About
Elixir enthusiast and embedded engineer with a proven track record of building and delivering embedded devices and server / network-based products for consumer and industrial markets.
I’m a team player who enjoys solving problems.
Based in Southern California, I love hiking on the sunny trails near my home, daily meditation and yoga, walking on the beach with my sweetie, and throwing the tennis ball for our dog.
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Stuff you didn’t ask about…
While my parents certainly encouraged (or at least tolerated) my tendency to take things apart and sometimes put them back together, my Uncle Clay was a huge influence for me working with computers and electronics.
Uncle Clay was an electronic technician at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (aka ORNL, or just “the labs” to locals).
I never fully knew what he did (cold war secrets, you know), but he often hinted about interfacing the computers of his era with all kinds of exotic sensors and detectors.
In his era’s version of a side-hustle, he had a workshop where he repaired radios and televisions and had lots of disassembled appliances and boxes of random electronic components. To my young eyes, these were like exotic treasures.
At some point, I suspect he got tired of me digging in his workshop, so he bought a Radio Shack “100-in-1 Electronic Project Kit” that I could play with when I went to spend weekends with my cousins.
After “normal playtime” was over with my cousins, I would work through all the projects that kit had to offer. I even got brave enough to change the wiring or component values without fear of breaking anything. So. Much. Fun.
A little later, Clay bought a Radio Shack TRS-80 “personal computer” to give himself a way to advance his skills without taking time off from work to attend school.
I’d been learning about logic gates and microprocessors via books and magazines, so this was nothing short of mind-blowing to me. He was very gracious and let me more-or-less take over the computer when I was visiting.
My parents of course saw that electronics and computers were lighting me up, and pretty soon after, brought these things into our house too. This was quite a leap of faith those days given how relatively primitive and expensive the techology was.
Nonetheless, even though I wasn’t totally sure what I wanted to be when I grew up, I knew one thing… whatever it was, it would involve wires, components, and lines of code.
…and boy, did it ever…