The things I’ve built, the places I’ve explored, and the people I’ve met along the way.
This is less about what I’ve done and more about why I chose to do it. My professional work lives on LinkedIn and thethirdseat.co 
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The view is part of the story.
A collection of things I've built, learned, contributed to, and shown up for. Each has a story behind it.
A resume tells you what happened, not how I think. I started The Third Seat to write down the cases and templates behind my work as a Chief of Staff, starting with one template and a first case now in progress. The hardest part is choosing what to write, because so much of how I work lives in my head.
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I wanted to test my judgment against other Chiefs of Staff on a real problem with a real clock. We had three hours to turn a $30M partnership, a leaked deal, a risky IP clause and a CTO ready to quit into a five slide CEO brief, then trade feedback with the operators around us. My call was to take the deal, put the CTO in charge of the IP risk, and tell the team it was a growth story. Funding doesn't destroy culture. Inaction does.
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A career transition became a chance to learn how to run a company end to end, not just the functions I'd already led. The module that stayed with me was organizational power: mapping who really shapes decisions, and being honest about my own relationship with power. My capstone looked at how companies can become AI ready by transforming their workforce instead of defaulting to layoffs, and meeting my cohort in Philadelphia was the highlight.
About the program →“The things we choose to build say something about what we believe matters.”
It started with a simple question: which AI tool would actually help me most? That curiosity turned into learning the foundations, testing workflows, and eventually running my own agents each week.
My biggest takeaway? An agent is only as useful as the operating system around it. Priorities, good inputs, and a review loop matter more than the model.
All agents →Compare tools and understand what they do well before building a workflow around them.
A weekday Morning Brief and Friday Debrief help turn scattered inputs into a clearer week.
Next: interview preparation, reflective journaling, and better feedback loops.
Some places make it easier to disconnect from the noise and reconnect with what matters. For me, winter has a way of doing that.
Family, time with Archie, and the things that keep me grounded. The fullest parts of life don’t always happen in an office.
Places change. Chapters turn. Family is woven through all of it, the roots I carry, the time we make for each other, and the everyday moments that become the stories we keep.
Alongside the adventures and things I’m building, there’s a life shaped by the people I love.
