I've always loved creating, tinkering, and optimizing. My job starts with an problem; something that's missing, something that's breaking, something that demands improvement. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing something that you needed, designed, and built, working. Whether you were able to identify an existing gap in technology, or simply implement an existing solution, it is just undeniably fun to build. But the job isn't over just because you've built it; sometimes the things you make don't quite work, no matter how much you wish they did. Yet even then, the process of design, of engineering, does not lose its luster. Sometimes figuring out what's wrong is more gratifying than making it perfect on the first try. Of course, you strive to make things work the first time through; but that won't always happen. It's important to be able to effectively troubleshoot, to quickly identify what went wrong, and how you can fix it. That's something I've loved doing my whole life, from trying to repair the computers I've built for myself and friends, to figuring out why that recipe didn't quite turn out as tasty as it should've. Correcting, fine-tuning, and growing from mistakes is something that I know I will always be great at.I admire and strive for efficiency in everything that I do - I am truly passionate about making my life and the lives of those that surround me easier, cheaper, and faster. Sometimes it isn't good enough that something works, that it gets the job done; I want it to be better. I aspire to be able to prove that I've put out the best possible solution, that nobody could do it better, that it will work well after I'm gone. That's when my job is done.