I have spent thirty years making new things operational.

I started at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, doing foundational research on grid computing — what the world later decided to call the cloud — along with networked scientific visualization and the CAVE, the room-sized virtual reality system, and the ImmersaDesk that followed it. Then I founded VRCO, bootstrapped it into a virtual reality middleware company serving NASA, Boeing, and Ford, and sold it.

What followed has all been the same job under different names. As Director for the Americas at Visual Acuity I made macro-level technology decisions for Ford, Procter & Gamble, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Hayden Planetarium. At Weatherford International I was the direct liaison to the CIO and CTO on global R&D, and built a thirty-person team that carried a high-fidelity simulation product from concept through multiple rounds of executive funding. At cPanel I owned the backlog for a platform serving 51 million domains. Most recently I ran an enterprise AI program inside a CIO organization — multi-LLM platform strategy, agent governance, PI planning, and the executive reporting that holds it together. The technology keeps changing. The work — making the new thing real, then making it survivable — does not.

I hold a Master of Arts in Communication and Applied Virtual Reality from the University of Illinois at Chicago, along with CSM, CSPO, and a Six Sigma Green Belt. I live in Sacramento, I am the father of six, and I spend my spare hours on yoga, cooking, and woodworking. I am currently taking consulting engagements and open to full-time program leadership roles.