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From rural beginnings, driven by curiosity, and shaped by a career in technology — always learning, always building.
About
I have always been passionate about technology, a passion that took root at Lockheed, where I first discovered the emerging Internet technologies. This led me to the ride of my life as a Netscape founding team member, accelerating the company through its hypergrowth years. I hold a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, a Master's in MIS, and I am currently pursuing a Master of Science in AI Strategy.
Every wave since then, enterprise SaaS, big data, the cloud, has pulled me back to the same question: how do you turn something genuinely new into something a business can actually run on. AI is the biggest wave yet, and I would welcome a conversation about where it takes us next.
Work
Author of AI's Missing Playbook: Aligning AI With the Goals That Move Your Business and Balancing the AI Value Equation: Building Method and Execution That Matter, The Pragmatic Enterprise AI Series — practical guides for AI adoption, internal transformation, and measuring what that investment is actually worth. Completed a Master's in Management Information Systems in 2026 and am now pursuing a Master's in AI Strategy, adding formal frameworks to 30 years spent closing enterprise deals and building partner ecosystems from the ground up. Open to new roles in AI Enablement.
Books
The Pragmatic Enterprise AI Series
AI's Missing Playbook closes the gap between adopting AI and getting real operational use out of it: ownership, workflows, data, and judgment.
Balancing the AI Value Equation picks up from there and gives you the instrument to measure what that investment is actually worth. Read in either order; built to be read together.
Writing
Nvidia published research on Friday arguing that the harness, not the underlying model, is what determines whether an AI agent can actually finish long-horizon work. The demonstration is difficult to argue with. ARC-AGI-3 is a set of 2D games with no instructions. A model has to figure out how to play and win on its […]