Richard J. Worthington

Director · AI Solution Design & Operations

I build the teams and the systems that decide what happens next.

Real-time decisioning: what a company should offer or say to a customer next, and the people who run it.

The record

From the phones to two teams, in four moves.

Two teamssolution design and operationsEach with its own management. Omni-channel decisioning runs through both.
Twenty yearssince 2004, starting on the phonesFifteen of them with automation, machine learning, and AI.
Six rolesfrom support calls to directorEvery one of them on the resume, with dates.
One patentreal-time model scoring for AIOne of several inventors. Linked from the record below.
  1. 2004On the phones

    Technical support calls the year a new fiber service launched.

  2. 2007 to 2015Automating the desk, then operations

    26 daily reports, an issue tracker, a voice portal.

  3. 2015 to 2021Real-time decision engines

    Systems engineering, with product, design, and data science at different points.

  4. 2021Director, two teams

    AI Enterprise Decisioning at Comcast.

How I lead

Scope, people, systems, and the way the work gets done.

Scope

Two teams inside Comcast's AI Enterprise Decisioning group, each with its own managers. Omni-channel decisioning runs through both.

People

Hired and grown teams throughout my career, including developing individual contributors into management. Earlier, led the product, design, and data science teams at different points.

Systems

Led the design and implementation of multiple real-time decision engines for customer-facing decisioning. With my team, built the change-management front end that decisioning ran through, intake to monitoring.

Firsts

Led proofs of concept throughout my career, taking on work that had not been tried before and turning it into something a team could run.

Operating

Running the thing is part of the job, not a handoff. Operations designs, configures, monitors, and optimizes strategies once they are live.

Method

Prove it small first. Every new approach starts as a proof of concept before anyone is asked to scale it.

From The Lab

What I build and write on my own time, unrelated to any of the above.

A homelab, open to visitors. Things I built, measured, and was occasionally wrong about.

Claims already in circulation, taken seriously enough to measure. Finding, method, evidence, provenance, and the checks that failed.

lab.worthington.cloud/field-reportsOpen on The Lab
Field reports on lab.worthington.cloud

Elsewhere

Three places to check the record.