In my 15+ years at Amazon, I led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.

• Hold 70+ patents.
• Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are mine.
• 10,000+ resume reviews.
• 2,500+ live interviews.
• 1,000+ hires.
• Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.

I've promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of my former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon.

I retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to allow me to focus on paying forward my good fortune to others.

Prior to Amazon, I spent 12 years at 3 startups.

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In my 20+ years as a technical executive (after 10+ years as an engineer), I led tech teams as the VP of Technology at Eurosport, Warner Bros, Discovery Inc, MotorTrend Group, Sweetgreen.

Prior, I served as Head of Global Developer Relations at Amazon for 7+ years, was the CTO of Outrigger Media, Chief Architect of AOL, and more.

• 100+ tech products launched (20+ new products and 80+ significant product improvements or events)
• Led 300+ tech teams.
• Promoted 10+ reports to Director of Eng or VP of Technology and hired 20+ people into those roles.
• Hold 12+ patents.
• Have 1:1 coached 100+ tech leaders.
• Was an Amazon Bar Raiser, reviewed 8,000+ resumes, conducted 2,000+ interviews, and have been part of hiring 1,000+ people across multiple job functions.
• Helped create and launch the Hiring Champions program for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) that greatly improved the quality of the people they hired.
• Shipped support for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris for Warner Brother's online sports network—47 markets, 19 languages, 215M viewers, 54 concurrent live streams (the course will include my recent global project implementation lessons).

I am a retired Major from the Army National Guard and led Engineer organizations (both combat and construction). I've commanded units during two natural disaster recovery operations and prepared logistics for a third: severe flooding in Ohio, hurricane relief in Virginia, and planned for post-Katrina. The military provided excellent training and real world experience in leadership, coaching, program management, and operating within a crisis. I carried that experience with me into my civilian career.

I have served six weeks abroad for the Army, but never in a combat zone. Both times it was for construction operations and "nation building," once in Germany and once in Jamaica (post-hurricane Gilbert recovery).

I am passionate about working with technically gifted people to create magical experiences that impact large communities.

Over the years, I have found that growing and developing people gives me a great deal of joy; especially when they go on to surpass my expectations. When they create technology that engages and delights others, I know that I have had a lasting impact.

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