Lifelong Tinkerer, Troubleshooter & Systems Builder
My obsession with how things work started in the 1980s—soldering a mechanical keyboard onto a Sinclair ZX81, writing GW-BASIC and Pascal on early home computers, and scripting MS-DOS batch files in Edlin. Before circling back to tech full-time, I spent decades troubleshooting complex systems in the real world: fifteen years turning wrenches as a diesel mechanic, running sawmills, repairing hardware at Zebra Technologies, and briefly working on fighter jet electronics in the early ’90s.
Today, at 53, I’m proof that it’s never too late to start a new chapter. I’m a full-time Computer and Information Systems (CIS) student at Dyersburg State Community College, a remote AI data evaluator, and the builder behind Tomatoes & Transistors. Whether I’m coding frontend interfaces in VS Code, exploring cloud and machine learning on Microsoft Learn, or dialing in VPD, LED spectrums, and canopy airflow in my indoor garden, I love building systems from the ground up.
AAS CIS @ Dyersburg State
HTML / CSS / JS
AI & Cloud Fundamentals
Indoor Horticulture & VPD
Retro Computing & 3D Art