Product & technology
Every product carries assumptions about what people need and how they work. Bringing those assumptions into view helps align product purpose, technical choices, and the reality of use.
Independent technical operator & advisor
Your hardest problems
are rarely univariate.
I bring technical depth to questions that span strategy, operations, and technology, looking beyond symptoms to find elegant solutions that work in practice.
Where I help
The question beneath the question.
What looks like a product problem may be rooted in a process. What looks like an operational issue may be a decision made with incomplete information. The most useful work begins by asking what the visible problem is connected to.
Process & operations
A process is more than its documented steps. Incentives, handoffs, constraints, and workarounds shape how work really moves, and where effort is lost.
Analysis & decisions
Data, mathematical modeling, and operations research make hidden relationships and trade-offs easier to see. They bring rigor to difficult choices when intuition alone cannot show what a complex system will allow.
How I work
Probe until the real problem is clear.
Quick fixes can plug the visible gap. Thoughtful questions uncover what caused it and how it affects the wider system, often revealing a simpler, more elegant solution that holds up downstream.
Clarify the question
Define the outcome, the people affected, and the constraints that matter.
Trace what drives it
Follow how people, processes, data, and technology interact. Find where the issue starts and how it affects downstream results.
Choose a solution that holds up
Compare options, address the underlying cause, and test whether the change improves the outcome.
Experience
Mathematician by training.
Operator by experience.
My background is in mathematics and quantitative modeling. I spent nearly a decade as CTO at a quantitative investment firm, leading work across technology, operations, and trading.
That experience left me with a lasting conviction: technical decisions only make sense in the context of the people, processes, and incentives around them. The first explanation is often only a starting point. Careful questions and evidence can reveal what is actually shaping the outcome, and where a more elegant answer may lie.
Based in Boise, Idaho. Working with teams wherever the problem is.
Get in touch
Bring me the problem you haven’t quite framed yet.
You don’t need a polished brief or a fully formed answer. Start with what you’re seeing, what feels unresolved, or what you’re trying to understand. The right questions can take shape from there.