I'm a lot of things depending on when you catch me. On any given day I might be troubleshooting a server configuration at midnight, sketching a character for my kids, or standing in my garden watching a bee work a flower like it has somewhere important to be. The throughline isn't a skill set. It's curiosity that doesn't know when to quit.
Professionally, I've moved through medical simulation R&D, manufacturing operations, and a self-directed education in AI and automation. Not because I planned it that way, but because each one had a problem worth understanding. I hold a registered U.S. patent, I've trained engineers on two continents, and I've built production tools from scratch on my own time because the gap was there and I'm not good at walking past gaps.
Being a father is the part of my identity I'm most serious about. My kids are in Dallas. I'm in Ohio. That's a temporary situation I'm actively working to change, and it shapes every professional decision I make. I coach, I create, I animate, I build things for them that serve no purpose other than making them smile. Fatherhood isn't something I do. It's what everything else is in service of.
I share my home with two dogs in their golden years who have no idea how much company they keep. Outside of work, my life is quieter than it used to be. I've made peace with that mostly by staying busy making things.
Setbacks are data. Mistakes are curriculum. I don't spiral, I study. That's not a philosophy I adopted, it's just what I noticed works.
A little more
From wooden toy boxes to hand-drawn treasure maps for a park visit, making things for them is the most satisfying application of the same energy I bring to everything else.
I maintain a native garden and watch pollinators work it like they have a system, because they do. Understanding how things in a natural environment connect and depend on each other is the same thinking I bring to everything else, just with better scenery.
There's a specific satisfaction in standing back and looking at something physical you just built or fixed. I carry that feeling into every other kind of work.
Homemade French onion soup, smoked brisket, a school lunch that somehow ends up being the highlight of someone's day. Flavor profiles deserve more respect than they get.
Seventeen countries so far. Each one changed something about how I see the other sixteen.
Where I've been
A few of the places that have shaped how I see things.
Let's talk
Remote or hybrid. AI, automation, or operations. If the work matters and the team is real, I want to hear about it.