Thirty years across engineering, architecture and technology leadership, currently leading a 26-engineer global organization while running Clarity Technologies, the consultancy he founded in 2014 and still operates today.
A conventional résumé would flatten that into a list of roles. The interesting part is the structure: how leadership, delivery, AI work and a pair of junior hockey organizations connect to each other. That is why this site is a graph rather than a timeline.
Keep scrolling and the graph keeps pace with the story. Everything it highlights is readable in full on this page, with or without it.
personroot
The person behind the graph. Based in Mesa, Arizona, married with five kids and a house full of cats and dogs. Thirty years across engineering, architecture and technology leadership; when the laptop closes, it's usually a rink, a field, or a flight to Maui.
Two tracks have run in parallel since 2014: leading engineering organizations — individual contributor to Director to VP, global and offshore teams, regulated-industry delivery — and building software independently through Clarity Technologies.
The career is measured in scope and capability rather than a list of logos: financial services since 2004, healthcare and IoT engagements through the consultancy, and an AI and automation practice that stands up the infrastructure and finds the workflows where automation actually pays for itself.
careercareer
A career measured in scope and capability rather than a list of logos. Two tracks running in parallel since 2014: leading engineering organizations, and building software independently through Clarity Technologies.
careercareer.clarity
Founded 2014 and still running. Engineering leadership, architecture strategy and full-cycle delivery for clients across financial services, healthcare and IoT, increasingly centred on AI and agentic automation.
careercareer.leadership
Building teams and the systems of work around them: engineering standards, delivery cadence, architecture review, and the unglamorous discipline that makes releases boring.
careercareer.ai
Leading adoption of AI inside engineering organizations: evaluating models, standing up infrastructure, and finding the workflows where automation actually pays for itself.
careercareer.fintech
Two decades inside lending technology: loan origination, broker systems, point of sale, and the integration surface between them. Regulated, audited, and unforgiving of hand-waving.
Systems that shipped and stayed shipped. Client engagements are described without naming the client; independent work is named directly.
A .NET loan origination platform for one of the largest mortgage brokerages in the United States. An enterprise promotions platform behind more than $50M in global rebate and loyalty programs. Sensor telemetry over LoRaWAN with escalation and auto-resolution. Two commercial point-of-sale products replaced with custom in-house builds — one to a production-ready prototype in ten months.
And the current independent work: a private two-node AI inference cluster running open-weight models locally, a multi-agent orchestration platform with broker-controlled delegation, a healthcare automation system supporting caregivers of dementia patients, three platforms built to run his own hockey organizations, and SafeTube — a parent-controlled viewing platform built by a father of five.
projectprojects
Systems that shipped and stayed shipped. Client engagements are described without naming the client; independent work is named directly.
projectprojects.gx10
A private, two-node inference cluster running open-weight models locally. No data leaving the building. Models are tiered by job: a fast model for routine execution, a reasoning model for analysis, and a burst model brought online only for genuinely hard problems.
projectprojects.swarmx
A multi-agent platform where specialised agents are packaged, permissioned and delegated to. A broker ranks candidate agents by capability, permission coverage and queue depth rather than letting agents spawn each other freely.
projectprojects.ella
An automation system and companion iOS app supporting caregivers of dementia patients, applying AI-driven decision support and behavioural recommendations at the point of care.
projectprojects.pos
Two separate commercial point-of-sale products replaced with custom in-house platforms. One reached a production-ready prototype in ten months with a hybrid onshore/offshore team.
projectprojects.los
A .NET loan origination platform serving one of the largest mortgage brokerages in the United States. Engineering strategy, enterprise API architecture, modernization and AI initiatives.
projectprojects.iot
Sensor and gateway integration over LoRaWAN with event-driven monitoring: configurable thresholds, escalation, automatic resolution, connectivity and battery health, and SMS/email alerting for operational and compliance use.
projectprojects.incentive
An enterprise promotions and incentive platform supporting more than $50M in global rebate and loyalty programs, including a channel incentive engine and over one hundred consumer-facing rebate sites.
projectprojects.leaguemanager
A hockey league management platform: registration, rosters, trades and waivers, scheduling, document signing, compliance, finance and statistics. Built as a modular monolith so fifteen business domains stay genuinely separable. In active development, operating his own organizations.
projectprojects.teammanager
The multi-tenant layer above a single team: organizations, subscriptions, usage metering and invoicing, with strict tenant isolation enforced at the database. In active development.
projectprojects.billetmanager
Junior hockey players live with host families. This matches athletes to host homes: availability windows, compatibility, placement staging and onboarding. An unglamorous, genuinely hard operational problem. In active development.
projectprojects.safetube
A parent-controlled viewing platform: every video is reviewed before a child can watch it. AI-assisted review reads metadata and captions, parents approve or block, and revoking access interrupts playback already in progress. Built by a father of five. In active development.
Capability shown through what it built, not through a percentage bar. Every branch here connects to work that evidences it.
AI and agentic systems: agent architecture, retrieval, model routing across providers and local inference, and the operational discipline to run it privately. The .NET/C# through-line of the whole career, down to SDK-level platform extension. Cloud and DevOps discipline that turns deployment from an event into a routine. Data platforms from SQL Server to Qdrant, APIs and integration between systems that were never designed to meet, long-range low-power sensor networks, and deep platform-level knowledge of the mortgage systems the industry actually runs on.
expertiseexpertise
Capability shown through what it built, not through a percentage bar. Every branch here connects to the work that evidences it.
expertiseexpertise.agentic
Designing systems where models do the judgement and deterministic tools do the arithmetic. Agent architecture, retrieval, orchestration and the operational discipline to run it privately.
expertiseexpertise.dotnet
The through-line of the whole career. C#, .NET, SQL and the SDK-level work that extends enterprise platforms rather than merely configuring them.
expertiseexpertise.cloud
Azure and AWS, containers, and the pipeline discipline that turns deployment from an event into a routine.
expertiseexpertise.data
Relational, document and vector stores, plus the warehousing and reporting layers that make them useful to a business.
expertiseexpertise.apis
Connecting systems that were never designed to meet (origination platforms, CRMs, ERPs, document systems and warehouses) reliably and repeatably.
expertiseexpertise.iot
Long-range low-power sensor networks: gateways, device provisioning, telemetry processing and the alerting layer that makes the data actionable.
expertiseexpertise.mortgage
Deep platform-level knowledge of lending technology: extending, integrating and migrating the systems the industry actually runs on.
expertiseexpertise.architecture
Designing how large systems fit together: integration frameworks, API strategy, identity, data movement, and the migration paths that get legacy platforms to somewhere maintainable.
Milestones with a number attached, and the credentials behind them.
A 26-engineer global organization spanning development, automation, platform modernization and AI initiatives. Technology leadership for global rebate and loyalty programs exceeding $50M across hundreds of client brands. A custom point-of-sale platform taken from nothing to a production-ready prototype in ten months. Three actively maintained ICE Mortgage Technology certifications. And a B.A.S. in Technology Management from Northern Arizona University.
achievementachievements
Milestones with a number attached, and the credentials behind them.
achievementachievements.certifications
Three active certifications from Ellie Mae / ICE Mortgage Technology, maintained and renewed rather than collected once.
achievementachievements.scale
Currently leading a 26-member global engineering team spanning development, automation, platform modernization and AI initiatives.
achievementachievements.velocity
A custom point-of-sale platform taken from nothing to a production-ready prototype in ten months, replacing a commercial product, with a hybrid onshore/offshore team.
achievementachievements.programs
Technology leadership for global rebate and loyalty programs exceeding $50M across hundreds of client brands.
achievementachievements.education
Bachelor of Applied Science in Technology Management, Northern Arizona University, 2014.
The parts that aren't on the résumé but explain a fair amount of it.
Seven years in Phoenix youth hockey, mentoring young athletes and coaching the same things that matter at work: dedication, teamwork, showing up. Then the step most people don't take — owner/operator of two junior hockey organizations, the Salt Lake Ghost Riders and the Hudson Havoc. Entrepreneurship as a habit: a consultancy since 2014, sports organizations, independent products. And when the laptop closes, football, and a flight to Maui — the one he keeps going back to.
interestinterests
The parts that aren't on the résumé but explain a fair amount of it.
interestinterests.hockey
Seven years in youth hockey in Phoenix, Arizona. Mentoring and supporting young athletes, and coaching the same things that matter at work: dedication, teamwork, showing up.
interestinterests.entrepreneurship
Building and scaling ventures: a consulting firm since 2014, a hockey organization, and independent software products.
interestinterests.ghostriders
Owner / operator. A USPHL Premier junior hockey organization: a business with players, staff, housing, schedules and budgets, not a weekend hobby.
interestinterests.havoc
Owner / operator. Competing at both NCDC and Premier levels: two tiers, two rosters, and roughly double the operational surface.
interestinterests.travel
Travels every chance he gets. Maui is the one he keeps going back to (the place that wins even against everywhere else on the list).
interestinterests.football
The other sport. Watched more than played these days, and a reliable second season to hockey.
Step back and the graph surfaces two patterns no single line of a résumé states.
Build, don't buy: when a commercial platform stopped fitting the business, it got replaced with a custom build — twice, in two different organizations, one reaching a production-ready prototype in ten months. Analysis still happens first, but when the right tool doesn't exist, build it.
Run it, then build it: he owns and operates two junior hockey organizations and writes the platforms that run them — League Manager, Team Manager, Billet Manager. His own first customer; requirements arrive from the rink rather than from a backlog.
patternpattern.build
A recurring decision, surfaced by the graph rather than stated anywhere: when a commercial platform stopped fitting the business, it got replaced with a custom build. Twice, in two different organizations. Analysis still happens first, but when the right tool for the job doesn't already exist, build it. With AI in the mix, that calculus has only shifted further.
patternpattern.operator
He owns and operates two junior hockey organizations, and writes the platforms that run them. League Manager, Team Manager and Billet Manager exist because he needed them himself. He is his own first customer, which means the requirements arrive from the rink rather than from a backlog.
If the structure above maps to something you're building — consulting, technology leadership, AI and automation — start a conversation. This site deliberately carries no downloadable résumé; the conversation is the path to detail.
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