My love for engineering started in 2nd grade when I saw my brothers competing on my high school’s FIRST robotics team. During my own time on the team, I narrowed my focus to Computer Engineering and eagerly attended RIT’s Computer Engineering department for my BS/MS and later CMU’s Electrical & Computer Engineering department for the start of my PhD. During undergrad I used my four internships to explore the areas of web design, cyber security, computer vision, and digital signal processing at Exelis (now part of L3Harris), Parsons, MITRE, and Qualcomm respectively. These experiences narrowed my interests into low-level programming and hardware which lead to my research choices of neuromorphic computing for my master’s and power grid simulation for my doctoral research. My goal has always been to program and to teach and while my original path was to obtain a PhD to become a research professor, my time at CMU not only taught me many technical and personal skills, I also learned that a research professor was not the end goal I desired. As such, I recently discontinued my PhD and am looking for positions in industry in low-level/embedded programming and eventually a part-time adjunct professorship to scratch my teaching itch.