Kevin | Hybrid XR & Industrial Simulation Engineer

Core Competencies

Owner & Principal Engineer — Reds Handyman Services - Reds Handyman Services

2017 – Present | Temple, Texas

Industry-Leading Quality Recognition: Honored as The Best Handyman in Temple, Texas (2026) by the Quality Business Awards, securing a 95%+ comprehensive excellence score representing the top 1% of regional enterprises.
Multi-Trade Operational Scope: Executed advanced physical infrastructure optimizations spanning Low-Level Structural System Restoration, Precision Mechanical Diagnostics, and Complex Electro-Mechanical Fabrication.
Customer Trust Architecture: Maintained an unblemished 4.5+ star verified public rating layout across competitive local indexes by engineering a business model prioritizing absolute billing transparency and same-day critical emergency dispatch lines.

Founder & Director of Operations - Tomzwheels

2003 – 2009

Brand Personification & Trust Architecture: Engineered a high-trust, personable brand identity by leveraging fluent consumer psychology (cognitive fluency), utilizing an intentional, accessible name structure ("Ask for Tom") to bypass corporate friction and build direct customer-to-founder accountability.
E-Commerce Transformation: Architected the digital growth of the company, migrating a baseline static HTML site to high-performance XHTML, eventually developing a fully customized e-commerce web deployment utilizing OSCommerce as the foundational platform.
Logistics & Infrastructure Design: Built a highly efficient, high-volume automotive aftermarket wheels warehouse from the ground up. Specially designed precision mounting/balancing lines utilizing Hunter RoadForce diagnostic systems.
Supply Chain & Financial Oversight: Personally audited, optimized, and negotiated enterprise shipping contracts with UPS and FedEx, successfully managing a $1.5 million freight and logistics budget.
IT Infrastructure Installation: Functioned as the lead network engineer for the corporate office. Installed an 8-line legacy Avaya phone system, physically ran the network lines, and set up centralized network servers for file and print sharing.

Retail Operations Director & Contract Operator - Independent / Strasburger Operations

Ongoing / Diverse Blocks

Multi-Site Management: Directed all day-to-day operations, vendor relations, and inventory log metrics for a privately-owned retail facility and a large-format convenience site under contract with Strasburger Enterprises (StrasGlobal).
Systems Automation: Implemented inventory tracking software, managed high-volume point-of-sale data, and optimized local labor allocations to maximize margin profitability.

Industrial XR Researcher & Handyman Chassis Prototyper - Independent Consultant

Continuous Portfolio Era

From-Scratch C# Engine Architecture: Formally trained in full-stack object-oriented C# design through the GTGD Series 3 curriculum, scripting raycast weapon systems, inventory matrices, and finite state AI loops.
Bespoke Unity XR Engineering: Developed custom input extensions and locomotion overrides for mobile VR and Unity XR frameworks, coding continuous movement, climbing vectors, and physics-driven pipelines.
Physical-to-Digital Fabrication: Integrated physical hardware and microcontrollers (ESP32/Arduino) to stream real-time peripheral telemetry into interactive 3D spaces.