Entrepreneurship
Founder, co-founder, operator, and strategic consultant across education, certification, and technology ventures.
Entrepreneurial Experience
Across my career, I've been involved with 15-20 companies as a founder, co-founder, operator, or strategic consultant. Highlights include:
Green Building Education Services (Founder & Operator)
Built and scaled a national professional education company serving architects and general contractors in energy-efficient commercial construction. The business achieved seven-figure annual revenue early in its lifecycle and was ultimately transitioned through a successful founder-led exit. My role spanned curriculum development, operations, marketing, partnerships, and financial management.
Enterprise Innovation Group (Founder & Operator)
Founded and operated a long-running education and media platform focused on business, finance, and decision-making. The venture reached a national audience through podcasts, books, and live programming while evolving into applied systems and founder coaching. I managed day-to-day operations, contractors, content production, and a structured peer mastermind focused on execution and problem-solving for business owners.
Certified Wireless Network Professional – CWNP (Co-Founder & Technology Lead)
Helped build a global professional certification ecosystem for wireless networking professionals, with courses and exams delivered in more than 100 countries. My responsibilities included product development, marketing,certification design, technology platforms, e-commerce systems, and coordination with testing centers and publishers.
NRFA.org (Founder & Technology Lead)
Created a mission-driven technology platform supporting embryo adoption and family formation. Led the venture from inception through platform design, stakeholder coordination, and operational oversight in a highly regulated and sensitive domain.
Wireless Training & Solutions - WiTS (Consultant, Operations & Strategy)
Currently engaged to professionalize operations, reduce founder dependency, and improve scalability in preparation for a potential transition. This work includes process redesign, workflow automation, applied use of AI, and development of new technology-enabled revenue initiatives.
Teaching Entrepreneurship Through Practice
I currently serve as an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Richmond, where I teach credit-bearing courses in artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics for professional learners. I also teach AI Fundamentals in person at Weatherford College. While my course titles emphasize analytics and AI, my teaching is deeply grounded in real-world application in business.
In the classroom, I emphasize:
- Turning messy situations into clear decisions
- Making decisions with incomplete and noisy information
- Understanding tradeoffs, constraints, and unintended consequences
- Translating models and analysis into real operational action
This approach comes directly from years of building and running businesses, not from theory alone. Students work through realistic scenarios involving limited resources, time pressure, people dynamics, and imperfect information-the conditions they'll face in real organizations.
Program & Systems Building
Most of my work has centered on building and running small, focused organizations from the inside. That has meant figuring things out as they went—how work gets done, how decisions get made, and how to reduce friction as things grow.
Across businesses and consulting work, I've spent years:
- Designing educational content and practical tools
- Improving workflows so work moves faster and breaks less
- Developing workshops, processes, procedures, and operational playbooks
- Reducing dependence on any one person, including myself
- Using technology and automation to support execution
Applied Technology as an Entrepreneurial Tool
Technology—particularly analytics and AI—is something I treat as an enabler, not the point. I work with entrepreneurs and students to understand where tools meaningfully improve decision quality, execution speed, or operational leverage, and where they simply add complexity.
My background in computer science and data science allows me to bridge technical capability with entrepreneurial judgment, helping organizations apply technology in ways that are practical and aligned with business goals.