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Brad Dunlap

Technology leader in AI, product and engineering. Technical lead and product owner at NTT DATA by day, founder of Protomota the rest of the time.

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Fig. 0 My career since 2007, drawn as light. Each strand is a role; hover one.tap one.

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Profile

I have spent more than twenty years in software engineering, product ownership and digital product delivery.

I lead multidisciplinary teams and connect business priorities to application design, architecture and implementation. At NTT DATA I'm the technical lead and product owner for a Fortune 500 initiative in virtual reality, voice and AI-assisted automation.

Outside work I build native apps, robots and AI agent systems through Protomota Lab.

Table 1 Key figures

Professional experience: 20+ yrs
Automotive brand apps led: 7
Shopping center apps directed: 15
People on the enterprise product team: 20+
Project overruns during the scoping program: 0
Self-published native apps: 2
Self-published websites and web apps: 6

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Experience

Fig. 1 Employment timing diagram, 2007 to present. Overlapping traces are concurrent leadership roles at Vectorform.

Vectorform, Senior iOS Engineer

MRM Worldwide, Technical Lead

RIIS, Senior Tech Consultant

Vectorform, Technical Lead

Vectorform, Dir. Quality Experience

Vectorform, Dir. Scoping + Estimation

NTT DATA, Product Owner

NTT DATA, AI + Robotics Research

NTT DATA, Tech Lead + Product Owner

NTT DATA

Digital Solution Consultant Associate Director · Oct 2023 – Present

Technical Lead and Product Owner

Jan 2026 – Present

Lead a small multidisciplinary engineering team building VR, voice and AI-assisted automation applications for a Fortune 500 client's confidential workflow initiative, now in pilot.
Led concept development and shaped product vision with client and design stakeholders, from idea to pilot.
Own backlog, acceptance criteria and release planning; run product demos and define scope with the client.
Direct architecture and implementation across Azure, a Next.js web app, a Unity app and supporting automation.
Build AI and voice capabilities: speech recognition, text-to-speech, conversational AI and voice commands.
Manage hardware, tooling, integration and scope risk to keep delivery on the first valuable use case.

Research and Development in AI and Robotics Simulation

Apr 2025 – Dec 2025

Trained on NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab; built simulation workflows with ROS 2 connecting hardware behavior and software-driven test environments.
Built agentic systems for coordinating AI-assisted technical work, research and delivery workflows.

Product Owner, Enterprise Mobile Application

Oct 2023 – Apr 2025

Owned a multi-year iOS and Android application for a top U.S. manufacturing company, translating product direction into epics, user stories and acceptance criteria for a 20+ person team in Azure DevOps.
Partnered in quarterly SAFe PI Planning on objectives, roadmaps, priorities and cross-team dependencies.
Contributed to scoping and estimating a project extension that secured continued development investment.

Protomota Lab

Independent work outside professional employment

Founder and Independent Developer

protomota.com

Design, build and run Jotley end to end, including the app, release, marketing and website: a native Mac, iPhone and iPad app for real-time transcription, AI summaries, searchable notes and AI chat.
Design, build and run PulseCanvas Studio end to end, including the app, release, marketing and website: a native Mac music visualizer and video app in Swift, SwiftUI and Metal, with export up to 4K at 60 fps.
Develop AI agents and automate complex workflows end to end, coordinating work with Hermes Agent.
Build electronics, assemble and program robots, and run local AI models on personal hardware, including robots.

Vectorform

Director of Scoping and Estimation

Nov 2019 – Oct 2023

Built and led a scoping and estimation process that took the company from several overrun projects per year to zero during program ownership.
Cut estimate turnaround from a week or more to a few days in most cases with repeatable templates.
Improved estimate accuracy and profitability by aligning scope, staffing, feasibility and risk with Sales and Delivery; introduced analytics comparing actuals against estimates.
Trained teams across sales, product, design and engineering on the methodology and reusable estimation tools.

Director of Quality Experience

Sep 2017 – Oct 2023

Held a secondary leadership role managing a small QA team and supporting Business Analysis operations.
Initiated the move from primarily manual testing toward automated UI testing for web and mobile.
Administered JIRA, integrated test case management and BrowserStack, and set client approval processes.

Technical Lead, Mobile Application Engineer

Nov 2012 – Nov 2019

Led the full lifecycle of seven Stellantis/FCA apps: Mopar, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Alfa Romeo, Fiat.
Led the Jeep Badge of Honor iOS and Android app: trail tracking, gamification, community, badge redemption.
Led the DTE Energy Insight App and real-time Energy Meter integration from concept through launch, supported FCC approval, and contributed technical and product expertise to its spin-off into Powerley.
Directed 15 Taubman shopping center apps with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi indoor navigation and CI/CD releases.

RIIS

Senior Tech Consultant, Mobile Strategy and App Development

Oct 2011 – Nov 2012

Directed iOS and Android development, defining mobile technical strategy and leading implementation.
Implemented Agile, test-driven development, Jenkins CI/CD and automated unit and UI testing.
Performed mobile penetration testing and reverse engineering; delivered prioritized security recommendations.

MRM Worldwide

Technical Lead, Front End

Sep 2010 – Oct 2011

Led front-end development for Chevrolet.com's annual model refresh, defining architecture and coding standards.
Mentored developers, partnered with UX and backend teams, and improved performance across devices.

Vectorform

Senior iOS Engineer

Sep 2007 – Sep 2010

Founded Vectorform's mobile practice as its first iOS developer; led apps featured on the Apple App Store.
Led full development of The Coca-Cola Company's Sprite Mixer iOS app, a major brand initiative featuring Drake.
Prototyped Chrysler infotainment and navigation concepts and developed components of the 200C in-dash interface shown at the 2009 North American International Auto Show.

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Selected work

My client work is confidential, so these are my own builds from Protomota Lab.

Jotley on a Mac, iPad and iPhone, showing a meeting note with key points, decisions and action items

Fig. 2JotleyPrivate AI notes for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Transcribes speech live, then summarizes and answers questions on the device with Apple Intelligence.Swift, SwiftUI, Apple Intelligence, iCloudjotley.ai

PulseCanvas Studio on a Mac, iPad and iPhone, playing colorful kaleidoscope music visualizers

Fig. 3PulseCanvas StudioMusic visualizer and video maker for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. Finds the beat, splits the song into sections and plays native visualizers and MilkDrop effects.Swift, SwiftUI, Metal, export up to 4K at 60 fpspulsecanvas.si

The Everything we've ever launched simulation: a 3D Earth surrounded by tracked objects, with the Space Shuttle Columbia panel open on April 12, 1981

Fig. 4Everything we've ever launchedInteractive 3D simulation of every object tracked in Earth orbit since Sputnik, appearing launch by launch on a 3D Earth.3D data visualization, webprotomota.com/experiments

Exploded view of the folding iPhone Duo in the interactive teardown, with the logic board step selected

Fig. 5iPhone Duo teardownA folding iPhone rebuilt in code. Take it apart in repair order and tap any part to see where the numbers came from.Interactive 3D, webprotomota.com/experiments

AI Resource Pro banner reading Learn AI by building with it, free tutorials and videos

Fig. 6AI Resource ProFree tutorials and videos for learning AI by building with it: Claude Code and Codex best practices, computer-use agents and open-weight models on your own GPU.Next.js, TypeScript, Supabaseairesourcepro.com youtube.com/@AIResourcePro1

Project Ogre, an orange mecanum-wheel robot with a lidar sensor and a Jetson Orin Nano, on a carpet

Fig. 7Project OgreMecanum-drive robot on a Jetson Orin Nano with RPLIDAR, RealSense depth and autonomous navigation with SLAM and Nav2, trained in Isaac Lab.ROS 2, Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, SLAM, Nav2Build log

The real SO-ARM 101 robot arm next to its yellow digital twin in Isaac Sim

Fig. 8SO-ARM 101 digital twinA leader arm drives a 6-axis arm in Isaac Sim in real time.Isaac Sim, ROS 2, LeRobotBuild log

JetBot Orin, a small orange two-wheel robot with a Jetson Orin Nano and a camera, on a carpet

Fig. 9JetBot OrinThe NVIDIA JetBot, rebuilt for the Jetson Orin Nano with a custom chassis.Jetson Orin, OpenCVBuild log

A 3D-printed armor piece made of overlapping leaf-shaped scales

Fig. 103D printsArmor, tools and decorative pieces. The Elven Leaf Armor has passed 9,200 downloads.makerworld.com/@protomota

A frame from my AI video work: the word Automation in orange with a streak of light

Fig. 11AI video and motionClips, short videos, titles and visuals that move to music.protomota.com/motion youtube.com/@protomota

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Skills

AI and automation: AI engineering, Model Context Protocol (MCP), prompt engineering, AI agents, LLM fine-tuning, end-to-end workflow automation, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor
Product engineering: React, Next.js, Python, APIs, databases, Swift, SwiftUI, iOS, Android, Unity, virtual reality (VR), voice technologies, Internet of Things (IoT), technical design
Robotics and hardware: NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, ROS 2, robot assembly and programming, electronics, 3D printing, Blender, Plasticity CAD
Platform and delivery: Azure, AWS, Cloudflare, Linux administration, Docker, Proxmox, Azure DevOps, JIRA, GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Jenkins, CI/CD, release automation
Testing and security: Playwright, mobile UI automation, BrowserStack, test strategy, QA process design, mobile penetration testing, reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis
Methods: Agile, Scrum, Scaled Agile (SAFe), XP, TDD, PI planning, backlog management, estimation, scope governance

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Protomota

Protomota is my lab: the apps, AI video, robots and experiments I build on my own time. Everything lives at protomota.com.

Protomota Sizzle Reel Motion graphics in 4K at 60 fps, set to my song “One Less Thing”.

Mac · iPhone · iPad · Free

Jotley

Private AI notes. Transcribes speech live, then summarizes and answers questions on the device with Apple Intelligence.

Mac · iPhone · iPad · Vision Pro · Free

PulseCanvas Studio

Music visualizer and video maker. Finds the beat, splits a song into sections and exports music-synced video up to 4K at 60 fps.

Free tutorials and videos

AI Resource Pro

Learn AI by building with it: Claude Code and Codex best practices, computer-use agents, open-weight models on your own GPU.

airesourcepro.com youtube.com/@AIResourcePro1

ExperimentsInteractive simulations and builds MotionAI video and motion work WebsitesWebsites and web apps I've shipped

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Writing

The Protomota newsletter: what I'm building and what I learn along the way.

All posts on Substack

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Credentials

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Graphic Design, Eastern Michigan University

Certifications

Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate
NTT Gen AI White, Yellow and Green Belt
NTT DATA Agile and Scrum Internal Certification
GitHub Copilot Certified
Google AI Essentials

Industries

Manufacturing, utilities and energy, automotive, retail and shopping centers, IoT and connected hardware, sweepstakes and promotions, entertainment and consumer brands.

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Get in touch

Questions about a role, a project, or anything on this page. Send a note and I'll reply by email.

Open to new roles and business opportunities.

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