I spent eight years at Google across two organizations. The last two, June 2024 to August 2026, were in the Office of Cross-Google Engineering, the org chartered to drive technical change through the company's most senior engineers. I built its three-tier communications operating model: one intake point, triage on scope, audience, urgency and cost of failure, and a defined turnaround per tier. I owned the editorial architecture for the annual senior technical summit, 600 plus attendees, and for the quarterly Distinguished and Principal Engineering forums. I ran the org's intranet as its publishing surface and overhauled the approvals governance that carries company-wide security and infrastructure mandates to executive sign-off. The six years before that were in Corporate Engineering, Google's internal information technology organization. There I rebuilt Day-One orientation into a self-service curriculum delivered to 75,000 plus new hires at 88 percent customer satisfaction, directed communications for the first-quarter 2020 global remote-work shift, and wrote executive communications for a Chief Information Officer.
I shipped two production agents inside Cross-Google Engineering. The first is a communications-triage system on Apps Script and Gemini, built to route 60 percent of inbound partnership requests without escalation and scoped to remove 160 hours of annual triage overhead. The second is an executive ghostwriting agent for a vice president, a voice-rule constitution plus banned-phrase verification, which cut document review rounds by 70 percent. On my own time I built career-ops, a cost-governed multi-agent job-search pipeline in Node.js and Playwright, and PictureLock, a headless video studio that takes a plain text script and returns a finished cut under a spend cap.
Before Google I spent a decade in newsrooms, 2007 to 2018. I line-produced breaking coverage at WDRB in Louisville, helped launch Al Jazeera English's The Stream the afternoon the bin Laden raid broke, produced live daily segments at CNN and HuffPost Live, and ran an explainer desk of eight to ten producers at Al Jazeera's AJ+ that reached 500 million weekly viewers, including one segment that passed 50 million views. I write TypeScript now, mostly with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, and I hold Anthropic certificates in Model Context Protocol and Agent Skills. The through-line is the same job in both halves: translating what an audience needs into what gets built for them, whether that audience is a morning news block, 75,000 new hires, or a thousand principal engineers.
