Amazing software development begins with amazing development teams—I can help build new teams, extend existing ones, create and cast a strategic plan to guide an organization, and/or lead teams through culture, process, or technology changes.

I believe leadership is about observing and listening, challenging the status quo, clearly setting direction, and then motivating and helping those you work with to do their best. I believe true leaders value honesty, authenticity, and integrity above all else.

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

- Jack Welch - Retired Chairman and CEO of General Electric 

“True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed… Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.”

– Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook

My role in an organization is to provide the right resources, infrastructure, processes, culture, and technical guidance so everyone is freed to apply their creative ideas and talents to the challenges set before them. My goal is to always do these things in a very transparent and empowering manner—decisions should be pushed down wherever possible!

“The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.”

- Sir Ken Robinson - British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies

Nothing is more rewarding to me than helping teams come together to solve the challenges set before them, to create useful and pleasing software solutions, and to grow personally and professionally as individuals.

“Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors.”

- Jocko Willink - podcaster, author, and retired United States Navy SEAL