The Journal
Thoughts on faith, leadership, and community — lessons gathered along the way and passed on to the next generation.
Growing up, I never called it a leadership philosophy. It was just how things worked. You judged quality by whether something held up, not by how it looked the moment you first saw it. I think of it as exactly that now, and it has shaped nearly every decision I've made building a company.
August 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Long before Atlantic Tech existed, I worked under a shop foreman who had no formal reason to invest in me. I was young, unproven, and easy to overlook. He didn't overlook me. He explained why things were done a certain way instead of just telling me to do them.
August 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A revenue number, a headline, a milestone slide in a deck, none of those things carry meaning by themselves. They are just evidence that something happened. Whether that something mattered depends entirely on why you were building it in the first place.
August 4, 2026 · 4 min read
I've spent years building a company around data intelligence, and the biggest lesson has nothing to do with technology. It's about learning to listen before I act, in faith and in business.
July 30, 2026 · 4 min read
Wyoming's reputation runs to open land, energy, and agriculture, which makes it easy to miss what's been building in its galleries, theaters, and public squares. The state's arts scene is growing, and in Cheyenne, I can see it from my own downtown.
July 27, 2026 · 4 min read
The standard playbook for a technology startup is well-documented. Raise fast, rent your tools, launch loud, fix the foundations later. I ignored most of it. I've built in ways the industry keeps calling unconventional, while my results keep getting called sensible.
July 19, 2026 · 4 min read
Most founders talk about culture. I talk about conviction. I'm the founder and CEO of Atlantic Tech, the data intelligence company I started in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 2020, and my faith isn't a value I put on a slide.
July 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Every December, I organize a holiday campaign that delivers toys and essential supplies to families across Cheyenne. It is one of the more consistent things on my calendar, and one of the least publicized, and both of those facts say something about how I think about giving in general.
July 12, 2026 · 4 min read
I grew up in a blue-collar family, and in the early years of my entrepreneurial life, I knew real financial uncertainty, the kind where you count carefully and hope nothing unexpected breaks. Even in those years, I gave what I could.
July 8, 2026 · 4 min read
When young entrepreneurs ask me for advice, I reach for the things I wish someone had told me back when my finances were uncertain, and Atlantic Tech did not exist yet. Those years, roughly the hardest of my working life, produced almost everything useful I have to pass on.
July 2, 2026 · 4 min read
The best mentors I've known never handed down answers from above. They walked alongside, asked hard questions, and learned as much as they taught.
June 18, 2026 · 1 min read
Faith and business are often treated as separate rooms in the same house. In my experience, the house only stands when they share a foundation.
June 2, 2026 · 1 min read
Every December, Atlantic Tech delivers toys and essentials to local families. It started small. It became the truest measure of what we're building.
May 12, 2026 · 1 min read
