Chaos to Clarity.

Right tool for the right job, a world away from the nearest hardware store.

I spent my Army career supervising multimillion-dollar technology projects across the Middle East and the Pacific, everything from laying fiber and standing up networks to running video production. Command gives you the intent; the job is translating it into infrastructure, budgets, and crews, then delivering it somewhere the nearest hardware store is an ocean away. Much of the detail stays behind the clearance. The discipline travels anyway: right tool, right job, on a budget that holds. I still serve in the Army Reserve, where I've managed a $10 million budget to a $2.5 million surplus.

I've owned the risk myself.

I built and sold two food businesses, Mama Moos and Aloha Dogs. Both sold, and the recipes are still on menus today under the buyer's brand, which is what a clean exit looks like at any size. Before healthcare, I was the analyst behind bigger tables: part of a team that pitched a series to Hulu, and at Transamerica, where I helped build life insurance products for middle-class Hispanic families, from constructing the fund to creating the pitch our distribution partners sold. Owning the numbers end to end is why I can talk capital allocation with an investor in the morning and margins with a food truck owner in the afternoon.

I teach this stuff, too.

I teach Strategy Execution at Cal State Fullerton's College of Business and Economics. My curriculum comes from interviews with real businesses, because students deserve to practice on the messy version. Teaching keeps me honest: if I can't explain an idea to a room of undergrads on a Tuesday night, it isn't simple enough yet.