I founded Conjunction LLC because every business I'd spent 30+ years inside had the same blind spot: nobody was synthesizing the cross-domain intelligence the operators actually needed to act. Specialists kept handing off to other specialists, and the operator was left holding fragments. Conjunction is the synthesis — nine verticals, one through-line, no fragments.
I started in technical writing at Sitel, translating engineer-speak into something the rest of the company could act on. That's still the discipline — translation between people who know things and people who need to do things with what's known.
From there: business analysis, ScrumMastering, product ownership, and enterprise project management at Lincoln Financial, First National Bank, Werner Enterprises, DirecTV, Bread Financial, the State of Nebraska, and Fiserv. Every engagement meant learning a new industry from the inside out in weeks. That's a discipline, not a credential.
I've rescued projects three months late. Led $2.3M divestitures. Trained 700+ users on enterprise platforms. Built Agile transformation frameworks adopted organization-wide. Sat in rooms where the CFO didn't believe the numbers and walked out with the CFO defending them.
My technical toolkit spans the full SDLC: Jira/Jira Align, Azure DevOps, Agile/SAFe, Six Sigma, n8n automation, AI/ML platforms, RPA, and the enterprise ERPs and CRMs most consultants have never touched. None of it matters in isolation. It matters when you can move from the strategy slide to the API call to the financial model to the board conversation — without losing the thread.
Two decades inside Fortune 500 IT and operations — financial services, logistics, telecom, government, banking. Every engagement was about translating between domains that didn't speak the same language. That's still what Conjunction does — between AI vendors and operators, between federal procurement and small business, between investors and the operator-led businesses they're trying to back.
By 2024 it was clear: the same systems-thinking discipline I'd applied to enterprise SDLC was directly applicable to physical-world automation — robots, AMRs, cobots, AI vision. The deployment patterns are identical to enterprise software rollouts, just with hardware involved. HLAC compliance, OBBBA depreciation, MiR/FANUC/Figure AI vendor evaluation — same playbook, new sensors.
Real estate (multifamily, notes, raw land, lease options, TC). Investment firm pitch decks and LP lead generation. GovCon DLA DIBBS bid strategy. Acquisition due diligence and off-market sourcing. Overages recovery and skip tracing. Five different verticals — one underlying skill: data-first capital decisions in domains where most operators rely on instinct.
Most for-profit operators don't know they can access grant capital. SBIR/STTR, EDA, DOL workforce programs, state manufacturing modernization. Conjunction identifies the matching programs, builds compliant applications, and tracks submission timelines. For deeper grant-only work, prospects route to SubmitGrants ↗ — Conjunction's sister AI grant-submission platform.
Whether the vertical is healthcare laundry robotics or DLA DIBBS bid strategy or pitch-deck construction for a $50M raise, the work follows the same three-step discipline. It's not a brand — it's how I think.
Research before recommendations. Numbers before narrative. Every engagement starts with a free written analysis that names the specific cost driver or opportunity gap in the operator's situation, with evidence. No discovery calls disguised as diagnoses.
One recommendation per analysis — the highest-ROI intervention, with the floor cost named and the financing structure pre-considered. Not three options to confuse the decision. The conviction comes from the research, not the consultant's enthusiasm.
Engagements are scoped, signed, and delivered with defined endpoints. No open-ended retainers without scope. The free analysis serves as the foundation — nothing restarts from zero. Every engagement has a measurable deliverable and a measurable end.
Every engagement starts there. Submit your situation, receive a real written analysis within 48 hours. No sales call required to receive it. If a fit emerges, we'll find it together. If not, you'll hear that clearly.