About Me
As a lifelong learner and activist, I care deeply about the future of humanity and our fellow inhabitants on this planet. I am a believer in the collective power of everyday people making positive change. Revolutionary change erupts when ordinary people become extraordinary. Let’s become extraordinary together!
Sustainable Energy Builder & Educator
Professionally, I’ve created award winning training videos for Tesla. I developed scripts and created voice over instruction on the installation of Sustainable Energy Systems (SES). These training videos equipped other renewable energy workers with the standard operating procedures to install Powerwall, Powerpack and Solar Roof components. Before producing training videos for a living, I trained other solar builders as a Technical Trainer with SolarCity’s Crew Leadership Training. I’ve also installed over 2 megawatts of residential solar photovoltaic (PV) systems primarily in Silicon Valley & San Francisco. I led the pre-planning, installation, testing, commissioning and troubleshooting of hundreds of PV systems. All the while, I ensured the safety of my colleagues, clients and community. During this time, I also earned my certification as a California Residential Electrician.
From Social Worker to Studious Builder
Prior to my life as a sustainable energy builder and educator, I renovated both luxury houses in San Francisco and village homes in Cyprus. Yearning for change, I turned my energies to general construction hoping to recover from my previous professional life as a direct care social worker. Building for a living led to me examining various perspectives on rural land use and unsustainable urban consumption. The works of Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka and Vandana Shiva, among other organic intellectuals, helped me make sense of what truly matters.
Collaborating with Sustainability Practitioners
Currently, back in Cyprus, I’m still collaborating with people who care about sustainability. As a Systems Engineer with a marine technology company, I work with engineers and scientists on international research projects. With the use of autonomous underwater vehicles, we monitor the health of our oceans.
I’m fortunate to have this opportunity to work with dedicated colleagues who share a similar perspective. Emancipation from earthly ruin requires respecting ecological cycles. As a competent community, we can envision how to remedy the industrialization of our organic world. Let’s do so through the renewal of relationship-based organizing.
Let’s Dare to Dream & Defy the Odds Together
Whether we know it or not, we’re living through unprecedented changes. Why not more fully harness the sun? It is a life enabler that Elon Musk loves to call our fusion reactor in the sky. Why don’t we do as Fukuoka did by regreening the earth and sowing seeds in the desert?
We’re here because we’re driven. Driven by our individual dreams for an ecologically sustainable and a just society. I’m of the impression that collectivizing that imagination and adapting these solutions for local action will create this necessary change.
This site is one of many platforms for these solutions. Let’s dream together with other developers of sustainable practices. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we will continue this movement for health, beauty and sustainability together!
