How to: fix a bike flat, blow stuff up (safely), clean a skinned knee, organize a shop, listen to your kids, build robots, and generally be a kickass dad.
To pay the rent, he tests software, writes software, and writes software to automate testing software. Systems admin, network monkey, husband, developer-for-hire, qa engineer, father, devops grunt, and test automation lackey for more years than he cares to remember.
(back in *my* day we had an actual "turbo!" button on the front of the PC ... to switch from 4.77 to a blistering 10 megahertz. Good times.)
In his spare time he tinkers with electronics, epoxy, 3d printing, string, and whatever the kids need built/melted/experimented with at the moment.
He resides with his lovely wife, four children, one dog, and five cats.