Judgment under pressure, applied to safety.

I started in the Royal Air Force, then moved into criminal investigation and policing. That early work was about reading situations, weighing evidence, and acting under pressure without losing your head. It is the same instinct I now apply to safety: stay calm, work the facts, and protect the people in front of you.

Aviation followed. I started in fuel and ground operations at Chicago O'Hare, then moved into QHSE, first across the Midwest and then as Director of QHSE for Swissport's United States and Canada business, covering more than 90 airports and roughly 17,000 employees. The work was less about writing policy than about making sure the policy held up in a turn, on a ramp, at three in the morning. My most recent operational seat was Director of Airport Ground Operations at Phoenix Sky Harbor, where the safety case and the operational case had to land in the same plan.

Along the way the numbers moved. Across the United States and Canada I delivered the regions' first year-over-year reduction in both injuries and accidents, with incident reporting up 97 percent over the same period. Lost-time injuries fell by roughly a third year over year. Aircraft damage fell. After deploying AI safety cameras across more than 1,700 ground support vehicles, unsafe acts dropped by more than half in seventeen weeks. Those gains came from listening to the frontline, investigating honestly, and acting on signals early.

This stretch is a professional sabbatical by design. Graduate study, writing, and a focused push on AI-enabled safety systems. I completed a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Safety and Health, summa cum laude, in 2026, earned the CSP from BCSP, and I am on track to finish a Master of Science in the same field in October 2026 with a 4.0. Doctoral research is underway. I teach as an OSHA instructor on the side.

The main build is ASIP, the Advanced Safety Intelligence Platform. It reads leading and lagging indicators together, turns frontline reporting into a conversation instead of a form, and surfaces weak signals early enough to act on. It is at working MVP and entering alpha with a small group of operators in the coming weeks.

Alongside it, SafetyAcademy.pro is close to launch. It is exam preparation built on the BCSP Blueprints for the CSP, ASP, and SMP exams, open to everyone.

The thread connecting all of it is the same one I have followed for two decades. The gap between what an organization says about safety and what actually happens at the point of work. Closing that gap, with better data and better judgment, is the work.