About

Technology that accelerates the business, not constrains it.

I transform complex technology environments into high-performing engineering organizations and scalable product platforms that accelerate innovation, create operating leverage, and unlock growth.

Who I am

Strategy, architecture, people, execution.

For 20+ years, I’ve led product engineering, technology modernization, data, and AI initiatives, connecting business strategy with architecture, organizational leadership, investment, and execution.

I thrive in environments where technology has become a constraint on growth: fragmented platforms, duplicated capabilities, rising costs, slowing engineering velocity, or organizations struggling to scale.

My approach is to simplify technology, align engineering organizations around shared capabilities, and turn strategic investments into measurable business outcomes.

Selected achievements

A record of measurable results.

120+
Led multidisciplinary technology organizations of 120+ personnel, including vendors.
~50%
Transformed fragmented platforms into scalable, reusable services, reducing technology infrastructure and operating costs by approximately 50%.
60%
Improved engineering performance through DevOps accountability, automation, and measurable objectives, reducing end-to-end development cycles by 60% and achieving 80% test coverage across future-state teams.
70%
Led LLM-powered automation from business opportunity identification through architecture, delivery, and governance, delivering 70% cost savings.
Real-time
Built centralized, event-driven data platforms enabling analytics, personalization, and real-time decisioning.

Focus today

Extending this experience into AI-driven transformation.

Today, I’m applying this experience across three areas.

AI Operating Models

Rethinking how people, processes, technology, and AI work together to improve productivity and operating leverage.

Agentic Automation

Designing intelligent workflows that combine AI agents, enterprise systems, and human oversight to automate business operations.

AI-Native Engineering

Helping organizations modernize software delivery through AI-enabled development, SDLC redesign, governance, and adoption.

I believe technology leadership is about more than architecture or innovation. It’s about building organizations that execute, making disciplined investment decisions, and delivering measurable business results.

Simplify technology. Strengthen the organization. Accelerate the business.

Career

Experience

Engineering & Technology Executive · Everforth / Apex Systems2026 – Present
Executive Director of Engineering · The Walt Disney Company2021 – 2025
Director of Engineering, Streaming & Data Platforms · Disney2018 – 2021
Director of Engineering, Consumer Platforms · Disney2013 – 2018
VP, Software Engineering · Nations Info Corp2009 – 2013
Earlier · Technicolor, Northrop Grumman, Cortical X (co-founder)2001 – 2008

Education

Credentials

Executive MBA (Honors)UCLA Anderson School of Management
MS, Engineering Management (Cum Laude)CSU Northridge
BS, Computer ScienceCSU Northridge
US Patent PublicationsDynamic Ad Version of Video · Authoring Tools

Let's connect

Always open to a good conversation.

On technology leadership, platform and engineering transformation, or putting AI to work in the enterprise.