1996
Origin
Dad brought home a Windows 3.1 machine when I was six. Zero games.
I clicked through every folder anyway. Trying to figure out how it all connected. Couldn't stop.
§ 01 — Dossier
Builder.
Storyteller.
Systems guy.
Coding
0
Automation
0
Design
0
Systems
0
Security
0
AI / ML
0
2001
First builds
Fifth grade. Wrote my first HTML page.
View source on every site I liked. Copied tags into Notepad. Hit refresh. Repeat. Nobody asked me to. The compulsion never went away.
2004
LAN years
Built my first gaming rig.
Counter-Strike at a competitive level. LAN tournaments across the country. The sweatiest years of my life. My parents drove me everywhere, paid the entry fees, and never once told me to do something else. They are heroes.
2006
Live events
Started running live events across DFW.
Sound, lighting, AV, photography. Every weekend was a new venue, a new load-in, a new way for gear to get broken in transit. Got fluent in problem-solving under a clock.
2016
MIGHTY
Founded MIGHTY Photo Booths.
Premium photo + video activations for corporate brands. Canon DSLRs. Custom designs from scratch. Self-powered battery setups.
2018
Met Vivian
Met Vivian at a Fourth of July car show. Best thing that ever happened to me or MIGHTY.
Kaboomtown, a private airfield in Addison, fireworks over the runway. I was working the booth with my son Aidyn right next to me, and the two of us won her over without even trying. Vivian is the driving force at MIGHTY now. She inspects every piece of creative before it goes out and puts out fires before they start at our live events, all on instinct and a sharp analytical eye. Then in 2023 she brought us our son Adrian. Best partner I will ever have.
2023
Full time
Went full time. All in on the crazy idea.
January 1, 2023. I took the leap and let go of the AV clients I'd spent years building, the steady work and the safe money, and went all in on this crazy idea. That was the year we broke our first $100,000 in revenue, and it fueled the fire further. Every year since, the bar goes higher: learning how to scale a team, managing a full client list while attracting new ones, building new experiences constantly. This is the most fun I have ever had in business, and it only gets better.
2023
ADHD ≠ bug
Figured out the thing people called a weakness was actually the engine.
143+ tools. Multiple businesses. Hyperfocus until the problem dies. Stopped fighting it. Started pointing it at code.
Now
Today
AI agents. Automation systems. Creative code. Cybersecurity.
Systems guy who loves perfect organization, LaCroix, and shipping things that make other people's lives easier. I help by building, not lecturing.
§ 02 — Credentials
Always learning.
Never done.
Certifications, courses, and credentials picked up along the way.
2026Security
DevOps Foundations: DevSecOps
LinkedIn Learning
2026Programming
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
LinkedIn Learning
2024LinkedIn
SEO
Using AI as Your SEO Assistant
2024SEO
On-Page and Technical SEO: SEMRush Deep Dive
SEMrush
2024SEO
Backlink Management Course
SEMrush
2024LinkedIn
Programming
Programming Foundations: Object-Oriented Design
2024LinkedIn
Programming
Learning Python
2024Security
Programming with AI - Mini Course
TCM Security
2022Security
Google IT Support Certificate
Coursera
2022AV/Audio
Dante Level 3 Certification
Audinate
2022AV/Audio
Dante Level 2 Certification
Audinate
2022AV/Audio
Dante Level 1 Certification
Audinate
2022LinkedIn
Design
Photoshop: Texturing & Shading Techniques
2022LinkedIn
Design
Photoshop: Smart Objects
2022LinkedIn
Leadership
Listen to Lead
2022LinkedIn
Leadership
Be the Manager People Won't Leave
2022LinkedIn
Productivity
Google Drive Essential Training
2022LinkedIn
Productivity
Google Calendar Essential Training
2021LinkedIn
Productivity
Learning Airtable
2021LinkedIn
Productivity
Learning Gantt Charts
2020Security
Python 101 for Hackers
TCM Security
Library / books + courses
The reading and self-study stack. Business, leadership, design, security. Always something open in the queue.
59 total/29 completed/52 books/7 courses
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🎓
MPB Bootcamp Dec 2025
Conference
2025Conference
📖
The Art of Spending Money
Morgan Housel · 5h 53m
★ 4.82025Audible
📖
Do the Work
Steven Pressfield · 1h 25m
★ 4.72025Audible
📖
The Wealthy Barber
David Chilton · 6h 53m
★ 4.62025Audible
🎓
Taking Your Team Remote
Business
2025Skillshare
🎓
Productivity Today
Business
2025Skillshare
🎓
Grow Your Business
Business
2025Skillshare
🎓
Capcut for Desktop
Design
2025Skillshare
📖
The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
Mike Michalowicz · 4h 52m
★ 4.72025Audible
📖
Exactly What to Say
Phil M. Jones · 1h 14m
★ 4.52025Audible
📖
The Dip
Seth Godin · 1h 32m
★ 4.52025Audible
📖
Start with Why
Simon Sinek · 7h 18m
★ 4.72025Audible
📖
The High 5 Habit
Mel Robbins · 06:57:00
2024Audible
📖
This Is Marketing
Seth Godin · 7h 2m
★ 4.62024Audible
📖
Buy Back Your Time
Dan Martell · 8h 4m
★ 4.92024Audible
📖
Not Nice
Dr. Aziz Gazipura PsyD · 18:02:00
2024Audible
📖
Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara · 8h 37m
★ 4.92024Audible
📖
The Obesity Fix
James DiNicolantonio, Siim Land · 06:53:00
2024Audible
📖
$100M Leads
Alex Hormozi · 6h 1m
★ 4.92024Audible
📖
Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg · 7h 28m
★ 4.62024Audible
🎓
Advanced LinkedIn for Photo Booth Owners
Business
2024Photo Booth Marketing
📖
Rewire Your Anxious Brain
Catherine M. Pittman PhD, Elizabeth M. Karle MLIS · 6h 30m
★ 4.62024Audible
📖
Email Marketing Demystified (Third Edition)
Matthew Paulson · 06:57:00
2024Audible
📖
The Art of the Start 2.0
Guy Kawasaki · 8h 43m
★ 4.42024Audible
📖
The Book on Investing In Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down
Brandon Turner · 05:33:00
2024Audible
📖
The Ultimate Sales Machine
Chet Holmes · 11h 28m
★ 4.62023Audible
📖
How to Start a Business Selling Arts and Crafts Online & Offline
Elaina Garcia · 02:26:00
2023Audible
📖
Start with No
Jim Camp · 7h 58m
★ 4.82023Audible
📖
The 5 Second Rule
Mel Robbins · 07:35:00
2017Audible
📖
How to Grow Your Small Business
Donald Miller · 5h 2m
★ 4.82026AudibleIn progress
📖
The Saint, the Surfer and the CEO
Robin Sharma · 7h 18m
★ 4.72026AudibleIn progress
📖
Coach Builder
Donald Miller · 6h 46m
★ 4.82026AudibleIn progress
🎓
AI Agent Oneshot Course
Automation, AI/ML
2025YouTubeIn progress
📖
Building a StoryBrand 2.0
Donald Miller · 6h 33m
★ 4.82025AudibleIn progress
📖
The Way of the Superior Man
David Deida · 5h 22m
★ 4.72025AudibleIn progress
📖
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne · 8h 43m
★ 4.52025AudibleIn progress
📖
The Lean Product Playbook
Dan Olsen · 10h 9m
★ 5.02025AudibleIn progress
📖
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie, Donna Dale Carnegie - preface · 8h 18m
★ 4.82025AudibleIn progress
📖
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt · 10h 32m
★ 4.82025AudibleIn progress
📖
Banana Ball
Jesse Cole, Don Yaeger · 6h 32m
★ 4.82025AudibleIn progress
📖
The Let Them Theory
Mel Robbins · 10h 38m
★ 4.72024AudibleIn progress
📖
Fanatical Prospecting
Jeb Blount, Mike Weinberg - foreword · 8h 21m
★ 4.82024AudibleIn progress
📖
Clockwork, Revised and Expanded
Mike Michalowicz, Gino Wickman - introduction · 8h 54m
★ 4.82024AudibleIn progress
📖
Day Trading Attention
Gary Vaynerchuk · 8h 24m
★ 4.82024AudibleIn progress
📖
Deep Work
Cal Newport · 7h 44m
★ 4.62024AudibleIn progress
📖
Million Dollar Weekend
Noah Kagan, Tahl Raz · 4h 33m
★ 4.82024AudibleIn progress
📖
Influence, New and Expanded
Robert B. Cialdini · 20h 43m
★ 4.62024AudibleIn progress
📖
The Compound Effect
Darren Hardy · 4h 44m
★ 4.72024AudibleIn progress
📖
Profit First
Mike Michalowicz · 7h 52m
★ 4.72024AudibleIn progress
📖
Radical Candor
Kim Scott · 11h 55m
★ 4.32023AudibleIn progress
📖
Get Out of Your Own Way
Larry Winget · 4h 19m
★ 4.52023AudibleIn progress
📖
Atomic Habits
James Clear · 5h 35m
★ 4.82023AudibleIn progress
📖
Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss · 22h 41m
★ 4.72023AudibleIn progress
📖
Rich Dad Advisors
Tom Wheelwright CPA · 8h 59m
★ 4.82023AudibleIn progress
📖
The Way of the Wolf
Jordan Belfort · 7h 48m
★ 4.72023AudibleIn progress
📖
Raising Good Humans
Hunter Clarke-Fields MSAE, Carla Naumburg PhD · 5h 37m
★ 4.62023AudibleIn progress
📖
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss, Tahl Raz · 8h 7m
★ 4.82023AudibleIn progress
📖
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey · 6h 51m
★ 4.92020AudibleIn progress
📖
Crucial Conversations
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler · 4h 17m
★ 4.32018AudibleIn progress
§ 03 — Get in touch
Say hello.
Question, collaboration, or just want to say hey.