A condensed view. The full version lives on LinkedIn and in the CV — happy to walk through any of it.
Braatz Research — Founder, Chief AI Researcher (2024–present)
Production-grade AI/ML for Fortune 500 through SMB — system architecture, RAG, agentic workflows, quantization, deployment. Applied research advancing MLP and Kolmogorov–Arnold architectures via differentiable simulation. U.S. Patent 12,324,122 B2 for an air-gapped IoT compute architecture.
Stable Diffusion Animation Studios — Founder (2014–2024)
Zero to 1,800+ employees; exited to a Fortune 100 acquirer. AI-native VFX pipelines: Stable Diffusion, Gaussian splatting, ML-assisted photogrammetry. Concurrent Stanford research fellowship.
Sony Electronics — VP, Machine Learning (2014–2016)
Reported to the CEO and Tokyo board. Transformed 1990s JIT manufacturing into a real-time ML platform — 116% bottom-line improvement, 61% reduction in time-to-manufacture.
Disney Media & Entertainment — VP, Data Science & Predictive Analytics (2007–2014)
Led 1,400+ data scientists and statisticians; 343% top-line revenue lift over seven years via predictive analytics across filming, licensing, CG pipelines, and digital monetization.
Google — VP, Data Science, Video Content (2003–2007)
Built Google’s first Video on Demand division (110+ engineers, 344 worldwide patents). ML-based video protocols still embedded in YouTube’s infrastructure. Senior technical partner on the 2006 YouTube acquisition.
Earlier
CashEdge (VP Operations, acquired by Fiserv for $465M). WorldCare Clinical (SVP, co-built the world’s first global tele-health network). Dignity Health (Director, one of the first U.S. rural telehealth networks).