I'm an independent researcher and founder of Crucible Consulting Group, with a background spanning 21 years of Army leadership and 25 years of operational management before moving into applied research full-time. I work at the intersection of biotechnology, physics, and computation — diagnosing structural problems that resist standard single-discipline approaches. Recent work includes a biotech manuscript on microbial production of biodegradable plastics, a plasma physics paper on mode suppression, and a selected corporate R&D win estimating a global disease population using methods borrowed from ecology and actuarial science. I help industry teams get unstuck on technical problems that have outgrown their usual toolkit — bringing in the right adjacent-field method instead.