Milky Way over Crater Lake
CTO & Digital Plumber

I find where value gets stuck and clear the way.

Over 20 years building and scaling platforms at Amazon, Nvidia, Tinder, ActZero, and Genvid Entertainment; driving AI and cloud innovation, leading turnarounds, and creating experiences that bring people closer together.

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$65M+
Funding Secured
87.5%
Cost Reduction via AI
20+
Patents Granted
1
Emmy Award
Jerry Heinz
About

I’m a digital plumber.

I look at organizations and see the pipes: where value flows, where it gets stuck, where pressure builds up. My job is to find the blockages, clear them, and get things moving again. Along the way, I build partnerships, teams, and delightful customer experiences and brands.

Most of the time, what looks like a technology problem turns out to be a people problem. I’ve built a career bridging those gaps: from co-founding Amazon Game Studios to leading AI-driven production pipelines that cut costs by 87.5%.

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Selected Work

Where I’ve Made an Impact

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2022 — Present
Genvid Entertainment
CIO / EVP, Global Publishing

Built an end-to-end agentic AI filmmaking pipeline. Instituted IT and cybersecurity governance, eliminating $4M in wasteful spend and achieving COPPA, GDPR, and CPRA compliance. Emmy-winning interactive content.

87.5% production cost reduction
2019 — 2022
ActZero.ai
Chief Technology Officer

First executive hire. Secured $65M in funding. Trained a small language model for ransomware prediction: zero successful attacks on any customer during my tenure. Acquired by Watchguard.

77% profit margins
2015 — 2019
Nvidia
Director, Cloud

Launched Nvidia’s first cloud AI product. Solved the real-time cloud-streaming cost problem, driving GPU utilization to near 100% and unblocking Nvidia’s entire cloud strategy.

100M+ end users served
2010 — 2014
Amazon Web Services
Sr. Manager, Advanced Gaming Technologies

Co-founded Amazon Game Studios. Launched the G2 EC2 instance, AWS’s first VMs with datacenter-class GPUs, an industry first that paved the way for all cloud ML/DL infrastructure. Created Amazon GameLift, AppStream, and games on Fire TV at launch.

Industry-first GPUs in cloud
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Let’s build something together.

I’m always interested in conversations about technology leadership, AI-driven innovation, and bringing people closer through technology.