The Living Timeline

A life rebuilt in chapters.

This is not a résumé. It is the connected history behind the QuadCapable Platform: service, injury, recovery, technology, travel, advocacy, business, media, and what comes next.

1978

The story begins

The beginning of a life that would eventually move through military service, business, catastrophic injury, adaptive technology, advocacy, and public storytelling.

USMC

Service and leadership

Marine Corps service established the discipline, accountability, mission focus, and problem-solving mindset that later became essential.

Penn State

Business education

A business education reinforced systems thinking, communication, planning, and the belief that complex problems can be broken into solvable parts.

August 23, 2014

Catastrophic spinal cord injury

A dive from a boat caused a C3 complete spinal cord injury and forced nearly every ordinary part of daily life to be redesigned.

Hospital and rehabilitation

Learning a new operating system

Breathing, communication, positioning, equipment, caregivers, routines, and family support became the foundation for the second life.

Adaptive technology

Technology becomes participation

Voice access, environmental control, eye gaze, power mobility, computers, smart-home tools, and adaptive gaming restored access to work, play, and community.

QuadStick and streaming

Gaming becomes proof of access

Adaptive gaming became recreation, community, technical experimentation, and a visible demonstration that access can restore more than function.

Stand Up For Me

Personal access becomes advocacy

The mission expanded from solving personal problems to helping other people with paralysis obtain useful technology and independence.

Stalwart

Business development and clinical education

The work grew into assistive technology procurement, veteran outreach, clinician education, relationship building, and practical systems change.

Travel

Adventure becomes field research

Airports, cruises, hotels, road trips, equipment, caregivers, transfers, and accessibility failures became the foundation of the Travel Bible.

Media and speaking

The story enters public conversation

Podcasts, articles, videos, documentaries, interviews, and speaking opportunities created a wider platform for practical disability knowledge.

Today

Building the QuadCapable Platform

A living archive and digital headquarters connecting story, media, travel, adaptive technology, speaking, advocacy, and resources.

A living timeline of the people, events, technology, travel, work, and decisions that shaped QuadCapable.