Thirty years inside operations.
Not observing them.
I started my career on the floor. Not in a strategy role — in operations, where the work is physical, the problems are immediate, and the accountability is real. Nine years at Nike, building Lean and supply chain discipline across global manufacturing. Then Danaher, where I learned what a world-class operating system actually looks like. Then a decade of PE-backed turnarounds — Rexnord, Bodycote, Veritas Steel, Abrasive Form, PLZ Aeroscience — each one a mandate to stabilize, transform, and perform.
I spent my last four years in the corporate world at Bio-Techne as Senior Director of Strategic Supply Chain and EHS — leading global operations and supply chain transformation for a public life sciences company through significant expansion and post-COVID disruption. I retired from that role in March 2026.
Throughout that corporate career, I had been building Ikigai OS on the side since 2018. The gap I kept seeing was the same one everywhere: consultants who understand operations but can’t build software, and developers who build software but have never run a P&L. I bridge that gap. I can walk into a manufacturing operation, identify where it’s losing money, and build the specific AI tools to fix it — without outsourcing, without six-month implementations, and without requiring an internal technical team.
Now I do this full-time. I work with 2–3 clients at a time to maintain focus and quality. The engagement ends when your team can operate without me. That is the only outcome I am interested in.