Every organization I've worked with faces the same underlying challenge: they hold deep, hard-won knowledge—about their craft, their mission, their way of working—but lack the infrastructure to make it transferable and scalable. My work begins by helping organizations see the full range of what's possible, then designing the structures that make it operational.
I help people see what they already know. Organizations hold expertise trapped in informal practice, institutional habit, or individual heads. I create the conditions for teams to surface what matters, name what's dead, and articulate what they actually care about—then design the operational architecture that makes it visible and actionable.
I build the systems that make organizations work—then make them work across contexts. Assessment platforms across seven countries. National PD programs reaching 50,000+ students. LMS platforms from scratch for state certification. The pattern is always the same: the people closest to the work maintain authority over what gets built. I provide tools, process, and implementation. Capability transfers.
The most visible expression of my methodology. The Ho System structures how humans and AI build together—human maintains architectural authority, AI handles implementation, genuine understanding develops through the process. I use it to build production systems, including a computer vision platform deployed at Harvard. But the principles are the same ones I've applied to every collaboration for 25 years. The domain is new. The methodology isn't.
I create structured conditions for teams to access the creative and collaborative capacity they already have—then channel it toward operational outcomes that outlast the engagement. Not delivering content. Designing processes through which people develop shared direction, common language, and genuine capability by doing the work together. Workshops, retreats, coaching, and long-term advisory.
I create structured conditions for people to surface what they already know—what matters, what's trapped, what's dead—and then I design the collaborative framework through which they build what's next. The depth of involvement varies. The pattern is always the same: free the knowledge, design the structure, transfer the capability.
This is the same thing whether I'm working with an AI, a school, a nonprofit, a C-suite, or a group of teenagers. It draws on 25 years of practice, formalized through the Ho System and tested across every domain I've touched. The domain changes. The methodology doesn't.
The result is that I don't separate strategy from build. I've set national learning direction and built the systems to deliver it. I've diagnosed organizational incoherence and constructed the infrastructure to resolve it. I've developed a structured human–AI methodology and used it to build production software from scratch. When facilitation surfaces a need for new tools, I build those too.
Through Blueprint for Creativity, I partner with mission-driven organizations to diagnose what's stuck, design what's next, and build the infrastructure that makes change durable. I collaborate, build capacity, and design systems that continue working after I leave.
Curriculum restructuring, LMS design and build, and organizational infrastructure for a specialized school to achieve state certification. Full systems overhaul from diagnosis to delivery.
Design-led retreats to build creative culture. Professional development programs for technical teams on critique, collaboration, and experiential learning. Advisory support for organizations in transition.
Onboarding architecture for fast-scaling organizations. Vision alignment and strategic roadmapping. Coaching startups on integrating creative process into engineering workflows.
Published on Substack. On the discipline of working with AI, the design of organizational infrastructure, and what it means to build at the edge of your own competence.
All essays on Substack →I'm a systems architect and organizational strategist with 25+ years building infrastructure for learning, collaboration, and innovation. Architecture trained how I see problems: as structures that either serve human purpose or get in the way.
As a project architect at Next Phase Studios, I managed the $80M public amenities portion of Harvard's billion-dollar Allston development program — regulatory compliance, multi-agency coordination, and technical delivery at institutional scale. As Chief Academic Officer at NuVu Studio and NuVuX, I designed the academic infrastructure that scaled across 15 partner schools in seven countries — assessment systems, transcript architecture, and a learning management platform built from scratch. As Managing Director at ARCK Boston, I built the organizational operating system from the ground up: framework, evaluation architecture, training pipeline, hiring. As Director of Learning Design at Citizen Schools, I created the unified learning framework and critical-process-first training approach that restructured national programming.
Through Blueprint for Creativity, I partner with organizations navigating reinvention. Through Sageframe, I build experimental infrastructure for human–AI collaboration, knowledge systems, and applied innovation. I write about all of it on Constructive Interference.
Cambridge, MA. Remote-primary. Available for senior leadership roles, strategic consulting, and organizational advisory.