Specialties: metalsmithing, teaching adult learners, strong presentation and public speaking skills (I love doing demonstration/public education opportunities), and creative exploration. Sharing knowledge is an important goal of mine - I want to make sure people have access to the tools and skills that can help them be happier, more creative, and live more in tune with the way they want to live. In my past life, I spent a lot of time in the tech industry, writing repair, self-help, and troubleshooting procedures, doing data analysis (turning data into knowledge), and leading hands-on technical training. I've been a process engineer, a project manager, a bench tech, and more. I am skilled at taking complex concepts and tasks and making them manageable, and I bring this to the table when I am teaching creative techniques as well.