A bit about me

I grew up in Owasso, Oklahoma, building PCs and taking apart anything I could get my hands on — the curious, slightly-too-into-hacking kind of kid, from about age eight. I always figured I’d be an entrepreneur, and even though my career went the corporate route, I’ve brought that build-it-from-nothing mindset to everything since.

My path wasn’t a straight line. I studied finance and thought I’d become a financial analyst; I didn’t do the internships or chase the pedigree. I landed at Direct Energy and fell into data almost by accident — the computer side had always been home. (For the record: I got a D in Java in high school and was sure programming wasn’t for me. I now architect enterprise AI platforms and lead the people who build them. That grade wasn’t the verdict.)

When ONE Gas spun off from ONEOK, I joined and got to do the thing I love most — take something from zero to one. I built the company’s data and AI function from scratch, and nothing I’ve done makes me prouder than turning a hundred-year-old utility into an organization that actually decides with data.

What genuinely excites me is solving real problems with technology — infusing business strategy with data and AI. My finance roots show in how I work: I’m not drawn to science projects for their own sake. If it doesn’t drive a business outcome, it doesn’t interest me.

Beyond work

I met my wife in 2014 and learned Portuguese along the way. She moved here from Brazil without a word of English — and watching her go from there to a bachelor’s, a master’s in data analytics, and now her own data career at Williams is the thing I’m proudest of outside my own. (Yes, ours is a two-data-careers household.)

Off the clock: PC games — Destiny 2 and Marathon — extreme metal on guitar, vocals included, and being cheerfully out-voted by our two dogs, Snow and Winter.