How I work
The through-line across every job I have had is the same one: take a problem that is complicated and underspecified, impose a structure on it that holds under load, build the thing, and lead the people who execute it. The domains changed. The work did not.
It comes from a technical pipeline that removes the option of memorising your way through, followed by examination on an operating plant by people whose job is to find the seam in what you only think you understand. What survives that is a habit of checking rather than assuming — and a strong preference for guarantees that are enforced by structure rather than promised in a document.
It shows up in how I build. On this site's flagship case, a system was designed so its own ownership and privacy guarantees could be verified from outside it, and then six of its guards were deliberately broken to find out whether the tests would notice. One of them did not. That finding is on the page because it is the most useful thing in it: a guarantee nobody has tried to break is an intention, not a guarantee.
The same standard governs what is written here. Every checkable statement on this site traces to a source and a date, numbers render from single constants so they cannot drift apart, and where something was designed but not built, the page says so in its own voice rather than in smaller print underneath.
Domains
Nuclear propulsion engineering · submarine programs · enterprise technology · education operations · product and software
Credentials
- U.S. Naval Academy — B.S., Mechanical Engineering
- Naval Postgraduate School — M.S., Mechanical Engineering
- Active-duty submarine officer, qualified in nuclear engineering
- PMP — Project Management Professional
How I think
Five operating principles, each with a case behind it, are on the home page. They are not aspirations; each one exists because something went wrong once and the rule is what was left afterward.
Outside work, I'm usually teaching, building something, or figuring out how something works.
There is deliberately no résumé on this site. Application résumés are tailored to a specific role; a canonical public one would diverge from whichever version actually got sent. This page and the case studies are the stable record of what I have built and led — get in touch and I will send the version that fits what you are hiring for.