I spent five years in door-to-door sales before I ever wrote a line of code. I learned how people make decisions, what actually moves someone from hesitation to action, and what it means to earn trust in thirty seconds at a stranger's door. That's not a soft skill. That's a system — and once I understood it, I could build for it.
At 24, I built a million-dollar sales company from the ground up. Over 120 salespeople on contract, 77 consistent producers, $1.2M+ in door-to-door sales in a single year. No investors. No playbook. Just the obsession to figure it out.
When I eventually taught myself to code, I wasn't starting from scratch. I was applying everything I knew about human behavior to the way systems are designed. That combination is rare. And it's why the AI and automation work I do doesn't just function — it gets adopted.
I've built production systems for Fortune-scale enterprises and scrappy growth-stage companies. The work that makes me most proud is the kind where, six months later, a team can't remember how they operated before. Fix the process. Change the outcome. That's the only metric that matters.