25+ years of building companies and systems.

Principal · Fractional CFO, COO & CEO

Independent interim and fractional executive practice providing hands-on CFO leadership nationwide to founder-led, PE-backed, and growth-stage companies navigating leadership gaps, growth, turnaround, capital needs, operational complexity, and ownership transition.

• Hands-on CFO leadership across FP&A, cash forecasting, reporting, working capital, treasury, capital planning, lender and board readiness, and finance systems
• Construction and project-based CFO support spanning WIP and job costing, percentage-of-completion accounting, retainage, surety and bonding, prevailing-wage administration, project cash flow, committed costs, margin visibility, and capacity planning
• Leads exit-readiness and value-creation programs that strengthen financial credibility, reduce owner dependency, improve operating discipline, and prepare companies for transactions or liquidity events
• Supports PE sponsors and boards with forecast visibility, investment-thesis execution, management accountability, and decision-ready reporting
• Deploys finance technology, AI-enabled workflows, automation, and data controls where better systems can materially improve speed, accuracy, and enterprise value
• Built and manages KSIG's brand, website, market positioning, digital content, executive communications, and client-facing materials
• Fractional COO mandates to clarify accountability, improve workflows, connect operating performance to margins and cash, and reduce founder dependency; selective CEO mandates through transformation, turnaround and ownership transition

Chief Financial Officer

Multi-state turnkey engineering and construction provider of broadband and fiber infrastructure, supporting federally funded infrastructure programs.

• Led the company's financial turnaround, moving from a net operating loss to strong net profitability within twelve months
• Drove substantial revenue growth while meaningfully improving gross margin through pricing discipline and cost restructuring
• Identified and executed significant expense reductions across multiple cost categories
• Built the finance function from the ground up: FP&A, accounting, treasury, financial reporting, executive dashboards, 13-week cash forecasting, and liquidity planning
• Moved management reporting from cash basis toward accrual and strengthened lender-facing reporting and institutional readiness
• Built and led a multi-bank financing strategy supporting equipment and working-capital needs
• Experience with financial compliance and reporting for federally funded broadband infrastructure programs, including BEAD-related environments
• Delivered direct board-level financial analysis and strategic recommendations to ownership
• Contributed to executive communications, digital presence, branding, and market-facing materials alongside finance and operational leadership

Principal · AI Systems and Automation Architect

Independent AI Systems Lab building and pressure-testing practical agentic systems, automation, orchestration, and AI integration across real-world business workflows—applied to finance, research, executive decision support, operations, and business-process automation. blackboxx.ai →

• Built a governed 16-agent operating environment spanning 15 functional domains, two active AI runtimes, explicit communication routes, capability ceilings, and live control testing
• Leads brand strategy, digital product experience, website architecture, editorial systems, and market positioning through collaborative AI-agent workflows across design, content, development, and deployment
• Evaluates AI-native finance platforms against data integrity, auditability, permissions, workflow fit, integration depth, and decision usefulness
• Maintains a strategically selected portfolio of 25 Web3 TLDs, all minted on Polygon, including .blackbox, .blackboxx, .moonvault, .whitebox, and .whiteboxx, as well as the conventional domain whiteboxx.io; evaluates programmable namespaces for agent identity, authentication, delegated access, and continuity
• Researches and assesses emerging technologies—including AI infrastructure, local inference, agent frameworks, digital identity, Web3, and finance systems—against practical operating requirements
• Diagnoses live-system reliability failures and contributes reproducible evidence to open-source maintainers, with three BlackBoxx-identified improvements merged or shipped upstream

Financial Domain Expert | AI Training & Evaluation

Serves as an independent financial-domain expert for Ethos, backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), evaluating AI model outputs and providing detailed human feedback and quality assessments to improve financial reasoning, analytical quality, and practical business relevance.

Financial Analysis Expert | AI Evaluation

Engaged as a financial-domain expert to evaluate AI-generated financial analysis, applying CFO and founder/operator judgment to assess financial reasoning, analytical accuracy, and practical business relevance.

Founder · CEO · CFO

Founded and operated a premium custom home building company serving high-end residential markets. Managed complex construction job costing, project-level P&L, WIP accounting, and cash flow across multiple concurrent builds. Board member, Central Washington Home Builders Association.

• Connected project budgets, procurement, committed costs, job-cost reporting, WIP, billing, and cash requirements across concurrent custom-home projects
• Led commercial decisions across estimates, contracts, change orders, project margin, vendor commitments, and construction risk
• Led brand development, website, digital presence, marketing, sales materials, and customer communications alongside construction, finance, and operating leadership

Founder · CEO · CFO · Head of Strategy, Innovation & Technology

Founded and built Washington State's premier professional flooring and design company. An industry-leading AEC firm serving the Greater Seattle market's largest and most prestigious builders, including Fortune 500 clients across the Pacific Northwest.

• Built and scaled the company from $0, generating more than $200M in cumulative revenue over 13 years and reaching $30M+ in annual revenue
• Achieved #2 market position in Washington State within seven years
• 200+ employees across multiple locations at 50%+ YoY growth
• Nearly 10,000 homes completed across WA and OR
• Led brand, marketing, web presence, customer communications, sales collateral, and market positioning as the company reached statewide, multi-location scale
• Built and led the accounting, finance, treasury, FP&A, reporting, control, and business-systems infrastructure required to support multi-location scale
• Raised growth capital; negotiated all lines of credit and financing instruments
• Managed liquidity, working capital, lender relationships, capacity planning, pricing, procurement economics, and enterprise risk through sustained high growth
• Negotiated major customer and vendor agreements, managed outside counsel across specialized legal matters, and directly led commercial, contract, and business-risk strategy
• Evaluated and declined acquisition offers from two PE firms — the company subsequently achieved its highest revenue performance

Co-Founder · Head of Strategy, Innovation & Technology

Co-founded a flooring and design business that evolved into a national network of independently owned stores organized as a buying group.

• Evolved the operating business into a national buying-group model serving independently owned stores
• Led brand, marketing and sales materials, and market positioning supporting the operating company and national buying-group model
• Secured national contracts with leading U.S. flooring manufacturers and built a private-label product program
• Developed a multi-state sales-agent network and the commercial infrastructure to support national relationships

Manager, Nike Retail Special Orders · Corporate IT Super User

Promoted from NikeTown Portland to Nike World Headquarters at age 22 to create, centralize, and lead Nike Retail Special Orders.

• Built the national operating model for Special Orders across all U.S. Nike Retail, Outlet, and Employee Stores
• Designed workflows and systems for sourcing products unavailable through individual stores; trained teams at NikeTown locations and new-store openings
• Helped develop the program's early internet-based purchasing capability during Nike's transition toward retail e-commerce
• Served as a Corporate IT “Super User,” translating between IT, developers, business leadership, retail operations, employees, and consumers during new-system implementations