I build predictive decision tools for weather-exposed operations.

For logistics, freight, and distribution teams whose demand moves with the forecast — and who are still calling it from a spreadsheet.

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Two ways to start

Forecast Pilot2 weeks: We take one recurring decision your team makes ahead of the weather — crew sizing, load timing, dispatch windows, stocking ahead of a season — and I ship a working forecasting tool against your own historical data. You keep the tool and its source whether or not we continue.
Manual Process Teardown3 weeks: There is an analysis someone on your team runs by hand every week, because automating it has never quite been worth the trouble. I automate it and hand back the tests that prove it stays correct. At the Air Force Weather Agency I replaced a 40-hour manual validation of 16,000 daily products with a suite that ran in 30 minutes.

I was the forecaster before I was the engineer.

B.S. Meteorology, minor in Mathematics: University of Nebraska, full scholarship
U.S. Air Force weather officer: nine years of operational forecasting for DoD training and missions
Air Force Weather Agency: validated ~16,000 environmental products daily across 150,000+ data points
Automated validation suite: replaced a 40-hour manual process with one that finished in 30 minutes
Veterinary pharmaceutical purchasing: 2008–2015 · $5M+ annual spend · 10,000 SKUs · 100 vendors · forecast by hand

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How I got here

What I did

I spent nine years as an Air Force weather officer, then left active duty in December 2008 and went to work at a buying desk.

For the next six years I bought veterinary pharmaceuticals — roughly 10,000 SKUs across 100 vendors, north of $5M a year. Flea and tick medication, wormers, West Nile vaccines. Demand for all of it moved with the weather, one to two months ahead of the season, and I forecast it in a spreadsheet: last year's sales, new products entering the market, and my own research into which regions were heading for a heavy season.

Getting it right was never really about inventory. It was about money. A large, well-timed seasonal order bought NET 90 terms instead of NET 30, plus a bulk discount, so the product sold before the invoice came due. The forecast paid for the float.

What I built

I learned to build software because the buying desk needed it. Pay-per-click in 2009, out of curiosity and necessity. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in 2012, to rebuild the company's storefront. I never stopped buying — I just kept adding the tools I wished existed. $2M in annual online sales growth, organic traffic up 50%.

Since 2016 I have built it for other people making that kind of call. At the Air Force Weather Agency I validated the environmental products operational forecasts are built on — about 16,000 a day, 150,000 data points — and replaced a 40-hour manual check with a test suite that finished in 30 minutes. At U.S. Strategic Command I built the geospatial displays commanders used for situational awareness.

What I wanted back at that desk was research that ran itself. That is what WillaWave builds.

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