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The long version

I've spent more than 30 years at the intersection of engineering and business — building research systems at Cybernet Systems, architecting enterprise solutions at Oracle, and then leading global presales engineering teams at MicroStrategy (2009–2020), Logi Analytics, Sigma Computing, and most recently Yellowbrick Data, where I currently serve as Global Director of Solutions Engineering. I've led teams of nine or more spanning the US, Canada, Mexico, the UK, and China — and in every role, I've learned how technology actually gets adopted, not just how it looks in demos.

Alongside that career, I've been building iOS apps. RetireMint started because I couldn't find a retirement planning tool that treated me like an engineer — one that would run actual simulations, show survivorship probabilities, and let me stress-test against the 2008 financial crisis. Every tool I found gave me glossy optimism. So I built the one I wanted. Minder.ai started because my note-taking system kept failing me: I'd capture hundreds of thoughts only to never surface them again. I built something that thinks ahead so I don't have to.

My HughesNet app was featured in an Apple Keynote presentation by Craig Federighi, Apple's VP of Software Engineering — a moment that made the years of late-night Swift debugging feel entirely worth it. I've shipped five apps through the App Store, with more than 5,300 units sold.

Daedalus onWing is named for the mythological craftsman who didn't just dream of flight — he built the wings. I believe software should be equally purposeful: precise, tested, and actually useful to the person holding it. No glossy optimism. No feature bloat. Just things that work.

I hold a US Patent (#6,050,940) in medical instrumentation technology, earned my B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995, and have spent the decades since proving that deep technical knowledge and business fluency aren't mutually exclusive — they're the combination that makes genuinely good software. Away from the screen, I'm a member of Michigan Flyers and currently working toward my Private Pilot License.