Church work has run through most of my professional life — on staff in roles ranging from production (A/V, stage sound, lighting) to leadership. In 2024, I helped a friend plant a church and stepped into operational oversight, a role I've genuinely enjoyed.

On the tech side, I spent years in Marketing Operations at Apple, managing NPI and hardware operations programs — work where the systems and the communication have to hold up under pressure. I ran cross-functional programs, built the process scaffolding around them, and owned launch...