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Technical Operations
Reliability, readiness, field performance, escalation, and sustainable operating capability.
Technical Operations · Engineering Leadership · Strategy
From bold ideas to systems that scale.
I lead technical organizations through the space between innovation and real-world execution. My career spans The Coca-Cola Company, Walt Disney Imagineering, manufacturing, global equipment, and complex customer-facing systems where strategy, reliability, and execution matter.
Leadership Mandate
Build for what comes next.
I work at the intersection of strategy, technical depth, and operational execution. The goal is not simply to create something new. It is to build the teams, partnerships, operating models, and technical foundations that allow strong ideas to perform reliably at scale.
Strategy to Execution
Turn ambiguity into clear priorities, operating models, and action.
Field to Future
Use real-world insight to shape stronger products, platforms, and decisions.
Scale with Confidence
Build reliability, readiness, and partnerships into the path to market.
Leadership Focus
Where I create leverage.
A multidisciplinary career has shaped how I lead: understand the technology, respect the operation, align the business, and build teams that can move complex work forward.
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Engineering & Innovation
Bring technical judgment and operational insight upstream to improve how new solutions are developed.
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Strategy & Transformation
Shape the structures, partnerships, and priorities required to move from concept to scalable execution.
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People & Partnerships
Lead experienced technical teams and connect engineering, commercial, service, suppliers, and customers.
Career
A career built across the lifecycle.
Design. Manufacturing. Innovation. Technical operations. Each chapter has expanded the view of what it takes to make ambitious systems work in the real world.
2026 — Present
Director of Technical Operations, North America Operating Unit
Lead the Technical Operations function for Coca-Cola’s North America Operating Unit, shaping strategy, reliability, operational readiness, and market execution across the dispensed equipment portfolio.
The Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta, GA
2025 — 2026
Senior Engineering Innovation Manager, Global Equipment Platforms
Led global equipment innovation across development, partnerships, commercialization, and scaled deployment, connecting technical development with market and customer needs.
The Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta, GA
2022 — 2024
Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager, Freestyle Innovation Center
Led mechanical engineering and technical development for Freestyle innovation, moving concepts through prototyping, validation, design refinement, and field readiness.
The Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta, GA
2021 — 2022
Manufacturing Manager, Engineering Services
Led large-scale manufacturing and refurbishment operations supporting complex mechanical, show, and engineered systems in a high-throughput operational environment.
The Walt Disney Company
Orlando, FL
2015 — 2020
Show Mechanical & Special Effects Designer
Designed, integrated, installed, and commissioned complex mechanical and special-effects systems for global themed entertainment projects.
Walt Disney Imagineering
Orlando, FL
2013 — 2015
Early Career — Project & Attraction Operations
Built hands-on foundations in engineering support, operations, guest experience, field execution, and project delivery.
The Walt Disney Company
Orlando, FL
Global Experience
Experience across markets, partners, and operating environments.
International experience spanning engineering collaboration, manufacturing partnerships, technical deployment, and customer environments across the globe.
Selected Work
Proof through execution.
A few examples from a career spent turning complex ideas into real systems, environments, and experiences.
Coca-Cola
Next-Generation Beverage Dispensing
Supported the development and commercialization of new dispensing technologies, helping bridge engineering, innovation, operations, and customer needs from early concept through market execution.
Coca-Cola
Spirited — Technical Program Leadership
Led cross-functional engineering from prototype toward real-world deployment in a high-profile venue environment.
Walt Disney Imagineering
Patented Projection Technology
Co-inventor on projection technology enabling real-time targeting of fast-moving objects for low-latency effects.
Walt Disney Imagineering
Pandora — The World of Avatar
Special-effects and area-development contributions to one of Disney’s most immersive themed environments.
Creative Technology
TikiTech — Interactive Systems
Integrated physical and digital systems using game engines, embedded controls, lighting, audio, and interactive set pieces.
Concept Development
Project Horizons
Explored the intersection of physical and digital guest experiences through immersive, interactive venue design.
Education & Credentials
Technical depth. Business judgment.
Master of Business Administration
Louisiana State University Shreveport
M.A. Art & Technology
University of Oklahoma
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Auburn University
A career built across engineering, operations, design, manufacturing, innovation, and business leadership.
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Cornell Applied Machine Learning & AI
OSHA 30
Disney Leadership Program
IDEO U
Recognition
A career shaped by teams that build memorable things.
2025
Coca-Cola Change Champion
Recognition for leading through change and transformation.
2023
TEA — Galactic Starcruiser
Brand Experience recognition.
2021
TEA — Rise of the Resistance
Attraction recognition.
2020
TEA — Galaxy’s Edge
New Park Land recognition.
2019
WDI Inventor Award
Recognition for patented technical innovation.
2018
TEA — Pandora
Area Development recognition.
About
Engineer by training. Builder by instinct. Leader by evolution.
I’m a technical operations and engineering leader working at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and execution. My career has moved across global product development, manufacturing, themed entertainment, and enterprise equipment operations.
That range has shaped how I lead: stay close enough to the work to understand reality, broad enough to connect functions and business needs, and focused enough to turn ambiguity into action.
I’m most energized by organizations facing the next horizon: new technologies, changing customer expectations, complex systems, and the challenge of scaling strong ideas without losing reliability or operational discipline.
Contact
Always interested in ambitious problems, strong teams, and what comes next.
Atlanta-based with experience across engineering, technical operations, innovation, manufacturing, and global customer environments.
Email Me
Resume available on request