Who I am
Engineer by training. Operator by experience. AI by necessity.
Most problems are systems problems, and the interesting part is usually the part nobody is measuring.
I started with an electrical engineering degree from Chico State and spent eight and a half years at HP as a product development engineer, program manager and supplier manager. That is where I learned to look past the symptom to the system underneath it.
I left to become COO of Auctiva, which became the number one third-party selling tool on eBay and, with Auction Sniper, the number one third-party buying tool: xxxx million a year and past xxxxx users. (I can’t share the real numbers: the company has since been sold and they are private.) From there I went to New York as VP of Product at Alot.com, where I built the brand from scratch. I was the person on the phone with Google about a syndication partnership worth $70 million a year, and when Google stopped letting us buy search ads despite that deal, I flew out alone as the MIVA/Alot rep, met with numerous Google people about our contract, and worked out the solution.
Then I did something most people at that level do not do: I stopped taking the next title and spent thirteen years building my own things. PPC arbitrage into CPA offers, affiliate systems, Amazon FBA, domain portfolios, blog networks in genuinely competitive niches. No salary, no cover. If a decision was wrong, I felt it in my own bank account.
Receipts from those years
$100K
Profit in a single year running PPC arbitrage into CPA offers
35,000
Email subscribers built from scratch in a niche community I owned
~$300/day
Daily revenue that list produced
Since then I have led SEO for Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield and Rule #1 Investing at Brandetize, built Delphi AI clones of Brian Tracy and Adam Markel, and directed search and AI-driven strategy for law firms at Ten Golden Rules, where the recommendation people wrote me was about bridging AI and management, not rankings. Now I run my own company on an AI team and help other companies get the same. The full career, year by year, is here. The through-line has not changed: work out what is really happening, fix what is genuinely broken, and build something that keeps working when nobody is watching.
Chico State
BS, Electrical EngineeringWhere systems thinking started
8.5 yrs
Hewlett-PackardProduct development engineer, program manager, supplier manager
COO
Auctiva#1 third-party eBay seller tool + Auction Sniper buyer tool · xxxx/yr · xxxxx users
VP Product
Alot.com · MIVABuilt the brand from scratch; owned the $70M Google partnership
13 yrs
My own propertiesPPC arbitrage, affiliate systems, Amazon FBA, domains, blog networks, a 35K-subscriber list
SEO Lead
BrandetizeBrian Tracy, Jack Canfield, Rule #1 Investing · Delphi AI clones
Director
Ten Golden RulesSearch & Strategy for law firms · AI workflows across the department
Now
AI operatorTen sites run by an AI team under my rules · helping other companies get the same · Litchfield Park, AZ