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I map how the work actually moves, then I ship the systems that change it. Technical Program Manager at eBay operating at director-plus scope, reporting to a VP of Engineering. Founder of baxie, an AI-native construction SaaS in beta.
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Ex-eBay TPM.
Founder of baxie.
20 to 200 people.
At eBay I was a Technical Program Manager operating at director-plus scope, reporting to a VP of Engineering. My peers were directors and engineering managers across Core Product and Core Technology. My day job was getting them to agree on trade-offs and then holding the plan together while it shipped.
Someone has to own the AI program. I worked that layer at eBay, and I ship the systems myself. Setting direction is one job and shipping against it is another. Strategy firms tend to do the first and subcontract the second. That handoff is exactly where the work goes unmapped and stalls.
eBay · Program execution
Director-plus scope, reporting to a VP of Engineering. I aligned directors and engineering managers across Core Product and Core Technology on trade-offs, dependencies, and sequencing. The same map an AI portfolio needs.
Engineering foundation
A bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from San Francisco State University. Systems thinking, tolerance analysis, and root-cause discipline. I bring the same posture to AI systems that have to behave in production.
Ships AI today
An AI-native construction SaaS for residential general contractors, in beta. A full production app shipped by one founder, running off a shared knowledge base and a production AI stack. The proof is current.
These are the patterns I bring to a client build. Every one of them is running in my own product, so I have already paid for the mistakes.
This practice and baxie run on one shared knowledge base: the layer my team and my AI both read from. It is the same architecture I build for clients.
Engagements that break these do not work, so I do not take them.
Every engagement starts with the AI Program Diagnostic. I will not quote a build or a retainer before I have mapped the work, and I will not take a retainer from a company that has not tried one AI use case yet.
Every pattern I put in a client build is one I run in baxie. If I would not run it in my own production, I will not ship it into yours.
I am model-agnostic and tool-agnostic. I make money from your engagement and nothing else. No referral fees, no reseller margins, no vendor partnerships. The stack we pick fits your work.
Every engagement ends with your team running the eval suite, the playbook, and the on-call. If your team cannot take it, the engagement is not done.
Two weeks. A workflow map, a 90-day sequence with an owner, a baseline, and a build type on every line, and a kill list.
Flat fee, paid before kickoff. Credited in full if you build or retain me within 30 days of the readout.
The first lines of the plan, shipped into the stack your team already runs, and measured against the plan's baseline.
From $7,500 a workflow, two-workflow minimum. Price fixed in writing at the readout.
AI System Continuity keeps what shipped running. The Fractional Head of AI Transformation owns the program and the next builds.
Continuity is 2 to 3 days a month. Fractional is 1 to 3 days a week, 6-month minimum.
I will tell you in the first conversation whether I am the right operator for what you are trying to ship.
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