The Story
Three chapters. One through-line.
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San Francisco Bay, 2013–2016
San Francisco Bay, 2013–2016
Chapter One · 2013 – 2016
The Hadoop Wave
Before AI was a product category, enterprise data was the frontier. MapR, Altiscale, Talend, Impetus — the companies building the distributed infrastructure that would eventually make everything else possible.
Those years were a masterclass in selling complex technology to people who didn't yet know they needed it: Fortune 500 CIOs, data engineering teams, infrastructure buyers. The education was in the selling. You learn what a system actually does when you have to explain it to someone who will write a check based on your explanation.
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USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) · Japan
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) · Japan
Chapter Two · 2017 – 2022
U.S. Navy · USS Bonhomme Richard
Five years of active duty. Honor Graduate, Yeoman A-School (99.17% GPA). Stennis Center of Excellence Award. Surface Warfare Specialist. Two meritorious promotions.
Above the numbers: led manning, logistics, and compliance for the 400-sailor Engineering Department aboard a ship of 1,200+, forward-deployed to Japan.
The Navy doesn't teach you discipline by explaining it. It creates conditions where undisciplined behavior produces immediate, visible consequences. That's a different kind of education — and it transfers.
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Jersey City, NJ — current
Jersey City, NJ — current
Chapter Three · 2022 – Present
The AI Era
Revenue Operations at Bags In Bulk: first dedicated hire, built the function from scratch — pipeline, forecast, attribution, GTM stack, and AI deployment. Piloted Vertex AI and Gemini in production before it was standard equipment.
Then: Blue Jacket Consultancy, the Josephite Ark, PoolTime. The operator and the architect converging into the same person.
The through-line across all three chapters is the same: you build the substrate before you deploy anything on top of it. You establish the governance model before you scale. You govern before you grow.
