Hi. I'm Porter.

I'm an electrical engineer and electronics technician based in Arizona. I've spent years working on systems that have to actually work — avionics, process workflows, technical infrastructure — and I find that same care-about-getting-it-right sensibility showing up everywhere else in my life.

I've been doing community theatre a while now, too. Acting, stage managing, running lights, building things... and, occasionally, doing all of those on the same production. Theatre taught me how to collaborate under pressure and that nuance takes practice to uncover — lessons that transfer pretty directly to engineering and everything else.

I also tutor, do handyman work, and have been known to spend an entire weekend on a LEGO set without any guilt whatsoever.

This site is an attempt at putting all of this "me" into one place. If you're here for the engineering, the left brain has what you need. If you're here for theatre and creative projects, the right brain is for you. If you're just curious, keep reading.

The left/right brain model is an oversimplification of a complex neurological process, but it gets the point across (and is fun to conceptualize!). Whether I'm analyzing a circuit or deep-diving a character, I'm engaging with many parts of what make me who I am... but these activities are distinct enough realms that they deserve different treatments. Enter, the brain model, with each realm separated into their own area with their own styles.

The left brain holds the engineering side. Right brain is the artistic side. The dream cloud is everything that doesn't fit either hemisphere cleanly. The prefrontal cortex — this page — is the part holding it all together and giving it some identity.