Things I’ve Shipped
Olympics. Super Bowls. Presidential interviews. Six cities. Twelve studios. One very long run at the intersection of media and technology.
Each project below is a real thing that got made — on budget, on time, and on air. Some were built from concrete and cable. Some were built from a whiteboard and a deadline. All of them required someone to figure out how to make it work.
That someone was me.
Featured Builds
Over 25 years, I designed and project managed studio facilities across three continents and six cities, each one built to a different brief, a different market, and a different scale. Together they formed the production infrastructure behind some of the most recognizable names in digital media.
The portfolio spans fourteen facilities in total. Three studios in Sunnyvale that served as Yahoo's operational anchor. A state-of-the-art sound stage in San Jose built in partnership with Verizon. Three studios in Los Angeles, planted in the heart of the entertainment industry. Six facilities across New York City, each one scaling up from the last as Yahoo's East Coast ambitions grew. An international outpost in Taipei with three flexible studio spaces built to the same broadcast standards as the U.S. operations. A Nashville facility launched in temporary space while the permanent build was underway, keeping the show on air the entire time. And a full upgrade of Yahoo's Sunnyvale all-hands venue, transformed into a broadcast-ready stage for large-scale live events.
Every project was designed from the ground up. Every one was delivered on time, on budget, and on air.
Same builder. Different blueprints. One standard.
The machine behind the machine
Front Row. Every Time
From the Oscars to the red carpet, we were always the first ones set up and the last ones to wrap.
Hollywood runs on moments. The dress. The winner. The interview nobody else got. The reaction caught live that becomes the clip everyone shares the next morning. These are the productions where being in the right place with the right gear and the right team isn't a nice-to-have, it's the entire job.
For Yahoo Entertainment, we showed up to all of it.
The Oscars. The Emmys. The Sundance Film Festival. Red carpets for Spiderman and The Hunger Games. The kind of events where you get one shot at the shot and the talent, the timing, and the technology all have to work perfectly at exactly the same moment.
These weren't studio productions with controlled environments and predictable schedules. They were field operations in crowded, chaotic, high-glamour settings built on advance planning, experienced crews, and the kind of infrastructure that doesn't flinch when an A-list star stops in front of your camera with thirty seconds notice.
We were there. We were ready. We got it.
Cleared For the White House. Ready For Anything
There are productions where getting it wrong isn't an option. Political coverage is that — and then some. Every election, every convention, every interview with a sitting president lands on a specific date, at a specific time, in front of an audience that is watching closely. There is no rescheduling. There is no second take.
Over more than a decade, my team delivered all of it for Yahoo News.
We were live on Election Night, multiple cycles, building in scale and sophistication each time. We covered the Republican and Democratic National Conventions live from the floor. We produced White House interviews with sitting presidents. And in 2016, we built and executed Yahoo News' full election coverage operation, one of the most ambitious live digital news productions of its era.
These weren't studio productions with the luxury of a controlled environment. They were field operations, coordination challenges, and high-wire acts of logistics. This all executed by a team that had been built to handle exactly this kind of pressure.
The results spoke for themselves. The feed stayed up. The coverage went out. The interviews aired.
In political coverage, that's the whole job.
From Election Night to the Oval Office, the feed never dropped
Five Rings. Five Cities. One Team That Never Missed A Transmission
From Beijing to Rio, we built the operation that put Yahoo Sports on the Olympic stage
The Olympics don't come to you. You go to them — with equipment, with crew, with a production infrastructure that has to function flawlessly in a foreign country, in a different time zone, under a deadline that the entire world is watching.
We did it five times.
Beijing 2008. Vancouver 2010. London 2012. Sochi 2014. Rio 2016. five different host cities. Five different logistical challenges. Five different technical environments to assess, plan for, and build a production operation inside of, each one from scratch, each one on schedule, each one on air.
For Yahoo Sports, the Olympics weren't just a sporting event. They were the biggest content moment of the cycle, the production that had to be bigger, faster, and more ambitious than anything we'd done the cycle before. That meant advance teams on the ground early. It meant infrastructure built for the conditions of each specific host city. It meant crews that could operate at the highest level under the kind of pressure that only comes when the whole world is tuned in.
Five Games. Five successful operations. Not one missed transmission.
Some teams talk about being ready for anything. We proved it on five continents, across nearly a decade, at the biggest sporting event on the planet