About Me

Twenty years managing technology inside large organizations. I'm an executive now, which mostly means I decide what gets built and almost never build it myself.

That's the day job. This site is the other half — me actually making things, badly at first.

Single-board computers, sensors, circuits, 3D printing, and small AI agents wired to hardware that does something in the physical world. I'm a beginner at most of it. There's a Raspberry Pi on my bench running four kinds of sensor and two status LEDs driven by an agent, and I got there by wiring it wrong several times first.

Two things get written here:

Builds — what I made, what broke, what I'd do differently. Including the ones I abandoned.

Field Notes — post-incident writeups from real projects. What I assumed wrong, and what it cost to find out.

I'm not selling anything, I'm not consulting, and I haven't figured it out. I'm doing this in public because writing it down is the only way the learning compounds — and because the beginner phase is the one part I can only document once.