Forager was born in hospital hallways, not a lab.
Thaddeus started in healthcare the direct way: fourteen years in emergency medical services, as an EMT and later an EMT instructor at Daniel Freeman Hospital — the nation's first paramedic school. EMS is where healthcare became his passion, and where he learned the standard he still builds to: the work matters when it makes a difference for the people doing the job.
He then spent more than two decades in healthcare technology operations, on both sides of the asset-tracking problem. For over a decade he was a director of healthcare End User Services, leading 3 managers and 114 field technicians across 5 states, responsible for clinical computing equipment across major health systems. In that role he oversaw a third-party asset audit at a major academic medical center — an organization with an explicit "every device, every time" mandate, dedicated tooling, and a motivated workforce. Despite advance notice, preparation time, and accommodating methodology, a substantial share of device location records still failed verification. The lesson became Forager's founding thesis: any system that depends on a human performing a manual step at the moment of equipment movement will fail — structurally, not motivationally.
Today he supports Clinical Imaging application teams at one of the nation's two largest non-profit health systems, where he watches the same records decay from the clinical-applications side. He is also a hands-on systems and RF engineer: before founding Harbingers, he designed and built a multi-node passive RF sensing network from the antenna up — the direct technical ancestor of Forager's location engine.
He founded Harbingers LLC in 2026 in Upland, California, where he has lived for more than twenty years. The motivation hasn't changed since the ambulance: build things that make a measurable difference for the people doing the work.