“You can outsource your thinking, but you can’t outsource your understanding.”
Andrej Karpathy
I build AI tools for product engineers and help companies put AI to real use. The way work gets done is changing fast.
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About
Born in Palos Verdes, raised in Columbus. Battelle Scholar at Ohio State. BSEE.
Engineering curriculum left little room for the bigger questions, so I went to grad school in Chicago for theology. Partner at a boutique consultancy, survived the dot-com bust, and in 2005 moved the family to Vancouver to raise our two sons near the mountains and ocean.
In 2015 - 2017 we lived in Pune, India. Sons finished high school there. They are now in grad school. Jenni and I have been global nomads since 2022.
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Work
2025 –
Compounds.dev
Co-founder. AI-native product engineering tools with Tom Boltman and Jason Montgomery.
2024 –
Fully Functioning AI
Co-founder. Consulting firm helping companies navigate AI and solve real problems with it.
2018 – 24
Independent advisor
Team and org performance work for Manulife, Genentech / Roche, UBS, and growth-stage firms.
2014 – 17
HSBC · India & global
Built the first global agile program in Commercial Banking. Moved family to Pune to extend a board-level transformation across the bank.
2008 – 12
Pacific Blue Cross
Led 50+ people on a 120-consultant, $100M program off the mainframe.
earlier
ATGi (boutique consultancy, partner) · Huntington Bank · twenty-some other jobs along the way.
