Prescriptive VR therapy running in 45 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and more than 500 senior communities, with the VA, Meta, AT&T and Select Rehabilitation. Eternalize — created an AI lab working on a new generation of conversational technology bridging the human and compute.

Co-founded on a conviction that spatial computing would change how people stay well — beginning with the population most often left in a chair by a window.

Xlantic, Los Angeles — an Emmy-nominated production group created at the embryonic stage of video streaming. Work for YouTube, Disney, Nvidia, Intel and Restoration Hardware — made for screens that barely existed yet.

One of them began with an interview: two grandparents, seventy years of marriage, one question about love. It grew into How Will We Love? and earned an Emmy nomination — in the first year the Academy recognised broadband as a category of its own.

Led Internet operations and global marketing at British Telecom, growing the network across five continents.

Led the company’s early voice-over-IP work, alongside a team of scientists who placed one of the first long-distance calls over the internet — Boston to Palo Alto.

A fast rise to the executive level in the first five years out of college, leading large teams inside the company that would become Verizon — building one of the first large commercial IP backbones in America, service rolled out across more than a hundred US markets, and a landmark dial-up agreement with America Online. That data work helped drive the $50B merger with Bell Atlantic that created Verizon.

A first project at the University of Texas building one of the earliest graphical interfaces on campus — in effect an intranet, letting students and professors collaborate electronically for the first time.

Cakewalk on MS-DOS, then a MIDI rig built around a DOS machine. Programming and composing on the same keyboard, years before anyone called that a career path.

An Apple IIe, and games written from scratch at twelve years old. The machine was never a mystery to be respected from a distance — it was something to make things with.