About.

I was raised on saltwater and gasoline. My father taught me how engines worked before I knew much else, and I carried that instinct — take it apart, understand it, put it back together better — into everything that followed. I served in the Air Force, then taught myself everything else.

That path led me to New York and into a decade alongside some of the most demanding organizations in the world: Google, Citibank, WeWork. I learned how serious people make decisions at scale, how to build things that hold up under pressure, and when to trust your instincts over the consensus.

Real estate ran alongside all of it. For years I invested in residential properties while working full-time in tech — learning the business slowly, with real skin in the game. That eventually became the full-time work. I founded Monval Capital and moved into commercial real estate, with a focus on Pittsburgh and the Mon Valley.

What I've noticed, moving across industries that look nothing alike, is that the underlying patterns are often the same. People make decisions the same ways. Organizations fail for the same reasons. Buildings succeed or fail based on the same dynamics as any other complex system. That kind of cross-industry perspective gives you peripheral vision that's hard to develop any other way. I find it more useful than any credential I could hang on a wall.

I care about what gets built and who it serves. The return matters — but so does the outcome for the people on the other end of it. That's not a philosophy I arrived at; it's just how I'm wired. I write here when I have something worth saying.