At Mercury, I own product strategy for one of the industry's broadest radiation-tolerant portfolios — memory, processing, and storage flying on defense and commercial space programs across the major US and European primes. The work spans the full lifecycle: roadmaps, pricing, new product introduction, and navigating the supply-chain disruptions reshaping the rad-hard market.

Before that, I was a founder. Y Combinator taught me how to build products customers actually want, how to prioritize ruthlessly, and how to operate when everything is on the line — lessons I now apply with a balance sheet behind them.

My technical foundation is launch operations: Atlas V, Delta IV, Delta II, SLS, New Glenn. I was the Responsible Engineer for Delta IV second-stage propulsion systems with go/no-go authority during countdown, and I helped stand up the New Glenn factory from dirt floor to flight hardware. I've priced the components that fly, and I've been on the floor when they left the building.

I write about the rad-hard supply chain, qualification economics, and what happens when commercial silicon meets orbital physics. If you're working on space electronics, defense semiconductors, or supply-chain problems nobody's named yet — my inbox is open.

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