Daniel Glisson

I began CNC machining professionally in 2018, after spending 8 years as a Machine Gunner in the US Marine Corps (2009-2018) and 7 years in the US Navy Reserve as a Corpsman (2018-current.)

I began by sweeping the floor and running parts in a Greenville, SC machine shop. After a year I had learned to program and became the CNC Milling Section head managing three machines and two people. By the second year I was completely obsessed, with no chance at all of leaving this industry.

Manufacturing has always fascinated me, I only got more obsessed when it became my full time job. The most rewarding part about this job is when I get to bring ideas I’ve conceived into the physical world, and the process by which we do it. It could be a broken hydraulic housing to a piece of machine equipment stuck in the woods, that we get to recreate from the broken parts it should connect. Or when I get to “efficiamatize” every possible fraction of a second out of a large production job process. These things arrive on our doorstep as a puzzle, and after we solve it; leave as a physical thing.