The gap between managing data and actually building with it is closing fast. I've spent my career working on both sides of that wall — and I think that's the only place worth being right now.
Most product leaders manage. I run AI-native product teams and I ship real software. The combination is the point.
Senior Manager, Data & AI Products and Analytics Engineering at Disney Studios — leading a 17-direct & matrix-report team within a 45-person data & AI product engineering organization across 5 studio groups serving 500+ downstream users. Briefing the CTO and President of Studio Technology monthly. Co-leading three enterprise AI task forces spanning product, program management, and data.
I joined Disney and quickly moved into senior-leader scope. That's not a timeline I planned — it's how I work.
In parallel: Stuart Ventures. Eight production-grade software products built solo. Geopolitical intelligence, multi-agent editorial infrastructure, spec-as-code tooling, AI education, systematic trading, lending intelligence, CRE data infrastructure. All shipping. All real.
AI is what makes the combination possible — I'm not working twice as hard, I'm working differently.