Building, Exploring, and Capturing the Moments In-Between

Ever since I was a kid, I always loved being outdoors. You could usually find me with the neighbors exploring the woods behind our house. At the same time, I loved playing with Legos and breaking things open with baseball bats and hammers. If a TV was broken or a cell phone stopped working, instead of carefully taking it apart, I just wanted to see what was smashable inside.

Over the years, that curiosity shifted from breaking things to putting them together. I discovered math, science, and eventually mechanical engineering in college, and I realized that instead of smashing things, you could build them with screws, mechanisms, and 3D printers. My love for engineering is rooted in practical problem solving. I love being able to help people come up with solutions that are completely tangible. Instead of just thinking about a problem, I want to actually make it real.

That mindset is exactly why I love rapid prototyping, working in CAD from a blank screen to a final product, and talking with manufacturers on the production floor.

Even outside of work, I am an avid hobbyist at home. I am constantly designing and 3D printing custom things to make our living space more efficient, ergonomic, and tailored to our everyday life with a personal touch.

That same drive to build naturally bled into my love for travel and the outdoors. When I first started traveling, my setups were pretty minimal. I started out road tripping in a Honda Civic, where I retrofitted the back seats by placing them down, using a discarded door frame from the side of the road as a sturdy backing structure, and directly putting a memory foam mattress on top of that to sleep on. Then I used my parents' minivan, which I retrofitted with a simple sleeping cot from Walmart and utilized plastic shelving around it to stay organized. Eventually, I graduated to building a fully capable camper van from an empty cargo shell into a complete living space, which you can see in my home projects tab under the Dodge Ram ProMaster.

When I am traveling, I always have my camera with me. Landscape and cityscape photography became my way of taking it all in. When I look at a place, I try to capture the exact feeling of being there. Later, when I am post-processing/editing the photos, I try to bring all of those emotions back to life. My goal is to translate exactly what I saw and felt through that camera lens so that anyone looking at it can experience it too. You can explore some of my favorite moments in my artwork gallery, as well as some of the photos I have taken for clients and loved ones.

For me, whether I am designing a physical mechanism, building out a camper van, or editing a photo, it all comes from the same place: a love for exploring the world and creating things that are real.

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