I spent 8 years at Microsoft selling AI.
Now I build it - for the life I almost lost.
I create trust through truth.
Senior Director at iLink Digital · Former Microsoft · Built The Grove (multi-agent LifeOS) · Moth StorySLAM winner · Atlanta, GA
Personal life operating system. Captures email, messages, calls, and journal; composes morning and evening briefs; tracks patterns across work, recovery, and relationships. 20 specialized agents, 57 skills, five domains, one operator. Built on a progressive trust model - supervised today, autonomous eventually. Every sprint ships through a multi-agent review pipeline. It tends to my life even when I'd rather not.
thegrove.pro →Weekly LinkedIn Live show. Pick one AI tool, build with it on camera, ship the messy honest version in fifteen minutes. Every Friday at 4:05 PM ET. No decks. No Q&A. No retakes. The library grows one episode at a time - consistency is the brand.
humanintheloop.stream →AI-powered practice management for a solo estate planning attorney. React + FastAPI, Claude Sonnet drafting six document types, 41 Georgia-statute compliance checks, a Telegram bot that nudges overdue follow-ups without shame scores. Every draft routes to attorney review before any client sees it. Live in production since March 2026. Consulting work - deep vertical beats horizontal SaaS.
AI-powered real estate SaaS. CTO and co-founder. Predictive analytics, deal scoring, and portfolio intelligence for real estate investors. Same pattern as Grove: intelligent push, not passive pull.
Coming soonDocker with Portainer, NGINX Proxy Manager, Authentik SSO, CouchDB, pgvector, NAS. Everything self-hosted, self-managed, self-debugged at 11pm when something breaks. Every breakage teaches me something a conference talk never could.
All production. All mine. Built nights and weekends in 2026.
"It's Time" is the story of my dad's battle with cancer - and the silver linings that came from it. Watch it here.
I spent 8 years at Microsoft in financial services. Five as a Solutions Engineer, three in sales. The whole time, the thing I was actually best at wasn't selling - it was solving problems with technology and building real relationships along the way. People trusted me because they knew I gave a damn. I created safety for people to say what they actually felt. That's not the best recipe for elite sales numbers, but it's the reason people wanted to work with me and still do.
I'm a builder and a storyteller, and those two things aren't as different as they sound. I've done 12+ keynotes - Nelnet's Director Summit, Microsoft GenAI Tours, Coca-Cola, Ally Financial, CDAO Summit, Power BI World Tour - and I speak at UGA every semester. I've competed in four Moth StorySLAMs and a GrandSLAM, scoring 9.0/10. Whether it's a stage, a boardroom, or a Zoom call, the skill is the same: tell the truth, make it land, and give people something real to hold onto.
In 2025 I joined iLink as Senior Director, building a $4M FSI practice from the ground up. But something else started happening at home. I started building AI systems - not prototypes, not demos, but real production systems with databases, agents, pipelines, and workflows that affect my actual life every day. I built The Grove, a personal life OS with 20 AI agents and 57 skills. I co-founded TendWise as CTO. I run a full homelab because when you want to understand how something works, you have to run it yourself.
At some point I looked up and realized: this is what I am. I'm a builder who opens doors through authenticity and trust. I just took the long way to figure that out.
I'm a dad, I'm in recovery, and I tell stories on stage when I'm brave enough.
And now?
I like who I am.
Four Moth StorySLAMs, a GrandSLAM, 12+ keynotes from Nelnet to Microsoft to Coca-Cola, and a classroom at UGA every semester. Storytelling isn't a hobby - it's how I lead, how I sell, how I connect. Every system I build, every hard conversation I have starts the same way: what's the real story here?
I create safety for people to say what they actually feel. I create trust through truth. I still talk to people I worked with at Microsoft in 2017. I build AI for a living, but technology doesn't replace human connection - it makes space for it. The Grove exists so I have more bandwidth for the people I care about, not less.
That took a long time to learn. I walked away from work for five months to face myself. Recovery taught me that strength isn't self-sufficiency. It's knowing when you're out of your depth and saying so. I apply that everywhere - parenting, building relationships, leading teams.
Not demos. Not pitch decks. Not proofs of concept that live in a slide. Real systems, in production, doing real work. If it doesn't run at 11pm on a Tuesday when something breaks, it's not built yet.
Bruce is five. He's the reason I got serious about all of this. Being present for him means being honest about everything else.
From agent architecture to workflow orchestration to production deployment. Multi-agent systems, model routing, behavioral guardrails. I've shipped it.
The Grove: personal LifeOS, 50+ automations, production since March 2026. AG Law: estate-planning practice management, production since March 2026.I translate complex AI and data systems into business narratives that land. Board decks, conference talks, proposals, workshops.
12 keynote speeches. 5 Moth stories. UGA Math every semester. Human in the Loop - weekly LinkedIn Live since March 2026.Go-to-market strategy, Microsoft partnership mechanics, pipeline architecture for financial services AI. I know how deals move because I was inside the machine for 8 years.
8 years inside Microsoft FSI. Now building iLink's $4M practice from zero.Building composable multi-agent AI systems. Persistent memory, behavioral guardrails, domain routing, structured SDLC. The pattern is replicable.
Same architecture powering AG Law (vertical consulting), Human in the Loop (media operation), and The Grove (personal LifeOS). Pattern works across domains.If you're building something with AI and need someone who has actually shipped it - I'm interested.
I read my email. I write back.