The Guy Who'd Rather Be on a Shop Floor

I started in manufacturing the way most people do — by accident. I was a young guy in Ontario who needed a job, and someone handed me a set of calipers and pointed me toward a CNC lathe. That was 25 years ago. I haven't looked back.

What started as a paycheck turned into an obsession. I went from programming lathes to running shops, from running shops to consulting with companies, and from consulting to doing what I do now — telling the stories of the people and places that make the manufacturing world go.

The Numbers

Over the past two and a half decades, I've walked the floors of 500+ manufacturing facilities across 70+ countries. I've been inside CNC job shops in rural Ontario, Tier 1 aerospace suppliers in Querétaro, Swiss watchmaking ateliers in the Jura, and massive automotive plants in Germany. Every factory has a story. I find them and bring them to you.

TGM Global

TGM Global is my consulting company. We work with manufacturing brands that want to reach the right audience — the machinists, engineers, shop owners, and decision-makers who actually buy machines, tooling, and services. I don't do generic marketing. I do manufacturing-specific content strategy, brand positioning, and media that works because I understand the audience from the inside.

The Machinists Club Podcast

200+ episodes and counting. The Machinists Club is where I sit down with the people who make manufacturing interesting — shop owners scaling from $2M to $20M, tooling engineers who redesigned a process to save six figures, apprentices deciding if this career is for them, and the occasional legend who's been in the game longer than I have. No scripts. No corporate talking points. Just real conversations with real people.

Worldwide Machinist

This site — worldwidemachinist.tv — is where all of it lives. Factory tours, blog articles, event coverage, podcast highlights, and the occasional rant about something the industry needs to hear. If you work in manufacturing, or you want to understand the people who do, you're in the right place.

Why Manufacturing Matters

We live in a world that runs on manufactured goods. Every car, airplane, medical device, smartphone, and building exists because someone knew how to make it. The people who do that work — the machinists, the toolmakers, the engineers, the shop owners — don't get enough credit. My job is to fix that. One factory tour, one podcast episode, one article at a time.