"No matter where you go, there you are."

- Buckaroo Banzai

I grew up in a one‑bedroom house on a bustling corner of 1960s Oakland, California, where creativity was always in the air. From Sunday‑afternoon marathons of 1950s sci‑fi serials, “Star Trek” and “Lost in Space” reruns, to my first screening of Star Wars at age twelve, I was hooked on imaginative worlds. After appearing on the local TV show Captain Cosmic, I began crafting my own costumes, starred in a Mad Max fan film in high school, and founded a custom VW club in the Bay Area—turning my passion for cars into community.

At nineteen, I landed my dream job at Lucasfilm’s ILM in San Rafael, contributing effects to Howard the Duck and other films. I then managed custom builds and race‑winning VWs at Buggy House in Hayward, balanced nights as a club bouncer, and later ran the IT department for Qvale Automotive Group—where I even helped bring a mass‑produced sports car to market in 1999.

When I wasn’t behind a desk, I was rigging lights for bands, spinning tracks as a rave DJ, rebuilding VW motorcycles on weekends, or play‑testing in‑development VR games after hours.

Today, I’m a Senior Systems Engineer serving small and midsize clients across the San Francisco Bay Area—still fueled by that same creative spark that started in my childhood home.