What Drives Me

Curiosity. That's the through line across every role, every company, every patent. I'm drawn to hard problems, the kind where you have to understand the physics, the protocol, the economics, and the human experience to find a real solution.

I started by understanding signals. Then I learned to build systems around them. Then teams. Then companies. Each chapter built on the last, and the problems kept getting more interesting.

The Current Chapter

Right now, I'm exploring the intersection of AI and telecom. At Helium, in addition to leading the day to day telecom engineering team, I'm leading a WBA project to instrument Wi-Fi networks with quality metrics that enable operators to make user-experience-driven decisions about Wi-Fi network access. We're building AI-friendly MCP interfaces to give AI access to network data for analysis and, eventually, operational decision-making.

I'm also building software independently. When AI coding tools like Claude arrived, I realized these tools could really unleash the builder inside me. After two decades of architecting networks, I wanted to architect software systems too.

The VoiceMail app is a perfect example. My dad is losing his eyesight, and every available voice-reader email app has a terrible UX. So I'm building something he can actually use. Email is his connection to friends and community. It's also a deliberate way to stay hands-on with AI tools. The best way to understand them is to build something real.

The Name

Maxwell's Wireless is a nod to James Clerk Maxwell, the physicist who unified electricity and magnetism into electromagnetic theory. Without his equations, there's no wireless anything. It felt right to name this after the person who started it all.