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Jason O.

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VP of AI at Ashley Furniture Industries
📍 San Diego, California, United States

Jason O. is the VP of AI at Ashley Furniture Industries, specializing in deploying high-impact machine learning systems. His experience includes building AI-powered sales tools and advanced recommendation engines for major companies like Southern Glazers and Warner Bros. Discovery. He holds both a Masters and Bachelors degree from UCLA.

Outside of his tech career, Jason is a skilled Taiko performer and instructor. He has performed Japanese drumming in over 20 national and international venues and has co-created and implemented 15 original student taiko courses.

He won the Judges Award at the 2015 International Odaiko Competition held at Mt. Fuji in Japan.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
VP of AI
Job Level
Senior
Location
San Diego, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Jason shows up

Value Driven
Curious
Assertive

They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince. They often ask many questions and rely heavily on information and documentation. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.

Priorities

Topics Jason cares about

AI in Sales
Built and launched a 'Next Best Action' AI agent for sales teams at a previous company, resulting in a 48% improvement in sales objective completion.
Recommendation Systems
Has extensive experience researching and deploying hybrid and multi-stage recommendation systems at Warner Bros. Discovery and Walt Disney to increase user engagement and content discovery.
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Career

Work history

9-2025
VP of AI
Ashley Furniture Industries
5-2024 - 9-2025
Director of AI/ML
Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
7-2021 - 5-2024
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Warner Bros. Discovery
5-2017 - 7-2021
Data Scientist
Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International
8-2013 - 4-2016
Performer and Instructor
Asano Taiko US
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Media appearances

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Education
Master’s Degree
UCLA
Bachelor's Degree
UCLA
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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