As a child, an early memory is playing in my Grandpas machine shed. There were many tools and machine parts to play with. From this small shop, he maintained all the farm equipment necessary to keep his small homestead on Oak Hill operational.

My dad learned how to maintain equipment from the same farm, with the same tools, and the same equipment. As I grew up, he encouraged the skills of mechanical maintenance, with roots founded in that small machine shed on Oak Hill.

As a young adult, I followed in my Grandpas footsteps and joined the military, enlisting in the US Navy and becoming a Nuclear Machinist Mate. For 8 years, I experienced an operational maintenance culture, living with the machinery I kept running. This period also taught me the discipline, observational and investigative skills necessary for a cutting edge maintenance program.

After leaving the Navy, I joined a commercial steel mill, quickly advancing to manage a maintenance crew. During this time, I also returned to training, an art I had developed during my first enlistment in the Navy, assisting the Chaffey-InTech center in developing maintenance technicians.

Today, I have fully committed myself to developing the skills necessary to thrive as a maintenance technician in todays industrial environment, with an emphasis on safety, fundamental understanding, and personal development. I believe that with the proper mentorship and technical training, trainees can be afforded the potential to make themselves some of the most skilled technicians available in todays workforce.