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I lead engineering and platform teams at the intersection of people and technology. This is where I write about what's working and what I'm learning along the way.

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The Chemistry of Innovation

The post below contains a readable version of what I discussed in the TechPoint Community Connect event including some graphics and the actual slide-deck embedded. If you missed the talk, this post is a great way to catch up on what was discussed.

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Submarines DevCon 2025 Keynote Speech

I was asked to give a keynote speech at the Rolls-Royce Submarines Developer Conference in February 2025. The post below contains some sanitized details of the talk for both attendees to reference and others to learn from.

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William Zinsser wrote that "writing is thinking on paper." This site is where I work through that thinking... reflecting on lessons from leading engineering teams, making sense of ideas I encounter in my research, and sharing what I'm learning along the way.

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