20 Years in the Trenches. Now I'm Bringing It to You.

I grew up watching my father run his own electrical contracting business. He was good at the work, really good. But the business never stopped needing him. Every decision, every job, every problem ran through him. He couldn't scale, couldn't step back, and eventually closed the doors when he could no longer physically do the work himself.

That stayed with me.

For the past 20 years, I've walked into restaurants, shops, and job sites and immediately started reading the room. How involved is the owner? How exhausted do they look? How dependent is this business on one person? The answer, more often than not, is the same: the founder built something real, but built themselves into a trap. The business they created for freedom became the thing that took it away.

After two decades in corporate operations, scaling organizations, leading acquisitions, and building the systems that let businesses grow without chaos, I knew it was time to take what I'd learned and bring it somewhere it could make a real difference.

At Pulltarps Manufacturing, I walked into a business doing around $8M in revenue, held together with duct tape. No org structure. No documented processes. Legacy employees resistant to change. We rebuilt it from the inside out: Lean methodology across all five production departments, scalable org structure with real accountability, HR and compliance systems from scratch, and a direct-to-consumer ecommerce channel generating over $500K in its first year. By 2018, the business had grown to $12M and was structured well enough to attract and complete an acquisition by Safe Fleet.

At Safe Fleet, I was tasked with closing a critical gap in their national service network. Four legacy locations running independently with different pricing, processes, culture, and branding. We built the standardization playbook from scratch and expanded to three new markets. All three were profitable by Year 1, each growing past $1M annually. The combined network grew to over $25M with 15% CAGR.

"The business they created for freedom became the thing that took it away. That's what I fix."

With AMFS, I led the acquisition and integration, then came back four years later to rebuild what had fallen apart. I deployed NetSuite ERP, implemented Fieldpoint field service management, and launched AMFS University, an online LMS that standardized training for 1,500+ subcontracted technicians nationwide. None of that shows up as revenue growth. But it's exactly the work that makes revenue growth possible.

That's Freedom Systems. Proven before it had a name.