Started as an engineer. Still think like one.
Most of my career has run on the other side of the table from where I started: taking something a lab or an engineering team built and turning it into a product somebody will actually buy. That thread runs through the Human Genome Project's array-tape automation, a medical coating platform used in cardiology and orthopedic devices, GPU-free machine learning for factory floors, and right now, a 1.6-meter linear shaft motor moving optics at five meters a second for semiconductor inspection lines.
I'm a conceptualist by nature. I see possibilities where other people see finished products, and openings where other people see dead ends. That's made me useful in boardrooms as much as on shop floors, which is a strange but workable combination.
The newest chapter runs through AI, and not the chatbot kind. I built hank, an agent that monitors my email, writes my morning reports, flags urgent calls, and shipped a product page while I was asleep last week. I wrote up exactly how it works, because most of what gets sold as "AI strategy" right now is noise dressed up as insight.
