intention and action — turn out to be exactly what an ADHD brain needs. Working with AI I feel like a player-coach again: close enough to the work to give real advice, not just manage it, able to move an idea to a working build in a single afternoon. It's resilience at the scale of a single mind, and it's becoming a framework I want to teach.
How I work
Make the invisible visible
Most problems aren't technical — they're problems nobody can see: the deaths stacked on one level, the handoff where "done" was never defined. My job is to surface the system people are actually operating in, so the fix becomes obvious.
Practice what I preach
I run my own life on the tools I recommend: a local AI stack, a personal agent, a self-hosted everything. I won't sell what I haven't shipped.
Create space for people to thrive
I don't dump tools and leave. The win is structures that keep working without me in the room — and people who realize they can work differently than they thought they had to.
The short version
Full résumé →- 2023–Velocity Partners — Founder — AI implementation & fractional PMO
- 2022–Independent R&D — OfflineAI, Resilient Tomorrow, NeighborhoodShare
- 2020–22Kinoo — Principal Technical Program Manager — AR family comms (CES Innovation Award)
- 2017–208 Circuit Studios — Co-founder / CTO — Web3 gaming
- 2009–15Livescribe · Kabam · Disney Interactive — Director-level roles — gaming & connected hardware
- 1999–2009Microsoft — Xbox & Xbox 360 — Launch teams, 6 AAA titles, SDK patent