I am a veteran U.S. Army Engineer officer, a Texas A&M alumnus, and a UC Berkeley Haas Evening & Weekend MBA candidate. Across eight years in uniform I built teams and systems from the ground up at progressive levels of size and difficulty, and I was often selected for the tough assignments that called for a strong leader. That's the work I love and what I'm best at: building the systems and culture that a team needs to achieve its goals, then leaving behind successful organizations that keeps running without me.
I'm looking for leadership roles that challenge me, and the place I most want to be is where technology and energy meet. I think we're in a technological shift on the scale of the industrial revolution or the arrival of the personal computer, and I'd rather build inside it than watch it happen. As the world economy grows, we face problems that are physical, capital-intensive, and operationally hard — which is what I've spent my career on and why I want to apply my skills to the emerging energy industry. I'm prioritizing remote work and open to relocating to most major metros, with San Diego, the Bay Area, Dallas, and Seattle at the top of the list.
Outside of work I'm a husband and father of two, which is the part of my life that drives the rest of it. I'm teaching myself Spanish and Japanese with mixed results, I like to write short science fiction stories that nobody asks to read, and I'm the sort of person who follows climate and tech policy for fun. I am reading through every president's biography in order because I love learning about how other leaders analyze problems, how they communicate, and how they make tough calls. I've also been building an AI app on the side, a personal stylist for men, which I mention partly because it's going well and partly because I like having something to tinker with. And I will talk about sports — especially NFL football — for as long as you let me.
