I learned how technical businesses work by working in them

Starting in aviation

I studied Aviation Management at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, alongside flight training and computer-science coursework. It was an early mix of the three things I keep coming back to: how aviation businesses run, how aircraft and their systems work, and how software can make both easier to manage.

I also earned my private pilot certificate. It gave me a working sense of what pilots, operators and passengers actually care about, and that has stayed useful in every aviation project since.

Running communications and IT in Costa Rica

As president of Jade Forest Designs in Costa Rica, I ran a business providing wireless internet service, communications and IT work. An internet provider is infrastructure, and customers only notice infrastructure when it stops working. That work taught me to think about reliability, support and the customer's day before features.

Managing a private-aviation operation

I later served as general manager of Majestic Jet, a private-aviation business with more than 50 staff and a fleet of 12 jets, along with aircraft parts and ground-support equipment. That was operations work: people, aircraft, schedules, suppliers and the day-to-day decisions that keep a business moving.

It's the experience I draw on most when I talk with business owners about software. I've been the person who needs the report, approves the quote and answers the phone when something slips.

A decade of engineering at AdonisOne

I founded AdonisOne and led it as chief engineer for more than a decade. It was where I did sustained product engineering, building systems from the first idea through working software, and where much of the product thinking behind my later work took shape.

Hands-on aircraft maintenance

I spent two years working as an aircraft maintenance technician, including time at West Star Aviation, studied aircraft maintenance at Southwestern Illinois College and earned my FAA mechanic certificate. Working in the hangar showed me how much time maintenance teams spend navigating paperwork and software alongside the work on the aircraft.

That experience led me to create Check MRO: a simpler way to manage quotes, work orders and the details that keep a job moving, with opportunities to use AI where it can actually help. I build with the technician, the office and the customer in mind, because I’ve seen the work from more than one side.

Founding Icarus IFE Systems

I'm the founder, president and CTO of Icarus IFE Systems, which develops inflight-entertainment hardware and software. Icarus serves movies, music, reading and games to passengers' own devices over the aircraft's local Wi-Fi. It includes an offline conversational assistant, a 3D flight map and a full set of operator tools.

Icarus is the clearest example of how I work across disciplines: hardware constraints, passenger interfaces, operator workflows and the business of selling a product into aviation, all in one system. Read about Icarus IFE

AI-enabled maintenance software

I co-founded C Check AI Solutions, which focuses on AI-enabled software for aircraft maintenance. Check MRO, the maintenance quoting and work-tracking project in my portfolio, is development work in that same area. It connects RFQ intake, document extraction, quoting, approvals and work orders in one workflow.

Inventing

Invention has run through most of what I've built. My Icarus work includes an issued U.S. patent. More recently, related U.S. provisional patent applications have been filed for my trading research platform and for Recordant, the diagnostic product that grew out of it.

For a client, that habit shows up as a willingness to look at a familiar problem and ask whether it has to be done the way it's always been done.

How I build now

I use AI-assisted development tools to move quickly. I decide what gets built, I check and test the output, and I’m responsible for the result.

What this means for your project

I understand technical work. Whether you machine parts, maintain aircraft or sell products that need sizing and compatibility checks, I can follow the details and turn them into something your customers understand.

• I think like an operator. I've managed staff, budgets, suppliers and customers. Software has to fit the way a business actually runs.
• I build the whole thing. Website, tools, back-office software, AI integration and the connections between them, coordinated by one person who understands all of it.

Career at a glance

Icarus IFE Systems: Founder, President and CTO, 2025–present

• C Check AI Solutions: Co-Founder, 2024–present
• AdonisOne: Founder and Chief Engineer, 2014–2025
• Majestic Jet: General Manager, 2012–2014
• Jade Forest Designs, Costa Rica: President, 2006–2014
• Aircraft maintenance: Work at West Star Aviation; aircraft maintenance studies at Southwestern Illinois College
• Education: Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Aviation Management, with flight and computer-science studies
• Flying: Private pilot certificate