My story, abridged.

I grew up in Southern Tier, New York.

I studied mechanical engineering and robotics.

I taught mechatronics for two years in South America.

Now I do controls for things like surgical robots, lunar landers, and hypersonic airplanes.

 

Vivir la IngenierĂ­a

For two years I taught as an instructor in the Mechatronics Department at UTEC in Lima, Peru.

Check out these highlights from my two years living down there.

 
 
 

Foundations

Here are some embarrassing and cringe-worthy gems of 17-year-old me. The beauty of growing up in a small town is that everything is newsworthy. (For the record, I did walk on to the basketball team in college.)