Wilk · the drive
OWN 20
1st & 10
1st & 10Own 20Q1 · 2013–15
Norfolk Southern
Mechanical Supervisor · Altoona, PA
The opening series — heavy personnel, straight ahead. A supervisor on a locomotive refurbishing floor gets tired of watching good people retype numbers, so he teaches himself to code: a multi-tier production-line data system to track product and inventory, and Python quietly takes over the CNC quality-control reports.
- 8 hrs/week manual entry eliminated
- ~$12,500 annual savings
Gain of 12 · First down — power run, off tackle
1st & 10Own 32Q1 · 2015–18
NAVSEA SWRMC (U.S. Navy)
Engineering Technician V · San Diego, CA
Play-action off the run game. At the Navy's Southwest Regional Maintenance Center he builds a MERN-stack data collection system nobody asked for, cuts information-processing time, automates the stakeholder reporting — and the league takes notice.
- U.S. Navy Innovation Award recognition
Gain of 8 · And a game ball — play-action, deep post
1st & 10Own 40Q2 · 2016–18
SSR Digital Displays
Founder · San Diego, CA
Trick play — run at night, while the starters rest. He founds SSR on the side and builds a full-stack, real-time digital menu system updatable from any web-connected device. Installed in 3 San Diego bars and 2 Philadelphia bars.
Gain of 6 · Flea flicker — no-huddle, nights & weekends
1st & 10Own 46Q2 · 2018–19
Accenture
Senior Analyst — Application Developer · Philadelphia, PA
Screen pass taken upfield. Embedded customer-facing with Accenture Life Science Cloud clients, he leads discovery on document-upload pain points — then ships the fixes and the automation himself instead of writing a deck about them.
- -84% client-reported issues
- ~$45,000 annual labor savings
Gain of 11 · Chains move — screen right, blockers out front
1st & 10Opp 43Q3 · 2019–21
Comcast · X1 Telemetry
Front-End Developer — Team Lead, X1 Telemetry · contracted via TekSystems · Philadelphia, PA
The deep shot everyone remembers. He leads 3 developers re-architecting the real-time telemetry front-end around NgRx, and his JS data-collection library gets adopted by other teams — scaled out to 30,000,000 devices. Highly animated D3.js visualizations, including a live U.S. map of per-market performance, play on every screen in the building.
- 30,000,000 devices reached
- 87% outstanding tech debt resolved
- +200% new-feature delivery speed
Gain of 16 · Crowd on its feet — four verts, ball on a rope
1st & 10Opp 27Q3 · 2021–22
Fort Robotics
Senior Engineer — Front-End Team Lead · Philadelphia, PA
Quarterback keeper — no handoff, no hesitation. He leads 5 engineers building the company's first client-facing product, an Angular web + Ionic mobile device-management portal for the robotic safety-controller platform, and owns customer outcomes on a 0→1 launch: ambiguity scoped, quality owned, junior team grown. The core component library — infinite-scroll directives, form wizards, async validators — is built with strict type safety and RxJS.
- 5 engineers team led
- 0→1 launch product
Gain of 9 · Keeper up the middle — QB draw, fresh downs
1st & 10Opp 18Q4 · 2022–25
Comcast · Xumo
Principal Engineer — Technical Lead, Xumo TV Platform · Philadelphia, PA
West Coast quick game — everything on time, everything in rhythm. Technical lead for the resident smart-TV app bridging client UI, third-party apps, physical TV hardware, and external APIs. He draws up the TV Toolkit, a one-click debugging and device-interface suite, and cuts onboarding and dev cycles 10%. Graduates Comcast's AI Academy; the capstone ships a model that lifts acceptance of suggested next actions 30% in a customer-facing troubleshooting chat. Promoted to Principal mid-drive.
- -10% onboarding & dev cycles
- +30% AI Academy capstone lift
Gain of 13 · Inside the five — slant-flat, rhythm throw
1st & GoalOpp 5Q4 · 2025–now
Comcast · X1
Principal Engineer — AI Technical Lead, X1 Platform · Philadelphia, PA · current
Two-minute offense. No huddle. He runs a squad embedded across the X1 organization, calling AI plays the rest of the company adopts: an automated vulnerability-fix pipeline that opens human-in-the-loop PRs — open security vulnerabilities down 80% — and a large-scale, spec-driven, AI-assisted migration of a mission-critical Java application from Java 8 to Java 25. Behind those: an AI system that repairs broken tests and hunts E2E coverage gaps, and an LLM onboarding tool that lets non-technical stakeholders explore the codebase, design specs, and mock features. The clock is running. He is not slowing down.
- -80% open security vulnerabilities
- Java 8 → Java 25 AI-assisted migration
Drive alive · 1st & Goal — clock running, calling his own plays