FRACTIONAL CTO · AI BUILDER · 25 YEARS IN MEDIA
I build the AI systems that do it instead, so you get back to the part only you can do.
I make the systems I used to buy. Fractional CTO. AI builder. 25 years in film and television, with a computer-science degree in AI. Now I build the systems that make it all work together.
What's not working for you? →
// the_call_i_keep_getting
These are all the same problem: you already know the answer, you just can't see it. The work is to find what's buried, build the thing that surfaces it, and tell the story it's been trying to tell. I've done it in entertainment, in health publishing, in news, and for owner-operators with no technical staff at all.
// what_i_do
Three ways in. The work underneath is the same.
Technical judgment without a hire. I pick the stack, kill the tools that aren't earning their place, and build what's missing.
Not a chatbot. Not an automation that saves ten minutes. The layer that tells you what's happening before you'd have noticed.
One problem, one system, one price. Email triage across accounts. Outreach pipelines. Dashboards that answer the question you keep answering by hand.
// proof
KNKY Comedy is the live-entertainment brand I founded, and where I built the system before putting it in front of anyone else. Five disconnected platforms, data everywhere and insight nowhere. So I built a live dashboard, velocity monitoring, an agent tying ad spend to audience behavior to conversion, and a layer that runs the day-to-day.
Then it told me something I did not want to hear. Here is what it found, months before I would have seen it in the books.
Anyone can show you a good quarter. The harder thing is a system that tells you the truth early enough to act on it, names the cause, and does it while you are busy running the business. That is the work. Built in house instead of licensed, which is the whole argument.
// background
Now: founder and executive producer of KNKY Comedy, with a featured show at the Netflix Is A Joke Festival.
Before: Head of Development & Strategy at LA Times Studios, where I sold the studio's first documentary with ABC News and was executive producer on The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump and The Housewife and the Hustler 2, both for Hulu. AI content consultant to WebMD/Medscape, hired by the CEO to build Medscape2050. Executive producer at BuzzFeed Studios. At NBCUniversal's Digital Lab I built a $10M+ premium digital studio (120+ episodes, 250M+ views) and created Face Forward with Snapchat: 5M+ views an episode inside 48 hours, a Webby and a Telly. Co-founder and SVP of Soul of the South Television, a broadcast network in 35M+ households across 28 markets.
Executive producer of Out of Plain Sight, on DDT dumping off the California coast: winner of the Jackson Wild Media Award for investigative filmmaking, Best Feature at the International Wildlife Film Festival, and the Audience Choice Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Also executive producer of Tropicália, which won Best Documentary and the Audience Award at Brazil's SESC Film Festival and a Special Jury Award from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics. Series for E!, Snapchat, TLC, Speed Channel and Discovery. Branded work from Microsoft to the Kardashians.
MFA, Peter Stark Producing Program, USC. BA in computer science, Columbia University, concentration in AI.
// contact
Tell me where the data stops talking, or where your week disappears. That's the conversation.
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