My career...my mission... is to use technology to improve lives. I'm an award-winning still photographer, an IT specialist, aviation fanatic, and aerial photographer.
Safety is paramount; I've earned my FAA certificate to fly commercially, and I won't fly my drone if I think there's risk to people or property.
When I'm not flying, I help private companies, governments, and NGOs innovate for social benefit, public safety, or humanitarian causes. Before I discovered drones, I worked at DHS in public safety technology development. As a technology subject matter expert who also was adept at strategy development, I advised senior officials, liaised with industry, and published advocacy and explanatory material. Some of our work involved GIS information sharing, situational awareness and remote sensing.
With this background, and a longtime hobby of flying R/C helicopters, it didn’t take much for me to consider the possibilities that drones offered, eg real estate, agriculture, infrastructure, events, archaeology, surveying.
As an active member of the local drone community, I explore issues like privacy, safety, as well as potential in conservation, mapping, journalism and civil rights, and search and rescue. No longer actively maintained, this website allowed me to store articles of interest.