For the past 16+ years I have helped physical AI companies through the hardest transition they will face: R&D >> real deployable product >> scale. How I lead: Low ego, teacher, and elevator. I teach instead of dictate, because a team given responsibility outperforms one…

As Head of Product at Kodiak, I helped build and launch the world's first driverless commercial trucking fleet, now running 24/7 in the Permian Basin. I am currently leading Product for Kodiak Defense, applying that same autonomy stack to ground autonomy programs for the US…

I joined nuTonomy as its first Product Manager (around the time of its acquisition by Delphi/Aptiv) helping the R&D heavy team ship its first driverless product. As Senior Product Director at the resulting Motional, I led product and industrial design for our first driver-out robotaxi…

I was VP of Product at CyPhy Works, building autonomous ISR drones for the US Army and Navy SOCOM: my first experience taking a defense product from R&D to fielded, wartime use. Unfortunately the company was in financial trouble already when I joined and shuttered…

I was on the founding product team at Kiva Systems, building the robotic warehouse systems that Amazon acquired for $775M, which became the backbone of Amazon Robotics. I helped scale that technology across Amazon's fulfillment network: cutting costs, deploying new robotics systems, and increasing performance…

GIS Analyst, Product Manager, BT Global Access - 2002 - 2007 GIS Consultant, Pavement Engineering Org serving UK Highways agencies 2001-2002 Mapping systems development, and map creation to support major UK managed motortway networks. Supported the first smart motorway network coupling real time traffic sensing…