About
Solving problems, building things
The throughline across 30 years is simple: find a hard problem, build something to solve it, learn everything along the way. That pattern has taken me from electrical engineering to founding a 300-person company, from Fortune 25 innovation labs to shipping AI-built software.
I started as an EE, moved into IT leadership at EY and defense electronics, then co-founded a mortgage technology company. At 30 I started Equilliance — grew it from nothing to 300 employees and 5 subsidiaries, acquired 4 competitors, and ran the whole thing for 8 years.
Mastercard recruited me to lead strategic partnerships across the payments ecosystem. That led to Centene, where I ran enterprise innovation for a $144B Fortune 25 healthcare company — AI, blockchain, automation, three patents.
Two and a half years ago I left corporate. Not retirement — a reset. I took over a dormant advisory practice at BioSTL and rebuilt it from 10 active advisors to 100+. I built a production SaaS application and the AI orchestration engine that made it possible — without writing code.
Now I'm looking for the next hard problem. Full-time leadership, fractional CTO, strategic advisory — I'm most useful where technology strategy meets execution.
Building
Companies, teams, products, systems. I've built from zero to 300 people and from blank repo to production SaaS. The scale changes; the instinct doesn't.
Problem Solving
Three patents. Enterprise innovation at Fortune 25 scale. M&A integration. Practice turnarounds. I gravitate toward problems other people avoid.
Learning
EE to MBA. Mortgage tech to payments to healthcare. AI orchestration at 53. Every chapter required learning a new domain from scratch — and that's the part I like most.
Exploring
20+ countries with my wife Jill. Paragliding in the Alps, scuba in the Caribbean, truffle hunting in Tuscany. Curiosity doesn't stop at the office door.
Our Travels — Tim & Jill
We travel as much as we can. Europe mostly, but anywhere with good food, interesting history, and walkable streets.
Adriatic Coast, Croatia
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Venice, Italy
Dolomites, Italy
Lisbon, Portugal
Moselle Valley, Germany
Slovenia
Truffle Hunting, Italy
Adriatic Coast, Croatia
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Venice, Italy
Dolomites, Italy
Lisbon, Portugal
Moselle Valley, Germany
Slovenia
Truffle Hunting, Italy
Beyond Work
Scuba, snow skiing, paragliding, wine, gardening, and travel — usually all in the same trip.
Paragliding, Switzerland
Scuba Diving, Caribbean
Paragliding, Switzerland
Scuba Diving, Caribbean
Community
HOA President
Leading new indentures and capital projects for the neighborhood. Stakeholders are stakeholders, budgets are budgets — the skills transfer.
Based in
Ballwin, Missouri
Home base. But building toward a life that works from a café in Porto as easily as it does from here.
What's Next
Looking for the next hard problem to solve. Full-time, fractional, or advisory — wherever technology leadership meets real execution challenges.