About

The people, standards, software and delivery practices that help teams solve hard problems in physical systems. My career spans more than twenty years across building automation, low-voltage systems, mission-critical facilities and business ownership. I have worked every part of it: field installation and programming, project management, engineering, estimating, sales support and department leadership.

It started in the Navy's nuclear power program, where you assume nothing works until you have watched it work. Then security and fire systems, then building automation, commissioning and the engineering behind it. I have established and led a building automation division, and built a manufacturing business to national distribution, more than $1M a year and a team of twelve.

Those environments taught me to define the expected behaviour, verify the actual system and keep the evidence of what happened: the commissioning discipline that proves a building does what the drawings say.

I build software with AI coding agents every day, and the same discipline turns out to be the missing piece. An agent will report a task complete when it is not. A control nobody has watched deny anything is an assumption. A plan regenerated from the code launders drift into the record. None of that is new. It is the failure mode every commissioning engineer already knows, arriving in an industry that has not learned to distrust a status point yet.

At Enviromatic Systems I combine controls engineering with internal software: tools that went from one manager's request to department-wide use, an operations platform, and the department's Applications Engineer curriculum. Through HLLMR Ventures I build products of my own (Writwall, Stratum DSP and Silo among them), owning the engineering decisions, integration, verification and delivery.

Lead engineering and applied-AI work where building-systems expertise shapes better products and better operations: BAS and OT engineering leadership, and forward-deployed work with real ownership of customer outcomes and product direction. The people who design, deliver and operate buildings deserve better information, better tools and more reliable processes.