👋Hi!

I spent four years enlisted in the USAF, assigned to bases in Italy and Las Vegas. I know, those are some rough assignments, but somebody has to do them.

I was deployed once (to a non-combat area), named "Airman of the Year" twice, and kicked in the head by the lead singer of Maroon 5 once.

I was in the career field "Cyber Transport," which is Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) 3D1X2, if those words and numbers mean anything to you. I was in the 603rd Air Control Squadron and the 799th Air Base Squadron.

I've long considered myself a computer scientist, and I've bored many, many people by talking about P vs. NP, hash functions, etc. And I finally got a computer science degree in 2022 to make things official.

My big interest is algorithms and data structures. How can I efficiently represent some real world data? How can I efficiently manipulate it? That's my jam, man.

My talk at Morehead State University, "Numerical Methods for Spacecraft Position" about an improved algorithm for compressing spacecraft trajectory information for transmission to the spacecraft was very well received. Sadly, it's covered by an NDA, and I cannot share it here.

I was one of the earliest employees of AppHarvest, an Ag-Tech start-up that was briefly a "unicorn" with a billion dollar valuation before going public in 2020.

The company has since fallen on very hard times, but we built the largest and most high tech greenhouse in North America, and I am damn proud to have been there for all of it.

I love outer space, and I got to live a lifelong dream when I helped send a spaceship to the moon!

I worked on a project called Lunar Ice Cube. I wrote our tools for analyzing spacecraft telemetry and planning the trajectory for its maneuvers to the moon and beyond

I also wrote from scratch a large (10,000+ SLOC) comprehensive monitoring and control program for a massive, 21-meter (70-foot) diameter, $3,000,000 NASA interplanetary communication dish (pictured here).