I'm Tim "TJ" Ferreira — a problem solver, not a politician.

My first job was a paper route. I taught myself to program at ten, started a technology company in high school, and at eighteen was hired by a public power agency to analyze the settlement statements of California's brand-new electricity market — the start of nearly three decades inside the financial machinery of energy markets.

Since then I have run day-ahead trading operations at one of the nation's largest utilities, managing roughly $20 million in transactions every day. I directed product and development teams building energy-trading and settlement software — including software that finds and recovers misallocated money. For a decade I chaired the audit-and-risk supervisory committee of a billion-dollar, multi-state credit union. Today I trade power in Nevada's energy market on a 24/7 desk; forecasting, planning, and execution are my daily job.

Like many in Clark County, I know shift work and casino work from the inside: I have dealt poker, where every chip is counted and every hand is on camera. Nights, weekends, holidays — that has been my whole career.

Service matters to me. I chaired the board of the Center for Financial Empowerment, which brought the Mad City Money financial-literacy program to Las Vegas students. I have served on the board of Friends of Foster Children, and I chair the board of The Meeting Space, a Las Vegas 12-step recovery meeting facility. A tote bag I picked up at a nonprofit leadership retreat says "Be a good human" — that is the whole philosophy.

I earned my computer science degree while working full-time. In 2018 I ran for Lieutenant Governor of California and earned 99,949 votes — the most for any third-party candidate since California's top-two primary began. I have been a registered Libertarian since 1998, and I have served my party as a treasurer and an audit-committee chair. I would just like a bigger ledger.

My wife and I live in North Las Vegas.