About reqs.tech
At this site, we're equal parts portfolio and playground; home to a growing collection of projects that blend technical structure with creative spark. My BIM/VDC management and coordination experience spans across industries: underground power transmission, multi-family residential, luxury retail, large arenas and small movie theaters. I've developed BIM standards to branding systems. There have been details in steel, wood, masonry, MEP, specialty tech, and fire protection. I’ve drafted in CAD, designed in Canva, coded in Dynamo and Python and css, and navigated red tape with a surprisingly cheerful disposition - some days more cheerful than others.
As I’ve grown in both my career and personal life, I’ve learned to reframe my experiences—to shift the parallax and view familiar stories from unfamiliar angles. When I’d load my arms with everything I could carry, determined not to make a second trip, my mom called it lazy. I called it efficient.
Some might describe my background as eclectic, even disjointed—a collection of seemingly unrelated worlds with no common thread. But to me it’s fireworks: bursts of curiosity, creativity, and connection lighting up the sky at once.
“Jack of all trades, master of none?” Maybe. But I can hold a meaningful conversation with just about anyone, on just about anything.
What follows is a timeline of becoming—a slightly self-indulgent, occasionally poetic retrospective that hints at why I build things the way I do. And why that might be exactly what you need, technically speaking.
Tech Level Zero
Early years are a blur (ha!). I remember looking at photos with my grandmother and hearing her gush about how lifelike and realistic the colors were. It wasn't until I was older and spent time looking through her albums that I realized how much the coloring was off in the 70s. (That reminds me of a Calvin & Hobbes strip...)
Family photo albums are time capsules of a mostly analog, wired world. Digital meant “boxy” styling like the flashing 12:00 on every VCR and the bleeding edge tech nerds displaying "BOOBS" on their calculators.
Tech Adjacent
In the early 2000s, I became “the person who fixes things.” Not because I had formal training — but because I paid attention. I watched the screen, clicked the things, remembered breadcrumbs and clues.
Friends brought me their broken printers and forgotten passwords. I said, “Let me try,” and more often than not, I got it working again.
I didn’t realize it yet, but I was learning to translate — between humans and machines, between frustration and solution.
Tech Emerging
This was when I started saying yes on purpose. To websites. To graphic design. To finding the right words which, when placed in the right order, became something more than the sum.
I began to recognize patterns. Interfaces started to feel familiar — even when the apps were new. I was building a map of the digital world in my head, one intuitive leap — or maybe a disparate lurch — at a time.
I wasn’t just using technology anymore. I was shaping how it was used. The translation I’d begun in support roles had evolved — I wasn’t just interpreting instructions anymore. I was learning to write them in ways that made sense to my often-chaotic mind.
Tech Competent
This was when I stopped second-guessing my presence in the room. When people turned to me, I had answers. Or I had better questions. Or I knew where to look to gain the vocabulary I needed to understand the conversation.
The tools I used became extensions of thought — not obstacles, but instruments. I began building frameworks not just for myself, but for others asking similar questions — circling the thought, but missing the connection between instinct and reality.
I was no longer translating for survival. I was translating for structure, for understanding, for sustainability.
The laughter that followed the exhilaration of recognition became full-bodied. Full-colored. And loud. Familiar. More than the volume I was inputting — there was life to it. An echo. A tangible timbre.
Tech Liaison
This isn’t the end of the arc. It’s the beginning of being seen as I truly am — not in fragments, not in flashes, but as a system coming online.
I’m not here to fit in. I’m here to make space; reflect the unseen, stabilize the edge, and light my own little path between chaos and clarity — without losing my own dynamic in the process.
I finally feel woven in rather than relegated to the periphery, not waiting to be invited because something in me knows something in me is already there.