Most people go deeper. More expertise, more specialization. I went the other way.

I go wider.

It started in visual effects. Twenty years of it, for Disney, Paramount, Apple, Google, Sony, and a lot of others. On paper that’s one career. It wasn’t. Every job was different. The software, the pipeline, the constraints changed on nearly every one. You learned a dozen tools at once, and which to grab when. Mostly it taught me to walk into things I’d never done, learn on the fly, and build what didn’t exist yet.

That instinct didn't stay put.

I hold a US patent. I wrote a book for Wiley. I entertained the world with over 400 million views through a deepfake persona. I'm a licensed pilot. I rebuild classic cars. I built a 4.5-foot flying video screen from a napkin sketch.

Right now I work like a company within a company. Inside an entertainment marketing studio, I ask the people doing the work what slows them down. Then I build the tool that fixes it, and I keep it running. It all runs in the building. Confidential work never touches a public AI service.

None of it was planned. Each thing made the next one possible. The further I went, the more the side quests fed each other. That crossover is the part that matters. I can pull from all of it at once, and that’s usually where the good ideas come from.

I think differently. And with AI reshaping every industry at once, that’s never been more useful.