Building software in Hawaiʻi since 2002.

I built my first websites in 1998 and founded Tapiki in 2002. The idea was simple: bring Silicon Valley engineering standards to Hawaiʻi organizations, at a level of quality they couldn’t otherwise reach.

In 2004 I joined Apple, where I managed the UI engineering team for .Mac, the web services platform that became iCloud. My team built products used by millions of people, and the work led to five US patents. I also worked on the web software team for the first iPhone.

Then I came home. I became the first Chief Innovation Officer at Mid-Pacific Institute, where I led programs in VR and AR, AI and data science, and entrepreneurship, and brought emerging technology into the classroom across the school. I moved to Bank of Hawaii as Senior Vice President and Director of Mobile & Digital Commerce, leading technology strategy through a period of significant digital change.

Through all of it, Tapiki kept working, for more than 150 organizations, from the State of Hawaiʻi to Harvard.

Today I’m CTO of Mission Management Company, where I lead the platform behind its Rapid Renewal Framework. Until 2025 I was also Chief Engineer at iFirst Medical Technologies, building AI-integrated clinical tools. That work keeps my engineering current, and it’s the same standard I bring to every Tapiki client.

I grew up in Waipahu and went to Waipahu High School. The boards I serve on work to give the next generation of kids from places like Waipahu the same opportunities I had.