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 → · 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.

Solas AI Infrastructure Observatory — global monitor view
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.

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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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