A modern data center meeting a strategy worktable

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Make complexity
commercial.

I help organizations see the opportunity, challenge the assumptions, and build a practical strategy to move from where they are to where they want to be.

The job beneath the title

See the current state. Define a better one.

A current-state problem might show up as slow growth, an unclear offer, or technology that creates more work than it removes. I look for the gap underneath it: what customers need, what the business could become, and what has to change to get there. Then I connect that opportunity to positioning, a commercial case, and a plan people can act on.

Growth & technology consulting

Find the real constraint. Build the practical path.

For leaders ready to turn a current-state challenge into a clear future-state plan—across business growth, market positioning, technology, or a new offer.

Useful when you need:

  • A clear diagnosis of the current state and what is limiting growth
  • Complex technology translated into business terms
  • A workable AI or automation roadmap
  • Positioning, a sellable offer, and a practical go-to-market strategy
  • Data center, cloud, or infrastructure guidance
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Current chapter

Director of Growth
Data Holdings

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

At Data Holdings, I lead growth around the infrastructure organizations rarely notice—until it absolutely has to work.

Data Holdings is a carrier-neutral, tribally owned data center serving organizations with colocation, private cloud, bare metal, and high-performance storage. The environment pairs Tier III+ facility design, Tier IV electrical infrastructure, SOC 2 Type II controls, and 100% power and cooling uptime since 2013.

My role lives upstream of a rack or contract. I help customers understand what they are protecting, what reliability actually requires, and how to make infrastructure decisions that fit the business they are becoming.

100%Power & cooling uptime
Tier IVElectrical infrastructure
TribalOwnership & purpose

Career signal

Built over decades, not quarters.

The titles tell part of it. The through-line tells more.

NOW

DATA HOLDINGS

Director of Growth

Growth leadership across sales, marketing, RFPs, pricing, strategic partnerships, and customer relationships for complex digital infrastructure.

PRIOR

DATA HOLDINGS

Senior Account Executive

Built new business and durable client relationships by connecting technical capability to business outcomes.

20+

SALES / BUSINESS / OWNERSHIP

Business development & entrepreneurship

Sales, customer relationships, and hands-on business ownership across signs, woodworking, photography, and technology. Experience connecting an opportunity to a customer, an offer, and a workable business.

How I operate

Progress starts with a better question.

A Challenger mindset helps uncover the opportunity. Commercial strategy makes it viable. Purpose keeps the work pointed at a result that matters.

01

Understand the current state

Listen to customers and the people doing the work. Identify the friction, the constraints, and the cost of staying where you are.

02

Challenge the assumptions

Ask why it works this way. Test what is accepted as fixed. Look for a better possibility grounded in what people actually need.

03

Make the future state viable

Define the value, the positioning, and the commercial model. Make the idea understandable, marketable, and worth buying.

04

Execute on purpose

Turn the strategy into priorities, clear ownership, and practical next steps. Track what changes, learn, and adjust.

Education & credentials

2025

Master of Business Administration

Western Governors University

BUSINESS

B.S. Business Management

Western Governors University

LEADERSHIP

Foundations of Leadership I & II

National Society of Leadership and Success

COMMUNITY

Milwaukee Intertribal Circle

Community involvement

SERVICE

Former CTO & Co-Treasurer

Strong Native Minds

Selected work

See the thinking applied.

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Next chapter

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