An analyst-communicator who builds the machinery.

A library tech, an equity analyst, a USC communications grad, a nonprofit's one-person marketing department, and a comic reseller who wrote his own software. The throughline isn't "marketing." It's taking something complicated, making it land for a specific audience, and building the system that makes the work scale.

For seven years I was the sole marketing and communications practitioner at the Association of California Nurse Leaders. Email, social, web, design, podcast, video, print, and the annual conference. When the measurement infrastructure didn't exist, I built it. When the volunteer content pipeline fell through, I absorbed the work. None of those pieces is exceptional on its own. The combination, held together by one person for seven years through three CEO transitions and a pandemic, is the unusual part.

Before ACNL: eight years writing equity analysis for individual investors at The Motley Fool, which is where I learned to make quantitative complexity readable. Twelve years at the UC Davis Library before that, student to staff. A Master of Communication Management from USC in 2018.

The newer thread is technical. I configure and integrate the tools the work runs on, and I build small applications and automations with AI assistance when an off-the-shelf tool won't do the job. I'm not a software engineer. I'm a marketer who can ship his own tools instead of waiting for one.

I'm currently open to marketing and communications roles, ideally somewhere mission-driven, with a soft spot for higher education. Get in touch, or find me on LinkedIn.