Technology × Finance × Family
Fifteen years inside people’s finances taught me exactly where the pressure lives. Now I build software that takes it off the table — an app that keeps dads present with their kids, and AI operations that give owner-led businesses their nights back.
The work
In the order I built them: the lending practice that started it all, the mission it uncovered, and the edge that keeps both sharp.
The foundation.
Mortgage Broker — Stratton Mortgage Group
Fifteen years and responsible for over $1B in closed loans — and the lesson never changed: a mortgage isn’t a transaction, it’s the front door to a family’s next chapter. I run every file like it’s my own, and I still answer my own phone.
The mission.
Co-founder & CTO — Hey Dad
A video-messaging app that helps fathers stay close — one message at a time. Weekly prompts so you never wonder what to say, streaks that build the habit, and a private archive your kids will open for the rest of their lives.
The edge.
Founder — Blueprint AI
AI operations for owner-led businesses. I sit inside your real workflows, find the hours you’re bleeding, and build the systems that give them back — then teach your team to run them without me.
Under pressure
Dials before somebody picks up. The fiftieth gets the same voice as the first.
Fifteen years in mortgage is fifteen years of pressure that doesn’t negotiate. I know the walk to the phone when the news is bad, the family is already packed, and I’m the one who has to say it out loud.
That’s not a war story. It’s a spec.
About
Everything I build runs on one conviction: the family is the most important institution on earth.
Money is where that conviction gets tested. I’ve sat across from people on the best day of their year and the worst one, and the difference is almost never character — it’s margin. Room to breathe. So room to breathe is what I build. The lending work puts families on solid ground. Hey Dad keeps fathers present long after the papers are signed. Blueprint AI hands owners back the hours that were never supposed to belong to the business.
Off the clock I’m a husband, a father of two boys, and a youth flag-football coach who takes the playbook more seriously than the six-year-olds do. Faith first. Family always. Work in service of both.
How I operate
Contact
Three lanes, three inboxes. Pick the one that fits — I read all of them.