Consulting

I’ve always been drawn to places where the map isn’t drawn yet. Give me ambiguity, a blank canvas, and a messy pile of “what,” “why,” and “how” questions, and I’ll happily roll up my sleeves. My path started with software engineering. At the time, I thought it was about algorithms and data structures, but what really hooked me was the mindset—learning how to break down something complicated, get stuck, get unstuck, and occasionally realize the problem was never what you thought it was in the first place.

That curiosity pulled me into entrepreneurship, where I helped build an enterprise software company and learned that building a business is less like coding and more like juggling flaming torches while writing the instruction manual as you go. It wasn’t just about vision or execution but about constantly rebalancing between the two while convincing others you knew what you were doing. I led teams through foggy uncertainty, wrestled with the idea of product-market fit, and sat with customers long enough to realize the real art is in solving the problem they didn’t quite know how to articulate.

These days, I put that same energy into marketing and business development. I get to translate complex capabilities into plain English, find opportunities hiding in plain sight, and build partnerships that turn strategy into traction. For me, growth work is equal parts curiosity, storytelling, and refusing to accept “that’s just how it’s done” as an answer. Living and working in Detroit, Michigan has only sharpened that instinct—this is a city that knows something about resilience, grit, and imagining what comes next.

If there’s a throughline in my work as an engineer, entrepreneur, and strategist, it’s a love for the zero-to-one stage. I enjoy the moment when nothing exists yet, when the questions are bigger than the answers, and when imagination matters more than process. That’s where I tend to do my best work, and maybe also where I have the most fun.