I went to college not knowing specifically what I wanted to do so much as just knowing I wanted to work in a lab and wear a lab coat. I didn’t want to pigeonhole myself into a specific engineering discipline, so I picked Engineering Physics; I figured that would end up covering about everything.  That started me down a path of constantly learning and applying new technical skills under time crunches and pressure, leading to me being something of a technical factotum or engineer generalist.

In grad school I stuck with Applied Physics; working in research labs meant having to fix equipment often before really knowing what they were supposed to do.  After grad school, I found myself in the position of having to teach a course on Android app development, despite there being no curriculum and never having programmed an app. I had to learn, write, and teach the course concurrently. A brief stint as a freelancer had me working embedded electronics before leading me back to Caltech*, where I am in charge of hundreds of physics experiments of varying ages and makes.
*Note: None of the views or opinions expressed on this website should be interpreted to reflect the opinions or views of Caltech.

I eventually decided to branch out from learning actual scientific skills and into fictional science. With the public both interested and uncertain about the nature of time travel in science fiction, I have decided to work out the details myself, leading to my first authorial work–The Chronoversal Compendium.