Most of what I do comes back to one habit: I like to understand how things work, all the way down. Professionally, that's meant over a decade at the crossroads of business and technology, where the metaphorical rubber meets the road. For most of that time I was a customer-embedded technical consultant in regulated industries; lately I've been building and operating AI systems hands-on, with an open-source track record to match. I'm a PMP-certified program manager with an M.S. in Finance from Northeastern.

Off the clock, the same habit shows up everywhere else: I'm a father, a licensed ham radio operator, a film photographer, a woodworker, and a cheerful 3D-printing hobbyist. Polymath is the word I'd use. The Victorians had a name for the type too, and a habit of taking the amateur seriously: you picked a field and you were expected to be genuinely good at it, paycheck or no. I've kept the habit and dropped the cravat.