Who is Philip Rivard?

It started with a wrong turn.

In 1999, I walked into a vocational training center to check out the automotive mechanics program. But on my way through, I passed a room full of drafting tables and computers and something clicked. I signed up that day for technical drawing, almost on instinct.

It was only afterward that I realized my father had worked in the same field. That as a kid, I used to draw on the back of the large-format blueprints he'd bring home from work. Some things find you before you find them.