This caring bear went to Saint Francis University in Loretto, PA. He graduated magna cum laude with not one but TWO honors theses — the first little bear in the whole Kingdom of Caring to ever pull that off! 🏆 One simulated quantum chemistry on an insulin protein 🧬; the other built a 3D digital model of the whole campus. He also served as Student Government VP and led Chemistry Club to a national award.
Fresh out of the honeycomb, he joined the Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically Under-Served Areas, a DoD-funded telehealth lab. The Army and Navy asked him to help bears in faraway forests communicate during emergencies — ad-hoc radios, bioterror first response, GPS-enabled mobile robots. He even briefed SEPTA on underground communication. Very hush-hush! 🤫
Then he founded a whole forest of startups. Dimples, Inc. invented magical fonts that use 30% less ink (patented! 🎉) — Monotype, J&J, and Walmart all came knocking. Mad Dog Environmental made goop that locks up shale-gas wastewater. Pipeguard Robotics built leak-detection drones that swim through water pipes — winning the Booz Allen Data Analytics Prize (#1 of 150!), the MIT Innovation Water Prize, and a Y Combinator finalist spot. He landed Forbes 30 Under 30 and W. PA Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Seven startups. That’s a lot of caring.
He galloped off to MIT for a Master’s in Engineering & Management (4.8 / 5.0 GPA). His thesis: temporary tattoos that glow under infrared light to help doctors find veins for hemodialysis. True story. Patent pending. He also co-authored papers in Science Translational Medicine and PNAS. 💉✨
Then the very mysterious X Lab at Alphabet (home of Google’s moonshots) invited him in. He worked on the 10X Collective and Rapid Evaluation Team, doing primary research on causal systems, multimodal scientific learning, and chaos modeling. He’s not allowed to talk about it too much. (NDA.) 🤫
Then Airbus Ventures as Technology Principal — three years stewarding deca-millions of Care-a-Lot bucks into deep-tech: aerospace, quantum, cybersecurity, propulsion, autonomous systems. He led top-of-funnel deal flow across AMER, EMEA, and APAC for a $300M+ fund. Their team became a Top 10 Quantum Investor globally. The companies? Even caring bears honor their NDAs — those names are locked inside the Hall of Hearts behind a glowing friendship padlock 🔒💖 [tap to peek inside]
Now he teaches at MIT (!!), leading Dual-Use Ventures — startups serving both private AND government clients. He invented MIT’s first sensemaking course, “Confronting Unknowns”, covering AI, aerospace safety, and unidentified anomalous phenomena 🛸 (yes really). He co-teaches Translational Engineering with Prof. Carlo Giovanni Traverso and facilitates Robotics Essentials and AI for Enterprise. He also contracts with Trusted Strategic Solutions on microelectronics and national-security stuff he definitely cannot elaborate on here.
He co-hosts Tough Tech Today, the premier podcast for frontier-tech trailblazers, and publishes The End Effector for the science-advantaged startup community. He volunteers with Americans for Safe Aerospace (the world’s largest UAP advocacy org), coaches student founders at MIT Sandbox, and works the Head of the Charles Regatta every year. Tough tech bears gotta share the caring. 💞
When he’s not caring about frontier tech, he’s chasing his Doctor of Engineering at Penn State (complex systems!), running marathons barefoot (Harvard Medical School studied his feet 👣), playing saxophone (12 years), drumming with a West African ensemble, sculling on the Charles, or studying for his Private Pilot License. ✈️
