Off the Clock
The engineering is what I’m paid for. This page is about the rest — the parts of my life that shape how I think and why the professional work looks the way it does.
Dad
I'm raising a little engineer. He's figuring out the world one disassembled toy at a time, and I get a front-row seat.
I coach his Little League T-ball team. It's the most honest coaching I'll ever do — no sprint reviews, no stakeholders, just kids who want to run the bases.
The dad thing is the real work. Everything else fits around it.
Trails
The palette on this site isn't an accident — firewatch oranges, national-park blues, the color of 6pm in September at altitude. I grew up outside and I don't stop being restless until I'm back out there.
Hiking is where I do most of my real thinking. The work problems that won't budge at a whiteboard usually untangle on a trail.
Garage
I'm slowly restoring a project car. Same engineering instinct I bring to everything else: measure, diagnose, root-cause, fix, verify. Different problem surface.
I'd rather spend a Saturday in the garage learning something hands-on than almost anything else.
House
I do most of the work on our house myself. Not because it's cheaper — it usually isn't — but because I'd rather understand how the wall is built than guess.
Houses are an education. You learn fast what the previous owner was hiding.
The dad vlog is coming. I’m planning short, honest videos about raising a kid, tinkering in the garage, and whatever else the week throws at me. Sign up below to know when the first one drops.