I spent five years in the Marine Corps as a helicopter electrician on CH-53s. Boot camp at MCRD San Diego, electronics school at NAS Memphis, then stations across the Pacific: Tustin, Kaneohe Bay, Futenma, Cubi Point. I left with a general sense that I could figure out complicated systems under pressure, and a very specific opinion about humidity.
After that I bounced through a few careers the way some people do. Computer and network repair. A California real estate broker's license. Then almost a decade in child welfare and family services: counselor, clinician, family team meeting facilitator, agency liaison. I did pretty much every role that existed in that world, some of them twice.
Eventually I got pulled into online business. I spent well over a decade in that space before I understood why most of it doesn't work, and why the same people keep buying the same promises. It took longer than I'd like to admit. I have receipts.
At some point I realized I'd spent a decade trying to run someone else's business in someone else's way, and wondering why it felt wrong.
That's what Pyragonics is. I work one-on-one with online business owners who've tried everything and stopped trusting that the next thing is going to work.
I live in Southern California with my wife Geraldine, our son, and two cats who are very clear about who runs this household. My daughter just finished her master's in Healthcare Systems Engineering and is out doing her own thing. I collect old prints and engravings, drink bourbon, and help care for my mother who lives nearby. It's a full life, and I'm not even close to done with it.