I didn't build a career. I built a way of seeing.
Twenty-five years across regulation, institutions, consulting, operations, and founding. Five lenses on the same problem, and the judgment to know which one the moment needs.
Most careers are built by picking a lane and going deep. Mine was built by following threads, from one discipline to the next, transferring what I learned, and finding that the most consequential problems always lived at the intersections.
The threads ran from regulator to institutionalist, from consultant to operator, from observer to builder. Each role transferred something the next one needed. The intersections weren't accidental. They were the point.
The thread connecting every role is a commitment to understanding the human experience inside systems. The most important question before any problem gets solved is whether you've understood the person who experiences it. That instinct was always there. A career's worth of interactions gave it a language.
“The framework that emerged from that career — Curious Intent — is the belief that governance and innovation are not in opposition. They are in conversation.”
The examination relationship is a partnership built on the belief that honest oversight leads to stronger institutions. Learning to read what the data confirms, and what the institution needs to hear.
Eight years at J.P. Morgan across risk strategy, security product management, and business controls. The inside view of how global institutions make decisions and the gap between policy and behavior.
Enterprise product delivery at Deloitte for US Audit and Global Services. The cross-client vantage point: seeing the same failure mode appear in different organizations wearing different names.
Technology, operations, and risk at ground level. The view of how systems actually work, and how today's small decisions become tomorrow's constraints.
Founder of RDJ Development LLC. Building applications with an AI orchestration model that didn't exist five years ago. The firsthand experience of what agentic AI actually changes — what it gives, and what it takes.
Where it started. I wanted to be a doctor, so I found my way into a hospital through the thing that came easily to me. As lead operator for the clinical labs, I kept patient medical data moving accurately and on time. I came for medicine. What I found was the question that has followed me since — not how the system runs, but how the people inside it experience it.
(American Backhaulers)
From dispatch to IT support at one of Chicago's scrappiest start-up logistics companies. A career built on understanding how systems actually work, from the ground up.
Contract IT support across two engagements while completing undergraduate degree: Sedgwick Insurance and GE Capital Rail. The unglamorous, ground-level foundation of a career that would eventually span five sectors.
Early internet metals brokerage at the peak of the dot-com era. A firsthand education in what happens when velocity outpaces governance, and what it looks like when a business built on curiosity has no intent to anchor it.
First dedicated risk management role. SOX controls, operational risk frameworks, and the discipline of governance as a business enabler. The conviction that better brakes let you drive faster took root here.
Eight years across three VP roles in global trade and wholesale banking. Risk strategy, security product management, and business controls at institutional scale. The examiner's instinct — the ability to read an organization's actual behavior beneath its stated policies — was sharpened here before it was formalized in a federal examination room.
Enterprise product delivery for US Audit and Global Services. The consulting lens: seeing the same failure modes appear across different organizations, different industries, different leadership teams, wearing different names but following the same pattern.
Bank examination of large and foreign financial institutions (2016–2018), then leading innovation for one of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks. Commissioned Examiner, June 2018: the credential that formalizes what the career had been building toward.
The innovation leadership role adds the other side of the equation: how institutions at the frontier of governance can move faster, not in spite of their frameworks but because of them.
Private innovation lab building AI-driven digital platforms. Both a business and a proof of concept: demonstrating that everyday curiosity, properly anchored, can lead to quality software.