Canton, NC USA 28716 | Website | LinkedIn | GitHub | Email | Call 828-593-1935
I spent 10 years running a marketing agency starting at the bottom and quickly rising within the first 6 months to director of operations. I brought great success through software engineering, marketing, closing new business, managing teams and producing results.
I spent another 10 years building and growing businesses small and large through hard work and careful planning including some of my own.
I am active in tech communities and have spoken at both digital summit and internet summit.
Operations, technology, and marketing leader with 20+ years of experience scaling businesses across hospitality, technology, and professional services. While at White Fox I grew accounts from stagnant at 30 to booming at 350 with a 98% customer retention rate. Onboarded 60,000 users at Realay.com At Hurley's Creekside Dining & Rhum Bar, grew annual revenue from $1.3M to $5.4M through brand development, marketing strategy, and operational excellence. Grew Studio 12 Designs from $50K to $387K in annual net profit while delivering branding, web design, and marketing services to clients. Full-stack developer [bash, C, pHp, Ts, Swift] with CTO/CMO experience at SaaS companies. Leads through listening, empowering teams with ownership, and following through—combining technical depth with creative marketing execution and P&L accountability.
I am a business operations and technology professional with over 20 years of experience in management, sales, marketing + growth, graphic design, and software development.
| Title | Company | Dates | Salary | Successful Exit Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Hustle Launch | 2/24 - present | 145k | |
| CTO | Realay.com | 3/23 - 4/24 | 120k | Successful exit w/20% buy-out. |
| Director | White Fox Studios | 2/15 - 2/24 | 100k | Pursuing Realay opp |
| Franchisee Partner | Papa Johns | 6/14 - 2/15 | variable | Pursuing marketing career |
| Owner/operator | Hurley's Creekside | 7/10 - 5/14 | 80k | Sold for 5.4M |
| Director | StudioTWLEVE | 1/07 - 7/10 | 350k | Sold 1.2M |
| Prod Manager | Signs R Us | 7/03 - 1/07 | 21.5k | Pursued s12 opportunity |
| Regional Manager | Corporate Cleaning | 6/96 - 6/03 | 17.86k | Pursued SWE career |
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science 2003 - 2007
Focused on SWE, C, related languages, specialized in OOP at the time though I'm highly functional now.
Associate of Arts - AA, Commercial Graphics 2001 - 2003
Operations optimization, business strategy, marketing, sales, software engineering, graphic design.
Proficient with most business software including but not limited to my opinionated preferences:
Markdown for document formatting, Google docs if i have to. Sheets for spreadsheets, best UX, Canva for layout, Affinity Designer for illustration, Affinity Photo (i'm getting used to it but miss photoshop tbh), Zoom, Slack, Hubspot, Buffer, ahrefs, NEOVIM btw, macOS, Chrome, superhuman. My dotfiles have a GH following.
Website | LinkedIn | GitHub | Email | Call 828-593-1935
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