San Diego, CA
Operations nerd. Health optimizer. Dungeon crawler. Dog dad.
I spend my days building systems that make property management companies run better, and my nights optimizing everything else — my health stack, my next campaign, my iced coffee. I live in San Diego with Patrick and two Very Good Boys (Manny and Milo).
About
The short version.
I’ve had a real estate license for 23 years and have spent nearly a decade inside property management — not advising from the outside, but in it. I started on the frontline handling leasing, maintenance calls, and managing resident experience — kept a 5-star Google rating while doing it — then moved into portfolio-level operations, and now help run ops at a mid-size regional PMC in Southern California overseeing 7,000+ units across 200+ properties. I’m still there by choice. It keeps everything I build grounded in what actually works.
That operational experience is what led me to start Bridging Main, a consultancy focused on helping PMCs fix the process gaps, documentation debt, and structural friction that quietly drain them. I’m also building Opsurant, an AI-powered knowledge platform purpose-built for this industry.
Outside of work, I’m the kind of person who tracks their glucose without being diabetic (under 120 mg/dl after meals or bust), wakes up before the alarm by choice, and thinks character backstories deserve the same rigor as business plans. I’m a lifelong Stoic — a fan of Ryan Holiday’s work and an admirer of Marcus Aurelius, who was flawed and knew it but still tried to be better every day. That philosophy of continual improvement runs through pretty much everything I do. I’ve been with my partner Patrick for 16 years. We have two rescue dogs — Manny and Milo — who are, objectively, the best dogs.
With Patrick at Dunedin New Zealand Eats in San Diego. Both wearing Comic-Con shirts, naturally.
Experience
9+ years in PM
Licensed
CA RE, 23 years
With Patrick
16 years
Dogs
Manny & Milo
The Good Boys
Manny & Milo.
Both rescues. Both spoiled. Both convinced they’re lap dogs regardless of the evidence. They’re basically our kids, and yes, they have more photos on my phone than anything else.
Milo resting his head on Manny while we play board games. Very on brand for all of us.
What I’m Building
Two ventures, nights and weekends.
Consultancy
Bridging Main
Operational efficiency consulting for property management companies — process architecture, telecom cost optimization, and AI enablement built on what actually works inside real portfolios.
bridgingmain.com →Product
Opsurant
An AI-powered operational knowledge platform for PM companies. Takes the scattered policies, SOPs, and tribal knowledge trapped in people’s heads and makes it actually accessible.
opsurant.com →Things I’m Into
The stuff that has nothing to do with property management. Mostly.
Health & Longevity
I run n=1 experiments on myself and track the data. Labs and DEXA scans every 6–8 weeks, staggered. A CGM even though my glucose is fine. My current stack includes rapamycin, low-dose naltrexone, Brenzavvy, and metformin — all off-label, all research-backed, all a little fringe. I’m okay with that.
Tabletop & RPGs
D&D campaigns, modern board games, anything where the system is elegant and the stakes are made up. Patrick and I hit Gen Con and San Diego Comic-Con every year. Not a video gamer — I like the table, the books, and the dice.
Reading
Always two books going at once — one sci-fi/fantasy (lately lots of LitRPG, because of course), one personal development or non-fiction. Ryan Holiday and Marcus Aurelius sit next to Shirtaloon and Matt Dinniman on my shelf, and I don’t think that’s a contradiction.
San Diego Living
Balboa Park wandering, waterfront walks, and local breweries (I know the local water is ideal for IPAs but I’m just not a fan). I love this city in the specific way of someone who wakes up early enough to have it to himself for a few hours.
/Now
What I’m focused on right now.
Last updated: March 2026
Building
Launching Bridging Main’s consulting practice and developing Opsurant in parallel. Both are nights-and-weekends operations. Also leveling up agentic AI skills — running a local AI workstation with a GMKtec EVO-X2 (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB RAM), Ollama on Open WebUI served remotely via Tailscale through a GL.iNet Comet KVM. Current local models: Qwen3:30b, Mistral Small 3.1, Llama 3.3. Also using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot in parallel daily. Always interested in what models others are running locally.
Reading
- He Who Fights with Monsters: Book One — LitRPG. Obviously.
- The Success Principles — 20th Anniversary Edition. I own the original and the 10th anniversary copies too.
Tracking
Dialing in sleep optimization with Oura data. Latest labs were a week ago. Continuing rapamycin protocol and tracking markers. DEXA and bloodwork are on a rolling 6–8 week cycle, staggered so there’s always something coming back.
Playing
Slay the Spire: The Board Game — the deck-building translates beautifully to tabletop.
Forever DM, but don’t have the bandwidth to run a campaign right now. Anyone in San Diego have room for two players?
Listening
SomaFM Groove Salad — on constantly. The ambient electronic soundtrack to everything I do.
Watching
The Great British Baking Show — low-stakes, high-charm. The exact opposite energy of my day job.
Drinking
Venti iced coffee with heavy cream and stevia from Starbucks. Pretty much every morning. (Currently submitting a video for their Global Experiences contest — trying to get to the Tokyo Roastery. Wish me luck.)
Eating
Currently recommending: Korean BBQ at Olleh or shabu at Kanpai. Both A+ (and we’ve tried ’em all).
Counting Down
San Diego Comic-Con — July 23 · San Diego, CA
Gen Con — July 30 · Indianapolis, IN
RealPage Real World — Aug 9 · Aurora, CO
Keeping alive: a very large, very thirsty peace lily. Mostly succeeding.
Recently Finished
The shelf behind the nightstand.
Pleasure
11 out of 10. Got to listen to Matt Dinniman speak in person at San Diego Comic-Con 2025. LitRPG at its absolute best.
Growth
Operational efficiency applied to how teams communicate and manage information. Resonates deeply with the work I do.
Writing
Thinking out loud.
Mostly about the operational problems that don’t get enough attention in property management. Published on Bridging Main — eventually I’ll write here too.
Connect
Say hi.
I’m always up for talking operations, longevity protocols, board game recommendations, or what your dog did today. If you’re in San Diego and want to grab an iced coffee or a beer, I’m in — I love meeting new people and having interesting conversations. And if you run a PMC and want to talk shop, even better.