About
I've spent over two decades in technology. Not just talking about it — building it, breaking it, and figuring out why.
That started in the Air Force, where I managed engineers across six continents. I learned early that the gap between a plan on a whiteboard and something that actually works in the field is where most people get into trouble. I got comfortable living in that gap.
From there I moved through some of the most demanding environments in enterprise tech — EMC, Cisco, Pure Storage. Now I'm VP of Solutions & Strategy at Aqueduct Technologies, a New England-based IT solutions provider where the team is roughly 70% engineers. Most competitors flip that ratio toward sales. Customers don't need someone to tell them what's possible. They need someone who's done it.
For fifteen years I also ran Whiskied Ginger, a small spirits venture. It had nothing to do with IT and everything to do with how I'm wired: I got curious, got obsessed, and decided to figure it out myself.
This site is where I write about leadership in technology — the real version, not the conference-talk version. Infrastructure, strategy, teams, and what happens when plans meet reality.