I take emerging technology to market — and rebuild what’s broken along the way.
For forty years I’ve done one thing across wildly different arenas: go in, read the real conditions, build the solution, and deliver under pressure. From Army war-game simulations at the dawn of the internet, to Fortune-100 architecture, to companies I founded and sold, to helping today’s brands get recommended by AI. The constant is reinvention under pressure.
Reinvention under pressure — on purpose.
It started literally. As a young soldier I served as a communications NCO in the Army’s most demanding airborne and special-operations units — the 82nd Airborne, then 1st Special Forces Group in the Pacific. When I broke both legs and could no longer serve in the field, I didn’t leave — I retrained as a programmer and finished my service building the Army’s war-game simulations, earning a bachelor’s and a master’s along the way.
That pattern became the career. I’ve been the person companies send in to build a channel, rebuild a broken region, or turn a distressed company around — often several at once. I don’t just sell; I build the system that lets others sell, and I fix what stops working. Soldier, teacher, builder, closer — one operator, not four.
Today that instinct is pointed at the newest shift of all: AI decides who gets recommended. Buyers no longer get a list — they get an answer, and AI only names what it can verify. My work now is closing that gap for the businesses I back.
Where I’ve operated — and who I’ve served.
Four decades, a dozen companies, three of them founded. The tell isn’t the logos — it’s that the same marquee clients followed me from company to company.
Companies & Ventures
- U.S. Army — DoD / War-Gaming 1982–91
- Household International R&D
- Open Systems Integration Founder
- Baan (ERP) VP Sales
- SolutionBank · PointServe CTO
- WebStorz / e-Revive Founder
- Agile Software · Oracle PLM
- PSS Systems · IBM Sales Dir.
- Autonomy / HPE / Micro Focus Sales
- Perceptive (Lexmark) · Dassault ECM/PLM
- Go Simple Go Smart CEO
Selected Clients & Accounts
- Medtronic · Abbott
- ExxonMobil · Noble Energy
- State Farm · Zurich
- GE Healthcare · Hill-Rom
- Comerica · Commerzbank · Capital One
- Dow · Cummins · Kimberly-Clark
- Deloitte · Intuit · Xerox
- Zebra Technologies · Caterpillar
- H&R Block · Hyatt · Seyfarth Shaw
Four decades. Hundreds of organizations. Nearly every industry that runs on complex data.
A representative slice, by sector — names you’ll recognize. The full roster runs far longer.
Life Sciences & Healthcare
Medtronic · Abbott · Eli Lilly · Baxter · Johnson & Johnson · Stryker · GE Healthcare · Hill-Rom · Mayo Clinic
Financial Services
Capital One · Chase · State Farm · Allstate · Travelers · Northern Trust · US Bank · Western Union · Zurich
Manufacturing & Industrial
Caterpillar · Cummins · Trane · Kohler · Modine · Plexus · Rayovac · Zebra Technologies
Energy & Utilities
ExxonMobil · ConocoPhillips · Halliburton · Noble Energy · ComEd · Entergy
Consumer Goods & Food
Procter & Gamble · General Mills · Frito-Lay · Kraft · Coca-Cola · Gillette · Heinz · Walgreens
Technology & Telecom
AT&T · Unisys · Nielsen · Boeing
Professional Services
Deloitte · Accenture · PwC · Seyfarth Shaw
Travel & Aviation
American Airlines · United Airlines · Southwest Airlines
Two companies, one thesis: make the machine choose you.
Go Simple Go Smart
CEO of a health- and legal-technology company that helps plaintiff injury firms and healthcare providers capture, share, and integrate health data — moving them from paper-driven to information-driven. The culmination of a career spent at the intersection of data, legal, and healthcare.
On the Radar Studios
In the AI era, buyers don’t get a list — they get a recommendation, and AI only recommends what it can verify. On the Radar Studios diagnoses and closes your Evidence Gap: the distance between what your brand claims and what a machine can independently confirm and cite. Get recommended — not just ranked.
Visit ontheradarstudios.com →Don’t take my word for it. Here’s what can be verified.
In an era when buyers ask AI what to trust, a career should be legible to the machine — structured, specific, checkable. This is mine.
U.S. Army veteran, Staff Sergeant (E-6); held a Top Secret clearance. Airborne-qualified; served with 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) as a communications and data NCO. Combat Diver, Jumpmaster, and sniper schools.
B.S., Computer Software — SUNY Albany. M.A., Computer Resources & Information Management — Webster University. Both earned on active duty.
HP Platinum Channel Partner (invitation-only tier). CA Reseller of the Year, 1994 & 1995. Open Systems Integration acquired by Vanstar.
On the executive team for a $50M Series C (PointServe). Multiple companies founded and sold across four decades.
Let’s talk.
Whether you’re a founder who needs a hand getting on the radar, a firm that needs its data to finally move, or someone who just wants four decades of pattern-matching on a hard problem — reach out.
tim@timearly.com