Quick intro post for the new server.

I came to 🐘 in November 2022. I was on the biggest server until Dec 2025 (so a couple days ago) when I moved over to this server because it's run by a good admin and fearless leader.

I'm doing the academic thing but in a rather unique institution in California. My specialization includes risk and failure analysis, engineering for resilience, mission engineering, and a few other things all within systems engineering. I'm mainly working on projects involving energy systems, uncrewed systems in all domains, and occasionally some work in implementing post-quantum cryptography across systems of systems.

My 👸 and I have two cats. We do a lot of scuba diving and traveling in the region. I ride an obscure Japanese motorcycle and I enjoy 4x4ing in various Toyota vehicles. We've got waaaaay too much wine in our cellar considering we don't drink much (like... several hundred bottles. I think my 👸 may have a 🍷🍾 hoarding problem). We're about to buy a rack and power lifting equipment to get back into that.

I'm an amateur radio operator with a technician class license for about 20 years. I mainly focus on 2M simplex voice but I keep threatening to get into CW and 10M with radios I inherited from my grandfather.

I spend a lot of time in the Sierra Nevada around the Dinkey Creek and Shaver Lake area.

We're thinking of getting fresh water fish tanks again. That's almost certainly a bad idea.

So yeah that's me.