He had worked for the Bureau of Reclamation, helping design and build dams across the American West, both for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation. This skill would seem useless on Haven, which has no dams, no irrigation, and no hydroelectric power, but civil engineering is civil engineering, and once you know how to pipe water and run power lines, you can do it anywhere, even if it’s connecting some advanced solar panel to some miraculously desalination box that pulls in ocean water.
He immediately got hired by Project Zero and worked for them for years, and when they gave him more independence in 17 HY, he nodded at them and just kept doing what needed to be done.
Unfortunately for the provisional government, he had also approached the group in 15 HY, after getting more independence, to see what they wanted for the community. He wasn’t sure about their ideas, but he would at least talk to them. But due to the disappearance of Brian Torres, who he had been friends with for years, and a series of failures to communicate or get real responses after that, he had distanced himself from the group in 18 HY.
Arrived 5HY from 1931 Commonwealth.