About Me
I am a person who has their hands in a bit of everything! My work spans technology, research, youth development, and small business, but the goal is consistent: build programs and environments that support people, not overwhelm them.
My career has taken me from global learning platforms at AWS and Microsoft, to academic research on workforce sustainability in high school athletics and equity-focused youth sport initiatives, and owning a boutique fashion brand, Togl. Across all of it, I care about building systems that are clear, humane, and sustainable.
Away from work, coaching, researching, and running a small business, I’ve been happily married for many years to my amazing wife Rachael, and we have two Corgis, Sansa and Bentley. Our son Cody, grown and on his own, always magically happens to know just when to come home when a fresh batch of Potato Salad has been made.
Strength Across Pillars
I’m a program leader, researcher, youth sports coaching expert, youth development advocate, and entrepreneur. For more than a decade, I’ve led complex, cross-functional work in cloud learning and customer operations at AWS and Microsoft. Alongside that, I’ve spent 27 years coaching high school Cross Country and Track & Field, and several years founding and guiding a youth athletics program within a community running organization.
My doctoral research focused on workforce sustainability in high school athletics, understanding why coaches leave the profession, and what systems need to change to keep them. That work led to a peer-reviewed publication in the International Sport Coaching Journal and continues to shape how I think about retention, leadership, and systems strain in youth-serving roles.
Today, I bring those threads together: technical program leadership, evidence-informed thinking, youth athletics development, and small-business operations. Whether I’m modernizing a learning ecosystem, analyzing research, coaching athletes, or operating Togl, the through-line is the same: build structures that make it easier for people to do meaningful work and to stay in it.
Areas of Impact
Program Leadership
I’ve led programs across AWS Training & Certification and Microsoft, focusing on governance, data transparency, and cross-team alignment. A lot of my work has involved making complexity understandable: clarifying how work fits together, how decisions are made, and how we measure whether change is actually improving things for learners and customers.
Research & Evidence
My doctoral work and subsequent publication examine how burnout, compensation, parental conflict, and institutional support interact to shape coaching retention in high school athletics. I’m interested in the space where research meets practice, using evidence to understand system-level problems and to design more sustainable, humane solutions.
Youth Sport & Equity
Coaching and youth development have been constants in my life. Through high school coaching and founding the Youth Athletics program at Club Northwest, I’ve worked to remove structural barriers so that more young people can access safe, inclusive, developmentally sound sport environments, regardless of where they start.
Entrepreneurship & Craft
Through Togl®, alongside my wife, we’ve taken on the challenge of acquiring and rebuilding a small, product-based business in the boutique fashion industry. That means everything from sourcing and forecasting to brand, customer relationships, and day-to-day operations. It’s a way to stay close to craft, to small business realities, and to the kind of relationship-driven work I value.
Guiding Principles
Clarity Over Noise
I care about making things understandable, whether that’s a program roadmap, a policy, or a race plan.
Evidence Over Assumption
I’m comfortable with data, methods, and uncertainty, and I prefer decisions grounded in evidence over gut feel alone.
People Over Process
Process matters, but not more than people. Systems should support the humans inside them, not the other way around.
Long-term Over Quick Wins
Whether it’s workforce sustainability, youth development, or small business operations, I’m more interested in what endures than what looks impressive in the short term.
Outside of the Pillars
Formal work aside, a lot of my life has been spent doing things that I love.
A life-long runner myself, I enjoy racing anything from a fun, themed 5k up to competitive marathons and everything between!
I love being outdoors, anywhere from the trails of home here the Pacific Northwest, to ocean kissed beaches, and even ice caves in Iceland!
I also enjoy nights in with my wife and two Corgis, watching any of my favorite movies (lifelong Star Wars here!), or a solid football game on any given Sunday.
If you’d like to talk about program leadership roles, research and evaluation work, youth sport systems, or how these threads connect; or discuss great hiking trails or how excited I was to construct my very own lightsaber at Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland, I’d be glad to connect!