A running list of things I've built or help keep running — hardware, radio, and infrastructure.
Converting an Allen TC-1 analog pipe organ into a MIDI controller for the Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ software. The work involves reverse-engineering the original keyboard scanning matrix and designing custom PCBs to bridge the mechanical keyboards and stops to a modern digital system.
I designed dedicated scanning-matrix boards and a main controller board that handles MIDI communication. It has to reliably scan hundreds of keys and stops while keeping the original feel and response of the instrument.
A small side operation designing and building custom electronic hardware for prototypes and short production runs — embedded controller boards, signal-processing hardware, and audio/control systems with a focus on MIDI, DSP, and mixed-signal work.
Projects run the whole path from schematic capture and PCB layout through firmware and testing, and I keep a library of reusable design modules and test setups for validation.
I hold an FCC Extra-class amateur license (WG1GEM) and a GMRS license. Most of my operating is VHF/UHF analog FM, with some DMR and occasional HF on a FlexRadio. While I was in College Station I helped maintain the W5AC 146.82 MHz repeater system serving the Bryan–College Station area, and I build custom hardware for radio and infrastructure projects.
I'm active in emergency communications through ARES, serving as Assistant Emergency Coordinator for SKYWARN activities. Past leadership includes President of the Texas A&M Amateur Radio Club (W5AC) and President of Bryan/College Station HamWAN, a high-speed data network for amateur radio operators.
Through CEF Digital Systems I run networking, hosting, and colocation for a handful of small organizations — designing and managing on-prem and colocated networks, configuring routing, switching, and firewalls across a few vendors, and operating core services like DNS, mail, and monitoring.
It shares roots with my own homelab: multi-site architecture on BGP, OSPF, and WireGuard, Proxmox and Ceph for virtualization, and BGP peering on the backbone. The lab is where I try routing, virtualization, and VoIP ideas before they're useful anywhere else.
Graduate research on uniquely identifying semiconductor devices from encoded continuity test responses measured on automated test equipment. I designed custom test hardware for data acquisition and developed methods for pulling a unique signature out of ordinary production test data, with potential applications in supply-chain security and device authentication.
As a student research assistant under Dr. Timothy Logan in the Texas A&M Department of Atmospheric Sciences, I supported the Houston Lightning Mapping Array — a sensor network that maps total lightning activity in three dimensions across the Houston region.
I maintained, troubleshot, and upgraded remote sensor hardware, and wrote and maintained the Python scripts and system software that keep the sensors running and turn raw output into a usable data format for researchers.