📍 PNW | 🤖 Director of AI
Building AI capabilities from zero to production in the automotive aftermarket. 10+ years turning ML/AI into real business value — from Wikipedia to PE-backed enterprise.
- 🏗️ Building an AI function from scratch at a PE-backed automotive aftermarket company — team, strategy, infrastructure, all of it
- 🎯 AI enablement for the enterprise — translating cutting-edge AI into practical business outcomes for executive leadership
- 🌐 Wikimedia Foundation — ML/AI infrastructure at scale
- 🎵 Discogs — Software engineering for the world's largest music database
- 🏢 10+ years remote — Building and shipping from the Pacific Northwest since 2015
- 🎸 SunHypnotic — Experimental music label, operating since 2008
- 🎵 Acoustic guitar — Alternate tunings, neo-electro-acoustic explorations
- 🏃 Trail runner — Pacific Northwest trails
- 🐕 Newfoundland dog dad
"Ship the thing that moves the needle." — I believe AI's biggest impact isn't in demos, it's in the boring, high-value problems nobody else wants to automate.
Random Facts
- Ran an experimental music label for 15+ years
- Previously lived on the Oregon/Washington coast for 7 years
- Powered by Yerba Mate and trail runs





