Curiosity → Air Force

A child seen from behind, looking up at a jet crossing the sky above an airfield fence
  1. Before I knew what engineering was, I was fascinated by machines that could do extraordinary things.
  2. How does it work?
A mechanic seen from behind, standing beside an open helicopter on a sunrise flight line
  1. That curiosity eventually took me from watching aircraft to standing beneath them as an Air Force helicopter mechanic.
A young Air Force mechanic on a step stand, working inside an open panel of a CV-22 Osprey on a sunrise flight line

Bigger Problems, Bigger Engineering

A sunlit hangar with a green helicopter on a work stand, a large rocket engine hanging in a steel test frame, and a bench of measuring instruments
  1. My curiosity kept pulling me toward bigger engineering problems.
  2. What fascinated me was the attempt to engineer something that hadn't been proven at that scale before.
A dark viewing room with a large blank projection screen above a glass wall onto a lit control room
An engineering test lab in low sun, with a test chamber, overhead cable runs and a bench of oscilloscopes and instruments
  1. Building something wasn't enough. You had to prove it worked.

The World Stops → We Find Another Way → It's Alive

Inside a quiet restaurant during the shutdown: masked customers spaced apart in line, a cashier behind the counter, and Carlo receiving his takeout bag
  1. Then the world changed. Almost overnight, everything familiar felt uncertain.
A home desk at dusk: a dark computer monitor, keyboard and mouse, a desk lamp, a potted plant and a mug, bookshelves, and a window onto an evening sky
  1. When the old way stopped working, we found another way.
  2. And I started wondering what work would look like in this new world.
A cream robot standing on a painted puzzle board, with a wooden crate, a coral gem, and an empty code panel
  1. It's alive.

Between Code and Life

A dim home office at dusk: an open laptop on a wooden desk under a lamp, a mug and a potted plant, bookshelves, and a window onto city lights
  1. That spark didn't disappear. I kept learning whenever I could.
  2. Hon, can you grab diapers and milk?
A dim home office at dusk: an open laptop on a wooden desk under a lamp, a mug and a potted plant, bookshelves, and a window onto city lights
  1. Daddy! Daddy! Play with me!
A dim home office at dusk: an open laptop on a wooden desk under a lamp, a mug and a potted plant, bookshelves, and a window onto city lights
  1. Come on, kids. Let's go get some ice cream.
  2. Life got fuller. The curiosity never left.

AI Changes the Pace

A desk at night: a large monitor and a laptop, a desk lamp, a mug, headphones and a potted plant
  1. Oh... wow.
  2. That's AI.
  3. Is this right?
  4. Let me check.
A desk at night: a large monitor and a laptop, a desk lamp, a mug, headphones and a potted plant
  1. There's so much to check. Let's have AI check it.
  2. Why can't they just talk to each other?
  3. Oh my gosh, it's working.
  4. It's alive.
A desk at night: a large monitor and a laptop, a desk lamp, a mug, headphones and a potted plant
  1. How can I trust this?

What Becomes Possible

A sunlit room with an armchair, tall plants and a large blank whiteboard on the wall
  1. Eventually, I was able to build a harness that verifies end to end.
A sunlit room with an armchair, tall plants and a large blank whiteboard on the wall
  1. For years, the distance between an idea and a finished product felt enormous.
  2. That distance keeps getting smaller.
  3. I've spent my career learning how things work — machines, systems, software, and now AI.
A sunlit room with an armchair, tall plants and a large blank whiteboard on the wall
  1. What interests me now is what we can build with all of it.
  2. If you have something worth building, let's build it together.