Strategy
Connecting technology direction to business priorities, tradeoffs, and long-term outcomes.
Technology leadership
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I have spent three decades leading technology work that had to deliver real business results. This site is where I share the experience I have built, the ideas I keep coming back to, and the kinds of problems I like helping leaders solve.
This is the kind of work I do best: making the direction clearer, turning strategy into progress, and helping teams move with confidence.
What I bring
The common thread in my work is straightforward: connect strategy to delivery, keep the architecture honest, and help teams make good decisions under pressure.
30+
Years Technology Leadership
$40M+
Active Technology Portfolio
150+
Technology Team
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AI strategy tied to delivery
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Modernization that respects the business
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Leadership alignment through change
Profile
I've spent three decades working across strategy, architecture, delivery, infrastructure, data, and AI. The throughline has stayed consistent: connect technology direction to the business, modernize with discipline, and help teams turn change into results.
Strategy
Connecting technology direction to business priorities, tradeoffs, and long-term outcomes.
Architecture
Building standards, platforms, and integration patterns that keep change coherent.
Delivery
Turning direction into execution with teams, tooling, and practical operating discipline.
Innovation
Putting AI and modernization to work in ways the business can actually use.
Recurring themes
These are some of the threads that show up often across the work. They are recurring themes, not the full boundary of what I do.
See the experience behind itUsing AI where it changes decisions, improves workflows, or gives teams real leverage. Not AI for its own sake.
Creating the standards, integration patterns, and guardrails that help teams modernize without creating new chaos.
Modernizing core platforms in ways customers can feel and operators can trust.
Building teams with clear standards, useful tools, and enough context to make good decisions.
Perspectives
A curated set of essays on AI, architecture, leadership, and transformation inside complex organizations. Built to stay useful longer than the news cycle.
Browse the essaysAre we building toward real transformation, or just checking off AI to-dos? Maybe we should ask what kind of business we are trying to build—and how AI can help us get there.
Published May 1, 2025
Traditional IVRs prioritize efficiency over experience. What if we designed voice interfaces that assume customers want human connection—and made waiting actually pleasant?
Published June 18, 2025
A practical look at how life insurance could evolve over the next 25 years, and what leaders can do now to prepare for that future.
Published June 1, 2025
AI adoption in life insurance is most effective when it is tied to clear business outcomes, practical pilots, and workforce readiness.
Published May 30, 2025
An open-source take on life insurance administration, built to explore what a modern core platform could look like without decades of legacy assumptions.
A brewing dataset and toolset I use for experiments, recipe decisions, and brewing analytics.
Blending science and creativity to craft unique beers, ciders, and ferments—rooted in tradition, flavor exploration, and community.
A machine-readable career profile schema I built after running into the limits of standard resume formats. It also powers this site.
Selected work
Side projects, experiments, and adjacent interests that show how ideas move from curiosity to something real.
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Open to conversations about ideas, opportunities, collaboration, or simply comparing notes. If the site sparked a question, a connection, or a possible fit, I am always glad to talk.