Commerce Contributions

I learned sales, selling books door-to-door in my four years working with the Southwestern Company. I applied those skills to helping clients find jobs, placing well over 100 people with TRAC Associates. I was fortunate to start working for Amazon.com in 1999 when it really was closer to ‘Day One” and stayed another 12 years; 5 years as the movies category manager for Amazon Marketplace and 7 years at IMDb business development with an emphasis on content and technology licensing deals and launches. In that time, I also designed and project-managed software launches, including leading the first group to integrate a commercial project with Amazon Web Services, outside that team proper. After that I focused on consulting and filmmaking. After moving to England, I began working as a freelance creative technologist (creating web technologies, XR projects and games). Then in early 2024, I co-founded Assistant Engineering, a company that designs, builds and deploys customised AI Assistants.