I drive the shift to AI-native development across engineering teams — with the platforms, standards, and coaching that help teams ship faster without losing control. I'm a player-coach: I set the direction, and I still architect and build the systems myself.
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From medicine to music to software.
The medicine chapter was about learning how to help people well. Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic's Lerner College of Medicine gave that a rigorous foundation: understand the problem fully before acting, and know that getting it wrong has real consequences for real people.
Co-founding Deadiron, a melodic thrash metal band, added something different — the experience of building something creative with a group of people where everyone has to be fully invested for it to work. A band that's clicking is a good model for what a high-functioning team looks like.
Software turned out to be where both of those things fit — the problems are technical, but the work is still about helping people and building things together. That became the foundation for a decade of engineering across finance, HR tech, and health credentialing automation.
That experience runs through a consistent pattern: modernize the systems, raise the standards, and grow the people — so every engineer can contribute, and the whole organization gets better, not just the code.
