About Me
I was working as a photo assistant photographing bottles of perfume with an 8x10 camera about a mile away from the World Trade Towers when they were attacked on September 11th, 2001. That moment changed everything and launched me into a career that's taken me around the world and through some unexpected turns.
As Associate Director of Automation & AI, I now lead digital transformation initiatives. My team's AI implementations have reduced many manual processes by 90% or more. It's rewarding work that combines my love of technology with real business impact.
But getting here has been quite a journey.
After 9/11, I spent over a decade as a photojournalist covering major conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, the devastating 2006 tsunami in Banda Aceh, and catastrophic earthquakes in Pakistan and Indonesia. I lived and worked in India and Hong Kong, managed teams of photographers and editors at Bloomberg, and helped build multimedia tools that newsrooms around the world still use today.
Working so closely with digital workflows as a photojournalist gave me a front-row seat to the technology challenges newsrooms faced every day. That experience led me to transition into product management, where I spent over a decade at Bloomberg leading their global digital asset management systems, and other multimedia systems. It was the perfect bridge between understanding creative workflows and building the technology solutions that support them.
My career has been wonderfully diverse – I've done everything from processing coroner's office photographs at a one-hour lab to high-end fashion shoots, from combat zones to corporate boardrooms. These days I'm passionate about solving complex business challenges through AI and automation, though I still love the creative problem-solving that drew me to photography in the first place.