I’m honored to share that I’ve been named Vice Chair of the IEEE Florida West Coast Robotics & Automation Society chapter.
This is one of those opportunities that sits right at the intersection of the things I care about most: engineering discipline, practical automation, robotics, aerospace, embedded systems, and building a stronger technical community here in Tampa Bay. IEEE has long represented something important to me: engineering as a serious craft. Not hype, not buzzwords, and not demos that only work under perfect conditions, but real systems built under real constraints by people solving real problems.
That mindset has shaped most of my career. I’ve spent years working on mission-critical systems, including avionics hardware used in programs involving SOCOM, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Air Force. Those were environments where reliability was not a nice-to-have. It was the baseline. The work had to be disciplined, testable, explainable, and built to survive contact with reality…