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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

AspenWave / MacAspen - 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
  • Worked directly with Lucent Technologies / ORiNOCO team on first-generation 802.11b access point firmware and software. ORiNOCO (formerly WaveLAN) was Lucent's pioneering wireless LAN product line - the hardware that defined early Wi-Fi before the term existed. Collaboration included field testing, firmware validation, and ISP deployment feedback during the 1999-2001 rollout of 11 Mbps commercial wireless networking.

The Wall Street Journal coined the term "wireless guerrilla" in reference to this generation of operators building shoestring wireless networks from improvised hardware, profiled in their December 2001 piece "High-Tech Hobbyists Develop Internet Links for the 'Masses'". The same WSJ article documented Sky Dayton (founder of EarthLink) discovering the network while visiting Aspen for a conference.

This was the origin of the RF and networking expertise that later applied to energy basin infrastructure.

DOD/DOE Contractor - Nuclear Facility IT Infrastructure

Traveled nationally for a defense/energy sector contractor, deploying HIPAA-compliant electronic medical record (EMR) systems at Department of Energy and nuclear weapons facilities. The mission: support veterans and workers eligible for healthcare under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) and the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA).

Facilities included:

  • Idaho National Laboratory (INL), including Test Area North and Naval Reactors Facility
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California
  • Savannah River Site, South Carolina
  • Rocky Flats Plant, Colorado
  • Y-12 National Security Complex, Tennessee
  • Pantex Plant, Texas
  • Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Kentucky
  • Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Ohio
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York
  • Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois and Idaho
  • Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico and California
  • Hanford Site / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington
  • Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, New York
  • Mound Plant, Ohio
  • Area IV, Santa Susana Field Laboratory, California

Scope: network architecture, system installation, HIPAA compliance validation, and integration with existing facility security infrastructure. SonicWall and Meraki security appliances deployed for perimeter and endpoint protection. Every site had its own access protocols, classification requirements, and physical security constraints.

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 (Military Science and Engineering) - 4-year undergraduate program
  • 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:

  1. Professional: Field communications for a major energy producer. Radio backhaul, SCADA networking, automation systems. Day job.
  2. 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.