Welcome

Hello! Thank you for taking the time to visit my website. I hope you find your explorations rewarding, invigorating, and inspiring!

Professional Interests

I find science and engineering topics fascinating. I love mathematics. I am intrigued by aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, systems engineering, and computer science. I am interested in developing adaptive, high-performance systems, especially those involving automation technologies and technical information communication systems.

I earned my Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Western Washington University. I completed an IBM Professional Certificate Course in Data Science. I hold a private pilot certification and love aviation and flying airplanes.

I have experience in parachute packing, manufacturing, operations management, and team leadership in the parachute technology and indoor skydiving fields. I've packed thousands of parachutes, delivered world class customer service, and been the go-to expert in a number of roles. I have experience editing a monthly newsletter, providing tech support, writing technical documents, and managing website content.

Character

I am conscientious, industrious, and orderly. I treasure excellence, integrity, and the pursuit of high-quality, high-performance systems. I'm an innovative problem solver who loves to explore and discover new things.

I'm positive, upbeat, friendly, easy to talk to, quite likeable, and ever the optimist. I inspire, encourage, and support my team members. I stand as a resolute pillar of strength for my team, inspiring, encouraging, and supporting wherever possible.

I am driven, high-energy, firm of mind, assertive, forceful, and decisive. I seek to bear the maximum amount of responsibility that I can reliably carry. I'm wildly confident in my ability to achieve great things and I have the track record to back it up. I am especially effective at generating order in chaotic systems. I like to build things. I love to develop processes and streamline complex systems that help people. Of particular interest to me are systems that involve the communication of time-sensitive, mission-critical information.

I'm an avid learner in pursuit of expanding my skill set, continuing my education, and developing deep technical expertise. I aim to be thoroughly eloquent, competent, and charismatic. I love being productive with my time and efforts. I take pride in a job well done. Having an active lifestyle is important to me. I'm properly happy when I am energetically moving forwards.

I thrive in dynamic environments where uncertainty, challenges, and changes in direction arise as a normal part of operations. I typically gravitate towards roles that involve strategy and contingency management. I love thinking about complex topics, working with abstract ideas, and understanding how things work at a fundamental level.

Recreational Interests

Bicycle and motorcycle adventures are good fun. I've skydived more than three hundred times. I kept honeybees for more than a decade.

I prefer cold weather and love the crispness of early mornings. I like hiking in the Cascade Mountains.

I love to read. The shelves in my study are filled to overflowing with a wide range of books. It is quite pleasent to curl up by the fire with a mug of hot chocolate and get lost in the pages of a book. I like to play chess and enjoy mind puzzles and mental gymnastics of all sorts.