Built from zero. Every time.
Four builds, two altitudes. Two I led inside a public company with a team and a budget. Two I shipped alone this summer, with AI in hand, because the fastest way to prove the thesis is to run it on yourself.
Building a Digital Channel From Zero
$0 → $12M+ a year400+ branches, through the company going public.
Read the case study → No. 02Teaching a Catalog to See
5,000 → 100,000 itemsImage recognition trained on 1–2M photos.
Read the case study →What I build when nobody's paying me to.
Governing an $8B Pension Fund
MOSERS · Board Chair & Trustee · 2015 to 2018 $8BAs trustee, then elected chair, I helped lead Missouri's $8B state employee pension fund. It's the same build-from-nothing work in a different arena: I lifted the board's focus to the strategy level, giving it the oversight to steer the fund's investments and its risks and to lead from a higher vantage point.
Taking a Court System Paperless
Missouri Courts · Statewide Program Lead · 2012 to 2016 115 countiesDirected the statewide eFiling rollout that moved Missouri's courts from paper to digital across all 115 counties, leading 49 county implementations directly while managing a six-project portfolio. Statewide adoption is won county by county: each one had its own clerks, judges, and workflows, and each one had to come along willingly.
Modernizing a Workers' Comp Insurer
Missouri Employers Mutual · Technical Program Manager · 2018 to 2021 10 min → 3Led a 40-person team to replace the company's aging customer and agent platforms with something new: modern, genuinely usable, and built with the functionality the old systems never had. Lean process work along the way cut the core quote from ten minutes to three.