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 and ran a million-dollar sales company. 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.
I've also mentored more than 50 young adults when they had nothing. One, homeless with no family, is now married, has a child, and runs his own business. Another, a high school grad with no job and no plan whose mom called asking for help, is now making well over six figures.
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.