I’ve spent my career as a “technical polymath.” Whether I was managing enterprise data centers for Iron Mountain, repairing Macs at Apple, leading a school maker-space, or overseeing solar designs at SolartimeUSA, I’ve always been driven to understand the “how” and “why” behind a system.
That curiosity is the through-line of everything I do. In the classroom, it became a teaching framework: I moved from a staff role into a faculty position because I found my real passion was helping students discover that their unique way of looking at the world is actually their greatest strength in a maker-space. In consulting, it shows up as the patience to take a contract or a system apart piece by piece until the underlying logic is visible.
I’m comfortable in high-challenge, high-support environments. My background in maker-spaces, Design Thinking, curriculum design, data centers, solar, and entrepreneurship lets me move fluidly between the technical and the pedagogical — and to translate one into the other when it helps.
I believe people who think differently are often the most natural “Design Thinkers.” They already live in a world that wasn’t built for them, which makes them very good at finding creative solutions. The work I’m proudest of, in education and outside it, is helping people channel that creativity into something they can hold in their hands.
