At SCADAmetrics, a company which is owned by my father, I have worked in many roles -- including assembly of electronic devices, firmware flashing, quality testing, and even boxing, shipping, and delivery. In the course of my work, I self-learned the C programming language via Kernighan & Ritchie.

Working at LangeTech was a prestigious opportunity to learn from, and work amongst, a very talented group of engineers at a fast-paced, high-tech control system integrator. On day one, I was enrolled into LangeTech's internal engineering training program. After completion, I assisted LangeTech engineers with creating and modifying PLC control panel drawings using AutoCAD (which LangeTech also taught me). As I became more adept and comfortable with the CAD system, LangeTech further challenged me with training on Rockwell Logix5000 software, with which I assisted engineers in writing ladder logic code and configuring GUIs to control potable water pumping stations.

Solely as an opportunity to learn, I created a non-commercial, wireless Internet service, which provided 50 Mbps wideband Internet to two neighboring families during the Covid lockdowns. The distance from the master antenna to each neighbor was approximately 1/4 and 1/2 mile, respectively. The design basis was Cambium 900 MHz WISP radios and antennas.

Despite my very young age (17) at the time, Mark Andy leveraged my prior lab and shop experience at SCADAmetrics and assigned me the job of control panel wiring and integration.