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Operations
Architecture &
Strategic Integration

I translate founder-level vision into operational reality across highly regulated, multi-stakeholder environments.

13+
Years Leading Ops
3
Countries Operated
0
Compliance Incidents
Operating Thesis

Founder-Level Diplomacy

I've founded companies, directed clinical R&D, and navigated multiple jurisdictions simultaneously. I bridge the gap between human missions and technical execution - ensuring that strategy, compliance, and equity all ship together.

Multi-Entity
Founder

International
Registration

Clinical R&D
Direction

Point of View

How I Work

Philosophy, credentials, and training. Click to expand.

01

Build for the Regulator, Not the Demo

If it won't survive a regulator's questions at 9am on a Tuesday, it doesn't ship. I design for safety, access, and accountability first, because stronger systems serve people more fairly before they ever demo well.

02

Systems First, Tools Second

I map the system first — stakeholders, data flows, compliance boundaries, failure modes, and equity impacts — then select tools that fit. The result is infrastructure that outlasts the hype cycle and scales without being rebuilt every 18 months.

03

The Operator Is the Document

If the system only works when you're in the room, you have also built a dependency. I design workflows that can be handed off, audited, and iterated by the next person, with documentation that preserves clarity, continuity, and patient-centered execution.

Master of Public Health

Expected 2026

BS Exercise Biology

UC Davis, Minor in Psychology

Wilderness EMT

Valid through 2028

Cybersecurity + FEMA

IS-100C / IS700b, Candidate FAWM

Selected Work

A few representative projects. Problem, mechanism, result.

Active Nov 2025 — Present

Coregulation Health Institute

Program Architect

Challenge: Behavioral health intervention had to move from whitepaper to deployable B2B program with no playbook.

Full Details

What I did: Built pilot architecture, KPI-driven OKRs, and embedded systems documentation into the client's workflow.

Result: Coordinates across multiple organizations through structured resource allocation instead of ad-hoc communication.

Established internal working infrastructure with dynamic resource allocation frameworks, enabling cross-functional coordination across diverse organizational environments.

Translated institutional behavioral health theory into real-world application through structured communication design.

Coregulation Health Institute
Active Apr 2023 — Jun 2026

Owlills Advocates

Principal, Strategic Operations

Challenge: Forensic healthcare auditing required processing PHI under HIPAA with zero external server exposure.

Full Details

What I did: Built a fully local automation stack using local LLMs, Docker, and n8n to handle ingestion, tracking, and resolution.

Result: Full audit lifecycle runs inside a zero-trust perimeter with zero external API calls for protected data.

Translated federal billing statutes into actionable audit strategies and mapped full-lifecycle solutions for unstructured data environments.

Owlills Advocates
Completed Dec 2024 — May 2026

Human Data / Handshake AI

AI Data Operations Consultant

Challenge: Clinical and executive AI models were producing reasoning errors that created liability gaps before deployment.

Full Details

What I did: Designed ground-truth validation metrics and stress-testing criteria to catch multimodal hallucinations at the evaluation stage.

Result: Engineering teams received audited data to move experimental models into production without compromising care standards.

Served as conduit between engineering teams and clinical domain experts, providing ground-truth data to transition experimental AI models into compliant, production-ready environments.

Designed evaluation frameworks that identified model hallucinations in clinical contexts, ensuring AI logic aligned with standard-of-care requirements.

Human Data / Handshake AI
Selected Work

Consumer Health &
Strategic IP

Hushpuff / One Topical Care
Active IP Holding 2014 — 2023

Hushpuff [Limited] dba One Topical Care

Founder & CEO

Challenge: A patented topical formula needed to scale from lab bench to commercial reality across three jurisdictions with no existing playbook.

Full Details

What I did: Founded entities in California, Canada, and Ireland; navigated FDA GRAS self-determination; and directed clinical R&D from formulation to market.

Result: An active IP holding with validated formulations, international infrastructure, and a transatlantic supply chain — zero regulatory incidents from day one.

Directed intellectual property development, clinical R&D collaborations, and cross-border commercial execution across business units with conflicting priorities.

Managed P&L, resource allocation, and risk across distinct portfolios without an existing operational playbook. Maintained accountability across supply chains, manufacturing scale-ups, and regulatory navigation in three countries.

Foundations

Clinical &
Technical Foundations

Santa Cruz Concentrates
IP Holding

Santa Cruz Concentrates

Sole Owner -- 2012-2020

Commissioned a pilot-level supercritical CO2 extraction unit and maintained zero-accident operations through strict mechanical data governance and off-grid infrastructure engineering.

Details

Navigated emerging California and Federal regulatory scaffolding during the industry's most volatile period, successfully avoiding the Controlled Substances Act violations that crippled market competitors.

SC-CO2 Cleanroom
CalCare Collective
Lab Ops

CalCare Collective

Operations & Lab Manager -- 2011-2014

Installed and operated gas chromatography equipment to validate product chemistry with laboratory-grade precision — challenging false corporate data claims before formal oversight existed.

Details

Built the data-driven quality assurance infrastructure that became the template for compliance programs across the industry. Validated product chemistry through rigorous analytical methodology when no standards existed.

GC-FID QA/QC
Prime Pain Management
Clinical

Prime Pain Management

Laser Technician -- 2010-2012

Co-developed treatment protocols and managed independent patient pipelines under Board-Certified MD supervision, maintaining live surgical x-ray for advanced interventional procedures.

Details

Audited workers' compensation treatment appeals within the for-profit healthcare ecosystem — the earliest foundation for the forensic billing expertise that drives Owlills Advocates today.

Interventional C-Arm
On the Horizon

Future Initiatives

Coming Soon

Owlils Collective
Youth Stewardship

Social Health Education & Nature-Centered Learning

Social health education, somatic regulation, and nature-centered learning built on the same systems infrastructure that powers clinical operations — applied to the next generation.

Somatic Regulation Nature-Based Ed Social Health
Owlils Co -- Little Owl Mama

More Coming

New ventures in regulated health tech and beyond.

Reference

Systems I Work Across

Ecosystems, tools, and compliance frameworks I've managed. Click to expand.

I don't write the production code, but I architect the integrations and manage the teams deploying these environments.

Data & Operations

AirtableAnsibleDockerGCPGitOpsJiraK8sLinearMetabaseMilvusNotionObsidianPineconePythonSQLSnykTerraformTrivypgvector

AI & Automation

AnythingLLMArizeAutogenChromaDBClaudeCrewAIDSPyETLLangChainLangGraphLMStudioLoRAMermaidNeMon8nOllamaRAGREST

Systems & Compliance

ATFAWS MedDatadogEHRElkFDAFHIRHIPAAHITRUSTICH/GCPISO27001MirthPresidioSMARTSOC2SplunkTMFVBC
Deeper Context

Founder Perspective

The lens behind the work — clinical, regulatory, and systems. Click to expand.

My work sits at the intersection of clinical care, regulated business operations, and systems design. Early roles in physical medicine and rehabilitation taught me how patients actually move through care — where communication breaks down, where prior authorizations stall, and where billing practices become barriers to treatment. That frontline experience, combined with years running regulated businesses across multiple jurisdictions, shaped an operating lens centered on accountability, clarity, and removing the invisible obstacles that keep people from accessing care.

Outside of work, I treat natural places as both teacher and sanctuary. Time in the backcountry informs how I think about preparedness, risk, and shared responsibility. Good operations, in my view, are a kind of trail building: you clear the obstacles, mark the route, and ensure more people can safely appreciate the journey. That perspective underpins how I design systems, advocate for patients, and support teams in regulated environments.

John Ollila
Anchor Threads

Clinical & Patient Systems

Early work in physical medicine and treatment workflows taught me how real patients move through the system — what breaks, what gets delayed, and where communication collapses.

Compliance, Billing & Health Equity

Forensic audits, regulatory interpretation, and a commitment to dismantling the barriers that keep people from getting the care they were promised.

Founder in Regulated & Natural Environments

More than a decade running regulated businesses with a clean compliance record, grounded in a personal commitment to natural places and preparedness.

We're well past the time for special treatment or back-channel favors; I fight for systems that behave in the best interest of the disenfranchised. Much of my work has been about holding institutions to their own rules — making it harder, financially and reputationally, to punish people who have done everything right other than to be born with a silver spoon. When something feels unfair, I go back to the contracts, regulations, and data. I use documentation and proper escalation instead of fabricated noise. I assume most people inside systems are trying to do their best; my job is to build structures that make just outcomes the easiest kind to deliver.

Landscape

To absent friends...

Ready to Build

Let's Architect
Your Next System

I embed, align stakeholders, and build the operational reality that keeps complex organizations moving.