I'm the marketing-technology and AI developer at YouVersion (the Bible App, 1 billion+ installs). When we started wondering what AI could actually do for our marketing, I didn't wait for a mandate — I just started building, exploring what was possible, and shipped two production systems (Next.js + TypeScript) on my own. One picks the best message for each user with bandit ML algorithms. The other lets anyone launch localized campaigns across 70+ languages. The work contributed to a 300% increase in campaign engagement and a 30% increase in a generosity campaign. I'm now the tech lead on our production applications.
The AI builder and enabler for marketing teams on a 1 billion+ install product. Architected Nexus (agentic ML decisioning) and Beacon (a self-service campaign platform that ships launch-ready creative in 70+ languages), and contributed to a 200% increase in monthly campaign revenue
Delivered architecture design, system integration, and code automation for DoD programs — high-voltage detonator and battery systems — with diagnostic problem-solving in mission-critical, cross-functional hardware environments.
I've started things from zero my whole career — churches, campus ministries, a $2M fundraising practice. Planted new churches from the ground up — pastoring congregations and discipling leaders. Cast vision, built community, and celebrated big wins.
I started new campus ministries by planting small-group communities. Created content for small groups and sermons, and built and maintained the websites that deployed it — my first taste of shipping software to reach people at scale.
Raised $2M for nonprofit organizations — owning the full cycle of relationship-building, storytelling, and follow-through that turns a mission into funded reality.
Graduate study in aerospace engineering — where systems thinking and reasoning under uncertainty became second nature. My master's thesis ↗ predicted turbine-blade heat transfer with a 3D compressible CFD solver built on the Navier–Stokes equationsReynolds-Averaged Navier–StokesNewton's second law for continuous materials — they calculate the velocity and pressure of a fluid by balancing forces like inertia, viscosity, and gravity.Mass∂ρ/∂t + ∂/∂xj[ρ(uj−Vj)] = 0
Momentum∂ρui/∂t + ∂/∂xj[ρ(uj−Vj)ui + pδij − τij] = Si
Energy∂Et/∂t + ∂/∂xj[(uj−Vj)(Et+p) − uiτij − qj] = 0.
Bachelor's in aerospace engineering.
I'm looking for work where I build from scratch — taking something from a raw idea to a shipped product in users' hands. I'm at my best before the answer is obvious: choosing the architecture, pressure-testing it against real users, and cutting what shouldn't get built. Fastest way to reach me is email.
Eight years married to Maggie, dad to three kids. The systems I care about most don't run in production — they're at home. Same principles, though: show up every day, build for the long run, and sweat the details no one else sees.


He signed off that the wall between the kitchen and dining room wasn't load-bearing — so the plan was a quick weekend of demo. I took him at his word right up until I cut a stud and heard a thump. I investigated and confirmed it was load-bearing — the second-floor joists were resting right on top of it. It was carrying the house. Everything pivoted overnight: engineer a beam to pick up the load, re-permit, and a timeline that more than doubled. Same lesson I keep relearning in software — the spec is just a hypothesis until you open it up. I trust what I can see and measure, not what the drawing says.


