About
Been writing about hard to find things for three decades now. Sometimes in book form, sometimes in code form, sometimes in data form.
I've had a "squiggly" career: a published author, university professor, cadaver docent, YouTube video categorizer, mosquito control expert, award-winning fantasy sports author and player.
Where I'm at right now
I'm a technical writer for things that keep hearts beating at the largest medical device manufacturer in the world. The actual work these days is building the infrastructure underneath the writing. Right now that means architecting a Git-based, docs-as-code pipeline that connects engineering design input all the way through to the instructions-for-use a surgeon reads — but architected for regulated readers of the future.
The goal is documentation systems a real team can pick up, trust, and maintain — human-centered infrastructure for an era where a lot of "AI transformation" pitches skip the human part entirely.
That's the throughline of the work I want to be known for: walk into a complex, regulated, unfamiliar system, learn whatever closes the gap, and build something that solves the problem.