Austin, Texas · Enterprise AI & Delivery

Joshua
Harnden.

18 years leading high-stakes cross-functional production and narrative delivery in broadcast television. Now building at the intersection of agentic AI workflows and enterprise commercialization.

Joshua Harnden
Austin, TX · McCombs M.S.T.C.

01 — Core Focus

What I Bring to the Table

The intersection of technical capability,
operational leadership, and commercial narrative.

01 Emerging Tech

Agentic AI & Prompt Systems

Hands-on experience evaluating, training, and stress-testing frontier models (Mercor, Outlier, Uber AI Solutions). Concurrently earning the Certificate in Agentic AI from Johns Hopkins University, focusing on autonomous multi-agent workflows and human-in-the-loop validation.

02 Business & GTM

Technology Commercialization

M.S. in Technology Commercialization (M.S.T.C.) candidate at UT Austin McCombs School of Business. Focused on translating complex, bleeding-edge technical capabilities into clear, defensible product market positioning and business models.

03 Execution & Ops

High-Stakes Delivery & Operations

18 years as Co-Executive Producer and Supervising Producer running 300+ broadcast episodes (MTV, Bravo, E!, TLC, History). Managing 10–20 person cross-functional teams, $500K budgets, and immovable network delivery schedules under intense pressure.

04 Communication

Narrative Architecture & Story

Princeton B.A. in English and Otis M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Expert at "de-AI-ifying" boilerplate content to craft compelling, high-conviction product positioning, stakeholder presentations, and executive communication.

02 — Background & Pedigree

Credentials & Track Record

A proven history of
rigor and scale.

Broadcast & Media Production

18 years as Co-Executive Producer and Supervising Producer delivering 300+ broadcast episodes across cable and streaming: My 600-lb Life (TLC, 132 episodes), The Hills & The City (MTV), Keeping Up With the Kardashians (E!), and Roman Atwood’s Daydreams (YouTube Red, Emmy-nominated). Directed 10–20 person cross-functional teams, $500K episode budgets, and high-pressure post-production turnarounds.

TV Production CV ↗

Frontier AI Evaluation & Training

Contractor evaluating, red-teaming, and training complex reasoning frontier models and agentic prompt architectures (Mercor, Outlier, Uber AI Solutions, Handshake). Applying 18 years of editorial rigor and domain expertise to stress-test edge cases, eliminate hallucinations, and optimize human-in-the-loop workflows.

Frontier AI Labs

Community Leadership

Head Coach for two competitive youth soccer teams at FC Westlake in Austin. Fostering player development, strategic problem-solving under pressure, parent communication, and team culture.

Austin, TX

Degrees & Academic Honors

M.S. Technology Commercialization (UT Austin McCombs School of Business, exp. 2027)
Certificate, Agentic AI (Johns Hopkins University, in progress)
M.F.A. Creative Writing (Otis College of Art and Design)
Certificate, Screenwriting (UCLA)
B.A. English (Princeton University)

Princeton · McCombs · JHU · UCLA

03 — Real-World Education

Character Builders & Sundry Adventures

The unvarnished curriculum
of how people tick.

Giving 3,500 rides behind the wheel for Uber, selling supplemental insurance for the Duck, muddling mango mojitos off Union Square in S.F., NewGate Internet, or the loneliest gig of my life on the Paramount Studio Lot. Before and between the production years and grad school, everything teaches you human nature, resilience, and perspective.