For founders who need to build the infrastructure that lets a company grow — and survive.
I have built an organization from the ground up — from the first hire to a 20-person team, from a blank whiteboard to ISO 9001:2008 certification (authoring over 97% of all QMS documentation myself). I know what operational systems need to exist at each stage of growth, what can wait, and what breaks if you ignore it.
I also co-founded HG Solutions in 2025, which means I am actively navigating the same early-stage challenges your founders face today.
For companies pursuing DoD, federal agencies, or large prime contractors — the landscape that stops most small businesses cold.
Navigating government contracting is one of the steepest learning curves any founder faces. I have lived every phase of it: SBIR-stage companies, prime contractor relationships with Lockheed Martin, managing an $80M/year multi-center NASA program, and representing a small business in budget negotiations at the federal level.
At Aegisound, we achieved prime contractor status with the DoD and Lockheed Martin for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and earned the DoD Mentor-Protégé Nunn-Perry Award — recognizing excellence in defense small business performance.
For organizations that need rigorous program leadership — on complex, multi-stakeholder programs where the cost of failure is high.
I am a PMP-certified project manager and Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt. My program management experience spans some of the most demanding environments imaginable: multi-center NASA research programs, DoD defense contracts, and commercial product development across defense, aerospace, and automotive sectors.
I help organizations think clearly about risk, build schedules that reflect reality, defend budgets effectively, and communicate progress in ways that build confidence — with boards, investors, government customers, and internal teams.
For technically-driven organizations that need Ph.D.-level engineering expertise alongside — not instead of — business judgment.
My technical depth is in acoustics, structural vibrations, active noise control, and advanced signal processing. I have applied these disciplines across defense aviation (U.S. Navy flight deck, U.S. Air Force flight line), general aviation (Cessna business jets), commercial audio (Crutchfield Virtual Audio), and NASA research programs.
I am a published author of 11 peer-reviewed journal articles and 46 conference papers, co-author of a Wiley textbook (Adaptive Structures: Dynamics and Control), and named inventor on U.S. Patent No. 5,156,370. My recent work at Crutchfield included designing proprietary algorithms for loudspeaker virtualization, room acoustics characterization, and HRTF-based spatial audio rendering.
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