Building Shift7 · Cofounder of Trunkline

I take complex industrial topics and make them clear.

18 years in maintenance, pipeline safety, process safety and EHS. Now I build practical tools for the people closest to the risk, and write about energy, safety and the work behind it.

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18years in the field
29states worked
2companies

What I build

Two companies, one idea: start with the field.

Building

Web apps for HSE consultants, contractors and operators. Tools that fit the actual work instead of fighting it. The first tool, RegTrax, is free.

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Cofounder

A performance-ranked vendor network for energy, construction and industrial work. Buyers find contractors on real capability, not marketing noise.

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Five Questions: Judgment Under Pressure for Frontline Workers

Five clear questions operators and mechanics can run in under two minutes when the written plan no longer matches the equipment in front of them.

How I work

Start with the people closest to the risk

Legacy compliance software was built top down for administrators. I build the other way. The data only becomes useful when it starts where the work happens. The writing follows the same rule: strip the complexity until the decision is clear.

Writing

Hammer and Anvil

Recent articles from Substack and LinkedIn newsletters.

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Data centers

Get in touch

Questions about Shift7, Trunkline, the book, or working together.

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I take complex industrial topics and make them clear.

Two companies, one idea: start with the field.

Five Questions: Judgment Under Pressure for Frontline Workers

Start with the people closest to the risk

Hammer and Anvil

Enid’s Proposed Data Center Is a 3.3-Gigawatt Gas Plant

Diesel Exhaust Fluid Is a Natural Gas Product

Oklahoma Data Centers | What’s Operating, Building, and Blocked | August 2026

Why Operators Stay Quiet (Even When They See the Problem)

What Operators and Maintenance Know That Management Systems Miss

THE GREEN ACCOUNTING TRICK BURNING DOWN OUR FORESTS

The Modern Refinery: Inside Oklahoma’s $400 Million Energy Investment

The 51 Headed Enviro Dragon

The EPA "Rollback" and the 30-Volume Reality

The Deadly Heavy Metal Cost of Wind Energy

The Monstrous Hidden Cost of Wind Energy: Mountains of Waste We Can't Get Rid Of

The Wind Turbine is an Oil Product

US Electricity Powered 2,500% GDP Growth. CO₂ Emissions Rose Just 6%.

What’s Actually Inside an Oil Tank Battery (And Why It’s Not What You Think)

The Fossil Fuels on Your Plate

What a Barrel of Oil Actually Makes

Your iPhone Runs on Oil

Positive Equipment Identification Failure at PEMEX Deer Park: A Five-Pillar Safety Reflection

The Cloud Has a Thirst Problem

A 2026 Guide to the Oklahoma Data Center Boom

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