Sean has a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering, specializing in design of mechanical systems, from the University of Irvine, California. He is currently studying permaculture design. He worked as an associate mechanical design engineer for Max Q Systems, formerly an original equipment manufacturer for the aerospace industry. He served as the GreenHab officer at the Mars Desert Research Station. He is also a contributor for the Open Source Hardware Association open standards working group, Tetra Bio Distributed developing open-source hardware medical and PPE devices, and the Mach 30 Foundation developing the distributed open-source hardware framework.