The Personal Page, Not the Résumé
If you came from LinkedIn, you've already seen the titles and the timeline. This page is where I get to be a person instead of a résumé — same career, same interests, just a bit more of the human behind them.
A Bit About Me View LinkedInAbout Me, Personally
LinkedIn will give you the timeline — the titles, the companies, the dates that make a résumé readable. This page is meant to do something a little different: give you a sense of who's actually behind all of that. The career details below are still true and still mine — I'm just telling them the way I'd tell them across a table, not the way I'd write them for a hiring manager.
Over the course of a long career spanning aerospace, technology, and enterprise operations, I've worked on programs where the margin for error is measured in inches and seconds — not percentages. That kind of environment shapes how you think about everything that follows, and honestly, it shapes how you show up in the rest of life too.
These days I serve in public sector leadership, bringing those same instincts — rigorous analysis, clear-eyed risk assessment, and operational discipline — to the challenges of government and public-interest work. It's a different arena, but the same muscles.
Alongside that, I teach as an adjunct university professor in public policy, technology, and procurement. I like the classroom for a selfish reason as much as an altruistic one: explaining something well to a room full of skeptical graduate students is one of the fastest ways to find out if you actually understand it.
My experience sits at the intersection of technical systems and organizational reality. I've seen what happens when those two worlds don't communicate — and I've spent a career working to close that gap, partly because I find the gap genuinely interesting.
Teaching has sharpened that thinking more than I expected it to. The classroom has made me a better practitioner as much as the other way around, and I mean that literally, not as a nice thing to say in a bio.
Looking ahead, I'm thinking carefully — and a little curiously — about how to translate decades of accumulated knowledge into whatever comes next: consulting, advising, teaching more, or some combination I haven't landed on yet. If any of that sounds like a conversation you'd want to have, that's a big part of why this page exists.
Background
A career grounded in mission-critical environments — complex program lifecycles, systems integration, and cross-functional leadership where the stakes are real and the timelines are unforgiving.
Hands-on experience guiding organizations through technology change: building roadmaps, navigating legacy systems, and translating technical complexity into decisions that leadership teams can actually act on.
Currently serving in state government, applying private-sector rigor to the unique constraints and responsibilities of public-interest work — where accountability is broad and the margin for error is public.
A long track record of helping organizations connect strategy to execution — identifying where the gaps live and building the bridges that close them.
Adjunct university professor teaching at the intersection of policy, technology, and procurement — bringing practitioner experience into subjects where the gap between textbook and reality is widest.
How I Think
This is probably the part of the page that tells you more about me than any job title could. After a long career across sectors and disciplines, a handful of convictions have proven durable — not frameworks, not slogans, just things that have turned out to be true often enough that I trust them.
The people closest to a problem usually understand it better than anyone who just walked in. The job is to create the conditions where that knowledge surfaces.
Most breakdowns happen at handoffs — between teams, between systems, between what was decided and what actually got built. That's where the real work is.
A straight read, delivered with respect, is more useful than a careful one designed not to offend. Clarity is a form of kindness.
The lessons from aerospace operations, public service, and competitive athletics are more transferable than they look. Pattern recognition doesn't care which domain produced the pattern.
Beyond Work
Theodore Roosevelt's "man in the arena" metaphor has always resonated with me. The willingness to show up, compete, and accept the result builds something that no credential can replicate — and it doesn't stop at any particular age.
I compete in powerlifting — and at this stage of life, that's something I'm proud of. The sport is ruthlessly honest: the bar doesn't negotiate, doesn't care about your résumé, and doesn't grade on a curve. Progress is incremental, measurable, and entirely self-determined. That's a rare thing, and I find it clarifying.
BJJ is a daily lesson in humility and systems thinking. Every roll is a live problem with a resisting opponent — which means the plan survives about thirty seconds. Learning to stay calm when things aren't going your way, to see the geometry of a situation clearly, and to know when to reset: these are not small skills. They travel well.
Find Me
LinkedIn is the best place to reach me — whether that's reconnecting with people I've worked with, meeting someone tackling an interesting problem, or a conversation about consulting, advising, or something else entirely. If this page gave you a better sense of who I am, I'd genuinely like to hear from you.