From deskside support to 3D technologies, by way of a lot of Linux.
Customer Engagement Lead for 3D Technologies at Merck. Before that, the Linux systems administrator responsible for the label-printing infrastructure that gets medicine to patients. Before that, managed print and deskside support, which is where you learn what people actually do with computers.
This site is the side of the desk: the builds, the photographs, the 50 for 50 blog, and the guitar.
| now | Customer Engagement Lead, 3D Technologies | How fabrication and 3D printing change the way the business works, and getting the people who need it to use it. | current |
| prev | Linux System Administrator | Ran the business-critical label-printing infrastructure. If the labels stop, the medicine stops. | done |
| base | Managed Print · Deskside Support | Direct user support and technology rollouts. The foundation everything else stands on. | done |
Prompt work, direct API calls, and agentic systems that chain them together. On this site that shows up as stoic-wisdom, a chat mentor on the Claude API; mallrat-glamour, which hands a webcam frame to an image model; and Atelier Studio, a macOS writing app that keeps a story bible and tracks what each character actually knows.
During the 50 for 50 year I logged fifty hours of structured AI learning as one of the goals and used a model as the editor for roughly three hundred blog posts. Critic, not author.
| 01 | video | Production and post. Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects for motion graphics. | /media |
| 02 | pizza | Neapolitan and New York style, learned from an Italian grandmother and sharpened in professional kitchens. Time, temperature, technique. | calc |
| 03 | guitar | Twenty-five years on acoustic. Lately expanded into songwriting and singing, which are harder. | app |
| 04 | retro hardware | A custom-built MAME arcade cabinet for the classics, and several 1980s home computers that still get switched on. | — |
| 05 | photography | Outdoor and nature, since a simple camera in my twenties. Patterns and textures more than postcards. | /photos |
| 06 | coaching | Husband, father of two, youth sports coach. Teamwork, resilience, and having fun, in that order. | — |