I grew up fascinated by anything with an engine, which led to on-the-job training at an auto shop in high school, starting with sweeping floors and working up to the full service bay. What I really learned there was that once you understand how something works, you can fix it. Everything else follows from that.

That mindset followed me into procurement, which looks like a job buying things but is really about understanding how organizations work and using that understanding to create leverage. Every company I've worked at had the same underlying structure: someone was selling software with a well-engineered process, and nobody on the buying side had built one to match. So I did.

When I'm not at work I'm skiing or at the beach with my family or enjoying a drive through the winding Pennsylvania countryside.