Technology
leader.
Systems
thinker.

I've spent the last twelve years figuring out how complex organizations work and making them work better. I started in software support and worked my way to IT Director without a roadmap or a degree, just a willingness to stay in the room until the problem was solved.

Right now I lead technology, infrastructure, and cybersecurity compliance at a hardware design company in Beaverton. I'm in the middle of a full ERP replacement, which is about as good a test of whether you understand how an organization actually operates as anything I know of.

Before that I spent time in places and situations that didn't come with instructions. Two winters as the sole caretaker of a fly-in wilderness lodge on Kodiak Island. Field work in remote environments where the consequences of getting things wrong were immediate and physical. I'm not sure those years were about anything in particular at the time. Looking back they were about learning to solve problems when there's no backup available and no one else coming.

I'm Haudenosaunee (Tonawanda Band Seneca with Onondaga ancestry) and I grew up in Western New York. I left home at seventeen and spent the better part of a decade finding out what I was made of. Greyhounds, cheap motels, field work in places I'd never heard of, two winters alone on Kodiak Island. If a job exists there's a good chance I've done it or something close to it. What that decade gave me was a specific relationship with uncertainty. I don't need a roadmap to start moving or backup to keep working a problem, I just get started knowing I can build the roadmap and refine the backup. That's still how I operate, whether the problem is an ERP implementation or something that doesn't have a manual at all. I like turning big complex things you need to babysit into simple, supportable things that just work.

Oregon is where I stopped moving. I've been in Beaverton sixteen years, own a house here, keep chickens. This is home.

I also run Maker Systems, a technology consulting practice focused on helping founder-led companies navigate systems decisions that actually matter.