Work Overview

I want to help build communities that are more resilient, capable, and connected. Sometimes that means local government or volunteering. Other times it means designing systems that make everyday institutions work better.

At a larger scale, I think the United States needs to rebuild its ability to make, maintain, and repair the things it depends on. That means modernizing the trades, strengthening domestic manufacturing, lowering the cost of advanced production, and building supply chains that can absorb disruption.

Our inability to build something as complex as an LNG carrier competitively is not just a shipbuilding problem. It reflects a broader loss of skills, suppliers, and industrial knowledge. I am interested in bringing technology, data, automation, and AI closer to the people doing the actual work, not as a replacement for expertise, but as a way to make that expertise more effective and easier to pass on.

Ultimately, I want to work where policy, operations, technology, and physical infrastructure meet. The goal is to help build systems that communities and organizations can understand, maintain, and improve themselves. On a more personal level, I would also love to open a coffee-and-amaro bar, roast and import my own beans, challenge people's tastes, and show that light-roast coffee can be as layered and expressive as tea.