I live in Kansas City, Missouri with my wife Maura and our two dogs, Rosie and Gus.

I’m a self-taught tech nerd who started with an Apple II in high school and used a Mac Plus in college to edit the newspaper and yearbook. My first personal computer was a Mac IIfx with a whopping 80MB of storage. I remember genuinely wondering what I’d ever do with all that space.

Maura and I are collectors: art, toy VW Beetles, toy robots, vinyl (both toys and records), books, plants, Lego sets, hats. The rule in our house is that if you own three or more of a thing, it’s a collection. I’m a voracious and eclectic reader, an occasional writer, a dabbler in photography, and a doodler of no particular ambition. I also have a moustache that recently celebrated its fifteenth birthday, which I consider one of my longer-running projects. I studied philosophy in college, which turned out to be surprisingly useful in IT.

Professionally, I’ve spent over twenty years helping organizations make their technology actually work — for the people using it, not just the people managing it. I’ve led infrastructure rebuilds, security overhauls, cloud migrations, and digital transformation projects, but what I’m really doing is translating between the technical and the human. That’s the part I’m best at, and honestly, the part I’d do for free if I had to.