Technology & Innovation Advisory

At the intersection of world-class storytelling and advanced technology.

I'm a technology executive and studio creative innovator with 25+ years building the future of entertainment. I've launched pioneering studio divisions—founding Disney's StudioLAB—and led large-scale product initiatives at NBCUniversal and Apple. My philosophy: building secure, horizontal innovation infrastructure that amplifies human creativity, enhances the consumer experience, and delivers real time and cost efficiency.

Emmy Award Winner 8 Patents & Filings — AI, ML, AR Board, Creators Guild of America
Areas of Focus

Where creative ambition meets engineering discipline.

01

Human-in-the-Loop AI

Architecting intelligent automation frameworks that optimize production speed while strictly maintaining artist agency and creative control.

02

Ethical AI & Governance

Designing secure IP perimeters and enterprise data guardrails that prevent proprietary studio assets from leaking into public foundational models.

03

Agentic Distribution & Discovery

Advising publishers and brands on integrating with agent frameworks and countering the traffic impact of an AI-mediated, zero-click search era.

04

Immersive & Interactive Content

Pioneering next-generation storytelling across AR, VR, and XR, built on real-time graphics engines and spatial formats.

05

Modern Media Pipelines

Engineering cloud-native, serverless infrastructure and automated metadata indexing to streamline asset-heavy studio workflows.

06

Distribution & Streaming

Leveraging spatial video, 3D streaming architectures, and unified delivery frameworks to optimize global content reach.

Current Portfolio

Accelerating next-gen platforms & industry governance.

Board of Directors

Creators Guild of America

Shaping industry guardrails for AI tools across the creative workforce.

Advisory Board

Infinity Festival

Guiding the intersection of Hollywood storytelling and Silicon Valley technology.

Advisor

Miris

Cloud-based, browser-native 3D spatial streaming platforms.

Advisor

Playbook

AI-driven asset management and automated semantic metadata indexing.

Advisor

IMGN.ai

Generative, LLM-powered script breakdown and pre-production visualization.

Advisor

Toybox Entertainment

AI-native TV production company focused on competition shows.

Corporate Heritage

A career anchored in pioneering platforms.

NBCUniversal / Universal Pictures
2022 — Present

Global studio technology leadership across Direct-to-Consumer initiatives, serverless data frameworks, and workflow automation.

The Walt Disney Studios
2015 — 2022

Founded StudioLAB and established the Partner Innovation Model, building an elite innovation hub serving Disney, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Searchlight, and 20th Century Studios.

Apple
2003 — 2005

Product leadership driving mobile video platform development and the adoption of MPEG-4 as an industry standard.

Netscape Communications
1996 — 1999

Early-stage technology evangelism for HTML4, the Document Object Model, and JavaScript during the dawn of the consumer internet.

Recognition & Patents

Honors

  • Primetime Emmy Award
  • Emmy Award Nominee
  • Webby Award Nomination

Patents & Filings

  • Machine-learning, user-specific evaluations US 11,610,239
  • Drones generating air-flow effects for VR / AR users US 10,777,008
  • Personalized video featuring a selected person US 10,311,917
  • Tiered digital rights for content packages App. 2025/0209435
  • Improvisational storytelling AI agent App. 2020/0019370
  • Measuring sentiment of text in context App. 2016/0062967
  • Scoring & clustering of social-media data App. 2016/0055164
  • Determining intent of social-media posters App. 2015/0227579
Get in touch

Let's talk about what you're building.

Available for advisory work at the intersection of media, entertainment, and emerging technology.

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