Bio

I had the rare good fortune of both knowing what I wanted to do very early in life and never feeling as if I should “do something else”. I was also given the invaluable opportunity to work with my dad as he started his machine shop in our garage, learn a trade, and actively help transform the business over the last 30+ years into the modern CNC job shop that it is now. The innate need to design and hands-on experience I took with me to The University of Texas at Austin as a mechanical engineering student in 1995 proved to be a gateway. As a research assistant it permitted me to directly contribute toward the ongoing development of selective laser sintering (SLS) at the same university where that 3D printing technology was originally invented. And it was during my undergraduate time at UT that it became fully clear how the power of 3D CAD could directly reach beyond the screen, enabled by a process like SLS, to extend into the physical world. Twenty years later, and now more than ever, 3D data has a central role in the mechanical engineering design workflow. It can be leveraged multiple times, at every point in the development process, from ideation to production through natively-digital manufacturing processes such as CNC machining and 3D printing. And it’s precisely because of their digital connection that design and manufacturing are more directly tied together than they’ve ever been. For me, using the full range of modern 3D design tools - to scan, reverse engineer, parametrically model, sculpt, simulate, render, document, and physically create - is gratifying in a way that’s difficult to fully capture in words. Providing clients with genuine value by using these amazing tools to help solve their design challenges is the ultimate reward.