About us

Trained as a mechanical engineer at Carnegie Mellon, I began my professional journey with Toyota of North America. After two years of improving transmission assembly and robotic welding processes, I felt strongly called to realign with my passion for design.  From that insight, I enrolled in the Industrial Design Engineering department at the Royal College of Art in London. This multidisciplinary course attracted 31 students from 16 countries, which fostered a collaborative global design experience.  Returning back to my home state of California, I began work as a product design engineer in the then budding Apple iPad department. The first iPad had recently launched and we were all-hands-on-deck to swiftly redesign the whole iPad in a fully machined, unibody enclosure. It was a great pleasure to work with such a talented and passionate team.  After two and half years, the drum beat in my heart was again getting louder. The call was to get back to working physically and designing with my hands. I took a sabbatical and returned to my family home in Big Sur. Thus began the most deeply rewarding and transformative period of my life. At times, inwardly spiritual and at other times creative and collaborative with my father and brothers.  While living on the land, a dear friend taught me the basics of arc welding and I fell in love with metal as a medium for creating the forms that dance in my mind’s eye.