Real world article
(written from a production point of view)
Brad Winters is a co-producer on Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Winters grew up in Modesto, California, a detail that was worked into Brad Boimler's biography in "Second Contact". [1] He later attended California State University to study communication design and media arts.
Mike McMahan noted in an interview that Winters' attention to detail with respect to canon went so far as presenting side-by-side diagrams of established ships during the episode writing process. [2]