Jeff Del Papa is the founder of The New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society; The NERDS, the first and last US team to appear on the engineering series, Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars. Jeff is a builder of recumbent bicycles, modern editions of ancient siege engines, and other large metal objects. After a quarter century in the computing industry, he now leads team building exercises based on the Junkyard Wars format.