About
Director of Software Engineering driving AI-native enterprise development in a regulated healthcare environment. Proven scale: I led a 25-person, four-team engineering organization delivering production embedded AI for a real-time rear obstacle-detection system; cut deployment cycles from two weeks to four hours (84x improvement); shipped a GA AI product to the Microsoft Marketplace. I build modern AI-assisted engineering cultures while staying hands-on in architecture and code reviews. Full-stack depth across React, Node, Python, C#/.NET, AWS, Cloudflare, GCP, and Azure. USMC veteran; BS Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude.
Leadership Philosophy
My leadership philosophy is grounded in integrity, disciplined execution, and service to the mission and the team. I don't manage from a distance. I lead from inside the codebase. I set clear priorities, establish operating cadence and governance, and create the conditions for high-performing teams to ship under pressure.
I lead by translating customer needs and business objectives into crisp roadmaps, measurable outcomes, and pragmatic architectural decisions, while insisting on security, reliability, and accountability as non-negotiables. I stay hands-on enough to find root causes across people, process, and technology, but I focus my time on developing leaders, removing obstacles, and maintaining clarity so the organization can move fast without breaking trust.
Background
Today I'm Director of Software Engineering at Verisma Systems, leading AI-native enterprise development in a regulated healthcare environment. Before that, I founded Autojuris AI, taking Iris — an AI-powered legal workflow product — from concept to GA on the Microsoft Marketplace with a bootstrapped 7-person team and 3 enterprise law firm design partners. And at PreAct Technologies, I led a 25-person engineering organization across 4 functional teams, delivering production embedded AI on edge hardware for a real-time rear obstacle-detection system. I reduced merge-to-canary deployment time from 2 weeks to 4 hours (84x improvement) and drove org-wide adoption of AI-assisted development with measurable PR throughput outcomes. When the company needed executive leadership during wind-down, I stepped into the CEO role to execute an orderly wind-down, maintaining production system continuity for our largest customer through final delivery.
Before PreAct, I led a 12-person distributed engineering team at Opsivity, building a SaaS platform for field service teams. Before that, I spent years solving hard technical problems in manufacturing automation at Sigma Design, powersports vehicle systems at Polaris, industrial AR wearables at RealWear, and high-power laser systems at nLIGHT. I've shipped software across automotive, industrial, legal tech, and enterprise, always staying close to the work.
I served in the US Marine Corps, leading organizations of up to 200 personnel across operational and technical roles. Those years taught me how to make decisions with incomplete information, build teams that perform under pressure, and deliver mission-critical results in high-stakes environments.
I hold a BS in Electrical Engineering with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics from Washington State University Vancouver, where I graduated magna cum laude and served as President of the IEEE Student Branch.
Beyond Work
I play guitar in Acoustic Ridge, an acoustic duo that performs around the Portland area. I serve on the Ridgefield High School Career & Technical Education Advisory Board, helping align curriculum with what industry actually needs. And I build side projects (a wargaming platform for Marines, an AI-powered recipe app, this website) because I never stop shipping.