I tend to figure things out by building them.
It started in Crested Butte, Colorado, where I showed up after a year at a boarding school outside Boston and spent a few years as a proper ski bum. I worked rental shops, guided fly fishing trips on the rivers, swung a hammer on a custom home build one summer, and somewhere in there met my wife, who was also ski bumming. It seemed like a reasonable foundation for a life together and it has been.
We spent time in Eugene, Oregon before landing in Vermont in 2012. She had just finished law school. I went to work as an electric reliability compliance consultant, which sounds less interesting than it was. Before that I had spent three years doing actuarial work on pension plans. Both taught me to think carefully about risk and about the real cost of getting things wrong, lessons that have followed me into every job since.
Eventually I found my way into technology. Years in hospitality SaaS, then healthcare, where I now help lead product strategy at LiveData, a perioperative workflow platform serving 90+ hospitals. More recently I have been going deep on AI, trying to figure it out the only way I know how: by building things, making mistakes, and building again. I keep a GitHub with case studies from that work for anyone curious about the details.
Outside of work I am still very much outside. I run ultramarathons, including the Vermont 100 Miler under 24 hours and the CCC, a 101km sufferfest through the Alps from Italy to Switzerland to France. I mountain bike and ski, though Vermont ice keeps me humble. A couple years ago I built out a Sprinter Van from scratch for family adventures. My son and I are currently building a soccer trading card website together, which is teaching both of us things neither of us expected.
I have coached high school golf for twelve years. We have won five state championships, though I will admit that with those golf teams I sometimes felt more like a chaperone than a coach. I also coach hockey, where I earned my keep a little more.
The thing I have enjoyed most about a winding career is the people it has introduced me to. If any of this resonates, or if you just want to talk ultramarathons, AI, or the finer points of fly fishing, reach out. I genuinely enjoy connecting with people who are curious about things.