My Story

I was doing detective work every morning just to figure out if our project was going to fail.

Roadmap in one place. Tasks scattered across three different boards. Status updates buried in 47 unread emails. Files somewhere in OneDrive, probably. I'd spend two hours piecing together where we actually stood on a six-month build.

I kept thinking: there has to be a better way to do this.

So I built it.

How I Got Here

My parents taught me that if something wasn't working, you built it better yourself.

My dad ran programs at BP. He'd see gaps, run projects, build the tools that didn't exist. I watched him do that my whole childhood. It stuck.

I spent most of my time taking things apart all and any electronics i could find. I'd sit on the floor of my room, wires everywhere, trying to figure out why the motor spun that way and if I could make it spin faster. I'd swap parts, upgrade motors, somehow get them flying again.

My parents probably thought I was just breaking my toys. I was trying to make them better.

Art, Then Design, Then Cameras

By sixth grade, I got obsessed with drawing. Not sketches, but hyperrealism. I wanted every piece to look like a photograph. I'd spend six hours on a single eye, getting the reflections right.

High school, I shifted to graphic design. Later down the line in college, worked for Texas Sports Network doing graphics for March Madness and the NFL Draft. Each graphic took 6+ hours because the gradients, effects, look had to be perfect, the typography had to be exact, the composition had to work, the graphic had to tell a story,

Junior year, I got into live sports broadcast. Ran cameras for our district's ESPN-style broadcasts. Operated switcher boards, coordinated with directors, framed shots during live games, and I enjoyed it because I got to tell a story through the lens.

There's no margin for error when you're live. You learn fast or the whole thing falls apart.

The Shot

One game district semifinals I had this shot in my head. One-handed catch, framed low-angle, background blurred, receiver mid-air.

I sprinted down the sideline, dropped to one knee, got the framing right. The receiver jumped backwards, got tackled, caught it one-handed as he fell. I got it.

ESPN Southwest used that shot when their truck came out. That felt amazing.

College and Beyond

At Stephen F. Austin, I joined the ESPN3 broadcast crew as a freshman. Usually that's for juniors and seniors. I worked courtside cameras, field cams, technical direction for live collegiate athletics.

Summers, I shot for the Sugar Land Space Cowboys Minor League Baseball. Close-up cams, wireless rigs, player interviews between innings.

At the same time, I was Senior Graphic Designer for Texas Sports Network. Leading a team, managing projects for March Madness and the NFL Draft.

The pattern was always the same: whatever I touched, I wanted it to be the best it could possibly be.

Building the Thing I Needed

In 2025, I took a break from broadcast. Got into software development blockchain, Web3, then AI devtools. Built memory management systems, contributed to open-source projects. Built Traceform: highlight code, the UI element lights up. Highlight UI, the code file opens in your editor.

Then I started leading teams. Two of them. One offshore, one onshore.

That's when I hit the problem: project truth was scattered everywhere. I'd wake up, check Monday.com for tasks, Outlook for updates, OneDrive for files, then try to piece together if we were on track or three months behind.

I was doing this every single day.

So I built a project alignment platform. Plan builder tied to kanban boards, centralized status updates, file management, timesheets. One system for all of it.

I built it for myself first. Used it to run my teams. Iterated five times as requirements changed, as I saw what actually mattered.

Now it's what we use to deliver everything. We hopped off Monday.com and Outlook. It just works.

The best part? Seeing other companies medium, large ones struggle with the exact same problem and actually use what I built.

Now

I'm CTO at DevAccel Labs and Technical Lead at Monarch Nova. Leading two teams, building systems that work.

I'm obsessive about everything I touch. My default mode is: what can I do to make this the best it can be?

There's still a lot to build. I'm just getting started.