I started as a mechanical engineer, with a B.S. from Baylor and two years at Raytheon designing aircraft modifications in Pro/ENGINEER for the Navy's E-6B fleet. From there I spent about fifteen years in New Mexico doing almost everything a small business needs: running the front office of an auto body shop, then systems, HRIS, networks, and marketing for a payroll and HR company. That combination of hands-on operations and the systems running beneath them has shaped most of what I've done since.
For the last decade-plus I've built enterprise HR systems at scale, leading the ServiceNow HRSD rollout at Bridgestone, and now as Associate Director at Bristol Myers Squibb, where I own how work enters, routes, and gets resolved across the HR ecosystem for more than 35,000 employees and users worldwide.
Building Something New
Outside of the day job, most of my nights and weekends go toward a GenAI-embedded ecosystem I'm building from the ground up. I'm drawn to software that doesn't ask people to learn a new tool or go somewhere new; instead, it shows up inside the workflows people already use, quietly connecting systems, surfacing the right information at the right moment, and making something complicated feel simple.
It's the same instinct that's driven most of my career, finding the unglamorous seams between systems and people, and building something that makes both work better together. Right now it's in active pilot, and the bulk of my time goes into infrastructure, integrations, and conversations with the people who'll actually use it. More to share once it's out of pilot.
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Baylor University
B.S. Mechanical Engineering (1992–1997).
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Raytheon E-Systems
Design engineer on Navy E-6B aircraft modifications, working in Pro/ENGINEER.
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New Mexico, ~15 years
Business manager at an auto body shop, then systems and marketing leadership at Payday HCM: HRIS, networks, websites, social and email marketing.
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Bridgestone Americas
HR Systems Manager; led the ServiceNow HRSD implementation.
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Bristol Myers Squibb
Associate Director; enterprise owner of ServiceNow HRSD for more than 35,000 employees and users worldwide.
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Now
The BMS role, plus a GenAI-embedded ecosystem of my own, currently in pilot and built on nights, weekends, and a couple of Linux boxes.
Most Marches you'll find me deep in bracket analytics: adjusted efficiency ratings, betting splits, injury reports, the whole spreadsheet. I'm learning to be conversational in Spanish, a slow, happy reader on astronomy and theology, occasionally write for my church's men's ministry, and try to get back to a beach when I can, Hawaii most recently.