Team

A native Marylander, Sam’s first real opportunity to toy with technology was in Maryland’s Public School CCNA vocational program. Her natural aptitude and inquisitive nature then led to an IT internship with her county’s school system. Although she seemed destined for a career in the arts, Sam entered the engineering program at Virginia Tech and earned her degree in computer engineering. For the first 15 years, her Embedded Engineering career has concentrated on Telecommunications and Software Defined Radio, and still spanned a multitude of arenas including UAVs, Critical Infrastructure, EW & SIGINT, Cybersecurity, Reverse Engineering, and Networking.

At home, Sam enjoys games of all types, puzzles, nature-learning, and finding new uses for old things – as well as finding excuses to use tools – when she’s not chasing one (or all!) of her kids. Leaving a research-oriented atmosphere, she has joined Root3 Labs, excited to focus on real-world puzzles and cultivate her tools-skills.