Builder / engineering leader
Technology should earn its place in people's lives.
I build useful products across AI, voice, privacy, and connected devices. Then I build the teams that can carry them.
01 / The thread
I keep coming back to the same kind of problem: ambitious technology, real people, and a reason to be careful. A voice computer before Alexa. Private AI for mental wellness. An app that keeps abandoned smart-home hardware alive.
02 / Selected work
Built for the real world.
Four products. Four different constraints. The same bias toward useful, durable systems.
Local-first connected home
SwitchPilot
SwitchPilot gives compatible Wemo and Kasa switches a useful second life by controlling them directly over local Wi-Fi.
02Private, personalized mental wellness
Resilient Moment
The Joyment app delivered personalized exercises informed by CBT, with sensitive user data processed and stored on the device.
03Ambient voice and IoT
UCIC / Ubi
UCIC built voice interaction for connected products. Ubi brought an always-available, programmable voice interface into the home before the category settled.
04Encrypted personal documents
iQabinet
iQabinet helped families organize and share financial, health, and household records through a secure, geographically redundant cloud service.
03 / Leadership at scale
The product and the organization.
I have worked at both levels long enough to know they cannot be separated.
Now
Sr. Director of Engineering at Alarm.com
Leading AI strategy, growing engineering teams, and helping people use AI-powered products and workflows with confidence and care.
- 2022 - 2023Meta
Led teams unifying Facebook Pages and Groups and directed privacy settings work.
- 2013 - 2021Genesys
Led global groups of up to 50 people across conversational AI and cloud products.
- 2005 - 2013Angel.com
Built voice and outbound calling systems that reached 99.999% availability.
What I ask of a team
- 01Make the problem visible.
- 02Give people real ownership.
- 03Keep quality close to delivery.
- 04Leave room for curiosity.
04 / Patents
Ideas that made it into the machinery.
Work across personalized AI, voice interfaces, and large-scale telephony.
Interactive, AI-personalized cognitive exercises across text, audio, image, video, and VR.
↗2020Dynamic call controlAdaptive routing for communication and call-handling systems.
↗2018Conversation assistantA platform for adding speech-based assistance to mobile applications.
↗2015Answering machine detectionDetection of voicemail and human responses in outbound calling.
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05 / About
A builder who learned to lead without stepping away from the work.
I have spent more than two decades moving between startups and large engineering organizations. I have written the code, owned the roadmap, hired the team, carried the pager, and sat with users when the first version missed the mark.
The job, as I see it, is to make hard technology understandable and useful. It is also to create a place where good people can disagree, learn, and do the best work of their careers.
06 / Contact
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