About Me
I have lived a life shaped equally by engineering rigor and incurable curiosity. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy (B.S. Aerospace Engineering, dual major in Automatic Control Systems Engineering), I’ve spent the early part of my career at Rockwell International, Grumman, and McDonnell Douglas, where I served as lead engineer on the verification of Space Shuttle avionics software — and once built tools that saved Rockwell from what would have been a severe cost and schedule overrun on the Shuttle program. Since 2002, I have run an independent consulting practice from the San Francisco Bay Area, helping architects, furniture manufacturers, and a wide range of other clients with AutoCAD, CAD/CAM integration, CNC programming, and the kind of custom Excel and Word automation that makes people say, “Wait, you can make it do that?” I hold a Microsoft Office Specialist Master certification, have taught software and technology classes to over 900 students across more than two decades, and currently serve as an IT and CAD manager for a San Rafael architecture firm.
When I’m not building macros or teaching someone a better way to use a pivot table, I mentor high-school students as a Naval Academy Blue and Gold Officer and as an adult advisor for The International Space Settlement Design Competition. I am a lifelong Star Trek fan. In 1976, my Academy roommate and I talked our way into a press interview with Gene Roddenberry at Equicon ’76, dressed in our Navy liberty whites. I am also a self-described in-demand West Coast Swing dancer. I have lived in San Rafael, California, for the better part of three decades, manage my Type 1 diabetes with the same systematic attention I bring to everything else, and have never met a piece of technology I didn’t want to take apart and understand.
