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Stepping Away to Move Forward
July 29, 2025
My blog and newsletter have been inactive for the past two weeks because I was visiting a close friend in Chicago. Instead of talking about the software in this blog post I thought I’d talk about my trip in Chicago since it was a great time to step back. Though I have made progress on […]
Read More →Being “Connected” Isn’t the Same as Being Prepared
July 1, 2025
When I began developing ClearOPS, I thought the problem I wanted to solve was simple: contact management. But the more I listened to contractors, recruiters, and security officers, the more I realized this issue wasn’t just about organizing names and numbers. It was about preparation or more specifically, the complete lack of it. Cleared professionals […]
Read More →It Doesn’t Matter What You Know, It Matters Who You Know (And Whether You Wrote It Down)
June 17, 2025
There’s an old saying that goes, “It doesn’t matter what you know, it matters who you know.” We tend to think we know a lot of people, but do we really? Do we know where they have worked before? Do we know where they plan to go next? Do we know whether they would recommend […]
Read More →Why I’m Building Software for Defense Contractors
June 9, 2025
During college I started the security clearance process in hopes to land a job as a contractor for the Department of Defense. Everyone I talked to said the process was long and tedious so I told myself to be patient, something I’m naturally not good at, but I tried. Two and a half years later […]
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