Work & Impact

As Founder, CEO & Chief Architect of ExecLayer, I own the architecture and hands-on engineering alongside product strategy, partnerships, standards work, and commercialization. I built and lead a six-person team spanning operations, risk, business development and compliance, revenue operations, and sales.

The work starts with a practical question: before an AI system changes something outside itself, who authorized the action, what evidence supports it, and what limits apply? I build the controls that check those conditions at an integrated execution boundary, and the signed records that let someone inspect the decision afterward.

That architecture has become a family of distinct systems: a Rust agent runtime, a JavaScript authorization service, governed memory, a customer assessment application, developer tools, and products that apply those ideas. QueueFlow Sentinel has reached paying customers through the Ring Appstore. The research and prototypes extend the same questions into robotics, physical systems, and human oversight.

I independently founded Benton Manufacturing Consultants, Inc. to supply technical staffing and consulting for laboratory and manufacturing clients. The work included recruiting, payroll, onboarding, employer administration, and staffing technical operations with a PhD chemist and laboratory support personnel in Montana and Colorado.

Through BMC, I served as Partner & COO for Farm 209 Manufacturing LLC in Modesto. I took a regulated manufacturing operation from site selection and permits into facility design, construction, equipment procurement, utilities, safety systems, staffing, and inspection readiness. SOPs, cGMP-aligned quality systems, procurement, packaging, and training were part of the build. At Desert Zen in Cathedral City, I directed manufacturing and compliance, built out the facility, and supported a licensed consumer-brand launch.

As Co-Founder and Operations Lead of Remediation Sciences & Technology, I helped develop extraction and remediation processes, integrated laboratory testing and production requirements, and managed multi-country supply agreements. The business operated RFX North America-Boulder and acquired Honey Gold Processing through RST. A publicly announced agreement with Britannia Life Sciences documents the international ingredient-supply work.

Earlier work through Mr. Dabs Extracts, Herb’s Collective, and Top Choice Grow Works combined process development, facility projects, production, quality, staffing, and product launches. As a founding member and vice president of Coastal Growers Association, I also represented operator requirements in local ordinance and regulatory discussions.

I started by cleaning floors. About 40 days later I was an account manager, and eventually an area manager responsible for three hospital and long-term-care facilities with more than 200 employees. I managed site leaders, staffing, payroll, environmental services, safety, service quality, and inspections inside facilities operated by our clients.

New work processes, training, and SOPs reduced operating spending by approximately 15%. During that work, the teams maintained seven years without an employee injury and passed 12 OSHA and state inspections without deficiencies. Those results shaped how I build now: a control has to survive the actual workflow, with the people and constraints that come with it.