I've been an “engineer” for as long as I can remember, creating or modifying mechanical and electrical things, mainly out of necessity.
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I got into electronics in my senior year of high school and went immediately into a local vocational technical school in Searcy, Arkansas. From there, I spend a short time at DeVry in Irving, TX, then finished my Associates degree in Little Rock, AR.
In 1986, I went right into a job working with commercial telecommunications and broadcasting equipment. That's still my "day job" today.
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At age fourteen, I got my first guitar and took some lessons. I got really serious about it a few years later, and started working on musical electronics whenever a guitar, amp, or pedal needed to be fixed.
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Even though I worked in electronics every day, creating guitar effect pedals still wasn't a goal of mine.
I built my first pedal, an Octave Fuzz, on stripboard in 2018.
ISince then, I've built a variety of analog effects from PCBs. I paint or powder coat the enclosures and design my own graphics.
Over time, my small work
bench expanded to a complete workshop. It's the perfect place for me to create, experiment, and perfect my designs.
I launched Poe Pedals in 2022 and build all my pedals by hand in Ore City, Texas.
