Military Brat · USAF Family

Born at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Both parents served in the United States Air Force; my mother retired as a Lieutenant Colonel, my father as a Colonel. Growing up meant packing your things and moving every few years: transitioned through 10 schools by the time I graduated high school. I learned early how to adapt to new environments, read new social structures, and build trust with strangers. It wasn't always easy, but it's a background that translates directly into how I work.

XSET was one of the top NA Valorant organizations during the game's early competitive era. The same roster that won the VCT 2022 NA Stage 2 Challengers and represented North America internationally at Masters Copenhagen. I was offered the IGL (captain) role following strong performance in the open circuit, but chose to stay as an analyst, a deliberate decision to have more impact behind the scenes than at the mic.

The job was structured 12-hour days. Up at 5:30 AM watching international tournament VODs before the NA market woke up. By afternoon I was building per-player performance spreadsheets: round-by-round statistics, behavioral patterns, performance curves plotted over time. Evenings the roster was in scrims; I'd watch live, flag in-round events, then spend the post-session reviewing every angle. At peak I was rated among the better analysts in the NA scene.

I left the scene by choice. I'd hit my ceiling for what the role could teach me, and I could see more important work ahead. The discipline, pattern recognition, and analytical habits I built have stayed with me. They now show up directly in how I approach infrastructure and security work today.

Medical Mission Work · MMDM

In 2018, at 24, I deployed to Laredo, Texas on my first MMDM medical mission, running vision stations: tonometer, autorefractor, Snellen chart, and readers. Over the next several missions I rotated through every station in the clinic. In 2025, after our Laredo mission, leadership asked whether going digital was viable. I've been building toward that answer since: the result is a hardened, offline-first OpenEMR deployment that ran its first full field use in Costa Rica in April 2026 with 1,121 patients served in a single week.

After leaving the Valorant scene I discovered Shatterline, a tactical shooter developed by Frag Lab Studio in Ukraine during the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. I wanted to help keep the game viable. I reached out to the developers and built their first competitive scene from scratch, founding OASIS as the organization behind it.

The initial work with Shatterline required convincing skeptical developers under wartime stress to provision practice servers they had no interest in running. It took a couple weeks of iterative persuasion, data-backed proposals, and trust-building across language and time-zone barriers. When I finally aquired server access, I built a full tournament infrastructure: rules, brackets, broadcast logistics, community moderation, and prize-pool funding secured through grants and sponsorships with our highest payout reaching $600.

When Shatterline's developers shifted their focus from PvP to PvE, OASIS pivoted. We expanded into a generalized model: identify promising early-access PvP titles, partnered with their development teams, and ran structured competitive events using experienced esports participants to generate media, feedback, and community momentum for games that needed it. I attended gaming conventions, cold-pitched studios, and nearly secured a Stockholm residency with the Alara Prime team before their funding collapsed. When Alara filed for bankruptcy, I managed the community transition without losing the trust we'd built.

OASIS ran until the early-access PvP market contracted and the community could not sustain momentum without a strong anchor title. I shut it down deliberately rather than let it decay. The organization had a real website, a small team, a competitive Discord community, and real developer partnerships. It was a startup. It taught me more about operations, negotiation, and resilience than anything else I could have done in that window.