Useful beats shiny.
A working checklist, a good handoff, a normal conversation, or a fixed process usually beats whatever sounded clever in my head.
Jeremy Hans
A personal site for the parts that don't fit neatly on a resume.
I’m Heidi’s husband, dad to four, a former Navy helicopter pilot, and back in Plano after a long detour through Pensacola, real estate, and operating businesses. This is the less formal version.
Home basePlano, Heidi, four kids, church, nearby family, and a calendar that does not care about my plans.
Current chapterBuying a business, meeting people, helping where I can, and apparently going to lunch for a living.
BackgroundNavy aviation, real estate, Velocity, family logistics, and a few engine-related invoices.
Around hereAnnual letters, family updates, work context, and the unofficial version before it gets too polished.
Start Here
If you’re wondering who I am.
People land here for different reasons: church, kids, work, LinkedIn, or an introduction. The short answer is that I’m a family guy in Plano with a few useful chapters behind me and more than a few unfinished projects in front of me.
01
If we just met
The quick background: Texas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Navy helicopters, Pensacola, Heidi, four kids, and back to Plano.
02If our families crossed paths
Heidi, Lily, Dex, Max, Hux, homeschooling, church, sports, and the usual controlled chaos.
03If you want the annual version
The Christmas letter archive. Kids, moves, airplanes, bad decisions, and the yearly attempt to remember what happened.
04If you came for work
Navy aviation, Climb Capital, Velocity, ETL Fund, and practical AI when it is actually useful.
The Filter
Front Door Famous.
Work matters, but it is not the whole story. Heidi and the kids are the first audience and the final constraint. If a plan looks smart but makes home worse, I probably missed a column somewhere.
Defaults
A few things I keep relearning.
People matter most.
Family, friends, church, partners, teams, customers. Most good things in my life have come through people, not master plans.
Faith is not a sidebar.
Gratitude, stewardship, service, and grace belong near the center. I do not always get that right, but I want it to be true.
Write it down.
The annual letters exist because the honest version usually ages better than the polished one.
Letters
Christmas letters.
The annual letters are probably the most accurate version of this site. Some years include business updates. Some include minivans, surgeries, airplanes, church, kids saying exactly what they think, and whatever went wrong that year. That feels worth keeping.
Open the archive for the full run from 2013 through 2025.
Open Letters