C++ programmer, television producer, author, city politician, amateur hiker and ballroom dancer. At Heroic Robots, directs AI and metaverse development for mass market games, guides AI and robotics R&D, and oversees publishing of comic books, novels and technical books. * Led AR development at UN World Health Organization * Guided development of Lenovo ThinkReality AR glasses as product strategist * Architect of GoPro cloud/IoT APIs and R&D in autonomous video editing * Architect of U.S. national defense real-time AI crisis detection system * Hollywood C++ software designer Spider-Man VFX and Barbie animation * Founding director of AI research lab at billion-dollar engineering firm SAIC * Director ESG and high tech investments Gap Capital Partners family office * Chairman UN ITU Medical Metaverse Task Group telemedicine world standard * Chairman ISO C++ Low Latency Algorithmic Trading Subcommittee * Voting member ISO C++ Standard Committee * Voting member ISO CASCO Conformity Assessment * Former project manager and AI principal investigator DARPA * Taught Advanced C++ as a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School * Taught Intermediate C++ continuing ed at the University of Washington * Winner Novartis Biome Prize for AI computer vision disease analysis * Awarded multiple HeroX Prizes for innovation in artificial intelligence * Created American casino poker and bingo-playing chatbot gamebots * Built autonomous robotic television studios at NBC WMAQ-TV Chicago * Optimized USDOT Vision Zero real-time safety-critical Linux embedded system * Former chairman CFO Alliance Banking Cyber Security Subcommittee