I build small teams around ambitious ideas and grow them into organizations that ship firsts.

My first launch: consumer 3D creation software on store shelves, shipped as a contract engineer on Sierra Home's landscaping suite while I was still a full-time engineering student. The ledger opens here, and a software historian has since written its retrospective.

My first Microsoft ship: primary developer of the administrative tool suite for the small-business server line. The remote-client desktop architecture I built there became my first patent.

Third member of the founding team; development lead for the toolchain that democratized Xbox development. Personally designed and built XNA Game Studio Connect, the certified, encrypted bridge that let consumer code run safely on a closed console. Zero piracy incidents. The Connect work produced two patents: safely executing unsigned code on a closed system, and the encrypted channel that carried it there.

Xbox Live networking arrived and the toolchain opened to the full Visual Studio family; the creator community scaled through thousands of independent developers.

Write once, ship to three screens: Windows, Xbox 360, and Zune. Across the platform's run, 4,000+ independent developers shipped more than 3,000 certified Xbox 360 titles on tools my team built.

Arrived as a new organization's first engineer and built it to 500 people, hiring 300 engineers and writing the career architecture myself. From the PlayStation 3 beachhead until 2018, every HBO GO and HBO Now client app on every screen shipped under me: iOS and Android rebuilt from the ground up, Roku, Apple TV, Xbox, PlayStation, Chromecast, smart TVs across every major maker, and Amazon Fire TV in eight weeks to enable a major distribution partnership. Three devices became more than 200, at 100+ releases a month. The client's screen-navigation architecture became a patent of its own, granted in 2019.

HBO's first direct-to-consumer product, launched on our client stack days before the Game of Thrones premiere. Webby Award, Best Streaming Video App, 2016 and 2017.

I proposed the strangler-pattern migration off the vendor backend, hired the services engineers who executed it, and held the division together through the public defeat that made the plan necessary. The delivery belonged to the services organization; the strategy, the staffing, and the will were mine. Endpoint by endpoint the platform came home, ending more than $10M a month in vendor costs, and the division's data-center-to-cloud migration cut server costs another 80 percent.

A marketing activation that became Emmy-winning content, built with the series' creators as a 12-person, $4M production. The win chartered HBO's interactive division, which I founded and ran: a cross-functional incubation studio spanning narrative, art, design, engineering, and production.

Steven Soderbergh's interactive series companion. I executive produced the app and shipped it alongside the HBO series, holding a first-of-its-kind production to schedule across a novel authoring platform.

A $4M interactive title shipped to consumer storefronts. Quality was forced through vertical-slice gates and a motion-capture investment; the result was praised by VR players and press.

COO and Platform Director of a venture-backed AAA studio: 7 founders to 250 people, $30M raised, a creator marketplace economy operated across 200+ investors with zero security incidents, and Game of the Year recognition two years running. I designed the revenue architecture that carried the company through its hardest period without missing a payroll.

Co-founded a pre-seed AI storytelling venture and shipped its proof: an agentic game master serving a live 1,500-member community two days after first commit. Presented at DICE; four investor conversations followed. The venture ended at prototype stage. The capability didn't.

An AI-native prototype whose content is generated at play time, engineered to sub-cent inference cost per session with a prompt-caching architecture. Solo build.

A production writers' room run across four AI platforms plus generative audio, with quality gates rigorous enough to catch professional-grade model drift. Case study publishing soon.

Operator-grade AI adoption for real organizations: technology modernization for a national consumer-trust nonprofit through a CEO-led restructuring, and agent-assisted program management that measurably lifted delivery across a consultancy's client work.