D.00 — AI / PRODUCT
Hybrid · Project + Product
Program delivery meeting product direction.
I’m a Technology Program Manager with 20+ years shipping complex
technology work — and I’m deliberately moving into AI product and
hybrid project–product roles. Same core skill: make the system visible,
align the people, and get the work done. Applied now to AI products,
private / local infrastructure, and governance.
D.01 — FIT
For hiring managers
If you’re hiring an AI product / project manager
You’re usually choosing between a pure product person who hasn’t run
hard technical programs, or a pure delivery person who doesn’t think in
product. I’m the hybrid: program and project management depth, plus
hands-on AI product practice.
What I already do
- Lead complex, cross-functional technology programs and projects
- Map dependencies, stakeholders, risk, and cutover paths
- Make governance, security, and cost visible enough to decide
- Ship under real constraints — airports, cloud, data centers, privacy
Where I’m going
- AI product and hybrid project–product roles
- Local / private / sovereign AI systems with real operational stakes
- Product judgment without abandoning delivery discipline
- Turning prototypes and concepts into governed, usable systems
Why that combination matters for AI
- AI work fails when infra, people, and product are treated separately
- Someone has to own the picture: data, model path, controls, UX, ops
- Program managers who can also think in product reduce thrash
- Product managers who understand systems delivery ship cleaner
D.02 — BRIDGE
From infrastructure programs to AI products
The method transfers.
The Five P Operating Model — People, Picture, Plan, Perform, Pivot —
is how I run complex delivery. On AI work, that means the same thing:
get the right people in the room, make the system picture shared, define
an executable path, drive the build, and adapt when reality changes.
How I work →
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AI infrastructure map →
D.03 — PRACTICE
Professional practice
Where the AI work lives today.
Professional consulting and foundation work on one side; independent
experiments and product concepts on the other. Kept honest — not every
item is a shipped commercial product.
SOLAS
Sovereign Systems
Trusted AI infrastructure for organizations that can't trust the public cloud. Advisory through implementation — private, local, and hybrid AI, governed from day one.
solassovereignsystems.ai
GLAF
Global Local AI Foundation
Independent U.S. 501(c)(3) research foundation — evidence-based research on AI infrastructure, environmental impact, governance, and digital sovereignty.
globallocalai.org
GLAM
Global Local AI Mobilization
Public, non-partisan movement helping people understand how Power, Privacy, and Policy will shape the next generation of AI. Education, not sales.
globallocal.ai
D.04 — PROOF
Independent experiments — prototype / research, not commercial products
Building to learn the product surface.
These are not the same as Apple / Marvell / SFO delivery programs. They
are how I develop product sense, architecture judgment, and AI literacy
in public — with real systems, not slideware.
Prototype · live solas-ai-infrastructure-observatory · 4,334 commits
Solas AI Infrastructure Observatory
A real-time intelligence dashboard tracking the physical footprint of AI itself — data centers, compute, power — across dozens of live sources. The deepest, most actively maintained system in the portfolio: real deployment pipeline, real architecture documentation, real production hygiene.
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Prototype · built, not deployed planetary-os
Planetary OS
A climate-native fork of the same underlying engine — 23 live climate, humanitarian, and earth-systems sources aggregated into one globe-centric dashboard. Built for Climate Reality Project leaders and NGOs. Deliberately scoped — no conflict data, no military feeds, Earth systems only.
D.05 — CONCEPTS
Product concepts — early stage, not yet built as products
Concept
White Mirror
A privacy-first AI concept centered on an elegant, frictionless, human user experience — local-first, kept under the user's control.
Concept / prototype
Celtic Explorer
A digital museum and research experience for Irish mythology — encyclopedia, narrated stories, and source material in one exploratory interface.
Concept
LegalVault
A local, encrypted AI appliance concept for small law firms — private document search and retrieval-augmented analysis, kept off the public cloud.
Concept
ClarityNow
A browser-extension concept simplifying enterprise ServiceNow workflows through an interface layer, without changing the underlying platform.
D.06 — LITERACY
Local and private AI, kept off the public cloud.
Retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and local inference — the same infrastructure discipline applied to AI as to data centers and cloud. Current tooling demonstrates hands-on practice, not equal depth in every item.
Next
If the role is AI product / project
If you need someone who can run the program and stay close to
the product — especially where AI meets infrastructure, privacy, or
governance — that’s the conversation I want.
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