About
Background
West Point graduate and former U.S. Army Major. Five years commanding soldiers across three continents before redirecting into business — Cornell for an MBA and an M.Eng., then a startup in Stamford, then a turnaround at an industrial conglomerate in Connecticut.
The thread throughout: walking into complicated situations and building the structures that make them work.
Expertise
Operations and strategy for organizations in motion. Building the operating model when there isn't one. Scaling teams through the stage where informal systems stop holding. Rescuing programs that are ready to be canceled.
The work typically involves P&L accountability, cross-functional team leadership, program governance, and data infrastructure for executive decisions. Industries: technology and software, logistics, consumer and retail, defense, and industrial manufacturing.
Why work together
The organizations I do my best work with are usually at the moment where the team that got them here isn't going to get them to the next stage — not because the people are wrong, but because the operating infrastructure hasn't caught up.
I'm direct, I run toward hard problems, and I have a tolerance for ambiguity built from years of making operational decisions in real time with incomplete information. If that sounds like what you need, I'd like to hear about what you're building.