I have a twenty plus year career in research and development in industry including leadership of large research groups and project teams in Fortune 500 companies and am a globally recognized expert in rapid food pathogen diagnostics with an extensive publication, presentation, and patent record.
While science has been my career, my mind is creative and inventive with broad interests outside the sciences. These include a vast trove of writings under the pseudonym Everyday Junglist spanning almost every possible genre and form. Most of these writings are collected in my Substack based digital publication, Intelligent Nonsense, and/or at my Vocal site. I also create art in several conventional and digital media. Primarily this consists of the works that make up the collection I call Microbiology Themed Art Like Objects(TM), featuring the Post-apocalyptic molds(TM). All of the pieces in the collection are based on photomicrographs of microorganisms captured using one of the many microscopes I have used in various jobs in microbiology over the years. The original photomicrographs are then digitally manipulated to become entirely new things. I also create and build driftwood furniture and sculpture using materials scavenged from the beach near my home.