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One instinct, seven careers
The résumé version reads like a list of unrelated jobs. In practice, it's the same diagnostic instinct applied to systems of increasing scale and abstraction — and it didn't stay in any one field. It moved from copiers to broadcast facilities to enterprise networks to cybersecurity, and then followed straight into the hobby bench: 3D printers, boats, motorcycles, and home projects with zero professional stakes.
Digital & analog electronics, and management of information systems
Formal training in electronics and troubleshooting, paired with a college education in the management of information systems — hands-on signal-level diagnosis plus a systems view of how information moves.
Office equipment technician
Electrical, electronic, and mechanical troubleshooting on photostatic copiers — including additive/subtractive color theory in the CMYK print process.
Broadcast engineer
Radio broadcast and audio equipment troubleshooting, broadcast site and facility build-out, and legacy on-air computer systems — diagnostic work where the system can't just be taken offline.
Network engineer → Director of IT
The same method applied at greater scale and lower visibility — and eventually to building the systems and people who can fix things, not just fixing one thing at a time.
Cybersecurity team lead
Using AI to drive remediation process improvement — diagnosis applied to the interaction between attack surface, detection, and response.
3D printing, cars, boats, motorcycles, home improvement
Proof with zero professional stakes — the same method, applied for no reason other than wanting things to work.
That range across wildly different domains is the actual proof: this isn't expertise in any one system. It's a method for approaching any of them. Read the full story in the book →