About
I started in hands-on manufacturing, and most of how I think about problems still comes from there.
I founded Zimora Group, where I’m developing software and technology products. For consulting, project or leadership conversations, see professional inquiries.
I’ve worked through these problems from several directions: on the production floor, in design engineering, with automation and robotics, and eventually through software and operations leadership. The work changed, but many of the underlying problems were surprisingly similar.
A drawing can be technically correct and still create problems for the people building the part. A robot can run a perfect cycle while the process around it struggles. A scheduling system can contain all the right information and still fail to get a job completed.
Those experiences have made me more interested in how the pieces work together than in any one technology. Before changing something, I want to understand how it works today, why it works that way, and what happens elsewhere when we change it.
Supervising production showed me how much goes wrong around the work itself: information that arrives late, handoffs nobody owns, a process that only works because one person knows its quirks. Working with an ISO 9001 quality management system taught me the difference between a procedure that exists and one people actually follow.
I trust what holds up in practice, especially after the person who built it isn’t there to explain it. Good judgment also means knowing which problems need attention and which ones can wait.
This site is where I’ll write about those problems as I work through them.