Raised on the coast. Film school. A decade in NYC. Now I build AI systems that run while I sleep.

I grew up in a coastal home in St. Augustine Beach, Florida—Atlantic Ocean literally in my backyard. Coquina everywhere: the retaining walls around my yard, Castillo de San Marcos a few miles off the island. I didn't think about it then. I think about it now.

Went to Full Sail for film school. Moved to New York and got into VFX—compositing Budweiser Super Bowl spots, Coca-Cola, Hershey's, Sprite. One night on the subway, someone was holding something I'd never seen before. I asked him what it was. It was the first iPhone. I jumped instantly. Left the VFX industry and never looked back.

Spent the next fifteen years making apps—Disney, Wegmans, AB InBev, Shake Shack, Forever 21, Belk, The Met at Fuzz Productions. Then Salesforce rollouts across multiple states, a $2.5M healthcare platform redesign, a multi-state insurance portal with a zero-error launch. Designed products that touched millions of users and architectures that are still running today. Momentum kept me in New York for a decade.

Children and family brought me home. Back to the coast, back to the salt air. Then AI hit the same way the iPhone did on that subway. Same feeling. I went all-in the same way.

Now I build infrastructure that runs while I sleep. Coquina—named after the material I grew up around—serves 1,800+ memories with dual-path search and four self-evolution subsystems. Forge orchestrates 33 autonomous workers overnight. I designed, built, and operate all of it—13,700+ auto-generated relationship edges and counting.

I go hard. Every day. The work is about building things that last—resilient systems, clear thinking, no shortcuts.