Stewart Kriegstein, managing member of Warstone Innovations, LLC and inventor. Stewart was born in the late 50’s in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles, California. He hails from a long list of creative family. Stewart’s grandfather Bernard Kriegstein was watchmaker and tinkerer, trained in Budapest. Grandfather Edward Vieux survived two Kamikaze attacks in the Pacific, during WWII and built his own ham radio to connect fighter pilots in Vietnam to loved ones in the States. Stewart’s father Herbert Kriegstein worked for Hughes Aircraft as a wire design engineer, whose work is still traveling the universe on the Voyager missions and was instrumental in the beginning space shuttles and B-2 Stealth Bomber. Stewart’s Uncle Fred Kriegstein was a jet fueling expert and intrepid inventor. All great inspirations and heroes to challenge a young man to see that the world around us can always be improved, to look for solutions and never give up.    

   Stewart started his career in architecture, attending the University of Colorado and Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Design was the main focus of his company Stewart Kriegstein & Associates, designing and producing construction plans for custom homes, commercial and industrial buildings. Learning the craft has always been an important facet of striving for the perfection of his art, and the connections with various professionals, structural and civil engineers, architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and contractors, provided the important knowledge for his future professional career.

    The El-Nino storms of 1983 that devastated the coastal community of Malibu, California, shaped the future of Stewart’s professional career. The devastation of the homes in Malibu, with their diverse foundations and protection systems, not only imparted a different type of construction but with it a life-long learning and appreciation of having to create new techniques of construction methodologies, which dealt with shifting sands, tides and ocean storms, all considered Coastal Engineering Construction. Challenges were a daily consideration and allowed Stewart to create outside of the norms, to design and implement new methodologies of repairs and new construction, that are still being used by many in the field today.