After graduating in 2011 from UNC with a Journalism degree, I worked for an online marketing company for a few months. And I hated it.

​Instead of trying to find a new job in that field, I decided to pursue a career change just a few short months out of college. I went back to school and completed my B.S. in Computer Engineering at N.C. State University in just over 2 years.

After my wife finished her graduate program, we moved to the west coast for several years. I worked at a semiconductor startup in Santa Clara while she worked as a pediatric audiologist at Stanford.

​When we decided we were ready to start our family, we moved back to the RTP area in North Carolina. We now have two beautiful daughters.

I like to build stuff. I went to school for Computer Engineering, but I enjoy working on all parts of the engineering process.

​In my senior project at NCSU, my team needed some 3D printed parts. None of the electrical and computer engineers on my team knew how to CAD, so I volunteered to learn SolidWorks. In a few weeks I knew enough to design the parts we needed and get them 3D printed in the university makerspace.

​After getting my feet wet with this school project, I was hooked. I've designed dozens of 3D models for use around my home and in my garage, several of which can be seen on my Thingiverse page. I have a 3D printer at home that I use constantly, and my most recent project is a 4'x4' CNC machine that I built in my garage.

I like improving efficiency. ​While working as an Applications Engineer at Dialog Semiconductor in Silicon Valley, part of my job was to generate custom circuitry using our configurable mixed-signal GreenPAK chips and then document those designs in a custom datasheet. My team spent at least half an hour per day generating these datasheets, and when I was hired, a lot of the information was manually typed into a word document.

​I volunteered to figure out a better way to automate the process. Over a few months (during my down time at work) I wrote a C# application that parsed through an XML file containing configuration data, queried a database to retrieve silicon characterization data, and dumped the important information into a Microsoft Word template. This improvement to our workflow saved each member of my team at least 30 minutes per day of pure data entry.