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I solve difficult problems like helping companies cut cloud costs, building new AI products that unlock markets, and adopting AI safely. There are many ways to work with me including as a board member, through my advisory and fractional CTO services, and through AI transformation consulting. My passion is mentoring the next generation of engineers and entrepreneurs. I am husband to Jessica, and father to Jackson and John.
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Voters passed Amendment 3 with 65% in Manatee. Commissioner George Kruse has a spending-first plan to right-size county government. How it connects to 25 years of Manatee tax and spending growth.
Read more →Manatee County and its school district spent $2.61 billion in fiscal 2025. Twenty-five years of public data on property tax, spending by category, home values and population, with the full dataset to download.
Read more →I built an RFP response engine in WizDocs so high-agency teams can answer more opportunities without drowning in blank pages. A general look at the bottleneck, the system, and how Advisory / Fractional CTO work helps organizations ship AI that creates pipeline.
Read more →This fall John and I are building a 16-foot flats skiff from CNC plywood. Shop class, mentorship, and teaching a young person that impossible is often just unfamiliar.
Read more →The printing press upended the scribe's craft. AI is doing the same to knowledge work. Why I believe this transformation dwarfs the internet and cloud, how I run an AI brain and agent swarm, and how Advisory Services can help organizations transform.
Read more →Some things take a long time to become obvious. After 25 years in enterprise technology, the threads of mechanical engineering, youth mentoring, and Florida's marine economy pulled together into Full Throttle Marine — a premium mobile marine service and Next Wave operator program in Tampa Bay.
Read more →Father, husband, and tech leader helping companies transform through AI and data. Mentoring the next generation of engineers and entrepreneurs in Florida.
Read more →Expanding Your Staffing Business Through Strategic Service Innovation As client expectations evolve and demand for comprehensive talent solutions accelerates, staffing firms face a critical question: how do we expand beyond traditional placement models to deliver true end-to-end value? I recently co-led a webinar with Erika Scanlin, President of EG, exploring how staffing firms can strategically…
Read more →On Friday morning, at 2:49 AM, the alarm went off. This was a few minutes before the rest of the team woke up. The night before, we all set our alarms for 3 AM to ensure that no one overslept. There was a great adventure that lay in store and I wanted a few extra…
Read more →When enterprise prospects kept asking for our SOC 2 report, I made it my personal mission. Drawing on my healthcare compliance experience at McKesson and GHX, I researched solutions, campaigned internally, and rolled up my sleeves to develop our policy framework.
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