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My Achievements

This page is dedicated to my life achievements and what has made me the man I am. The events will be in chronological order with descriptions and photos.

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Age: 5

Constructed a Treehouse

  • I planned, designed, framed, and constructed, a treehouse with my father.

  • We spent one year working on the house until we had to move.

Age: 6

Rebuilt a 2003 Jeep

  • Spent over a year rebuilding it every day after school and throughout the summer.

  • Learned how to do bodywork, disassemble and reassemble a car, and shoot paint.

Age: 9

Started using 3D design Software

  • Fully self-taught using youtube and online resources

  • Started out using SketchUp

  • Within 2 years I was able to design a house, interior/exterior fully.

  • I currently know how to use, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk inventor, Autodesk Fusion, Sketchup, Blender, Cinema 4D, and Solidworks.

Age: 10

Helped plan and design a new type of powerplant with my father

  • With my 3D software capabilities, I helped lay out the floor plan and strategize possibilities for a pyrolysis gasification power plant.

  • The plant was never built due to a lack of funding.

Age: 12

Helped start a charity program

  • My family and I started a charity called “Puppies 4 Patriots”.

  • The mission was to help war veterans recover from PTSD through service dogs

Age: 13

Traveled to China to tour the largest lithium battery cell manufacturer in the world

  • My father and I were invited by Dr.Robin (the founder of CATL) to privately tour their facilities.

  • The purpose of the trip was to obtain exclusive pricing for our company’s lithium cells.

Age: 14

Circled the globe with my father on a business trip

  • For the entirety of the 1-month trip, my job was to be the administrator. Every hotel, business meeting, factory meeting, exchange of money, flight, train, taxi, car rental, etc was my responsibility. Not once were we late to a meeting or appointment.

  • We traveled across 6 nations(France, Italy, Slovenia, Turkey, China, Singapore), stayed in over 12 hotels, and attended dozens of factory meetings.

  • Throughout the trip, I was also the designated photographer and discovered I have quite the eye for it.

  • I also became a certified PADI scuba diver in Maui at the end of the trip.

Age: 15

Fully restoring a 1971 Chevelle

  • My father and I picked up a 71 Chevelle rotting in a field that required a frame-off rotisserie restoration.

  • I disassembled the entirety of the car which included removing every nut and bolt, cutting out all the rot, welding in new patches, priming and painting the body, rebuilding the engine, restoring the frame/rolling chassis, and reassembling the car.

  • Among the various skills gained; disassembly, welding (mig / tig / gas / stick), metalworking, paint prep, and powder coating were the most prevalent.

Age: 16

Job at a Hot Rod shop

  • The highly respected shop builds multi-million dollar custom classic cars meeting their customer's wildest dreams

  • With renowned accomplishments such as having various cars, they built, making the cover of popular magazines, such as Hot Rod magazine, and one of their cars won the Riddler Award (often revered as the highest award you can receive for classic cars)

  • The shop is Super Rides by Jordan, located in the Escondido auto park. (  https://www.superridesbyjordan.com/  )

  • Whenever I have free time to work at the shop, I am the apprentice to the owner/founder, Jordan Quintal (760-390-8308), who is in his 70s and has been building cars since he was 14.

  • Every summer I have continued to work at Super Rides

Age: 17

Set Physics Competition Record

  • Junior Year I took AP physics and one of the crucial projects we did was the Rube Goldberg Project. This project is required and is conducted every year. You can work by yourself or with a partner.

  • The parameters of the project were to build a contraption within 24in x 24in x 24in the cube, and have at least 4 energy transfers result in the raising of a flag. The goal was to raise the flag as high as possible.

  • The previous record for the highest flag raised was nearly 5 feet, set 6 years prior.

  • I built my contraption to beat the record using a truly out-of-the-box design that used a tape measure as the flag-raising mechanism.

  • I set a record of 8ft which still stands as the all-time record.

Age: 17

Job at an Architectural firm

  • I was a draftsman for an old-school architect that sketches all his drawing by hand and my job was to turn those drawing into 3D models / architectural plans.

  • I worked directly with an architect named Bill Perry (442-888-0363)(Bill.architect1@gmail.com) , who is the owner and founder of the firm.

Age: 18

Started Professional Photography Business

  • Built and Constructed this website (www.sebsproductions.com)

  • I work with various commercial clients and carry out paid projects all over San Diego.

  • I am well-versed in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, and Adobe Premier Pro.

  • I started out shooting with Nikon and I currently shoot with Sony.

Age: 19

College

  • Currently attending San Diego MiraMar college

  • Plans on transferring to University to study Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Business

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