Outside the day job.
The work is on the rest of this site. This page is the other part: a house full of boys and dogs, a long athletic habit that started in a swimming pool, and a stubborn preference for learning things by building them.
The home team.
Along with my amazing wife, we wrangle three knuckleheads every day. It's been a joy to watch them grow; we still can't believe the oldest is now at the University of Tennessee. Not pictured: our two dogs, a mini goldendoodle and a sheepadoodle. With only dudes and doodles in the house, my wife is a saint.
I didn't take the course. I built the thing.
Instead of certifications, I chose to learn AI by building. Without writing code, I've developed this website and the projects below by asking questions, making changes, fixing plenty of mistakes.
What I got out of it is a decent nose for where the AI hype holds up and where it doesn't, which turns out to be hard to fake. Every one of these started as something I actually wanted to exist.
RacePrep
A triathlon training app built to scratch my own itch for better visibility into swim, bike, and run training beyond Strava.
Network Builder
A personal CRM that pulls LinkedIn, email, and calendar into one place, so you can see how a relationship has actually gone instead of guessing when you last talked.
SaaS Metrics Calculator
A dashboard for measuring key SaaS KPIs and seeing how they respond to assumptions. Shows leaders what actually matters.
It started in a pool.
I got on a summer swim team around age 6 and never really got out of the water. I wasn't recruited out of high school, so I walked on at Clemson, which meant putting in the work and earning my spot. I earned a letter, and four years later was a co-captain.
That taught me the thing I still believe: the kids with determination usually beat the kids with natural talent, as long as they keep showing up. Long horizon, daily reps, no shortcuts. It's how I train and it's how I work.
Then everything else.
My brother and college buddies were racing triathlons and having a blast; FOMO is a hell of a motivator. There's nothing like a Half or Full Ironman on the calendar to focus your training. Road and mountain biking filled in the gaps.
