Engineer. Analyst. Thinker.

I'm an engineer who fell in love with the analytical side of the work.

Years in manufacturing and product development taught me to think carefully about variation, systems, and causality — to ask “why” until I reach a cause I can actually address, and to remember that the first answer is usually a symptom. That kind of patient investigation is the thing I find most interesting about technical work, and the thing I've spent the most time getting better at.

Now I work at the intersection of data and engineering, building tools that help people understand complex processes. Python, R, JMP, whatever else gets the job done — the language matters less than the thinking behind it. Most days, I'm working through enormous volumes of data to find what matters in it.

The same statistical thinking that works on industrial data turns out to work beautifully on public data too. Astronomical surveys from missions like TESS and Gaia. Civic datasets. Charts in the news that don't quite say what they claim to. Three series here explore those directions:

• Mining the Sky — extracting real signals from public astronomical data
• Drawing the Data — visualizations that tell a story beautifully
• The Quiet Workshop — notes from building small, useful things

Most of what I write here is for the curious — the analyst who took stats in college and forgot most of it, the engineer who watches the sky sometimes, anyone interested in seeing numbers clearly, anyone who wants to tell stories with data. This site is where the work lives. Welcome. If something here makes you want to talk, my inbox is open.