I began my professional career as a bioenvironmental engineer with the USAF in Sicily, where I met my wife and settled down. After completing my service, I began working as an engineer and consultant in the local economy. Realizing my language skills were in high demand, I integrated translation and interpreting into my business proposition. I opened a studio named Real Bridges and soon built up a team of collaborators who, in addition to translation and interpreting, offered a wide variety of useful services to small and large businesses.

After a short while, companies began asking for help marketing a wide variety of products and services varying from coffee, produce, olive oil, wine, to lava-stone products, software, and tool-cutting equipment.

As I gained experience, foreign companies interested in setting up operations in Sicily sought out my services, and I began to provide the liaison and logistic services they were seeking to interact effectively to find and work with the professional consultants they would need such as lawyers, notary publics, engineers, banks, accountants, business associations. 

I was happy to help Navy contractors solve logistical problems, procuring hard-to-find tools and equipment in the local economy. 

My workload has followed the ebb and flow of the economy, and, adapting to the recent pandemic, I began working in remote teams via cloud and online platforms.  

Times have changed, technology has changed, the economy has seen both good times and bad, but my mission has never changed.