Sometimes it's the people. Sometimes it's the process. Usually, it's the technology.
When I look at a business, I see the people, the process, and the system underneath them both. The people are usually good. The purpose is usually real. What holds performance back, almost every time, is the technology.
My whole career comes down to one passion: using technology to unlock people, teams, and whole companies to perform at levels they never thought possible.
The wiring.
My dad worked at IBM, and I grew up watching what a computer could do for one person. By ten I was running my own lawn business and organizing it in Excel before I knew the word operations. College gave me both sides: the business school and the school of engineering.
Building was never a career choice. It was the wiring.
Engineer and founder.
Started in healthcare software at enterprise scale, then marketing and donor management platforms. Then I discovered a new generation of tools: rapid development for internal systems.
And the leap: an ecommerce company where I built the business and the platform from scratch, storefront to payments to automated fulfillment, before drop-shipping was a buzzword and before buying online was normal.
Cerner · an ecommerce startup, founded and run
Builder of organizations.
Ten years leading in the nonprofit world: refugee resettlement, an artisan co-op, skills training, a thrift store, business startups for low-income families.
The lesson that stuck: purpose drives people, and technology, implemented with intention, multiplies what purpose can do.
The technical COO.
C-level leadership, most of it fractional, for companies from $2M startups to $100M operations, each at their growth ceiling. The same work every time: lead the people, honor the purpose, and re-engineer the workflows, data, and technology until performance caught up to potential. Including R&D leadership for enterprise clients in healthcare, entertainment, and technology.
Laminate Works · RESTO Athletic · Half Price Banners · Another Reality Studio · World Wide Technology · Universal Studios · City Lifestyle
Founder, tektos.
All of it converges here. I engineer the system your business runs on.
It's the same system my business runs on.
Not a Consultant.
A Builder.
I build the Operating System your company accelerates on.
I keep you on the edge of the AI era, without the hype.
And evolve your system as it grows, so you're always ahead.