Blue collar background, business owner, new dad. I've spent years building things with my hands — now I'm building skills in cybersecurity and systems. I learn by doing, and I don't stop until it works.
01 — About
I didn't come up through a CS program. I came up through interstate highway construction, working in cold Minnesota winters as a Union Laborer,, and building out service vans in Vegas. I know what it means to put your head down and grind.
Tech found me through a close friend who was deep into building PCs. I fell in love with the hardware side. Watching components communicate, understanding how a system breathes. That curiosity about how things connect led me to networking and, eventually, cybersecurity.
Today I co-own and run an auto customs shop in Las Vegas with my dad, a business I helped build from the ground up since 2017. Along the way I quietly became the in-house tech person: setting up a POS system, building a 3,000+ customer database, standing up Google Workspace for the whole team, and organizing our finances through QuickBooks. Real experience. It just didn't come with a job title.
Now I'm a new dad and pushing harder than ever. I'm running a home lab, studying on Coursera, and getting hands-on with tools like Nessus and Kali Linux. I'm also planning to build a Raspberry Pi micro-network for my son so he grows up tinkering the same way I did.
If a human being is doing it, it was made for anyone to do. Which means you can too.
— A foreman who changed how I think about hard things
02 — Experience
Co-built this business with my father from scratch. Beyond running day-to-day operations, I became the de facto tech person — implemented Square as our merchant service provider, set up the POS terminal, and built a 3,000+ customer database from the ground up.
Deployed Google Workspace to give the team professional email and collaboration tools. Organized financial records and workflows in QuickBooks to get our books clean for our bookkeeper. Real systems work, without the formal title.
Started in interstate highway construction — green-sawing, sandblasting, and sealing concrete joints. Joined Laborer's Union Local 563 and worked through Minnesota winters. Later worked for a Las Vegas fabrication company building out service vans for plumbers, locksmiths, and tradespeople.
Blue collar work teaches you to solve problems with what you have, show up regardless, and earn the trust of people who've been doing it longer than you. I carry that into everything I do.
03 — Projects
Running Nessus on Kali Linux to scan a Metasploitable VM hosted in VirtualBox. Learning to identify, interpret, and document vulnerabilities in a safe, isolated environment.
Building a micro-network on a Raspberry Pi — part home lab, part future learning environment for my son to explore coding and tech when he's old enough.
Always building something. Follow along on GitHub to see what's next.
04 — Contact
I'm actively looking for opportunities in tech — whether that's an entry-level systems role, something in cybersecurity, or just someone willing to point a hard worker in the right direction. I learn fast and I show up.