SUMMERS
Originally from Washington, D.C., I moved to Colorado desperate to be part of the big-mountain adventure scene. Fast forward thirteen years — more in love with the mountains than ever, and in a passionate love affair with paragliding.
Professionally, I'm a career strategist with a decade of agency and brand-side experience working on some of the largest consumer brands in the world — X Games, Visible, Denon, 1800, and others. That work is documented in full at Section 01, Marketing Strategy.
More recently, I've become a founder. I co-founded Vol Paragliding (with Zach Converse, 2025, Vol Corp S-corp) as a modern social network for paragliding pilots. I founded ParaBuyer (2025) as a peer-to-peer used-gear marketplace built on a competitive hypothesis against BuyCycle. And I founded Straji (2025) — a productized version of my own brand-strategy methodology, with real external tenants. Those products are documented in full at Section 02, Product Development.
I split my time between strategist-for-others work and operator-of-my-own-things work. This site exists to make clear that they are the same discipline.
2025– Co-founder & President · Vol Corp
2025– Founder · ParaBuyer
2025– Founder · Straji
(career summary — brand-side + agency)
· Senior strategist roles across consumer
brands in action sports, telecom, audio,
spirits, healthcare, OTC pharma, travel
tech, QSR
· 2021–2024 · Agency-side senior strategist
X Games · Visible · Denon · 1800
and more
· Earlier · Agency + brand strategist
From value-proposition framing to full brand architecture.
Global quant/qual, unorthodox qual methodologies, segmentation-study authorship.
Campaign planning, toolkit design, partner orchestration.
Hypothesis → roadmap → shipped product loop.
Stripe Connect / Tax / EasyPost / dispute reconciliation at the sole-operator scale.
Grassroots launch, partnership development, endemic credibility.
Manifesto writing, mission architecture, verbal brand systems.
Invited as content creator alongside the Red Bull media team on official race coverage.
Submitted to the 2026 finals; awaiting outcome.
Speaking / interview opportunities under discussion.
Everything, in one place.
This table is the shortest possible path to any single piece of my work. Click any row to jump to the full treatment on its section page.