Feb 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Los Angeles County, California, United States

• Leading GenAI-powered content creation across JioStar Group's entertainment businesses, from vision and strategy through to production-ready output. I work at the intersection of generative AI and storytelling — building intelligent content pipelines, interactive formats, and scalable creative frameworks using a combination of proprietary and third-party technical capabilities. I own tech and content development across several GenAI content tracks: digital promo creation for existing titles, microdrama and web serial production, TV series and feature film development, and new interactive formats for digital distribution. Each is built entirely from the GenAI pipeline, supported by cross-functional content and digital teams. My focus is on enabling faster creative experimentation, richer audience engagement, and entirely new ways of experiencing entertainment — including conversational interfaces, second-screen engagement layers, and AI-assisted content workflows — at global scale across all of JioStar Group's content businesses.

Jul 2025 – Jan 2026 · 6 mos

• Strategic and creative advising for this AI-driven lore management and content generation system.

Sep 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Advise on the development and productization of this Beneficial AI platform that is being developed to create a fun, fair, and safe ecosystem where humans and AIs can play and learn together.

Mar 2023 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs · Hong Kong SAR

• Advise about the commercial, creative, and technical aspects of their artificially intelligent humanoid android and virtual avatars business.

Sep 2022 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• While no longer full-time at DJ2, I remained involved as a Producer/EP on a number of ongoing projects such as the Tomb Raider anime, Ruiner feature film, and more.

Jul 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

• While I continued to produce select film and television projects for DJ2 such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and It Takes Two, I pivoted to run our projects centered around new formats (think Rival Peak, Bandersnatch, etc.), creative innovation, new technologies such as AI for storytelling, and interactive/games development. Under my leadership we pursued new ways of telling both linear and interactive stories by actually doing it.

Mar 2015 – Jul 2021 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• I provided comprehensive creative direction, overseeing the development, writing, direction, and production of various transmedia projects spanning feature films, television, video games, interactive experiences, virtual reality, and more. Spearheaded the creation and production of numerous projects for esteemed companies such as Legendary, Amazon, Paramount, Fox, Warner Bros., Sony, and others. Played a pivotal role in evaluating, developing, and consulting on interactive and animation technologies for partners such as Crytek, Genvid, and others.
• Projects I've been involved in encompass a diverse range of titles, including Coyote Blue, Sleeping Dogs, My Friend Pedro, Disco Elysium, Ruiner, Echo, Teddy Ruxpin, Little Nightmares, and many more -- notably the Sonic The Hedgehog movies, Genvid/Facebook's Rival Peak, and the upcoming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider anime series.

Mar 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Android personality design, performance systems and animation development, webseries writing and executive producing. Brought the human touch to AI.

Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 · 4 yrs

• Advise a AAA game team about product, design, narrative design, creative worldbuilding, and story within and outside of the core game.

Sep 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs · San Rafael, California, United States · Remote

• Staffed, supervised, narrative directed, and wrote a premium narrative game.

Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 10 mos

• Advise about all areas of Artificial Intelligence mind architecture, character personality design, interaction design, and philosophy of AI, but especially commercial and entertainment applications. Designed and supervised implementation of AI and cryptocurrency based video games.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs

• World/Character/Story development, dialog writing, and narrative design for a Michael Bay VR project.

Feb 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Advise about character design and development, story development, narrative and visual tool architecture and development, and AI systems design for character-centric VR experiences and games.

Oct 2014 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hong Kong

• Creative direction, art direction, narrative direction, and animation direction for the design of humanoid robot physical features and personalities.
• I analyzed requirements and specified system-level details for controlling, cognitive functions, and performance systems of humanoid robots.
• To put those designs into action in the entertainment space, I developed film, TV, and video game projects featuring Hanson Robots. I also wrote scripts and directed live events and filmed performances involving humanoid robots, as well as contributed to concept development for humanoid robot consumer products.
• Analyzed requirements and designed architectures for high-level expression, dialogue, memory, and cognitive systems to enhance robot performances. I wrote dialogue for humanoid robots in demonstration and narrative settings, and I designed marketing and advertising campaigns, including copywriting.
• Managed multiple projects and teams involved in AI software design and engineering and AI personality and mind development, and contributed to robotics hardware designs.

Aug 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Los Angeles, CA

• Develop and write feature film and television narrative and documentary projects.

Feb 2014 – Sep 2014 · 7 mos · San Rafael, CA

• Served as a key member of the executive leadership team. Provided creative direction and story development for award-winning interactive narrative titles such as Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, BAFTA-nominee The Wolf Among Us, Tales from The Borderlands, and more. Led all writers and directors creatively, setting an example through hands-on writing and directing. Formulated a strategy for creative-technical crossover, which included AI storytelling and enhancing user responsiveness through live analysis-feedback loops. Analyzed creative software requirements and participated in designing solutions.

Nov 2013 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Rochester, New York Area

• Advised on character, story and creative tool development for audio-centric VR experiences and games.

Aug 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Los Angeles, CA

• I provided creative vision and leadership for a new type of movie development start-up, which concentrated on family-friendly feature films, television, and narrative game development. We utilized Pixar-inspired processes to enhance quality and return on investment. Performed hands-on screenwriting, story development, and directing services. Analyzed requirements, designed, and architected new software to improve and optimize the creative development process.

Apr 2002 – Jan 2014 · 11 yrs 9 mos · Emeryville, CA

• As the only TD in Pixar history to pivot to being a Screenwriter and Story Developer:
• I collaborated on the development and writing of feature films from the pre-pitch stage through scripting, working to establish themes, tones, styles, worlds, and characters by identifying our target audience, pitching the story, outlining it, and writing the script. Assisted the director in conceptualizing, outlining, and pitching ideas to get to greenlight. Provided written and in-person development notes to other Pixar director-writer teams working on different projects. Collaborated on the development of visual concepts and animatics with the director and co-director.
• As a Senior Lead Technical Director:
• I contributed to several blockbuster animated films as a content creator and led projects to overhaul Pixar's end-to-end processes and pipeline for both asset and shot production. Collaborating with the in-house tools development teams and other production stakeholders, I analyzed, specified, designed, refined, and implemented an entirely new production pipeline, including rolling out a completely new animation system. Oversaw software and pipeline redesign projects with significant investments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Developed numerous production tools that are still in use at the studio today, and co-developed the Wall-E robot shading suite, which enabled us to surface hundreds of robots within a few weeks. My work spanned various technical areas including shading/surfacing, dynamics simulation, procedural animation, compositing, and rendering, resulting in final elements used in The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E, several Cars Toons, and more. I was recognized with four patents in the field of production pipeline software, published and presented at SIGGRAPH, and contributed to the VES Handbook as a co-author and co-editor.

Oct 1998 – Apr 2001 · 2 yrs 6 mos · New York, NY

• Collaborated with the CTO and CEO to develop a comprehensive slate for product development and core R&D.
• Conducted market analyses and designed search engine, recommender system, text analysis, AI storytelling, synthetic actor, AI learning, and financial market products. Oversaw multiple software and systems development teams.
• Analyzed requirements, specified, and designed complex artificial intelligence software for hypereconomic systems, multimedia search, text understanding, perception systems (vision, audition, music understanding, etc.), and general cognition.
• Also analyzed requirements, specified, and designed complex artificial intelligence software for video game AI, character AI, storytelling AI, search engines, product recommender systems, news analysis, financial market prediction, and bioinformatics.
• Supervised software development projects with investments totaling tens of millions of dollars. I conducted strategic analyses, formulated brand strategies, and authored whitepapers, academic publications, and marketing materials for all our research and product lines.
• Additionally, I contributed to recruiting approximately eighty percent of the total company workforce and co-managed global operations in New York, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, and Russia.

May 1998 – Jan 1999 · 8 mos · New York, NY

• Collaborated closely with my design and production counterparts to develop, pitch, and implement online brand strategy, marketing, media, and advertising campaigns. Analyzed competing campaigns and suggested improvements to our own initiatives. Designed and developed web-based games and worked with marquee clients across multiple industries. I also spearheaded the development of in-house technology solutions and supervised all programmers and system administrators.

Aug 1996 – Apr 1998 · 1 yr 8 mos · Holmdel, NJ

• Conceived and implemented R&D projects that integrated audiovisual media content creation, artificial intelligence, and Internet development. Additionally, I served as a W3C representative and, in that role, co-authored the SMIL specification. One of only two people to ever serve as an MTS at Bell Labs without a bachelor's degree.

Jan 1994 – Jan 1996 · 2 yrs · San Francisco, CA

• Conducted research and developed then-emerging WWW technologies, both server and client-side. Responsible for software development and systems administration for all client projects.
• Collaborated with graphic designers to co-develop, pitch, and implement online brand strategy, marketing, and advertising campaigns. These projects included the first animated Web advertisement, the first online-only radio station, and the first brand-driven Web game.
• Analyzed competing campaigns to recommend improvements to our own. I designed and developed web-based video games and wrote nearly all the advertising and marketing copy for the studio.
• Worked with marquee clients across all industries, often assisting in establishing their presence on the Web for the first time.

Jan 1994 – Jan 1995 · 1 yr · Mountain View, CA

• Audio recording, voice acting, and sound design for the “Silent Hunter” and “Thunderscape” games. Wrote a custom audio logging database to organize all the studio’s takes and backlot sounds.

Jan 1994 – Jan 1994 · 0 mo

• Conceived, designed and implemented the prototype for a children’s action game called “Bug”.

Jan 1993 – Jan 1993 · 0 mo · Santa Cruz, CA

• Virtual reality system designer and world builder. Helped create and operate a “live video improv” system for the Billy Idol “Cyberpunk” show.