“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar.

I follow questions furtherthan is strictly reasonable.

Short version or the whole story. Your call.

  • 10+ yearsin public-sector infrastructure consulting, from operations to marketing director.
  • 3+ yearsbuilding with AI, with a human making every final call.
  • 1 personmarketing department. Hence the systems.

Public-sector infrastructure consulting is where I’ve spent most of my career, at one small firm, working in operations, research, business development, marketing, and whatever IT problem landed on my desk that week. These days I’m a marketing and business development strategist.

I’m the whole marketing department there, which is exactly why I started building tools. When you’re one person, you either do less or you build systems that do more. I chose systems.

For the last three-plus years I’ve been building with AI: research pipelines, screening tools, content systems, a brand kit an AI can actually follow. The rule I don’t bend: the AI does the heavy lifting, and a person makes the call.

I’m openly neurodivergent, and that shows up in the work. I see systems where other people see tasks, I go deep on whatever hooks me, and I care a lot about making information easy to take in. That’s why this site lets you change the font, the spacing, and how much detail you get.

I’m still figuring a lot of this out. These are my field notes so far.

Me, in a nutshell

Read books. Be kind. Stay weird.

Chapter I · The path

Operations to marketing, by way of every department.

  1. 2025 to now

    Marketing Director Marine Tiger Technologies

    Brand, website, content, and the systems that keep a one-person marketing department running.

    This is where building with AI went from experiment to everyday practice, always with a person making the final call.

  2. 2023 to 2025

    Marketing Manager Marine Tiger Technologies

    Moved marketing in-house and designed just about everything with a logo on it.

    Also planned an in-person retreat for a fully remote team, travel logistics included.

  3. 2022 to 2023

    Associate Consultant Marine Tiger Technologies

    Research and pursuit analysis to support strategic planning.

    This is where the rabbit holes started: agency research, teaming partners, procurement trends.

  4. 2016 to 2019

    Business Manager Marine Tiger Technologies

    Operations, systems, and keeping the trains running.

    Learning how a firm actually runs turned out to be the best marketing training I could have had.

  5. Before that

    Operations and client services plus independent consulting

    E-commerce client services and operations, then consulting on my own.

Chapter II · What I’m good at

Nine things I’d put on an index card.

Chapter III · How I work

House rules. I break them less than you’d think.

A person makes the call.

AI drafts, sorts, and screens. A human reviews and decides. Every time.

Citations or it didn’t happen.

If a tool can’t trace a claim to a source, the claim doesn’t ship.

Systems over one-offs.

If I’m doing it twice, I’m building something so I don’t do it a third time.

Accessible by default.

Built into the template, not checked at the end. If the default is accessible, nobody has to remember to be.

Fellow traveler, not guru.

I share what I’ve tried and what broke. I don’t have this all figured out, and I say so.

Chapter IV · Off the clock

Things I build that nobody asked for.

Reading

150+ books a year. Mostly romance.

Audiobook narration is on the someday list.

Halloween

Jurassic Park, in the front yard. Gate, fence, T. rex.

Plus a skeleton in a yellow raincoat holding a Barbasol can, if you know, you know. Past builds: an 11-foot sinking pirate ship and Ghoul-a-palooza, a music festival for the undead.

Kitchen & table

Baker, cook, Lego builder.

If it can be made from scratch or built from a box of bricks, I’m in.

Advocacy

Disability advocate. Always.

It’s why accessibility is a house rule here and not a feature: change the font, the spacing, or how deep you go.

Lavalou

Games for my kids. Both star chickens.

Math and spelling adventures, plus whatever tools my family needs. They live under my creative label.