Ship the work, not the ritual.

Ex-Expeditors Global Technology. Naval Aviation Veteran. A Technical Program Manager and builder who works close to the code.

I have a passion for using data to surface a team's problems, Lean and Agile principles to help solve them, and doing whatever it takes to make that happen, whether it's dealing with people or getting my hands dirty writing the code or tooling my team doesn't have time to write. Though I'm also not above enlisting AI agents to help, so my hands don't get quite so dirty these days.

I'm drawn to using that data to improve Lean flow. Monte Carlo forecasting and XmR Process Behavior Charts over story point estimation theater. REST API automation and CI/CD coupled to Value Stream Mapping and Theory of Constraints. Find the bottleneck and fix it. Dashboards that make system state legible at a glance. On call at 3 AM, you don't rise to the occasion. You fall to the level of your telemetry and observability.

My thesis: the most useful thing a TPM can do is decrease friction and toil and help build a system where doing the right thing is easy and baked into the architecture itself. Frameworks can help or hinder that. Use them appropriately.

Before all of this, I flew Navy jets as an EA-6B Prowler Naval Flight Officer. Then I joined the Navy Reserve and rose to a unit second-in-command. On headquarters staffs, I supported elite elements of U.S. Special Operations Command and briefed senior officials, all the way up to a four-star Navy Admiral whose boss's boss was the President of the United States. It's not all of who I am, but it's where I came from and it shapes my worldview. The full service record →