A two time graduate of the department (BS 2000 & MS 2001), CJ was a pioneer in consumer software and gaming, with a Microsoft career spanning 14 years. His Microsoft career culminated at 343 Industries - Microsoft Game Studios where he rose to the level of Principal Lead Producer / Group Program Manager for the Halo franchise, one of the top grossing games of all times with billions in worldwide sales. In 2015, CJ relocated from Seattle to Nashville, where he currently serves as the Sr. Vice President of Research & Development at Axiom, a legal services company transforming it’s business model through technology. At 343 Industries, CJ’s producer credits include Halo Waypoint, Halo Channel, Halo Nightfall, Halo 4, Halo 5, and Halo: The Master Chief Collection. He provided lead design and production for numerous Halo ecosystem and transmedia projects in support of AAA game titles with >$10M in annual projects under his management. As the popularity of the game increased and the franchise expanded into motion pictures, CJ managed the cross-studio pre/post-production & Xbox interactive feature production for Halo Nightfall, a >$20M motion picture executive directed by Ridley Scott. CJ pioneered Halo 4 online services as the first major Microsoft customer of Windows Azure and Halo Waypoint ATLAS as the first mobile device “second screen” experience on Xbox with a real-time connection to gameplay in Halo Reach. Immediately before his time with 343 Industries, CJ was responsible for incubating a 3-7 year technology and business strategy for Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division, establishing a roadmap for future success. Prior to entering the entertainment space at Microsoft, CJ served as Lead Program Manager for 8 years across a variety of Microsoft consumer software teams where he led product management, program management and user experience design. Notables are his work on early social media experiment ‘threedegrees’, instant messaging application MSN Messenger, and upstart operating system Windows Home Server. His work on ‘threedegrees’ in the early 2000s pushed the boundaries of peer-to-peer technology to enable simultaneous shared social experiences on PCs, hinting at the future of social media we take for granted today. His work on Windows Home Server defined a new hardware device category, shipped a v1 operating system in <3 years, and set the gold standard for the administration experience of a complex headless appliance, a legacy that lives on in the most popular NAS (network attached storage) devices in the market today.After relocating from Seattle to Nashville in 2015, CJ joined Change Healthcare as Vice President, Strategic Program Management, responsible for leading the healthcare technology company’s cloud platform transformation efforts. In 2018, CJ joined Axiom, a pioneer in alternative legal services. CJ’s initial work at Axiom focused on creating an innovative machine learning technology that analyzed legal contracts to tell lawyers and business users alike what commercial terms were inside without having to read through countless pages. This upstart technology was successfully sold by Axiom to RELX, a LexisNexis company. Today, CJ serves as Senior Vice President of Axiom’s Research & Development Team, focused on matching Axiom unparalleled global legal talent pool with the needs of Axiom’s prestigious client. Under his leadership, Axiom has developed a bespoke technology platform that understands the skills, past experiences, work preferences, and availability of every legal practitioner in Axiom’s network, enabling the business to continue and accelerate its strong track record of double-digit annual revenue growth. As a software product and program management executive, CJ has a demonstrated track record of turning business ideas into technical reality. His career has allowed him to work across every software delivery medium including packaged operating systems, cloud services, video games, web, mobile applications, and B2B hosted services. Over that career he has amassed 17 granted patents spanning a wide range of computing topics including peer-to-peer networking, live social media experiences, headless server administration, location-aware mobile device experiences and interactive video. Additionally, he is a named inventor on 3 pending patent applications related to the training of machine learning systems to analyze contracts and the data structures required to embody that analysis.