About

I was originally born in Santa Cruz, CA and grew up in San Jose where I spent most of school years attending a survival training program instead of attending conventional schools. This program mainly took place in the Santa Cruz mountain range and was a hybrid curriculum passed down from the last native Apache Scout and the African Bushmen tribes. Including Native American history and lore, the training course focused on practical survival skills in the wilderness including tracking, plant identification of edible and medicinal plants and how to prepare them, primitive hunting tool use and construction, among other skills. Simultaneously, during my Highschool years, I also taught myself to play the guitar and sing and began composing my own songs that eventually were self produced into an album that was distributed through various major online music retailers at the time.

At the age of 21, I enlisted in the U.S. Army and served four years of active service in Hawaii as part of the 25th Infantry Division, 3rd Brigade, 3-7 Field Artillery Regiment as an Artilleryman. During my service, I and my unit participated in significant historical events between our regular duties and training. These events included being the first Army unit to conduct a cannon salute for the December 7th Remembrance Ceremony of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and being the first Army unit to deploy and train with our allies in New Zealand as part of an exchange program.

Following my exit from military service, I moved to Angels Camp in Calaveras County and graduated in 2018 from Columbia College with my AS in GIS and promptly was hired at Condor Earth to replace their GIS Technician where I spent the past five years administering their GIS environment as well as producing various maps and other GIS products for clients of Condor, some of which required development of workflows and creative solutions that will be taught in these GIS courses. I also started a Septic Design Firm that employs GIS to enhance design maps and streamline data collection workflows using GIS and GPS.