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Chapter 1 · The Navy
He once sat where you sit
He was an electrical engineering student too. He graduated with honors from the University at Buffalo and joined a US Navy engineering safety-systems team. In 2018 the Navy gave him the Admiral Harold R. Stark Award for Innovation. Plenty of engineers would have stayed.
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Chapter 2 · Two people
He chose to carry the boxes
He left the Navy and started in a 500 sq ft basement with a team of two. He negotiated the leases, drew the pick paths and bought the equipment himself. In his words: "I'm an execution founder, the one who moves the most."
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Chapter 3 · 400,000 sq ft
Box by box, a national network
Today: 400,000 sq ft of warehouses, 1M+ parcels a month, official partner of Amazon, TikTok Shop, Temu and SHEIN. He still walks 30,000 steps a day on the floor, loading containers. "Every warehouse, every route, every shipment, I ran it myself."
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Chapter 4 · The Silicon Valley stage
Silicon Valley noticed
In October 2025 he and Andy took "AI to change global logistics" to the Silicon Valley Bank pitch competition, and placed 3rd.
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Chapter 5 · Still being written
Next: AI on the warehouse floor
Between the Navy and 400,000 sq ft are the calls he got right and the ones he got wrong. Next he is taking AI onto the warehouse floor and into returns repair: every heavy parcel from the closest warehouse, every return fixed and sold again.
