I’ve been pulling things apart for as long as I can remember.
When I was about 7, I wasn’t playing with toys the way most kids did. I was collecting circuit boards. Pulling them out of anything I could get my hands on. Trying to understand what made things work.
At some point, it got out of hand. My mum made me clean it all up… and we filled an entire box trailer with electronics.
That should’ve been the end of it.
It wasn’t.
In 1997, I formally stepped into Electrical Technology. Not just curiosity anymore, but structure. Foundations. Understanding the rules behind what I’d already been feeling out intuitively.
From there, I moved into IT… and stayed for the next three decades.
Engineer. Architect. Systems thinker.
Big systems. Critical infrastructure. The kind of work where things either hold… or they don’t.
But here’s the thing.
It’s all the same thread.
From a kid pulling apart boards on the floor…
to designing and maintaining complex systems…
It’s always been about understanding how things fit together, where they fail, and how to bring them back.
And now, I’m bringing it full circle.
Back to the bench. Back to the boards.
Still pulling things apart.
Just with a bit more context this time.