Founder · Velocity Partners
- AI implementation consulting and fractional PMO — helping organizations move AI from demo to dependable.
- Built on AAPD (AI-Augmented Process Design); active teaching partnership with Get Hired Now Academy.
Mike Jones
AI Implementation Expert & LLM Integration Specialist
AI Implementation Expert and LLM Integration Specialist with 29 years building and shipping technology — from the original Xbox launch to AI-augmented operating models today. I turn fast-moving AI capability into dependable systems, processes, and teams.
Core expertise
AI & LLM
- LLM integration
- RAG & context engineering
- Agent orchestration
- Local/self-hosted AI
- AAPD methodology
Leadership
- Fractional PMO
- Org & process design
- Teams of 120+
- $12M+ budgets
- P&L ownership
Product & Delivery
- 0→1 product
- Hardware + software
- Live ops
- Go-to-market
- Patent holder
Experience
Independent R&D / Builder · Jones Collaboration Company
- Built a local LLM stack, a cross-AI memory system, and Corvus, a persistent personal AI agent.
- Launched Resilient Tomorrow (1,000+ subscribers) and NeighborhoodShare (170 users, 20 communities).
Principal Technical Program Manager · Kinoo
- Led technical program management for an AR family-communication platform; CES Innovation Award winner.
Co-founder / CTO · 8 Circuit Studios
- Co-founded a Web3 gaming studio; led technology and a proto-metaverse product vision.
Director-level roles · Livescribe · Kabam · Disney Interactive
- Product and program leadership across connected hardware (smartpen) and mobile/console gaming.
Program / Technical leadership · Microsoft — Xbox & Xbox 360
- On the launch teams for the original Xbox and Xbox 360; shipped 6 AAA titles.
- Hold a patent for an Xbox SDK instrumentation method (the VINCE tool).
Recognition
- Patent holder — Xbox SDK instrumentation method (VINCE)
- CES Innovation Award — Kinoo
- Top 1% ChatGPT user globally (top 3% by conversation volume)
- Led teams of 50–120+ people; managed $4M–$12M+ budgets