History & Timeline¶
Early Career¶
Hamilton Sundstrand Internship¶
Now Collins Aerospace / RTX
Exposure to enterprise computing and early additive manufacturing:
- Alpha DEC systems and SGI terminals — engineering workstations for aerospace design
- 3D Systems polymer resin printing — stereolithography before consumer 3D printing existed (late 1990s / early 2000s)
- First-hand view of how aerospace companies used compute at scale
Co-Founded Colorado's First Wireless ISP¶
Built the state's first wireless Internet service provider from the ground up:
- Business formation, licensing, infrastructure deployment
- Wireless access point and backhaul network design
- Customer premises equipment installation and support
- Operations, billing, support — the full stack of running a service provider
This was the origin of the RF and networking expertise that later applied to energy basin infrastructure.
Competitive Extreme Overclocking¶
Multiple world records in competitive extreme overclocking:
- Liquid nitrogen cooled CPUs and GPUs pushed to absolute physical limits
- Benchmarking competitions against international competitors
- Deep understanding of semiconductor thermal behavior, power delivery, and stability margins
- HWBOT-verified rankings
Why it matters
Extreme overclocking is applied physics. You learn thermal dynamics, electrical engineering, and failure mode analysis by destroying hardware at the margins. The same first-principles thinking applies to engineering reliable systems — you understand where the limits are because you've been past them.
Education¶
Military College¶
- MSE (Master of Science in Engineering)
- Military discipline, systems thinking, leadership
Pepperdine University¶
- Film School
- Visual storytelling, production planning, creative problem-solving
- A non-obvious background that contributes to communication skills and documentation quality
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)¶
- Enterprise Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange, networking
- Foundation for the IT side of the IT/OT convergence work
Energy Basin Infrastructure¶
2013 — Present
11 years (and counting) in the Piceance and Uinta basins:
| Period | Context |
|---|---|
| 2013–2015 | Initial basin operations, learning the OT/SCADA landscape |
| 2015–2018 | Multiple operator transitions, M&A infrastructure work |
| 2018–2021 | Deep Cisco and RF backhaul specialization, fleet-scale deployments |
| 2021–2023 | IT/OT convergence push, Meraki enterprise rollout |
| 2023–Present | Starlink deployment at scale, AI agent fleet development, field communications modernization |
Current¶
Dual-track:
- Professional — Field communications for a major energy producer. Radio backhaul, SCADA networking, automation systems. Day job.
- Personal — Autonomous multi-agent AI systems on owned infrastructure. Applied machine learning, fleet orchestration, security operations. The lab.
Both informed by the same engineering principles: first-principles thinking, reliability as a design constraint, and the conviction that complexity must justify itself.