Founder, inventor, and operator building hard‑technology companies.

I began my company-building career after completing my M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Virginia Tech in 1996. My first company, originally ACT MicroDevices and later Haleos, developed MEMS-based fiberoptic components and optoelectronic assemblies. The company grew from a founder-built manufacturing operation into a venture-backed technology business with a significant patent portfolio, ISO quality systems, and advanced optoelectronic packaging technology. Haleos was acquired by Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials in 2003.

After the acquisition, I joined Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials in a product development and R&D leadership role. During this period, I contributed to advanced packaging and microfabrication technologies, including the technical foundation that became associated with the PolyStrata platform. PolyStrata enabled precision three-dimensional metal micromachining for RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave applications. The technology was advanced through major DARPA programs, including the 3D-MERFS program (3D Microelectrical RF Systems), and became an important platform for high-performance RF and microwave hardware.

In July 2006, I founded Nuvotronics to commercialize advanced RF, radar, wireless, and microwave technologies for defense, space, and telecommunications applications. As President and CEO, I helped build a multidisciplinary technical and manufacturing team, develop advanced products, win contracts and awards from defense and space customers, and scale the company's manufacturing and quality systems. Nuvotronics grew into a recognized millimeter-wave technology company with facilities in Virginia, North Carolina, Boston, and Los Angeles. The company achieved AS9100D certification and shipped advanced hardware for demanding aerospace and defense applications. The underlying RF and microwave platform advanced through all three phases of the DARPA 3D-MERFS program (3D Microelectrical RF Systems), received the DARPA Innovation Award following Phase III execution, and was scaled from research demonstration into a qualified manufacturing process — adopted into hardware shipped by major U.S. defense primes, space programs, and commercial test-and-measurement vendors such as Keysight. The process later extended into large-panel fabrication and surface-mount components. Nuvotronics was acquired by Cubic Corporation in 2019.

After the Nuvotronics acquisition, I returned to company building through NuvoNexus, the portfolio platform for my current operating work. Current operating interests include MacroVation, focused on defense materials and material-enabled systems; Helicon Defense, focused on defense electronics and passive RF concepts; Phoenix Asset Recovery, focused on industrial equipment recovery and redeployment; and advisory work around deep-tech company formation and technical diligence.