I solve puzzles for a living.
Your data is the puzzle.

I’ve always loved puzzles. Rubik’s cubes. Logic problems. The satisfaction of taking something that looks like chaos and finding the pattern hiding inside it. Turns out, that’s exactly what data visualization is.

I started my career in 1998 as a tech support engineer in San Diego, helping people make sense of their data using a tool called BrioQuery. I loved it. Not because the technology was exciting, but because the moment someone finally saw what their data was telling them, everything changed for them. I started an online support group just to help more people get to that moment.

Over the next decade, I was recruited by Compaq, Hewlett Packard, and eventually NASA, where I taught a weeklong course on data tools. The technology kept evolving under me: Brio became Hyperion, Hyperion became Oracle. Through every transition, the work stayed the same: help people understand what their numbers are trying to say.

Where my previous tools produced static reports, Tableau let me build something alive. Interactive. I could visualize data geographically for the first time: click on an unprofitable state, see which categories contributed to it, click on a category, see which products were to blame. It wasn’t just reporting anymore. It was detective work.

That’s what I’ve been doing ever since. I’ve spent 20+ years helping organizations like Yale, the Pentagon, the FAA, UC Berkeley, and dozens of others turn their raw data into something they can see, understand, and act on.

Trusted by organizations that demand the best

Continuously learning, always current

Beyond the data

I’m based in Jefferson City, Missouri. When I’m not building dashboards, I’m flying drones and shooting astrophotography, tinkering with AI, reading everything Stephen Few, Edward Tufte, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, and Ryan Sleeper have ever written, and geeking out over the intersection of data and storytelling. I’m a puzzle solver at heart — Rubik’s cubes, escape rooms, data mysteries, it doesn’t matter. If there’s a pattern to find, I want to find it. I’m also a small business owner and entrepreneur who’s always looking for the next puzzle to solve.