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Career path

U.S. Navy · Turbine Controls

  1. U.S. Navy — turbine controls
  2. Power plant commissioning
  3. Information technology — power distribution
  4. Information technology — manufacturing

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Led releases, migrations, validation, and cutovers—pausing when operational risk was not understood.

Commissioning · manufacturing systems · operational readiness

Interests

I followed AI from machine learning into increasingly capable language models and larger context windows.

Currently building a private, self-hosted AI environment that combines model access, personal-document retrieval, vector search, MCP tools, workflow automation, and custom interfaces. The aim is to deepen my understanding of AI automation and explore a personal assistant that can learn from use, retain what is useful, forget what is not, and support work across development, operations, and everyday life.

Current direction

Exploring controls engineering and commissioning for greenfield power and IT infrastructure.

Relevant experience, with more still to learn.

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Background

Career details

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U.S. Navy · Turbine Controls

Learned turbine operation, control-system behavior, and how deliberate changes affect a physical system.

02

Power Plant Commissioning

Spent more than 15 years commissioning and starting combined- and simple-cycle plants worldwide, working across turbine, balance-of-plant, DCS, PLC, network, and startup systems.

03

IT · Power Distribution

At APS, brought power-generation knowledge together with development, networking, and troubleshooting in the power-distribution environment.

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IT · Manufacturing

At Intel, build and support mission-critical manufacturing applications for complex, multi-million-dollar tools, with work spanning reliability, development, DevOps, automation, and AI-assisted operations.