I build and operate hard-technology companies that turn technical insight into real-world capability.
My work spans materials science, RF and microwave systems, MEMS, advanced manufacturing, defense materials, defense electronics, industrial asset recovery, and technical company formation. Across prior companies and current operating platforms, I have helped move technologies from invention and prototype into funded programs, manufactured hardware, customer adoption, and successful exits.
Through NuvoNexus, I lead and support a portfolio of operating companies focused on defense materials, defense electronics, industrial capability, and deep-tech advisory work. My prior companies include Haleos, acquired by Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials in 2002 (now part of Dow Chemical following the 2009 Dow/Rohm and Haas merger), and Nuvotronics, acquired by Cubic Corporation in 2019. I am an inventor on more than 125 issued patents worldwide.
NuvoNexus is the portfolio platform. MacroVation, Helicon Defense, Phoenix Asset Recovery, and related advisory work each serve a different part of the hard-technology operating model: building, funding, recovering, adapting, and commercializing technical capability.
Parent and portfolio platform for operating companies in defense materials, defense electronics, industrial asset recovery, and deep-tech advisory work. It exists to connect technical judgment, operating discipline, capital allocation, and company formation across hard-technology opportunities.
nuvonexus.comDefense R&D operating company focused on advanced materials, composite tooling, and material-enabled systems for U.S. defense customers and their prime contractors. The work sits at the intersection of chemistry, materials processing, mechanical performance, manufacturability, and defense program execution.
macrovation.comDefense electronics operating company focused on passive RF targeting and host-agnostic integration across aerial, ground, maritime, and dismounted contexts. Public details are intentionally limited.
helicondefense.comIndustrial equipment recovery and resale within the NuvoNexus portfolio. Practical work: identify underused technical and process-industry assets, recover value, and redeploy equipment into environments where it can support the next operator, lab, or manufacturing program.
Radford, VAAdvisory and venture-facing side of the platform, with a focus on deep-tech company formation, technical diligence, operator-informed venture support, and the translation of technical capability into investable company strategy.
Orlando, FL · Florida Space CoastThe work is not just to have a technical idea. The work is to make the idea survive contact with materials, manufacturing, contracts, customers, documentation, compliance, capital, and schedule.
My operating focus is on:
The common thread is execution: moving from concept to evidence, from evidence to program, and from program to durable company value.
Behind the portfolio, I operate on a modern AI-enabled backbone for research, documentation, program coordination, and institutional memory across the operating companies. The goal is not to build or sell systems — it is to run hard-technology companies with better technical recall, faster coordination, and tighter evidence capture than the median small business.
Better technical memory. Better evidence capture. Better documentation. Faster coordination between engineering judgment, customer requirements, and physical execution.
Public details are limited because much of the work sits near defense customers, controlled documentation, proprietary technical data, and active compliance programs.
Nuvotronics, founded in July 2008 through a management buyout of the Rohm and Haas Microfabrication business in Blacksburg, VA, was acquired by Cubic Corporation in 2019. The company commercialized advanced RF and microwave technologies based on high-performance three-dimensional microfabrication.
The underlying platform advanced through all three phases of the DARPA 3D-MERFS program (3D Microelectrical RF Systems) and received the DARPA Innovation Award following Phase III execution.
Haleos, reincorporated from ACT MicroDevices in 2000, was acquired by Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials in 2002 (now part of Dow Chemical following the 2009 Dow/Rohm and Haas merger). The intellectual property became part of the foundation for the PolyStrata platform.
NuvoNexus is the current operating portfolio.
Most DARPA-funded technology does not reach a manufactured product line, and very few small businesses carry one across all three SBIR phases, into qualified production, and into the supply chains of the major defense primes and leading commercial test-and-measurement vendors.
The work that began as the DARPA 3D-MERFS program (3D Microelectrical RF Systems) is one of those rare exceptions. Out of a single small business, the underlying PolyStrata® micro-coaxial process moved through all three DARPA phases, earned the DARPA Innovation Award, scaled from research demonstration into a qualified manufacturing process, and was adopted into hardware shipped by major U.S. defense primes, space and satellite programs, and commercial test-and-measurement vendors, including Keysight.
The process has since extended into large-panel fabrication and surface-mount components, broadening the manufacturing base for high-frequency RF and microwave hardware used in space-borne phased arrays, satellite communications, 5G and LEO broadband infrastructure, and next-generation defense electronics.
Carrying a DARPA technology from invention to Phase III, through an Innovation Award, into qualified manufacturing, integration into prime-built defense systems, and adoption by major commercial test-and-measurement vendors is an uncommon outcome for any organization — and a rare one to achieve from a single small business.
External coverage of the technology and its commercialization arc: Microwave Journal · NC State ECE seminar · Nuvotronics PolyStrata.