Chronology

Work

Entrepreneur first. Then the Army. Then the VA process, then the products that came out of it. This is the professional record in one place.

1. Longrifle AI

   Jul 2026 – Present

   Founder and Lead Engineer

   Schaumburg, Illinois

   AI consulting and custom implementation. Private, offline systems. Language models, machine vision, and agent workflows. Not a one-trick shop. Not a client list.

   • Assess the mission and workflow, then a fit/no-fit decision. Build only when it belongs.
   • Engineer models, vision, and agents into existing applications. Deploy on client-controlled infrastructure, including disconnected rooms.
   • Human approval on consequential actions. Audit trails designed in. Client data never trains an outside model.

2. TackleAI

   Nov 2025 – Jul 2026

   AI Software Developer

   Schaumburg, Illinois

   Joined as an Operations Specialist. Promoted to AI Software Developer in three months. Production AI. Left to found Longrifle.

   • Joined November 2025 as Operations Specialist. Promoted January 2026.
   • Built production AI document-processing and automation.
   • Left in July 2026 to found Longrifle AI.

3. RFP Analyzer

   Feb 2025 – Present

   Founder

   Chicago, remote

   AI platform that reads RFPs and government solicitations. It extracts requirements, checks compliance, and finds the gaps.

   • Started while the VA process was still open.
   • I had spent months reading regulations, tracking what a decision maker required, and finding the gaps in my own file.
   • RFP Analyzer performs that same class of work on a different body of documents.

4. United States Army

   Aug 2024 – Nov 2024

   18X Special Forces candidate, Basic Combat Training

   Fort Moore, Georgia (now Fort Benning)

   Enlisted as an 18X candidate on the 11B path. Separated after an unresolved accommodation conflict involving animal-derived uniform items. I do not claim a Special Forces qualification.

   • Active duty August 19, 2024 to November 22, 2024.
   • Enlisted 18X. In BCT as 11B. Did not complete the pipeline.
   • DD-214: Uncharacterized. Entry Level Performance and Conduct.
   • DA PAM 670-1 requires combat boots to be leather. The accommodation was not resolved.

5. Healthy Substance

   Jan 2021 – Apr 2024

   Chief Executive Officer

   Chicago

   Plant-based Mexican restaurant I led after two years as Chief Marketing Officer. Still advise the company.

   • As CMO (2019–2021), grew Instagram past 12,000 and drove the restaurant to No. 57 on Yelp’s Top 100 Places to Eat in the U.S. in 2020.
   • As CEO: named an Iconic Chicago vegan restaurant by Eater. Taste of Chicago. Lollapalooza 2023.
   • Covered by the Chicago Sun-Times, WGN Radio 720, and South Side Weekly.
   • Left the chief executive role in April 2024. Have advised since on marketing, CRM, events, and product.

6. Culturally Beautiful

   Nov 2018 – Sep 2019

   Founder

   Chicago

   Online fashion storefront at CulturallyBeautiful.com, built on custom web design.

   • Founded and operated the storefront end to end.
   • Custom web design, not a template flip.

7. Tesla

   Nov 2017 – Apr 2019

   Product Specialist, then Tesla Advisor

   Westmont, Illinois

   Began my sales career at Tesla. Full sales cycle, CRM pipeline, monthly targets.

   • Product Specialist from November 2017 to February 2019.
   • Tesla Advisor from February 2019 to April 2019.
   • Guided customers through the full sales cycle and consistently met or exceeded monthly targets.