I'm a systems engineer with a long background in industrial control systems (ICS).

I spent many years in the oil and gas industry designing, building, deploying, and supporting automation systems for what we called "downstream" delivery. This time was a ton of fun because one day I could be hacking away at the Linux based automation servers and the next I could be out in the field dressed in head to toe Nomex testing and fixing electrical system terminations.

I later moved into a DevOps role in the renewable energy sector.

This was a dream come true. Not only had I moved into the cutting edge of cloud computing, I could still leverage my ICS background to help accomplish what I still consider to be one of humanities most important missions. It was here that I was finally exposed to concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), the value of writing IaC in an idempotent and deterministic manner, and the mac daddy of the cloud, Kubernetes.

Today, I have found myself managing a team of the highest performing engineers building software solutions on the bleeding edge of technology.

After work, I'm a family man.

I try to spend as much time with my family as possible. I bike, hike, enjoy woodworking, working on cars, and photography. I'm a massive coffee nerd. I love cigars. I hunt, shoot, and fish as time permits.