About
I'm an inventor who built a framework for personal transformation. Not from a textbook — from the wreckage of my own life falling apart and the painstaking work of putting it back together.
MY STORY
The Short Version
I studied physics, chemistry, and mathematics in college. I moved to the Bay Area living out of the back of my 1995 Ford F-150 with $3,000 in my pocket. Four years later I had a thriving clean tech company making six figures per month, an XPrize-winning innovation, and a patent portfolio. On the weekends I'd adventure in a custom-built camper van.
But something was wrong. I broke open in a way I didn't know how to put back together. I fell into addiction, lost the business, lost nearly everything. And in the wreckage, I realized that every healing modality I'd ever tried had been showing me a different piece of the same puzzle — and nobody had drawn the complete map.
I designed my own recovery by going to a series of immersive retreats — Esalen, Sleepawake, Mahamudra meditation. But it was twelve-step that got me sober, and I couldn't help asking why. The answer was the relational field: I'd been trying to recover in isolation, and I needed a fellowship. That question — why did this work when the others didn't? — cracked open the framework.
WHAT I BUILD
The Inventor
Before I built a framework for transformation, I built machines. I hold patents in solar energy and gasification systems, and I've spent over a decade designing hardware that turns waste into power, heat, and clean cooking fuel.
2018 XPrize — WEDEW
Member of the winning team that developed technology to harvest water from air using biomass gasification.
BetterStove
The world's cleanest, most efficient biomass cookstove. Gold Standard A-rated. Took it from problem statement through mass production — thousands deployed across Kenya.
Novel 2-Axis Solar Array (Patented)
A wind-load-resistant tracking photovoltaic system designed for DIY installation. Eliminates contractor costs and self-cleans through rotation.
All Power Labs — Swirl Hearth Gasifier
Asked to scale gasification 10x, I started from scratch. Created a novel architecture that replaced a decade-old design as APL's new standard.
Powertainer
150 kW of electricity from forestry waste. Took over a stalled project and solved cascading issues under a tight grant deadline.
I think like an engineer because I am one. When I look at a stuck system — whether it's a gasifier that won't draw or a life that won't move — I see the same thing: a design problem with a structural solution. The rigor I bring to thermodynamics is the same rigor I bring to the ten dimensions of contact. You don't guess your way through either one.
Today, through New Power Industry , I continue developing machines and systems for geocentric distributed manufacturing. The inventor and the coach aren't separate lives — they're the same mind applied to different materials.
THE INSIGHT
Every Modality Maps a Different Dimension
Somatic work taught me that trauma lives in the body as unresolved survival responses. IFS showed me that the psyche organizes into parts around wounds. Twelve-step proved the power of a social field for transformation. Contemplative traditions revealed that awareness itself can transform us.
Each modality was absolutely correct — within its own dimension. And each was structurally blind to the others. The person doing years of talk therapy with genuine insight but an untouched body. The meditator with real equanimity that collapses under relational stress. The retreat-goer who keeps having powerful experiences that don't stick.
I spent months building the map I wish I'd had fifteen years ago. ten dimensions of contact. Seven forming a cascade — body before meaning, ground before depth. Two weaving through everything. I call it The Healing Spiral.
WHY I COACH
An Engineer's Approach to Transformation
I bring the same rigor I applied to engineering problems to the territory of personal growth. When healing feels stuck, there's one question more useful than any other: which dimension of contact am I avoiding?
I work with founders, leaders, and builders — people who know how to solve hard problems but have hit a wall that isn't technical. Your business demands more than your inner life can sustain. The Healing Spiral shows you where the gap is.
Through New Power Industry , I develop machines and systems for geocentric distributed manufacturing. Through coaching , I help people who are ready to do the deepest transformational work — not just get better, but become whole.
THE DEEPER STORY
What Actually Changed
The dimension I avoided longest was identity reorganization. I was so committed to the identity formed around my parental wounds — the achiever who would prove his right to exist through benevolent invention — that I couldn't let it dissolve even when everything underneath had started to shift.
From my father I absorbed the belief that I was not enough — fundamentally not enough. From my mother I learned that anything is possible with enough grit, and that things should be hard. These two inheritances created a structural contradiction: I am not enough and I can be enough if I work hard enough. The first guaranteed no amount of work would settle the question. The second guaranteed I'd never stop trying.
What changed wasn't dramatic. The question I'd been trying to answer my whole life — am I enough to justify my existence? — didn't get a better answer. It dissolved. The question itself was the wound. What's left is simpler than I expected. I just belong here. Things can just be easy. The version of me reassembling now is organizing around that.
