I started my automotive training in high school for 2 years I immediately joined the army as a 63Bravo "all wheeled vehicle mechanic" literally Cummins diesel only. When my four years ended I enrolled into orange coast college where I discovered manufacturing & fell absolutely head over heels in love with every aspect of it. I took every manufacturing class they had to offer. Conventional machining on lathe, mill, surface grinding, tool grinding. Metal casting & metallurgy. Cnc machining & programming on both lathe & mill. 3D printing in both plastic & metal. As well as welding. Smaw, gmaw, tgaw, saw, paw, fsw, oaw, lw, soldering, brazing. I've had careers in materials testing, aerospace, rocketry, oil & gas. I now work in the auto sports industry where I have the pleasure of expressing all of my learned skills & apply them all to the race cars & mechanical engineering.