I am an accomplished Mechanical Engineer, Inventor, and Veteran with over sixteen years of professional experience solving problems. My engineering career started off in the trucking industry as a design engineer, and after four years I made the move to the oil & gas industry to become a project manager. After a year in the industry, an opportunity to solve a difficult problem arose that required outside the box thinking and a willingness to explore the unknown to help define a new product line. I spent almost eleven years helping create new expansion tools and threaded connections used in solid expandable systems for oil and gas well repair and drilling intervention. Along the way I've been involved in the research and development, project engineering, project management, technical writing, training, marketing, and managing an engineer and several technicians. In my most recent role I was supervising the operations of four fabrication plants to improve operating efficiency, sales, and overall profitability. I’m always open to taking on the most difficult and challenging opportunities that lead to change in an industry and make a difference in the world.