I spent twenty years selling the future. Now I build it.

I've spent two decades at the leading edge of business intelligence and process automation — Tableau, Alteryx, Databricks, and lately the agentic AI tooling that's reshaping how work actually gets done. For most of that, my job was to help the world's biggest companies understand new technology well enough to bet on it: technical discovery with CIOs and architects, proofs of concept that had to survive contact with reality, and the business cases that turned a promising demo into a funded program.

Along the way I led sales-engineering teams and, in my best year, ranked first in the company for new-business ACV. But the part I kept gravitating to wasn't the pitch — it was the build. The moment where you stop talking about what the technology could do and actually wire it up to see whether it holds. So I leaned all the way in: I now do the building myself, for businesses that need someone who can tell real innovation from hype because they've shipped both.

Today that means independent consulting on the South Shore of Massachusetts — emerging-tech evaluation, data engineering and integration, analytics that drive a decision, and helping teams actually adopt the AI tooling everyone's talking about. The throughline is the same one it's always been: make systems that were never meant to agree do exactly that, then hand someone a result they can act on.

I live in Scituate, on Boston's South Shore, and I'm the kind of person who keeps a four-machine GPU cluster in the basement — partly solar-powered — so I can run local models and pressure-test new tooling on my own dime. It's how I form opinions worth paying for: if I'm going to tell you something is real, I've usually already broken it myself first.

My wife runs a specialty grocery down the street, which is how a chunk of my "consulting" turns into reconciling point-of-sale data at the kitchen table. I write at questionabledecisionmaking.com when something's worth thinking out loud about, and I build small things — a Discord bot, this website service — mostly because I can't help it.