Operator, not advisor.

I've been building software and digital products since 2010, for companies just getting started and for some of the biggest names in tech. I started building with AI agents before most teams took them seriously, and I've shipped them both ways: as a founder, and embedded inside fast-growing companies.

What makes me useful is the combination: I do the engineering and the product. I write the first version, demo it, win the teams over, and stay until shipping AI is just how the org works.

Away from the keyboard I'm with my wife and daughter in St. Charles, Illinois, or on a paintball field. I've competed professionally at the sport's highest international level for nearly twenty years, which turns out to be good training for product work: read fast, commit hard, stay calm under fire.

The path here

  1. 2025 – now
    AI Platform Lead
    Gusto · Agent Framework, the platform behind Gusto and Gus
    case study →
  2. 2024 – 2025
    Embedded AI Lead
    Filevine · built the flagship AI agent from scratch
    case study →
  3. 2023 – now
    Founder
    Randal · built the agent platform my workflow and companies run on (randal.bot)
    case study →
  4. 2022 – now
    Founder
    Paintball Vault · purpose-built (and now biggest) marketplace for paintball, $1M+ in sales, now runs autonomously on Randal
    shipping → AI-nativeproject →
  5. 2021 – 2022
    Chief Product Officer
    PangoBooks · sole developer of web and native apps, peer to peer marketplace for selling books
    project →
  6. 2015 – 2021
    Product Leader · EM · PM
    Reverb · early employee through the Etsy acquisition. Built Reverb Sites, Reverb Lessons, and lots of cool products in between
  7. 2013 – 2015
    Director of Technology
    Blitz Lake · brand, marketing and tech solutions across a PE portfolio of real estate development, hospitality, and more