I’m an engineer who can run a sales call. Twenty years hands-on across healthcare, fintech, utilities and public sector: Veradigm, Envestnet, NetApp, Itron. I still write production code.
Before any of that, psychology and economics at Northwestern. Then computer science with an AI concentration at DePaul, and an MBA at UNC. For a long time those looked like three unrelated interests.
Along the way I bought and ran a digital marketing agency, full P&L. Owning the number teaches you what a wrong decision costs.
RTP Applied Sciences is where the three degrees finally point the same direction. Noise, by Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein, made the case that professional judgment is far less consistent than the professionals believe, and that simple rules written in advance beat expert intuition more often than anyone is comfortable with. I read it as product documentation. first-pass is the first instrument built from it.
When I’m not building instruments, I ship small apps and speak at technical conferences.