Builder. Translator. Operator.

I hijacked my first computer when I was 10. It was 1982. My dad bought an Osborne Executive — amber screen, dual floppies. While my friends played games on their Atari 2600, I was writing programs in BASIC. I wrote an accounting system that printed invoices to an Okidata dot matrix printer. From a book. At ten.

That instinct never stopped. Commodore 64. Coding camp at ShowBiz Pizza. Novell NetWare in 1992. In 1993 I helped build one of the first Electronic Health Record systems for ambulances — at East Baton Rouge Parish EMS, where I was also working as a paramedic.

I engineered one of the first ethernet-connected networks for a company that built gray market gambling machines. Led a massive Y2K infrastructure migration for the State of Georgia — some of the first Catalyst 6500 switches in the world.

Then 15 years at Riverbed Technology. Sales Engineer to Principal Technical Director to Deputy CTO — four years reporting to the CTO and CEO, overseeing pre-sales, customer engagement, and product. VP of Global Presales leading 200 people. SVP of Customer Experience managing 425 professionals and a $100M budget.

At Riverbed I produced hundreds of hours of content translating complex networking technology into something customers could consume. That skill — taking the obscure and making it actionable — is what got me tapped for the business side. I didn't leave engineering. I expanded into where my leverage was highest.

Our CEO gave me the NPS problem. Negative 22. I put the number in front of the entire company and said we are better than this. Then I found the system failures and fixed them. -22 to +37 in under a year.

Now I'm CCO at Addium, a cannabis technology company. I took the business intelligence stack that Fortune 1000 companies spend millions on and brought it to cannabis operators running 3 sites. Democratized the black box of cultivation data. 30% YoY growth. 98% gross revenue retention.

And I'm building AI agent infrastructure — not to be the smartest person in the room, but so my team can use it. I watched a customer success manager build a compliance monitoring workflow in Claude Code in an afternoon. That's the unlock. Me alone is a liability. Me teaching is a force multiplier.

Cannabis is my medium. Tech is the art. Money is the fuel.