Data Analytics Manager. Lifelong motorsport obsessive. Ironman finisher. I turn complicated data into decisions people can act on — and I do it best when the subject matters.
Grant Park, Illinois. Population roughly 1,800. My graduating class had 39 people in it. Three-sport athlete — soccer was the main one, running wasn't far behind. Band, choir, the school musicals.
My grandfather took me to a go-kart race in elementary school and I never recovered. I had a kart of my own, drove it every chance I got. We'd go out to the dirt tracks and watch late model stock cars slide around the banking. The first time I stood near a Top Fuel dragster the rumble went through my bones.
The spring I graduated high school I saw my first Indianapolis 500. Left in complete awe. I've been back nearly every year in the twelve years since.
Finance wasn't the original plan — a former race engineer talked me out of motorsports engineering for practical reasons, and my brother pointed me toward business. He was right. The pull toward racing never went away. It just had to find the right opening.
Turn 4, Indianapolis Motor Speedway — that's my best friend Kevin. I took this one. First Indy 500, spring 2014.
From a go-kart in Grant Park to a top-15 firm. Every detour had a reason.
From a go-kart in Grant Park to a top-15 firm. Every detour had a reason.
"There is no such thing as casual motorsport. You're either in it or you're not."
Dirt tracks as a kid. Go-karts in the backyard. The NHRA pits — engines that go straight through you. Twelve Indianapolis 500s. Drive to Survive sent me down the F1 rabbit hole, and I went straight through — into the technical regulations, car development, circuit histories, and the economics of competing.
That's exactly the analytical work I do every day. Just with client data instead of lap times. The instincts are identical.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway — victory lane celebration
NHRA pits — the engines go straight through you
When I'm not building dashboards I'm covering distance. Ironman. Canyon. Mountains. The discipline is the same — prepare carefully, execute relentlessly, don't stop until it's done.
Eight years of BI across dozens of industries. The stack has evolved. The obsession with clean data and clear decisions hasn't.