2025
PromptQuest
A narrative web game whose story and dialogue adapt to the player's personality profile.
Next.jsOCEAN persona engine
Introduction
Strategy and operations leader who builds with AI hands-on. Most of my career has been joining companies at an inflection point: business operations for Lynda.com after LinkedIn's $1.5B acquisition, the first BizOps hire at Truework (employee #15) through 900% ARR growth and a $30M Series B, and COO of a credit data company through a doubling of revenue and headcount and a $10M raise. I started in tech investment banking and private equity. Since early 2026 I've been building Nerve, a multi-agent platform I designed, shipped, and sell myself. Off the clock I'm a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under JT Torres.
Things I've built
2025
GPTerminal
A browser hacker sim where the model sets the puzzles and grades the solutions.
Terminal UILLM as game master
Private build, write-up only
2025
GPT.Me
A deployable AI version of your professional self that anyone can talk to.
Agentic resume
Private build, write-up only
2025
WhisperAI
A real-time overlay that reads expression, tone, and posture on video calls.
MultimodalReal time
2025
Vision to Values
Crawls a company's site and drafts a Vision to Values document, Jeff Weiner's framework.
PlaywrightGPT
2025
Resume Rewriter
Rewrites a resume into a narrative tuned with personality trait sliders.
GPTPublic repo
Work Experience
Nerve
Feb 2026–PresentFounder & Builder
- Nerve builds agents that own the path from a signed deal to a correct invoice, for CFOs, COOs, and operating partners. For founders who are the whole team, it's also an AI chief of staff. I own product, engineering, go-to-market, and finance.
- Designed and shipped a multi-agent system with more than a dozen specialized agents in production, coordinated by an orchestrator that routes work between them and holds outbound messages for human approval by default.
- Built a hosted MCP server so Claude reads and acts on the same data as the app: one source of truth feeding chat, Slack, email briefings, and dashboards.
- Signed the first paying customer within 90 days of launch and a second in September 2026. Built a business-verification agent that ran in production inside a customer's compliance team for four months, with deterministic pass/fail gates, a source capture on every finding, and a review path for anything uncertain.
- Designed safety in from the start: per-user and per-org data isolation, approval gates, and a post-generation filter that enforces each user's blocked content on every AI-written briefing.
LevelUp Finance
Dec 2024–Jun 2026Director of Operations & Product Strategy
- LevelUp Finance provides finance solutions that give data-intensive organizations real-time performance visibility. Promoted from Senior Strategic Finance Manager and Agentification Lead.
- Led the company-wide agentic AI rollout across the 500-person parent organization: use-case selection, tooling, security review, enablement, and adoption tracking.
- Built an internal AI copilot surfacing ARR anomalies and scenario analysis, halving FP&A turnaround time.
- Re-architected revenue and expense semantic models in Snowflake and Power BI, automating ARR certification and cutting manual interventions 90%.
- Instituted a pipeline-to-revenue attribution model, enabling real-time LTV/CAC dashboards and a 25% reallocation of marketing spend.
Independent Consulting
Jan 2023–Dec 2024Fractional COO & Chief of Staff
- Fractional COO, chief of staff, and strategic finance work for technology and consumer-product companies.
- Apollo Neuro, Chief of Staff (Sep 2023–Aug 2024): built the company's first operating model from a blank page, covering planning cadence, KPIs, and reporting, and positioned the firm for a Series B raise.
CRS Group
Mar 2021–Jan 2023Chief Operating Officer (from Sep 2021)
- CRS is a tech-enabled credit data reseller that lets companies and lenders underwrite consumers programmatically and at scale.
- Took the company from lifestyle business to high-growth startup, doubling revenue and headcount in 10 months; supported a $10M capital raise.
- Built the operating layer: hired the CFO, CPO, and VP of Talent, and implemented the systems behind them (NetSuite replacing QuickBooks, Salesforce, Greenhouse).
- Set the operating rhythm: company-wide OKRs, sales and marketing KPIs tied to revenue goals, and board and investor reporting.
Truework (acquired by Checkr, 2025)
Mar 2019–Dec 2020Sr. Business Operations Manager
- Truework is an Activant, Sequoia, and Founders Fund-backed income and employment verification company.
- Founded BizOps as employee #15; oversaw 900% ARR growth and supported a $30M Series B raise.
- Interim Head of Finance for 15 months; built the first consolidated growth and engagement model.
Hirevisor
Sep 2016–Oct 2018CEO & Co-Founder
- Hirevisor was a shared talent network connecting companies with silver medalist candidates vetted by other top companies.
- Took it from zero to $3K MRR, 10K candidates, and 16 employers; raised $130K. Alchemist Accelerator Class XVI and Plug & Play Enterprise 2.0 Batch 0.
- Hirevisor site (archived 2018)
Business Operations & Strategy, Lynda.com and Content Products
- After LinkedIn's $1.5B acquisition of Lynda.com, led business operations for the 500-person, $100M+ unit: KPI definition, reporting, data integration, and prioritization, working directly with LinkedIn's executive team.
- Before that, BizOps lead for SlideShare, Groups, and Pulse, LinkedIn's consumer content products.
Alpine Investors
Jun 2012–Mar 2014Investment Professional, Private Equity
- Sourced and closed two software investments that exited at 3x+ ROIC at Alpine Investors.
- Alpine Investors bio (archived 2013)
Arbor Advisors
Jun 2011–Jun 2012Analyst, Investment Banking
- First junior analyst to source and close a deal in firm history; staffed on tech M&A and financing transactions.
- Arbor Advisors bio (archived 2011)
Education
University of Pennsylvania
B.A. in History, 2011, with coursework in finance. FINRA Series 63 and 79.
Skills & Interests
AI & Agents
LLM applications, multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, MCP, RAG, evals and guardrails, human-in-the-loop design. Claude API, OpenAI APIs, AWS Bedrock.
Engineering & Data
Python, TypeScript, Next.js, Postgres, Redis, Vercel. SQL, Snowflake, Power BI, Looker, Salesforce, NetSuite.
Strategy, Operations & Finance
Operating cadence and planning, OKRs and KPIs, executive and board communication, GTM analytics, pricing, FP&A and ARR reporting, financial modeling, fundraising, M&A, and enterprise AI adoption.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Purple Belt under JT Torres. Training at Essential Jiu Jitsu in White Plains, NY.
Husband and Father
Living with my wife, our two kids, and our black lab, Maya, in Westchester, NY.
