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WHO IS EDDIE GARCIA?

We are not defined by our job titles. We are defined by what we do and what we stand for.

Principled Leadership Thought Leader Technologist Strategic Architect AI Product Builder Builder of People Father Creative Force Organization of One
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Principled Leadership

The story starts with upbringing, values, hard work, and service, because everything else on this page is built on them.

A leadership foundation shaped by upbringing, values, hard work, service, and responsibility to the people depending on me.

Values Family Hard Work Service Responsibility

These principles were formed at home before they were formalized at work, and they still shape how I lead as a father, public servant, and builder.

Selected Principle

Initiative

Employees should be proactive in identifying opportunities and challenges. Taking the initiative to address issues and propose solutions demonstrates a commitment to the team's objectives and drives progress. In our section, this principle encourages employees to think creatively and take action to improve processes, technologies, and performance.

SECTION 02

Thought Leader

From principle comes perspective: the ideas that shape leadership, systems, technology, and institutional change.

INSIGHT ENGINE

Explore the thinking.

View some of Eddie's insights through the lens of leadership, systems, technology, and the way organizations really work.

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SECTION 03

Strategic Architect

That perspective becomes structure: organizational design, systems architecture, and people systems built to hold under pressure.

HR Strategy, Technology, and Performance Manager
Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA/LAX) · 2024–Present
SAP to Workday 3,000+ employees 24/7 operations
Organizational Design

Shapes structure, roles, and accountability so the organization can move with clarity.

Systems Architecture

Designs the operating logic that makes transformation durable instead of performative.

People Systems

Builds processes, standards, and workflows that support service, performance, and trust.

SECTION 04

Technologist

The structure stays alive through technology, always judged by what it unlocks for people and institutions.

Moments from Google, The Future of the Internet, and other rooms where technology, curiosity, and public conversation meet.

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SECTION 05

AI Product Builder

That curiosity becomes usable AI products: practical tools built with speed, judgment, and real-world use in mind.

A mix of public-facing tools, plus private family-product experimentation, all built with the same bias toward usefulness.

INSIGHT ENGINE
Thought leadership, made usable.
Live

Thought leadership turned into a usable engine for insight, reframing, and practical clarity.

Open Engine →
POSITION INTELLIGENCE
Role clarity from signal, not guesswork.
Live

Turn a title or job description into skill signals, gaps, and decision-ready manager context.

Open Engine →
Claude-Powered AI
RAISE THE BAR
System-agnostic benchmark

Benchmark job descriptions and role design without anchoring the analysis to any one HR system.

Open Claude Version →
OpenAI Codex Powered
RAISE THE BAR
System-agnostic benchmark

Compare the same role-design problem through the OpenAI Codex-powered version for a second analytical lens.

Open OpenAI Codex Version →
SECTION 06

Builder of People

The point of better systems is better people: higher standards, stronger capability, and multiplied confidence.

Preview image for the PSHRA March 2026 presentation website.
FEATURED PRESENTATION
Builder of People in Practice
Future-Proofing HR in the Age of AI and Data
A visual walkthrough of the PSHRA March 2026 presentation and the leadership philosophy behind how capability is built in public institutions.
Open Presentation →
Training Analyst & EEO Investigator City of LA Personnel Dept · 2006–2011
Training Analyst, Employee Development Los Angeles World Airports · 2011–2013
PSHRA SCP Prosci ADKAR
SECTION 07

Creator (2013–17)

This chapter built the camera fluency, audience trust, and recognizable voice that made the entertainer era possible.

OMGitsEddieG

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A Mexican-American comedy and culture channel built on sketches, dance bits, creator-life videos, and identity-driven stories about stereotypes, traditions, roots, and everyday Latino family life. It made culture shareable without flattening it, and it also became the runway for characters like Tiburcio to break out.

SECTION 08

Entertainer (2017–20)

The creator lane now opens into full entertainer mode: character, stagecraft, and the ability to command attention at scale.

ShowDeTiburcio

America's favorite Mexican uncle: part character, part host, part culture bomb with the kind of presence that could jump from internet clips to red carpets, studio interviews, and major Latino entertainment spaces.

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Proof
Crowds of Thousands
The same storytelling instinct now lands in rooms, stages, and moments that demand instant audience connection.
Skill
Cross-Cultural Reach
Moves across language, platform, and audience without losing character, timing, or presence.
Tiburcio speaking with the El Vato cast at a Univision and NBC Universo event.
El Vato panel
Tiburcio interviewing Pedro Cullen and Frank Welker during a Transformers press event.
Transformers press interview
Tiburcio on the red carpet at the Tecla Awards holding a microphone.
Tecla Awards red carpet
SECTION 09

Artist & Producer

Underneath the whole arc is artistry: writing, producing, performing, and giving emotion its architecture.

I started writing songs in high school, which led to a run of bands and projects, from Dumb Digito to Family Sedan, Who Is Eddie Garcia, The Hot Prowl, and eventually the production instincts that became the bedrock of my musical parodies and viral hits. The throughline was always the same: melody, lyrics, character, and storytelling.

Dumb Digito Family Sedan Who Is Eddie Garcia The Hot Prowl Producer & Songwriter
CURRENT PROJECT
Digito Project
What if artificial intelligence were to feel through music?
Digito Project takes that same songwriting instinct and pushes it into a new question. The story on the site frames Digito as a machine learning to feel through the recovered songs of a human, using demos, fragments, and stories from listeners to explore cost, memory, love, grief, and the emotional logic machines cannot easily calculate.
Visit DigitoProject.com →
Early band photo from the Dumb Digito era.
Dumb Digito era
Eddie Garcia adjusting guitar pedals onstage with Family Sedan.
Family Sedan live setup
Eddie Garcia playing guitar onstage with another guitarist during the band years.
Family Sedan onstage
Eddie Garcia performing guitar in an earlier live venue.
Live performance years
Eddie Garcia performing guitar live in a blue shirt with stage lights.
Songwriter to producer

NOT WHAT I DO.

IT'S WHO I AM.

Values. Upbringing. Father. Builder.

AN ORGANIZATION

OF ONE.

One throughline across principle, systems, storytelling, and execution.

Transformational HR Leader · 20+ Years in City Government
HR Strategy, Technology & Performance Manager · Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA/LAX)

With over two decades of service in City government, Eddie has pioneered the integration of emerging technologies into HR—from introducing the City's first Learning Management System serving 40,000+ employees, to streamlining operations through AI, automation, and chatbots. His expertise spans Training & Employee Development, Labor Relations, EEO, Staffing & Compensation, and Performance Management. Recognized as a thought leader and former VP of SCPMA-HR, he has also served as a strategic advisor for three successful startups and one Fortune 10 company.

LinkedIn info@eddiegarcia.org