Start with the person.
A plan should make sense for the life it’s meant to serve. Goals, constraints, and values deserve as much attention as the math.
The numbers matter.
So does the life
around them.
I’m a decision scientist turning my attention to financial planning. I’m interested in what happens when careful analysis meets the priorities, tradeoffs, and uncertainty of real life.
FINANCE × DECISION SCIENCE × REAL LIFESCROLL TO EXPLORE
01THE STORY
A new chapter, built on an unusual path.
I’ve spent my career helping people make decisions when the answer isn’t obvious.
My route here runs through physics, finance, entrepreneurship, and operations research. At MITRE, I studied risks and tradeoffs in complex systems. Before that, I built and sold a consumer advice business. Along the way, I learned that a technically sound answer only matters if someone can understand it and use it.
Now I’m bringing that curiosity to financial planning. Money choices rarely live in isolation. They sit alongside family, work, time, and the kind of life someone wants to build. That human context is what makes this work interesting to me.
CURRENT FOCUS
I’m exploring roles with financial planning teams while building toward client-facing work. This site shares my background and approach; it does not offer advisory services.
02WHAT GUIDES ME
A FEW IDEAS I KEEP COMING BACK TOMy perspective
Better decisions start
with better questions.
Be honest about uncertainty.
The future won’t follow a single forecast. I’m drawn to ways of making tradeoffs and possible outcomes easier to see.
Make the complex useful.
Good analysis earns its place when it helps someone act with more clarity and confidence.
03THE BACKGROUND
A few chapters
that shaped how I think.
I don’t come to financial planning from a conventional path. These experiences gave me a way to connect analysis with practical decisions.
2026
Learning financial planning
Completed Amplified Planning’s eight-week Externship and the CFP Board education requirement as I made this career transition.
2023–25
Decision science at MITRE
Led analytical work on risk, resilience, and decisions under uncertainty.
2019–23
Doctoral research & teaching
Studied decision-making and complex systems at UMass Boston, and taught others to use analytical tools.
2014–18
Building Mattress Nerd
Founded and sold a consumer advice business built around explaining complicated choices clearly.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Business Administration · M.S. in Finance · B.S. in Physics
04SELECTED WORK
SOME THINGS I’VE MADE & WRITTENBeyond the résumé
Curiosity looks
better in motion.
Some of my work is practical. Some of it starts with a question I can’t leave alone. Here are a few examples.
Putting uncertainty to work
Forecasting real-world outcomes for prediction markets, then testing how those forecasts hold up.
A 4,500-year-old game, reimagined
A browser version of the Royal Game of Ur, designed as much for feel as for function.
When the tradeoffs are hard to measure
In a paper I coauthored, we studied how to compare public policy choices when outcomes are uncertain and people value the consequences differently.
Ideas in longer form
Essays on money, decision-making, and how we explain the world.
STAY IN TOUCH
Good conversations
start somewhere.
I’d like to hear from financial planning teams, people working to make complex decisions clearer, and anyone who found something here worth discussing.